Poetry is a very personal type of writing. Poets turn pain into lessons and create stories from their happiness. For most, their best poems and prose come from grief, loss, sadness, tragedy, and pure joy, from places they've been, people they've loved, people they've lost, and all of life's happy memories. April Y. Spellmeyer has done just that; capturing snapshots of her life and giving her emotions a voice throughout this collection of over 200 hand-selected pieces of raw, passionate, unmerciful quotes, poetry, and prose. April expresses herself in raw, unfiltered emotional imagery and balances it with the beauty of hope, love, strength, and healing. Poetry Stained Lips is more than words on a page, it's who April Y. Spellmeyer is. It is her journey, her life's beautiful moments, her struggles, it's her truth.