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In her newest poetry collection, The Butterfly Will Rise, published poet, author and traveler Emily Barrus explores many topics including: healing from trauma, traveling, nature, pain etc. Her first poetry collection, Breathe, included some of her first poems while she went through a healing process from trauma in her life. The Butterfly Will Rise while still dealing with pain is focused on the rising from it and flourishing.

The book "Love Language" is a collection of love poems, quotes and short prose.Through words, matthew lovehall is attempting to paint a picture of how he perceives his muse.It was written from a state of being that was both healed and filled with love.It is recommended reading this collection when being in a similar vibration, in order to resonate more deeply with the message.If you currently are, or have the desire to be in a healthy & loving relationship, this book might be for you.

Knock-knock! Who's there?Ultimately for all, it will be age. At first, it seems like a bad joke--needing a cane, memory loss, more care, forgetting even one's own name. In KNOCK-KNOCK, Lewis creates the persona of an older physician who should've known what's in store. Sometimes the reality is grim, but there's humor, love, and even romance in his inventive and poetic story-telling. "Lost-and-found / is not a planned / destination." Yet we all eventually find ourselves there."Old age is no joke. The body breaks down; the mind wanders away. For many, if not most, aging is existentially challenging and physically demeaning. And yet Owen Lewis' KNOCK-KNOCK finds a variety of entry points into this penultimate human experience. The eighteen poems (in the numerology of the Kabbalah, life) gathered here range from mild ruminations on the disconcerting experience of losing and forgetting inconsequential things, to more intense poems, exploring critical conditions: impaired ambulation, deterioration of vision, cardiac failures. Like all good healthcare providers, Lewis - a medical doctor, himself - is always writing toward the fear of mortality that lies at the heart of aging, and that frightens most of us, nearly to death. Through poetic storytelling, deep empathy, psychological courage, and a gimlet eye, he finds both solace and meaning (and yes: sometimes humor) in this phase of life."--Kate Daniels"KNOCK-KNOCK is a sophisticated chapbook about aging and the brain by a prize-winning poet and professor of psychiatry. The poems come to the reader in a variety of shapes, moods and sounds. The book opens with the speaker's tender first encounters with such age-related issues as the use of a cane for mobility and the occasional challenges of memory. Music is an important element (and subject) in the subsequent poems about more serious symptoms and the fears they inspire. Only a clinical expert in diseases of the mind could have constructed the drama of the scenes that follow."--Michael SalcmanPoetry.

In this striking collection of poems, Joel Bettridge crafts a poignant mix of lyrics, half-stories, epigrams, speculations, histories, and songs to study how evolution, especially that of people, is guided more or less by magic. OF SPECIES documents the relentless transmutations of our human selves and the environments we inhabit; reveals the facts coded in myths, prayers, and rituals; unearths the forgotten gods who live in gene pools, artifacts, and biomes. These poems map our created and changing world, offering a vision for how to belong now to what we are on the brink of losing."'Awake, awake: look awry, look new, ' insists Bettridge's new breathtaking collection, OF SPECIES. Gods, gullies and crevasses, Homo georgicus and horses, bark beetles, and more, all burrow out from the 'artifacts of light' that are these poems. Too fierce to be pastoral, too urgent to be elegiac, this collection widens the imagination of what nature poetry might be, what it must do. Some books are meant to be read--this one wants to be lived."--Richard Deming, author of This Exquisite Loneliness"Bettridge's collection invites the reader into an entangled existence where we have permission to be curious and intimate about everything: What even is a species or an animal body without other species or other animal bodies? What is the unlearning required for a human to see beyond the categories of human and nonhuman, to look beyond categories at all? 'What is the ambition of grasses? / What dreams as they throng / With the winter in abeyance?' The conversations that emerge from these questions are perhaps the conversations we should all be having more often. Beautiful and expansive, OF SPECIES is a significant work."--Janice Lee, author of Separation Anxiety"OF SPECIES begins with a knock-out introduction, 'HORSES, ' in which the poet confesses that horses in two beguiling illustrations by artist Rick Bartow have begun speaking to him, initiating him into a world of metamorphosis, one that he duly records in a series of stunning theriophanies--of beast, of person, of divine power. This book is a marvel of formal and tonal shifts that Joel Bettridge manages with enviable ease, from the stateliness and earnestness of the 'Transmutations' that initiate each new section to the magical open-form free verse interspersed by the short, pungent epigrammatic poems the poet has been dazzling us with for years. In this daring collection, Bettridge has devised a creation mythology for evolution and it really sings. A masterful book!"--Peter O'Leary, author of The Hidden Eyes of ThingsPoetry. Nature.

