The Same House Within Us: Poems of War & Love, is a collection of poems of war and love. The poems of war and conflict were written over fifty years. They cover different conflicts. There is a certain redundancy to many of the poems of war written over one-half century, but then, war and conflict and that yearning and struggle for freedom are redundant. And as the red colour of the blood shed in war bleeds to the pink of love depicted represented by the cover or jacket of this book, the penultimate and last lines in the last poem in Part One, “Hate Hitching a Ride”, “Hate inhabits the same house as love / Within us”, transitions to Part Two, “Poems of Love.” Red represents love and the blood of war and power as its continuum pink represents love. Indeed, love and hate and its consequence war inhabit the same house within us.