Life's experiences often take the form of music, poetry, novels, or prose. J. P. Polidoro, a New Hampshire novelist, songwriter, and poet, has compiled within, decades of verses that were intended to be inspiration for or lyrics for songs-reflections of life-and verses that by themselves stand alone. In Words Without Music, Polidoro takes the reader on a visionary lyrical ride of love, love lost, often with personal elegies/odes using nature's beauty as metaphors of life's experiences both euphoric and tragic. The thoughts penned within are poems and prose that are often autobiographical but universal in nature. His lyrical creations over decades paint a picture in one's mind, without need of the artist's brush or support from a melody. Polidoro purposely offers no table of contents so that the reader may open the book to any page and enjoy the compositions individually, or in total, at one's leisure, much akin to an individual song. Readers may identify with his past and present emotions and his critical thinking of the day-especially in a world that is ever changing.