Memory and myth. Cigarettes and summer nights. Worship songs and circle pits. don't call us punk because we hate that traverses the backroads ofAmerica's suburbia in the days before smartphones and AirPods at the very time of life when the aimless youth are waking up to their disillusionment atthe world their parents were planting for them. These starkly direct poems speak to the human need for authentic community and escape before theydrown in middle-class expectations. The characters, places, and times are pulled from a lived experience and expanded into a universal narrativearound the search for something sustainable and true. Adam Oyster-Sands has written a love letter to punk and to those who wove in and out ofthe various shows, record shops, skate spots, and fast-food joints of his formative years. Whether you've spent a Saturday night in a circle pit andSunday morning in a church pew or not, don't call us punk because we hate that speaks to anyone who, at the exact right time, found their people inthe unexpected places beyond the boundaries of a world passed to them through the stories they inherit.

Skirting arranges poems in columns that provide multiple reading routes, giving the reader opportunities to make and create a series of ways to engage with and understand the text. This system of arranging and rearranging the poem is explored within the texts too, these poems circle around their subject without naming the events explored. The poems skirt around a figure, event and thoughts, trying to get close to a difficult subject without being able to fully articulate or fix it to the page. Skirting is many attempts at using language to describe and locate.

For Antonatie Jemwa, The Journey, "...depicts the reality of events that each individual can relate to; it points out to positivity in the grand experience of life as it unfolds each chapter, just as each season, in a lifetime." Informed by faith, the poems have a common theme of love, of how enhancing and revitalising it can be, and yet at the same time so fragile. Grouped under headings like 'Family', 'Dreams', 'Character' and 'Gone', Jemwa shines a light on our interactions with the world, both metaphysical and real, which make The Journey a lottery that perhaps can only find an understanding through faith. The Journey is a meditation, a sensitive look at our condition through the instrument of poetry.

These are, as best as can be reconstructed, the poems written by David Davis during the largest part of his life. Presented in roughly chronological order, beginning when he was just a boy and going through his early seventies, they include the good and the bad and everything in between. Basically, they amount to a form of autobiography, with a lot of the facts left out. Many present his decidedly dry sense of humor and his odd way of looking at life; others are cries from the wilderness. Deceptively simple and clear, there is often a turn of phrase or line that gives you a kick in one part of the intellect or another.

MARGARET'S inspiration from God continues since it started in March 2015. This 2nd book covers poems from 2015 till 2023 not published in her First book. She is thankful to be of use to/by God to pen encouraging words from Scriptures to those who are disheartened by life's challenges. This 2nd Book of Inspired Poems to Inspire is again, solely dependent on God's inspiration mostly in the wee hours of the morning between 4 to 5am. There is no pre-thought of what to write. She just wrote down what flashed across her mind. Her style of writing seemed to mature as she had gotten over the death of her husband and just quoted from Scriptures and expound the verse according to her understanding lately. Included in Book 2 are some personal addiction(as in "Bail Me Out!" she asked God for deliverance candidly. She is enriched by the constant companion of the Holy Spirit to guide and encourage her. She just wish that those who are inflicted with life's sorrows to embrace the power of God's love to help them be overcomers, and live life in abundance. She hopes that this Book 2 will touch hearts as the Book 1 did. Margaret has considered this writing of poems as her calling, so enjoy and digest and be happy in the LORD!

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing often manifested in contemporary poets such as Garous Abdolmalekian and Ilya Kaminsky, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological. Here, the camera, the closed-circuit TV, cinematographic techniques, and the cyborg are trusted for truth-telling. Reality is represented in footage seen through the eyes of multifaceted speakers. In Abu Bakr Sadiq's exploration of northern Nigeria in speculative poetry, the lyrical meets the chronicle. In this fusion of Afrofuturism with experimental poetic techniques, the reader witnesses a country ravaged by terrorism and the consequences of war, as well as the effects of these on those who survive. While the tone is grave with concern and conscience, the poems do not take the easy route of sentiment. Instead, attention is paid to structure--from the erasure poems that are informed by the theme of disappearance to the contrapuntal poems that are influenced by the testaments of leaving.

