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Dark Way Down

by Lauren Parker

Dark Way Down, a road trip in verse, is a speculative continuation of David Bowie’s album, Station to Station, featuring the iconic David Bowie character, the Thin White Duke. The collection explores gender, addiction, occultism, and toxic queer masculinity through the lens of the Duke’s lesbian daughter, a mixed-up queering of bygone relics and Casanova. From Lauren Parker’s pensive daydreams out of Dodge, the Daughter of the Duke drives a rickety Chevelle from Bel Air to the Mesas of New Mexic... more

Learning to Love Jesus: His Precious Teachings

by Arlene Arends Max

This book introduces children to valuable lessons that Jesus taught two thousand years ago which are still important today. Children will enjoy the rhyming verse and colorful illustrations that help them learn about God’s love for all people and the special regard Jesus had for children. Familiar Christian concepts such as the Golden Rule, prayer, forgiveness, and humbleness come alive, making it a good addition to both family and Sunday School collections, or a loving gift for a precious child.

Your Words Your Love (Your Words Collection)

by Louise Bélanger

Your Words Your Love is a symphony of captivating poetry intertwined with exquisite photographs. Insightful collection that speaks directly to your heart and soul about God and His love. Intriguing story poems where faith, hope, salvation, and trust in Him are center stage. Among the pages of riveting verses are endearing photographs of nature in all its splendor throughout the seasons.

Your Words Your Heart (Your Words collection ~ Poetry and photography books)

by Louise Bélanger

Beautiful imageries painted with words and brimming with gorgeous photographs. Uplifting faith-based poetry about God, Jesus, hope, life, trust, and salvation. Sometimes comforting. Sometimes thought-provoking. Your Words Your Heart also overflows with spring and summer photographs of magnificent flowers and gardens taken by the author in her hometown of Montréal.

Your Words Your World (Your Words collection ~ Poetry and photography books)

by Louise Bélanger

Poetry For Your Soul - Stunning Photographs Beautiful and inspiring collection complemented by captivating nature photographs. Read poems about God and having a relationship with Him. Poems about trust, missing a loved one, childhood memories, Christmas, Heaven, Easter… Other poems are lovely stories, the length of a page.

Your Words

by Louise Bélanger

Your Words is a beautiful collection of inspirational poems complemented by lovely photographs. The poetry is about God, life, relationships, and hope in times of confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic. There are also endearing story poems sprinkled throughout the book, some of which were written for children.

Pieces of my Heart

by Despoina Kemeridou

The pieces of a broken heart turn into words in this dark poetry collection.

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My heart bleeds into words
My mouth dare not utter
Ink and soul bonded
To express the pain inside
Poems and stories
From the depths of my being
Sorrow and darkness
I tried so much to keep hidden

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Themes:

Fantasy
Despair
Loneliness
Trauma
Love
Death

Words To Breathe By

by James Richard Hansen

In the tumultuous world we live in, "Words To Breathe By" offers a respite, a sanctuary of solace where readers can find healing and peace. Crafted with profound emotion and fervor, this remarkable anthology delivers poetry for healing, serving as a soothing balm for anyone grappling with emotional or spiritual distress. Hansen's work encapsulates the essence of inspirational poetry, each verse resounding with wisdom and resilience. As readers delve into these pages, they are not merely obser... more

Transcendence

by Andrew Rae

What lies behind this sunlit world? …Something too deep for thought …Open only to prayer. These poems reflect moments when one experiences something more than what one sees and hears, feelings of the sublime, the holy, the transcendent. …When meditating by a Wiltshire stream, or walking alone through an African forest, observed by a thousand unseen eyes and ears, from giant cats to tremulous snakes. …Feelings of going beyond oneself, beyond anxiety and feelings of inadequacy, losing oneself in t... more

Space, Time, and Loneliness: (A poetry chapbook)

by E. Hughes

Poetry about life, death, facing and accepting mortality and the brief window of time through which we exist. A contemplation of solitude and loneliness in an untold and unpredictable universe; a striving to find meaning in life. Embracing the impermanence of being and the tenuous state of existence as we hurtle through the cosmos into time’s oblivion, but not without fear, without sadness, or loneliness as we march into the unknown with an understanding of ourselves as a dimension of time wh... more

The Antique Shop

by Valerie Miles Washington

Her poem The Antique Shop has been on the web for over five years. This poem was written after going to her hometown on vacation many years ago. She entered one of the local antique shops and was inspired to write a poem that brought back vivid memories of yesterday. In March 2004, Valerie competed in the International Society of Poets Convention and Symposium in Orlando, Florida, where she won a prize for The Antique Shop.There she met poets from around the world Africa, Canada, South America, ... more

viens, embrassons-nous

by Ralph Günther Mohnnau

Ralph Günther Mohnnau's extensive oeuvre makes him one of the most important haijin of the present day. From the wealth of his poetry, he has presented a selection of 306 haiku in three volumes on the theme of love and passion. This work is particularly important against the background of the classical Japanese haiku tradition, in which love is hardly dealt with. It is all the more indebted to Ralph Günther Mohnnau, who introduces the reader to the world of love in the classical form of a haiku ... more

Dear Life

by Shanta Acharya

Dear Life is full of lyrical, brave and audacious poems that dare to be affirmative despite all the crises, traumas, and outright losses life throws at us. Acharya is a poet unafraid of the harshness the world often visits on her or individuals more widely across time and cultures, aware too of the humor inherent in some of our behaviors She cedes no ground to prose, her poetry ranging from exploring the intimate loss of a brother to the devastation of Aleppo after artillery destroyed it during ... more

Come Fly with Me Through the Gift of Words

by Wendy Brooks

Words are a powerful force, bringing us happiness, sorrow, and a wide range of lifes emotions. Through her poems, author Wendy Brooks seeks to speak to you in the area of your need, offering comfort and giving you the strength to move along your path. She hopes her words will remind us all of the splendor of nature and the love of so many who touch us on lifes walk. This poetry collection presents verses that speak of daily life, glorify the beauty of our world, and encourage us to be even bette... more

Laugh Like A Mother

by Kathryn Sprandio Ells

Motherhood is hard! The routines of raising little ones can make life seem monotonous, but there is such joy and laughter littered throughout the monotony. Laugh Like A Mother makes light of some of the blunders of parenting with funny poetry and illustrations that will help you laugh your way through meltdowns and sleepless nights!

Trees are Masters of the Space

by Jim Hanson

This book is about a scrap of woods, creek and fields, thirty-four acres in Saugatuck Township, Michigan, and especially celebrates its trees: oaks, maples, hemlocks, pawpaws. For Jim Hanson, this land is not only the place he lives, and where he runs every morning while constructing lines of verse in his head, but also a functioning natural environment, a space the trees command yet again after being clearcut in the nineteenth century, and a homestead his family has lived on for generations.... more

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