Download or read book 3 AM Poems and Stories From the Other Mind written by Charles Harvey and published by Wes Writers and Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some readers want comfortable cozy poetry, the kind you read with a cat on your lap. However, 3 AM will snap you out of your comfort zone much like the poet Allen Ginsberg did with his iconic poem "Howl." Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." The poetry in 3 AM was birthed in the witching hours between midnight and dawn. I hope these poems send you flying around the room again and again and landing in a different perspective. Excerpts: The Man in The Moon 1 Who's up at 2 am? The midnight oil has long burned out Sleep and sex roll restless On the worn mattress. Dreams escape the open eyes Shadows rattle the door Three o'clock is the witching hour Red ashes float from the patio Eyes across the courtyard catch you breathing. You look away only to look again. You know the lonely mattress would enjoy the company And your lilac-scented air could use some funk. But the night won't last a lifetime, so You slip back into your room and wonder, What if there is a man in the moon? A Good Dog The neighbor beats his dog at 3am and he don't stop I hear her tail beating the wall and he don't stop She gnaws on his bone and he don't stop All night long she whines and he don't stop Her collar and chain drags the floor and he don't stop She begs at the table and he don't stop She rolls over and plays dead and he don't stop She fetches his slippers and he don't stop She trees his birds and he don't stop She has his puppies and he don't stop All in the wee hours I hear bitch bitch bitch and he don't stop. Get 3AM Now!
Download or read book 3AM Poems and Stories From The Other Mind written by Charles Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Pride Month!Some readers find comfort in reading poetry, as one feels at ease with a cat on the lap. But some poems rocket you out of your comfort zone. They have the audacity to get in your face and shake your rump up. Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."The poems in 3 AM were birthed at that hour, or at some point in the witching hours between midnight and dawn. I hope these poems lift you from the pages or pixels on your screen and send your heart flying around the room.Excerpts: The Man in The Moon 1Who's up at 2 am?The midnight oil has long burned outSleep and sex roll restlessOn the worn mattress.Dreams escape the open eyesShadows rattle the doorThree o'clock is the witching hourRed ashes float from the patioEyes across the courtyard catch you breathing.You look away only to look again.You know the lonely mattress would enjoy the companyAnd your lilac-scented air could use some funk.But the night won't last a lifetime, soYou slip back into your room and wonder, What if there is a man in the moon?A Good DogThe neighbor beats his dog at 3amand he don't stopI hear her tail beating the walland he don't stopShe gnaws on his boneand he don't stopAll night long she whinesand he don't stopHer collar and chain drags the floorand he don't stopShe begs at the tableand he don't stopShe rolls over and plays deadand he don't stopShe fetches his slippersand he don't stopShe trees his birdsand he don't stopShe has his puppiesand he don't stopAll in the wee hours I hearbitch bitch bitchand he don't stop.LOVE DOCTORThat Doctor ain't got no licenseHe practice love on the bootleg sideAint got no licenseSteals hearts just to get to the assWhen he done got throughYou say, Lord my name Skinny RooLove you so hard you change your nameYou can't sit down for daysYou dance all around the moon Singing Al Green tunesLove and happiness Three days later you touch your cold phoneLook up in the mirror and your heart be goneYou call them digits that doctor wrote downAin't no such number in town.That doctor aint got no licenseLord that doctor aint got licenseThere you go trippin out to the graveyardLooking for some kind of heart to fill upThe hole in your breastLord, Lord. That doctor aint had no license at allYou got your 45 just in caseYou run into that no license son of a bitchLove and happiness make you do wrongAll night long. Night Clothes The best time to be naked is 3:00 am Black velvet skin is the proper attire As you stand on your balcony Stroking the night A little drink, a little smoke, a little lonely. There ought to be other men Standing on their porches too Aiming the red tips of their cigarettes At you. ThirstIt's way past 3 AMand I would not should not could notdo what I ought not. So I did notThen, I thought, do it anyway.So I can, shall, and willwalk unlike an Egyptianand get my lazy hee hawa glass of water.MoneyThe store the farm the river the fan--The perfect square of life lived and unlived. It took Money to steal a smile unjustly. What would Caroline Do today if she still had Money in her blood?Would she confess her love for Emmett's song?What would Emmett do if he could turnA square inside out a frown upside down?My JonahMan in that waterChurning away in thatDirty wash water.Wife looking for himCan't find him.Beach patrol in the skyFlying a one eyed birdLooking for that dudeCan't find himGod told Saint PeterTo go down and fetch himThe saint went to the waterLooked all over for his soulReported back to God,"Can't find him."Water churned overAnd said, "I got him. I got a whale to feedGoing to make him my Jonah.I said I got a whale to feed.Going to make him my Jonah."
Download or read book 3am Thoughts written by K. Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry centred around love and heartbreak. Capturing and detailing all the emotions one goes through when entering the roller coater of love. Touching and tapping in to others emotions, this will make you question what love is and whether it's worth all the pain.
Download or read book My Thoughts Are Clouds written by Georgia Heard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present, from poet and educator Georgia Heard, with art by Isabel Roxas. Poets have long observed the world in a mindful way. They point out beauty we might have missed, draw our attention to our inner thoughts, and call us to see our society in new ways. But as daily life become more and more chaotic, children grow distracted. According to the CDC, 9.4% of children have ADHD and 7% have anxiety/depression. And these numbers continue to climb. As treatment doctors recommend healthy eating, physical activity, plenty of sleep, and mindfulness techniques. Georgia Heard is a poet and educator—and she has long had her own meditation practice. In My Thoughts Are Clouds, she uses poetry to demonstrate what mindfulness is and gives kids—and their parents and teachers—accessible ways to learn mindfulness tools.
