Download or read book Poetic Flow written by Yolanda Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poems is about the journey of many. It touches upon Love, Life, Loss, Faith, Spirituality, Inspiration, Fun, Laughter, Family, Friendship and so much more. This book reaches your heart, your mind, your body and your soul.

Download or read book A Fine Canopy written by Alison Swan and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness. Alison Swan's collection of poems, A Fine Canopy, illustrates how the natural world envelops and encloses us with so many beautiful things: crowns of leaves, the ubiquitous blue sky, our luminous moon, and snow. So much snow. An ecopoet whose writing shows her advocacy for natural resources, in this collection Swan calls the reader to witness, appreciate, and sustain this world before it becomes too late. These poems were written out of an impulse to track down wisdom in the open air, outside of the noisy world of cars and commerce. Swan seeks insight on shores and in scraps of woods and fields—especially on four particular peninsulas: Michigan's upper and lower, Florida, and Washington state's Olympic—and also inside motherhood, which might be the wildest place of all. These are poems about the interconnection of all things, and "knowing things we cannot see." A journey through seasons with a soundtrack of birdsong, Swan's words are incredibly sensory. The reader is made to feel the weight of muddy jeans, the jolt at the tug of a dog's leash, and to see the bright flash of a cardinal's red plumage. Swan's poems remind us that although we all want to make a mark on our world, the smaller the better: stepping into fresh snow, dashing through forests atop dry leaves, laying wet bodies on warm concrete. These quiet interactions with places are as hopeful as they are harmless. Without necessarily tackling the topics head-on, A Fine Canopy evokes the devastation of climate change and the destruction of natural resources. This book engages deeply with the other-than-human to express and investigate alarm, dismay, anger, admiration, adoration in what feels like the end of the world unless we begin to think outside the box. These poems will carry weight with all readers of poetry, especially those who are interested in ecopoetry and connecting with the world around them.

Download or read book Meditaci n Fronteriza written by Norma Elia Cantú and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a beautifully crafted exploration of life in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Written by Norma Elia Cantú, the award-winning author of Canícula, this collection carries the perspective of a powerful force in Chicana literature—and literature worldwide. The poems are a celebration of culture, tradition, and creativity that navigates themes of love, solidarity, and political transformation. Deeply personal yet warmly relatable, these poems flow from Spanish to English gracefully. With Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational work as an inspiration, Meditación Fronteriza unveils unique images that provide nuance and depth to the narrative of the borderlands. Poems addressed to talented and influential women such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Adrienne Rich, among others, pour gratitude and recognition into the collection. While many of the poems in Meditación Fronteriza are gentle and inviting, there are also moments that grieve for the state of the borderlands, calling for political resistance.

Download or read book Poetry of Love written by N. N. Light and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had been searching for love my whole life. It took the opening up of the world via technology for me to find my soulmate. Once I laid eyes on her, at the arrivals gate, I knew I was never going to let her go. The following is a collection of poems I wrote to my angel, from our first meeting up until our wedding day. I was working crazy hours as a chef and I had a long commute. I chose my commuting time to pen her a poem each day. These poems speak of our life, our challenges and our growth together...in every aspect they speak of our love. May this book give someone the courage to let their special someone know how much they care for them and how much they mean to them. Saying I love you is a gift you can give many times a day.

Download or read book You Drive Me Crazy written by Mary D. Esselman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the editors of the successful anthologies "The Hell With Love" and "Kiss Off" comes a third collection of poetry celebrating commitment, passion, and everlasting love. They’ve helped people mend their broken hearts in The Hell With Love and guided them toward independence and fulfillment in Kiss Off. Now, editors Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Vélez are back with their third collection of poems to help readers jumpstart the passion in their relationships, brush off the inertia of everyday life, and celebrate love. While retaining the trademark wit and sassiness the editors are known for, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY: Love Poems for Real Life takes readers on an achingly beautiful journey through the entire spectrum of the heart, with poems that memorialize the blush of first love, lust, loss, doubt, rediscovery, and everlasting love by such masters of verse as Louise Gluck and Pablo Neruda, among others.

