"Tender Traces "is nothing less than a love song to love itself-in all its forms.

Poet, songwriter, philosopher, and former pastor John W. Heird offers over 200 tender, passionate, and poignant poems to love as both a valued part of human relations and an Absolute almost on par with Divinity.

These poems return us to a time of high emotional romanticism before love was devalued and debased. Heird's structured, metered odes also easily convert to song lyrics, bringing to mind the great love songs of the 1950s and 1960s-when love was king and held to a higher standard than today....