Download or read book Bright Bursts of Colour written by Matt Goodfellow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene.' (Pie Corbett) What if cats had flavoured fur or if you swallowed the sun? What if you were a special kind of badger or if you found a map to the stars? And what if your home was split during the week: one half at Mum's, the other half at Dad's? Packed with brilliant poems that explore a whole range of themes from the downright silly to the sensitive, this collection will delight, enthuse and resonate with children and adults alike!
Download or read book The Descent of Alette written by Alice Notley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotations marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
Download or read book Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu
Download or read book No More Poems written by Rhett Miller and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist and bestselling artist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families. In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags--and toilet humor to spare--these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience. Taking on the subjects of a bullying baseball coach and annoying little brothers with equally sly humor, renowned lyricist Rhett Miller's clever verses will have the whole family cackling.
Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Download or read book Thinking at 3 Am written by Gerald T. Perkoff and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is quiet at 3 AM, no creaking, no sound except for the small bells that always ring in my ear. It is as though the house and kitchen and floor and chair are there only as a cocoon for my thinking. An old mans thoughts do not lack consistency. As man for eons has seen himself the keeper, so do I still take on the role of provider and protector The poems in Thinking at 3 AM are tender, poignant, and frank expressions of the emotions of aging and the last phases of life. They also deal with the continuing love of a long and successful marriage, with serious illness that led to a near-death experience, with commitment to family, children, and grandchildren, as well as with diverse topics that always seem to express themselves in a poets mind and pen. In contrast to the poems about aging, one long autobiographical poem describes the poet's childhood and young adulthood, and contains stories and incidents one hopes ones heirs will know and remember. These poems reflect the authors deepest feelings, remembering life, loss, and the glorious world that he lives in every day. There is a knowing that resides in each of them, inviting the reader along for the ride on the poet's life journey.
Download or read book Meditations in an Emergency written by Frank O'Hara and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1957.
Download or read book David Jonathan and Sylvester written by Charles Harvey and published by Wes Writers and Publishers via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With hard work and good luck, David "Big Nose" Calloway navigates Houston's Jim Crow era and civil rights achievements to become a member of the once segregated Walnut Grove Country Club. There, he meets Jonathan Knapp a fellow businessman. Jonathan tries hard to befriend David. However, David remains aloof and distant. Will Jonathan's anger at being rejected send him on a quest for revenge and expose a secret both men share? Excerpt: The leg was good luck to David. It kept him out of the army during WWII. Army Doctor smiled at the big black shirtless boy thick as a chifferobe. Then he smiled at David's bulging crotch. "That nigger is packing a sack of walnuts there!" David stood with his pants around his ankles. The doctor nodded at his left leg big as a phone post. However, the doctor's smile vanished, when he looked below David's right knee at what looked like a gnarled piece of hickory. Still, the Old southerner steeped in a belief that Negroes were workhorses, made David walk and jump. He squeezed the good leg with his hand, massaged the good strong calf and then the weak one. He measured the leg from crotch to ankle, wrote down the numbers on a chart, and studied the chart marked with other men's numbers. He sized up David's withered leg next to a scrawny white boy's good leg and told himself he didn't see much of a difference. Get it Now!
Download or read book 3 00 AM written by Lee and Rebecca Viersen and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you wake up at 3 a.m. and your mind goes round and round? Do you struggle to know God? 3 am: Journey to God through Poetry is the story of one man's personal quest for a relationship with God. Lee Viersen spent countless nights wracked by doubt and worry and chose to express that struggle in his writing. Through his struggle came strength in both God and art. We hope that in reading his poems and learning about his journey to faith, you too will find comfort, joy, and the answers to the questions that keep you awake at night.
Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Download or read book Big Cabin written by Ron Padgett and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over three seasons in a Vermont cabin, these poems act as a reflecting pool, casting back mortality, consciousness, and time in new, crystal-clear light.
Download or read book 3 AM Thoughts written by Sakari Lacross and published by Michael Noland Jr. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With desire comes heartbreak. With love comes desires. With heartbreak comes new memories to hold on to. This poetry collection is the first in its series, covering the hurtful, yet desperate feelings that can keep someone up at night. A quick read for those who enjoy poetry in its simplest form. Love doesn't love me Love is comforted By Heartbreak. Company to it I am merely A third wheel I love love But it doesn't notice me It only notices My heartbreak Now updated with more poetry, dive into over a hundred poems that started off the helpless romantic franchise.
Download or read book Keep Moving written by Maggie Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR “A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal.” —People For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a collection of quotes and essays on facing life’s challenges with creativity, courage, and resilience. When Maggie Smith, the award-winning author of the viral poem “Good Bones,” started writing inspirational daily Twitter posts in the wake of her divorce, they unexpectedly caught fire. In this deeply moving book of quotes and essays, Maggie writes about new beginnings as opportunities for transformation. Like kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold, Keep Moving celebrates the beauty and strength on the other side of loss. This is a book for anyone who has gone through a difficult time and is wondering: What comes next?