Download or read book River Flow New and Selected Poems Revised Revised written by David Whyte and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly revised edition contains the most up to date versions of poems from David's first five volumes of poetry: Songs for Coming Home, Where Many Rivers Meet, Fire in the Earth, The House of Belonging and Everything is Waiting for You, as well as the latest versions of the new poems that originally appeared in the first edition of River Flow.

Download or read book Yoga Poems written by Leza Lowitz and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixty poems in this book are windows into the mind/body/spirit experiences that come about through yoga practice. Each poem is named for a posture or breath exercise and is inspired by the physical properties of the pose or some aspect of breathing that led the poet to deeper understanding. Listening to these poems read aloud, or contemplating them on one’s own, will help yoga students understand their own struggles and inspire them on the way to personal transformation.

Download or read book When Words Flow written by Felecia Kearse and published by Awakened Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the day, as everything becomes a moment. Your storms will come to be beautiful days. Seasons don't reverse, they change forward. Life is about moving through doors. Not standing in the frames of them. A yogic woman seeking life brings forward a cluster of poems and writings into a telling of her story. Through sparks of motivation her journey touches upon being lost in fear, to witnessing love, welcoming change, and coming to self-realization. Her work highlights how life shapes us, from the damaged and the soothed, as the feeling of such moments unlatch our hearts to allow movement to flow through-wherever it takes us.

Download or read book Ebb Flow written by Déjà Rae and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebb & Flow is a collection of poetry and prose inspired by a lifelong journey towards healing, growth, and self-discovery. In her book, Déjà Rae explores the ebb and flow cycle that weaves throughout different seasons of life. Through periods of loneliness and heartbreak, Ebb & Flow highlights the growth that is gained through grief, and the breakthrough that comes from brokenness. Ebb & Flow is authentic, intriguing, and uplifting. It will drive you to new depths and inspire you to chase after your truest self.

Download or read book Art Love written by Kate Farrell and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scores of evocative love poems, drawn from the entire range of world literature, are matched with wonderfully vibrant works of art--paintings, sculpture, prints, collages, and stained glass to create an elegant anthology of love peoms and masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 140 color illustrations.

Download or read book To the Love of My Life written by Donna Fargo and published by Blue Mountain Arts. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep within my soul, where my secrets are kept from even me, sometimes I feel feelings that I cannot describe. They're sacred and they're private, and they're all about you and me. They tell our beautiful love story, for you are the love of my life." - Donna Fargo In this exquisitely tender collection of love poems, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Donna Fargo shares her most personal thoughts on love, relationships, and the special person in her life. Her words, written especially for the one true love of her life, speak of gratitude for the blessed gift of love she has been given and of the enduring happiness it brings to her life. They speak of devotion: of honoring each other's dreams and supporting each other in times of need. Recognizing that unhappy moments and difficult times occur in every relationship, her poetry speaks to the importance of trust, understanding, and forgiveness, and of learning to accept the ups, downs, and all the times in between. Donna's poems flow naturally and thoughtfully from one into another... each revealing another aspect of warmth and emotion. From missing each other when you're apart to being there for each other, no matter what, this book beautifully exemplifies the multitude of feelings that come when you know you've found that one special person who is... the love of your life."

Download or read book Love and Other Poems written by Alex Dimitrov and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

Download or read book Love an Index written by Rebecca Lindenberg and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg’s billowing, I-contain-multitudes style lays bare the poet’s sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and narrative, at once plainspoken and musically elaborate. Regarding her role in Arnold’s story, Lindenberg writes with clear-eyed humility and endearing dignity: “The girl with the ink-stained teeth / knows she’s famous / in a tiny, tragic way. / She’s not / daft, after all.” And then later, playfully, of her travels in Italy with the poet, her lover: “The carabinieri / wanted to know if there were bears / in our part of America. Yes, we said, / many bears. Man-eating bears? Yes, of course, / many man-eating bears.” Every poem in this collection bursts with humor, pathos, verve—and an utterly unique, soulful voice. This widely anticipated debut, already selected as a finalist for several prominent book awards, marks the first collection in the newly minted McSweeney’s Poetry Series. MPS is an imprint which seeks to publish a broad range of excellent new poetry collections in exquisitely designed hardcovers—poetry that’s useful and meaningful to anyone in any walk of life.