Skies are ever changing. People are too.Days may follow us through phases, but tomorrow will always begin again. Beneath the Blue is a pastoral journey of selfhood, youth, and bittersweet love.

A JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS AND SELF LOVE The Beauty in Broken is a deeply personal and touching collection of poems that illuminate the uniquely beautiful journey of healing after the loss of love. This compilation offers a sparkling glimpse into the intricate pathway toward self-love and the complex nature of healing. The poems within these pages capture the poignant moment of releasing past pain and the realization that you have the power to provide yourself with everything you might have once sought from someone else. Through patience and time, you embark on a journey of evolution, learning to reflect on your past experiences with an abundance of love. This collection is not just a series of poems; it's a guide to finding beauty and strength in the process of mending a broken heart.

Our Dear Little One shows the children in your life just how much they are loved, not only by their parents, but also by their Heavenly Father. This book was originally written as a letter from a Mommy to her Son on his first Birthday. She wanted to make sure he never forgot how loved he was. Our Dear Little One is now available for Parents everywhere to remind themselves as well as their children just how much they are loved.

The collection centres around relationship in reality. It goes in the search of freedom of choice. Asking the question what is real, and how is relationship found? Speaking of many types of relationships: marriage, single life and religious life. The journey is to find, to refind the Cardinal Virtues of an Ancient time. What is it to be rich or poor? Not only in money but values and choice based on those values. It's a journey in the hopes to Incarnate the written word.

Digte om livets mangfoldighed, er en samling af indtryk og tanker jeg har gjort mig i mit voksne arbejdsliv.Det drejer sig om naturen, drømme & glæder, livsværdier ,højtider, fester og alvorlige stunder, politik og fremmede, samt korte kommentarer til hverdagen.

One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern ménage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, "were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn't last very long, which they didn't. . . . That they were outside the range of God, not only of respectability, of love, but of God too." In Pylon Faulkner set out to test their rootless modernity to see if there is any place in it for the old values of the human heart that are the central concerns of his best fiction.

In einem lyrischen Stil wird die Melancholie näher gebracht und gleichzeitig erfahrbar gemacht. Tauche ein in ein Feuerwerk voller Leidenschaft. Von Melancholie bis Lust und Liebe. Komm mit und erlebe die Höhen und Tiefen in dieser spannenden Sammlung.

Après un premier opus ("la flamme retrouvée" aux éditions du Lys Vert) paru à l'été 2023, ce nouveau recueil de poèmes et de textes écrits par Gérard Clech tout au long de l'année 2023 reprend les histoires personnelles et les ressentis de l'auteur face à l'amour et parfois face à la mort. Petites histoires qui viennent se heurter à l'actualité et sa cruauté.Le titre du recueil est tiré d'un des vers de la chanson "Nuit et Brouillard" de Jean Ferrat et d'un poème de Charles Baudelaire.

Der schönste Tag im Leben, die eigene Hochzeit, sollte schon auch gelungen sein. Er ist aber auch mit vielen Vorbereitungen und dem damit verbundenen Stress verbunden. Welche Erlebnisse so manch einer in diesem Zusammenhang hatte, was auch mal schiefgegangen ist oder was ganz toll war, erzählen in diesem Buch unsere Autor*innen.Glückwunschgedichte der lustigen oder nachdenk-lichen Art und viele Illustrationen runden das Buch ab.Es ist gut geeignet als Gastgeschenk für die Gäs-te des Brautpaares, aber auch als Geschenk oder Mitbringsel für das Hochzeitspaar selbst.

"My sister cleans her bedroom In twenty seconds flat. She sweeps the dirt into a pile Then underneath the mat." A selection of comic verse on such subjects as fraught relationships, untrustworthy professionals, quirky pets and even quirkier family members. Nothing too dark or serious here, just a set of cleverly written, instantly quotable epigrams, along with a handful of longer poems that combine humour with insight. Truly, the perfect book to leave around for guests to pick up and flip through - on the coffee table, of course!

