Download or read book Kirk s Poetry written by Kirk Philipsen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my poetry book that has Christian poems, love poems, fun poems, and poems that are now my new CD. There are even poems of future songs. And of course since I have dedicated this poetry book to my son Christopher who passed in 1996 at 13 years young. There are poems from me, and his mom, and his sisters about him our goodbyes. Something for everyone.
Download or read book Moral Compass written by Kirk C. Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forty poems in this collection were originally written as heavy metal song lyrics. The selections encompass a variety of deeply personal themes such as love, alcoholism, fantasy and religion. The poems are often dark in nature, expressing author Kirk C. Olson's emotions, such as sadness, rage, affection and fear. The poems purposely speak to those who need to make choices. Sobriety may be one of those choices as in the case of the poem "The Liquid Truth" I was breaking hearts / While emptying bottles / Too drunk to know / I was emptying my heart / And should have been breaking bottles/ Olson's Moral Compass addresses many of life's philosophical questions and the choices people make within their lifetime. This poetry collection reveals how one experiences life within extremes and there are those who have been to the extreme ends of those experiences.
Download or read book Poet S Pain written by Kirk C. Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his second collection, we delve deeper into the mind of poet Kirk Olson. My heart in a realm of pain, Mind in a realm of insanity, Facade of deep darkness is Concealed by my poetry. From Insomniacs Olson uses language to create a lyrical exploration of love, mortality, fantasy, and madness. His poems are organic and alive, his voice honest, his style open and engaging. If I lost my sight, The last thing I would want to see Is your smile, Reminding me Of how beautiful the world can be. From Losses He deals with subjects currently affecting humanity, including cancer, mental illness, financial ruin, alcoholism, and cyber-bullying. In each poem, pain is a raw and visceral reminder of lifes intensity, each exposing a searing and abrasive hurt. Return to your nightmares, and Wake up when you find me there. Call me in your daydreams; Ill whisper horror in your ear. From Dreams of Despair Humanitys innate empathy and strength to overcome despair is a theme woven throughout the collection. Olson has a clear understanding of what it means to carry on.
Download or read book Poet of Death written by Kirk C. Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wake to the saddest sunrise. My bed has become a tomb. I rise with hope thin as a cobweb, Desperate to hear your voice, Desperate to hold your hand. Is our love real? There is no floor below me. Catch me, I am falling. Kirk Olson has a talent for lyrically seeing through the darkness to the light on the other side where everyone is encouraged to live and chase their dreams. In his third collection of poetry, Olson vividly explores the theme of death: death of relationships, his mother, dreams, motivation, accidents, addiction, and much more. Olson shares unique poems that reflect on diverse subjects that include a dark knight whose soul is always free, a Mother Earth that humanity continues to deface, guitar strings that scream postulation, subconscious wanderings, and the death of a romance that was never meant to be. Poet of Death offers candid insight into one man’s life as he poetically explores the theme of dying within an open platform that inspires reflection for anyone seeking to view life in a different way.
Download or read book We a Spirit Seeking Harmony for a World That s Out of Sync written by Heather J. Kirk and published by Heather J. Kirk. This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We ... a spirit seeking harmony for a world that's out of sync, she takes the reader on a faith journey modeled after that of the prophet Isaiah, yet sets it in the absolute present. Tears flow through her tellings of pain so personal we think they are our own. And perhaps they are. But "We" never leaves us alone, offering possibilities in the communion of family, friends and a God that burns us with His healing fire. Even ‘non-poetry readers’ will find the text in “We” as natural and readable as prose, beautiful, even while the poems reveal the tragedies that befall us in this world. With Ms. Kirk’s assistance, we travel from grief and pain to hope and purpose. Through the chapter headings ‘out of sync’, ‘who will go?’, ‘coal to my lips’, ‘send me’, and ‘go,’ she reminds us that no matter what we have lived through, we are never so broken that we cannot go and minister to another in need. When I was reading ‘We’, I wanted to gobble it up-to swallow the content whole, without chewing. At the same time I wanted to touch and feel every word. I really had to force myself to go slow. Your book did everything a great book should. It made me ache, it made me smile. It made me think, and wonder. Then, like a REALLY GREAT BOOK, it made me want to read it again, which I did. It also made me anxious to share it with my friends. -Cheri Oehler Terman, Social Worker - AmericaCorp VISTA - Flood Recovery
Download or read book Life in Poetry written by Colin Kirk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, written from 1955 to 2014, are a reflection on the period by someone who lived through it and, of course, aged in the process. Various world tragedies knocked the poetry out of him a time or two. He says: Somewhere between 1955 and 2000 humanity took a further seriously wrong turning. The twenty-fi rst century started in farce that gave unlimited power to people intent on mass murder. We let it happen. Poetry was once the great harbinger of understanding and poets were once listened to because they had something important to say.
