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Second Harvest

by Don Agey

As in the first book, Eclectic Harvest, this is a stew of different styles of poetry; metric and free, and whatever other…uh style came to mind. Also, there are limericks and haiku; Japanese poetry.

I’m not here to sugar-coat grief. I’m here to be transformed by it. This powerfully vulnerable book invites us to grieve. Having lost her mother at the age of nine, Maya has spent her life navigating her way through the myriad of emotions which surround death. In her debut collection of poetry, she maps her journey into the mysterious underworld of grief and the extraordinary lessons she learned in the darkness. Maya is a woman of colour, a poet, a writer, and has helped to support people’... more

Broken Pieces

by Shah Asad Rizvi

Broken Pieces – Tales of Heartbreak takes the reader on a deep, beautiful, and reflective journey to love’s other side. With his collection of one hundred sublimely written poems, Shah Asad Rizvi captures the full spectrum of love lost with words that will both resonate with and haunt the reader’s soul. A truthful and poignant telling, Shah does not shy away from the pain nor causes of broken hardnesses. Broken Pieces is akin to a master’s thesis on all the ways that a heart can hurt after lo... more

My Story With Blue

by Mayada Himani

Full of all kinds of beautiful romantic blues, yet it’s the unseen red passion that screams out of this sensational and sensual book! Full of love, seduction and desire. Captured and framed from our day-to-day life, making the ordinary look surreal with so much depth in it. Transforming stillness into an everlasting moving emotion, triggering every drop of living blood inside of you. Rebirth! If you are looking to rejuvenate your life, then this book will bring the youth out of you. It displays ... more

Heartscapes

by Raymond Pelly

Heartscapes explores ‘the greater love’ we see in people and the world around us. The ‘heart’ poems are the prayers of a contemplative set in the context of a long life that has known tragedy and suffering as well as love and many friendships. Heartscapes also includes salty wisdom about real life, love poems, stories, eco-poems, poems inspired by animals, translations, poems in memory of loved ones – and much more. It thus resonates with all the living, human and animate that I encounter, as ... more

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly

by Arthur Lee Conway

A poetic journey of prose poetry, thoughts, and parables about the quiddity of humankind. The cyclonic interactions and divisions that causes movement, and sometimes turbulent development on the road called Life.

The Smallest of Bones

by Holly Lyn Walrath

A haunting ossuary of tiny poems covering a wide range of topics such as love, romance, relationships, queer sexuality, religion, death, demons, ghosts, bones, gender, and darkness. The Smallest of Bones guides those on an intimate journey of body acceptance, with sparse words dedicated to peeling back skin and diving bone-deep into the self. Raw, honest, and powerful, this collection is an offering to those struggling to find power in the darkness.

A Few of My Favourite Things

by A. J. Ross-Etheridge

Consisting of a selection of anecdotes, advice, laughter and love, this book of poetry is a real glimpse inside the writer’s mind. The author has written from the heart, taking her material from real-life stories, experiences and everyday observations. The author’s mum is one of the very unfortunate people suffering from Alzheimer’s, which is how this book came about. She needed to find a way to channel her emotions and raise money for Alzheimer’s research at the same time. Therefore, for every ... more

Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus

by Lannie Stabile

Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus is a poetry collection that challenges Greek mythology, sexual assault, and men obsessed with other powerful men.

Dusty Memories... Unfinished

by Anand Ahuja

Discover, feel and believe in the raw power of unrequited love. To fall in love—body, mind and soul! Ah, every person's dream! And for it to be unreciprocated—every lover's biggest nightmare… or so they believe! But that's not always true—there is another perspective, that of unrequited love! Unrequited—yes, but unfulfilling—definitely not. It surpasses the deepest of emotions, for there’s no expectation, so no hurt. And when you have nothing to lose, you give it your all. Thes... more

Detachable Sleeves

by Smita Jha

Detachable Sleeves is a collection of twenty poems that have been written with simplicity and pure emotions. Most of these poems stem from the internal monologues of the poet, some from moments of vulnerability and loss, and some from moments of strength and hope. There is a desire in them to reach out to those who can find their own tunes in these words, and take a moment to just feel, heal, find hope, and smile, one poem at a time.

Fading

by Stephen R. Clark

This is Stephen's third volume of poetry. Moving past middle age into the final stages of life, these 74-plus poems reflect on a life lived and the memories accumulated. He reminisces about the frustrations of childhood, the anxieties of teenagers, and the challenges of adulthood. There is both sorrow and celebration, a recognition of necessary losses balanced by an awareness of hope. Death comes to all, but so does resurrection. For some, this realization is filled with terror or despair. For S... more

She: A Love Story Told In Verse

by Alexander Bentley

This poetry book is divided into seven parts, telling the remarkable story of Night and Luna, through their initial courtship, budding romance, relationship struggles, and overcoming the distance that separates them. True life characters based on the author and his long-distance girlfriend. A refreshingly different verse novel about a Poet and his Muse.

The Sum of Who You Are

by Winifred Smith Eure

Times like these, during the Covid-19 Pandemic, afford us the opportunity of spending more times alone. We can drown ourselves in self-pity or choose to make the most of it. We can take a closer, better look at ourselves, the outer and inner appearance and ask ourselves, if we like what we see? If not we have the time to work on ourselves and make creative and enduring changes. My book The Sum of Who You Are shines a spotlight on those things that have concerned me and perhaps you as I take a ... more

Courting Rejection

by B. Harlan Deemer

This book includes 40 years of writing seeking clarity and understanding, touching on most life topics : love, sex, politics, religion, faith, death. One chapter is reserved to translations of and originals written by the author in foreign languages. This is the author’s second self-published book of poetry, following Having Words Together. The author has lived in the United States, Germany and Sweden and has recently retired to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula after living 30 years in Chicago.

If I Settle Down...: Poems

by Charles B. Cross

"What I find most compelling about Charles Cross's poetry is his profound relationship with words, his ability to stitch together exquisite images the way a talented quilter brings together pieces of fabric to create something endearing and warm, full of life and history. With his words, Cross plunges us into a world of coonhounds and bothersome flies, revolution, and a timeless sense of place in the Appalachian mountains. His poetic style is rooted in the classics in both form and c... more

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