Download or read book The Water Museum written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America's preeminent literary voices “reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader's understanding of human boundaries” (Kirkus). Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the Edgar-award winning "Amapola" and his now-classic "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses," which had the honor of being chosen for NPR's "Selected Shorts" not once but twice. Suffused with wanderlust, compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, The Water Museum is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American master.

Download or read book Love in the Time of Climate Change written by Jenny Justice and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon themes of love, relationships, family and themes of anxiety, fear, and worry regarding the consequences of climate change, this book of poetry shines light on the ways we are all connected and the work we all must do, both for love, and for planet. Love in the Time of Climate Change is a book of poetry that is spiritual, personal, universal, and moving. It is a book that will touch hearts, inspire minds, and fuel inspiration for hope, activism, justice, and compassion. The poems in this book flow from poems of love, from poems of family, to poems of environmental issues, species extinction, air pollution, and the reality that we are living and loving in a world on fire. Love in the Time of Climate Change, A Book of Poems is a cozy, enjoyable, sweet, and serious analysis that celebrates the power of love while also situating it within the context of the anxiety, worry, upset, and grief caused by a changing planet.

Download or read book Flow written by Vincent Lowry and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flow - Poems of Faith is a spiritual journey about the sections of the New and Old Testament. Whether you are experiencing pain, anger, depression, loss, confusion, or change, you are invited to find God's peace and love with the poetry found in Flow. You are also encouraged after each poem to contribute your own God-inspired creativity with a poem, song, or prayer. Flow - Poems of Faith is Vincent Lowry's sixth book. His other works are American Vineyard, #LucysLetter - The Children of the Greenhouse Age, Surfing the Seconds, Dreams Reign Supreme, and Constellation Chronicles - The Lost Civilization of Aries.

Download or read book Anatomy of a Poet written by C. J. Heck and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry can be daunting and hard to understand, but it doesn't have to be. I feel a poet has an obligation to write in a way that everyone can understand. Poems should flow softly through a poet's words, their meanings gently caressing the heart and mind of its reader. If a poem comes from the heart, it will reach other hearts, and this is what I've tried to do with the poetry in "Anatomy of a Poet." CJ Heck "Like a rose with many petals and sharing its sweet aroma, this is how I see and feel about the love of my life, CJ Heck. She is my electric blue-eyed girl. She can be both a little girl, or a strong woman, whenever and wherever the situation calls for it. She is both sensuous and exciting, and soft and affectionate. Tragedy struck her life early with the death of her husband in Vietnam. This experience laid open the very core of her heart and soul and opened the channel to a well of compassion and sensitivity that waited deep within. Her pain was the fertilizer that helped her bloom as a writer. CJ's poetry is not a surface observation, but a soulful interpretation of the events and people that inspired her. She writes both eloquently and simply of things that touch her heart, things she wants to share. She is gifted at painting a picture with words on the heart and imagination of others, thereby communicating not just an image, but a life experience. I feel very honored to have been asked to write this introduction and share my feelings about CJ Heck. She is the water for my soil, the sunlight for my petals and the nurturer of my growth. Sit back, open your heart and enjoy the journey as revealed through her words, images and emotions. You are blessed by this opportunity to know her in words, as I know her in life." Robert S. Cosmar, Author "This is my kind of poetry. Direct, beautifully expressed and without a hint of pretension." Allison Cassidy "CJ is predominately viewed as a writer of works for children, but CJ now carries over her approach to more adult themes. In doing so, she presents a profound world that is deeply sad, incredibly humorous and sometimes very intimate." Joseph Daly "I love learning new words, especially when they are explained with such diaphanous clarity. Whether she talks of love, children, life, or any other subject, CJ's words are always clear and harmonious. She makes us forget that easy to read is hard to write." Marc Mimouni (London, United Kingdom) "CJ Heck is a very talented author. Her words are enlightening and charismatic to people of all ages. It is a privilege and honor to read her prolific pen." Janet Caldwell (Managing Editor, Inner Child Magazine