Download or read book My People Was Music written by Kirk Judd and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homer and the Oral Tradition written by G. S. Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-12-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.
Download or read book Saint X written by Kirk Nesset and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kirk Nesset's Saint X chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style. Wearing bandages rather than smiles, they're misshapen champions downed by self-bludgeons, perversely on foot while the saddled horse follows--and yet in each case, in each poem, they are honored if not saved by nuanced reflection, measured perception, and the pleasures of song."--Books.google.
Download or read book Songbox written by Kirk Wilson and published by Trio House Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems Walking Home by Starlight written by Quentin R. Kirk and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live our lives in a sea of intangibles. In an unmeasurable way we fall in love, we select our life work, and we develop a personal sense of beauty and ugliness, right and wrong. In our religious meetings we address imponderables with difficulty. This book, written by an educator, anthropologist, traveler, poet, intends to cast a tiny light on the elusive. We are walking home by starlight, dimly finding our way, but we will arrive. We will arrive Home.
Download or read book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Skeletons written by Kirk DeMatas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join author Kirk DeMatas on a journey back in time as he visits the seemingly autocratic world of the past in his new poetry collection, Conversations with Skeletons. Written over a three-year period, the poems chronicle the radical reenactment of past experienceseffectively dialogues between DeMatas and other versions of himself. This collection represents a gruelling exercise in psychological dissection through poetic discourse. DeMatas confronts the sources that feed his fears, his anger, his lasciviousness, and his insecurities, all with the hope of finally exorcising the metaphorical demons clutching his soul. Accompanied by stunning photos by Tosin I. Arasi of TIA International Photography, the poetry written for this collection is occasionally raw, often intense, and always extremely revealing. Conversations with Skeletons collects one mans conversations with his personal skeletons. Confronting the Grief of Years On my thirtieth birthday, I woke to the sound of bones rattling inside my closet. The vibrations rapped against my naked eardrums and lured me into the realm of the blues. My consciousness rode the sound waves like a sea bird scanning an abyss for some nourishment. Beguiled by this rhythm, I understood the trap, just as Josef K. does in The Trial. I could hear the scratching against the heavy door, and after what felt like one year, I stood. My hand became a benevolent dictator, ushering the darkness into the light.
Download or read book A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Incorporating a Glossary of Scotch Words written by J. B. Reid and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wizard of Mecosta Russell Kirk Gothic Fiction and the Moral Imagination written by Camilo Peralta and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wizard of Mecosta" offers an extended analysis of the fiction of Russell Amos Kirk (1918-1994), a central figure in modern American conservatism who is often referred to as “the father” of the same. Born and raised in Michigan, Kirk was also a prolific writer of fiction, who published almost two dozen short stories and three novels over the course of his long career. At the heart of everything Kirk wrote was what he referred to as the “moral imagination,” a phrase he borrowed from Edmund Burke and often used to describe the instructive and enlightening purposes of great literature. Despite his prominent reputation as a public man of letters and the respect of fellow authors including Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Kirk’s fiction was never very popular, and has fallen into almost complete obscurity in the present. "The Wizard of Mecosta" is the first full-length study ever published about Kirk’s fiction, and the only work of any length to consider the entirety of his output, including all of the stories and novels he wrote. By emphasizing how Kirk’s fiction illuminates certain aspects of his social and political theory, "The Wizard of Mecosta" distinguishes itself from the half-dozen or more studies of the author’s life and work that have been published since his death in 1994. It should appeal to anyone with an interest in American conservatism, as well as fans and scholars of the sort of Gothic horror in which Kirk, unexpectedly, excelled. Through his stories of avenging ghosts and timeless journeys through the afterlife, he reminds us of the existence of “permanent things,” the core values and beliefs of Western society, which he strove all his life to preserve. It is high time that his fiction found a more appreciative, and larger, audience.
Download or read book James the Fifth Or The gudeman of Ballangeich His Poetry and Adventures written by James Paterson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where We Live written by CREATESPACE and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In WHERE WE LIVE: Illinois Poets, a poetry anthology, thirty-two Illinois poets write on the general theme of "where we live," which they interpret to mean place, landscape, home, country of origin, and even the body, mind, imagination, and spirit. The anthology includes sixteen poets who read their work aloud in two public libraries in central Illinois, as part of a reading series in the fall of 2002, supported by the American Library Association's Live @ Your Library program and the Illinois Arts Council.