Hippocampus Press is proud to commemorate ten years of our acclaimed journal of weird poetry, Spectral Realms, with the publication of the twentieth issue.As before, it contains a diverse array of poetry by today's leading versifiers in the realm of horror and the supernatural-John Shirley, Scott J. Couturier, Frank Coffman, Manuel Pérez-Campos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Leigh Blackmore, Ann K. Schwader, and a host of others. Maxwell I. Gold and Jay Sturner contribute provocative prose poems, while a cadre of poets pen tributes to Dylan Thomas (Carl E. Reed's Echoing Dylan Thomas"), Robert W. Chambers (David J. Kopaska-Merkel's "A Vision of Carcosa"), Emily Brontë (Michael Potts's "After Heathcliff Digs Up Cathy"), and the imperishable Shakespeare (Kyla Lee Ward's "Malvolio's Revenge").Among the classic reprints are poems by the Scottish writer William Sharp and the Weird Tales poet Mary C. Shaw. The issue concludes with a detailed index of poets and poem titles to issues 11-20.

Flowering, (adj.) isn't about blossoming but about bearing flowers. It's about the notches in your bedpost and being proud of every one. Alison Miller (she/her) is a promoter of sex positivity, an advocate against kink shaming, and the owner of internationally acclaimed adult boutiques.

Being in touch with feelings--naming ones stirred up by a loss--can be critical in terms of moving ahead productively. Loss comes in many different packages: losses of relationship whether by death, divorce, or some other means; loss of status as per experiencing retirement or down-grading with respect to jobs; material loss whether homes, savings accounts, etc.; loss of function whether declining health, loss of a body part, etc. Whatever the loss there is an accompanying need to grieve. Wright's own experience of a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis has been her most challenging loss in life. Her poetry is honest in terms of the feelings she has faced. Instead of glossing over the challenges of loss, she attacks them head-on. This is especially true in terms of the conversations she has with God. Her desire is to grant permission for readers to be equally honest in terms of feelings they encounter with respect to their losses in life.

Trailing Clouds of Glory is a lifetime of work by the author Marion Lauretta (or Rita) Simmons. She fervently hopes that her poetry and prose of spiritual wonders and thoughts will fill your heart with peace, love, joy, and gratitude.The book had its beginnings in 1958 when Rita was twelve years old. She began writing a poem that is a testimony to the pre-existence and the plan of salvation. She wrote two verses and then put them away, knowing that one day she would complete the poem. Six years later, at the age of eighteen, she was invited to speak at a church-sponsored tristate youth conference held at a university in Arkansas. It was then she remembered the treasured verses of her unfinished poem. Taking it out, she began composing the remaining verses and a miracle happened. The words began to flow so swiftly she had difficulty writing them down quickly enough. It was as if the Spirit was whispering into her ear...urging her to write even faster. And then it was finished!The creation of the poem "Trailing Clouds of Glory" was a spiritual and wondrous experience, and it was well received at the youth conference. It has always been her favorite and touches her heart in a profound way, being her testimony of the eternal life of all humankind. Friends and family alike who have heard or read her poem have often asked for copies. The prelude to the poem is also an important read that tells of an uplifting experience that took place in Anchorage, Alaska in 1970...also a miracle that really happened.Her poem "The Gift Supreme" speaks about the atonement, the price our savior, Jesus Christ, paid for the redemption of each of us because of his infinite and perfect love. And concerning his subsequent resurrection she writes that Christ was:The first fruits of them that slept,The prophecy of old had been kept.Hence,The beginning of the resurrection ofThe spirits of all man.This being but one aspect ofOur Savior's atonement plan.In conclusion, and as testimony to the eternal life of each of us, the following verse from "The Gifts That Are Ours to Give" tenderly hugs the author's heart:Thanks be to God for all that we areFor all that we are to be.For he is the Father of our soulsThroughout all eternity.

Une prose funambule, un fil tendu dans le silence, entre les vivants et les absents.

Aus Alltagsbeobachtungen des lyrischen Ichs entstehen widerständige, trotzige und wütende Poeme und Prosa über die Kämpfe und Reibungen in einer teilnahmslosen Welt.

LJ Ireton's debut poetry collection, which explores listening to the wild and holding on to it, how we need animals in urban places, a reverence for all creatures, shared experience of longing for the sun and the connection between sowing and growing plants and ideas.