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The Danger Of Falling In Love: New Poems In English & Spanish
by Jeff KingThis book of poetry seeks to convey the sweetness and pain of life, and personal reflections from my own life. It’s the joy, the pain, and the beauty, that we find on our journey, that makes us who we are. -
Arrivals & Departures: Journeys in Poems
by Reena KapoorArrivals & Departures is writer and photographer Reena Kapoor's debut poetry collection. Her poems take the reader on journeys through a multitude of places, time periods, and emotions. From the nostalgia of one's homeland, to the suffering and resilience of women who experienced India's 1947 Partition, to parenthood, to life's other simple pleasures, Arrivals & Departures draws readers into new worlds and allows them to find themselves within. -
Unbathed Brains
by Hari HydePoems from Minnesota and the Milky Way . . . Let us, the drafted, explain nature’s reign. Drenching’s more wrenching in an unbathed brain. In the boisterous burrows of Unbathed Brains, Dr. Hari Hyde ponders the poetical precincts of his journeys as a Minnesota farm boy, lovestruck adventurer, savvy scientist, and compunctious Christian. Hari also recounts Minnesota miners, New Orleans nightlife, California’s seaside sprites, Arizona’s grand chasm, a Wyoming rodeo, a San Francisco storm, a Bos... more -
Mother's Womb: Goddess Rengay
by Michelle Hyatt & Jacob D. SalzerMother’s Womb is a collection of twenty-two Goddess rengay by Michelle Hyatt & Jacob D. Salzer. Rengay is a poetic form that alternates between 3-line and 2-line verses written in this format: 3(A)-2(B)-3(A)-3(B)-2(A)-3(B) as a collaboration between the first poet: person (A) and the second poet: person (B). The hallmark of rengay is a common theme (or themes) that unites the verses. The common theme throughout this collection are Goddesses from several different cultures around the world and th... more -
Beautiful Blue Sky
by Tim PompeyNature. Humanity. Spirit. Each is interconnected and matched together like a well-sewn coat. These poems explore that interconnection and ask essential questions about life. The author probes his own psyche, the world around him, and the powers, seen and unseen, that hold it all together. Like air, lungs, and blood, there are small and universal synapses that create the elements, the animals, the trees, and the souls that behold it all. And above everything, the sky watches, adapts to our existe... more -
Twelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit
by Kevin Farnham"Twelve Sonnets: A Defense of Spirit" is a prosimetrum, a collection of poems alternating with counterpoint prose that connects the poems and amplifies their content. The subject matter is Nature, Physics, Spirit, Consciousness, and romantic love. The book argues that the idea that spirit does not exist is a self-contradiction, argues that modern Physics proves that the Universe is not a machine, and illustrates spirit in action both in Nature and within our own being. -
Caravan to the Cosmos
by Madhushree DasThe Second Book of the Author "Caravan to the Cosmos" is a melange of melodic poems rendering the philosophy of cosmos and its harmony. While taking a stroll through the poems, it would feel as if you are travelling through the ocean crust and experiencing outer space. The atoms of each poem beautifully blended over the panorama of the galactic peripherals. The scales of the rhapsodies are encompassed around the stratosphere, where you have the stronghold upon the gravity of the acr... more
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Rebel Blood Cells
by Jamie WoodsRebel Blood Cells is a poetry chapbook from an exciting new poet, exploring their experience of acute leukaemia and PTSD in a work full of pop culture obsessions, medical side-effects, raw honesty and sparks of humour. -
Metallurgy
by Stephanie EllisMetallurgy is an homage to the world of heavy metal and its related genres. In these pages are 100 dark found poems created from the lyrics of bands as varied as Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Korn, Behemoth and many more. Although all poems are completely original works, the sources have been fully acknowledged and it is hoped that after reading the poems, the reader will then go on to listen to the artists who inspired them. \m/ -
Lilith Rising
by Stephanie EllisLike evolution itself, nothing about the story in these pages was born of a plan. It’s a collection of “What ifs.” The authors didn’t discuss the story in advance, they simply performed it. The penultimate premise? What if the biblical progenitors of humanity were bent on its eventual destruction? The answer is here between these covers, in the form of a heavy-metal armageddon meltdown fueled by rage, passion, firepower, and hellfire. This is epic poetry like you’ve never read before—ir... more -
In the Field of Unintended Consequences
by Peter SchneiderThis collection evokes the natural and human ecologies and landscapes of rural Vermont and urban Brooklyn, NY. The long-lined poems, influenced by rap, jazz, Whitman and Williams, deal with ecological and philosophical themes ranging from the author's ancestral roots to his struggle with invasive species. -
Healing Grace: Inspirational Poetry for Coping & Closure
by Michelle G StradfordHealing words of comfort and encouragement for the strong souls working to overcome adversity and trauma. Healing Grace is a raw and inspirational collection of poems, affirmations, and meditations for those on a healing journey from heartbreak, adversity, and personal trauma. I am painstakingly making my way through the emotional ruins of a life of resistance, climbing over broken pieces of myself to reassemble a more durable existence. -Broken Pieces -
About Time: Poems
by Diane MintzPoems of loving and living, and overcoming. "I want to write a poem as elegant as old lace, as simple and airy as a child's rhyme, as soft and loved as a stuffed animal, as welcoming as an old slipper, as easy to slip on. A poem in which I can open my most tender secrets to the trusted and compassionate reader who takes in the words knowingly, securing them...where she will turn to turn to them often for solace." -
The Truth I Must Invent
by Francis DiClementeThe Truth I Must Invent is a collection of narrative and philosophical poems written in free-verse style. Employing a minimalistic approach and whimsical language, Francis DiClemente explores the themes of self, identity, loneliness, memory, existence, family, parenthood, disability, gratitude, and compassion. The Truth I Must Invent examines the conflicting web of emotions all adults face and the truths that lie in between. This poetic collection peels away the layers of our individual and u... more -
Poetic Conduct
by Candace J. DurdenShe is a poetic therapist with an authentic style, who invites the reader to listen, relate and heal. Poetic Conduct offers a professional counselor's approach to self-healing through poetry. The reader will explore the realness of written expressions of admiration, love interests, support, grief, loss, and healing.