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 Promises and Other Poems written by Anna Frawley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mama s Promises written by Marilyn Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Waniek is a poet of intelligence, passion, and gentleness with a fine sense of the comic and unfailing judgment about what constitutes a poetic line. She creates a rich mixture of impressions about the speaker of these poems as a woman who is at the same time in her mid-twenties and her mid-fifties, who is black and white and red, who is both trapped by and freed by motherhood.” —Miller Williams Marilyn Nelson Waniek writes with great wisdom and compassion. Grounded but never earthbound, her poems speak honestly and eloquently about giving birth, nurturing life, and facing death; they inhabit the present, fully aware of their responsibilities to the past and the future. Waniek leaves us with the affecting strength and assurance of lasting things, as in the poem “Mama’s Promise.” But the dangerous highway curves through blue evenings when I hold his yielding hand and snip his minuscule nails with my vicious-looking scissors. I carry him around like an egg in a spoon, and I remember a porcelain fawn, a best friend’s trust, my broken faith in myself. It’s not my grace that keeps me erect as the sidewalk clatters downhill under my rollerskate wheels. Then I think of Mama, her bountiful breasts. When I was a child, I really swear, Mama’s kisses could heal. I remember her promise, and whisper it over my sweet son’s sleep: When you float to the bottom, child, like a mote down a sunbeam, you’ll see me from a trillion miles away: my eyes looking upon you, my arms outstretched for you like night. From “Mama’s Promise” published in Mama’s Promises by Marilyn Nelson. Copyright © 1985 by Marilyn Nelson Waniek. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Promise of Hope written by Kofi Awoonor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work spanning almost fifty years. Selected and edited by Awoonor’s friend and colleague Kofi Anyidoho, himself a prominent poet and academic in Ghana, The Promise of Hope contains much of Awoonor’s most recent unpublished poetry, along with many of his anthologized and classic poems. This engaging volume serves as a fitting contribution to the inaugural cohort of books in the African Poetry Book Series.
Download or read book Beautiful Pointless written by David Orr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Download or read book The Promise written by Robert Eric Corry and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promise written by Sally Van Doren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Van Doren’s Promise features a series of short lyric poems, contemplative vignettes of daily life that examine friendship, marriage, and family with a veneer of playfulness. These poems take us into a space where a year is compressed into minutes and a small trickle of memory floods the mind. Van Doren, a visual artist as well as a poet, composes word collages that help us to touch the promise underneath the surface and to make sense of the senseless.
Download or read book The Promise written by Nancy Barr Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promise written by Charles A. Louis Jr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second in the Love Notes from the Heart collection by Charles A Louis Jr. Here you will find poems that tell stories, others expressing the poet's vision of perfect beauty, filled with deep feelings and emotions that will move you. These poems have been put together beautifully for your enjoyment and delight.
Download or read book Summer Promises and Other Poems written by Sanil Sanchar and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Promises We Cannot Keep written by Paula Adams Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promise written by Dr Claus and published by Dr Claus. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timeless collection of love poems and photographs created by Dr. Claus. The poetry is designed to touch your heart, make you laugh and even cry. These poems speak to the heart and are joined together with brilliant photography of our natural world to create works of art you will enjoy. Take a moment to breathe a poem and when you breathe, love will surround you.
Download or read book The Promise and Other Poems written by Beatrice Holloway and published by Tsl Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will have noticed that I am a writer, a writer, in the main, of children's books. As a child, I wasn't that fussy about poetry in school, and yet I quite often surprise myself now as an adult, when with my friends we are discussing prose and poetry, I can often quote some of the poems I had learned in my earlier years. 'The Fairies' by William Allingham - 'Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen...' and 'A Smuggler's Song' by Rudyard Kipling, 'Brandy for the parson, Baccy for the Clerk, Laces for a lady...' by Rudyard Kipling, spring to mind. Some of my writer friends write beautiful poetry, in depth, about their inner feelings, that are very moving, but my efforts are not at all so profound. I make pictures with words. Often they do not rhyme, and the rhythm is sometimes broken, so I believe my work may well come into the category of free verse. I do hope you enjoy my modest attempts at poetry writing. Two poems in this collection won monthly competitions, 'Different Strands' in February 2021 and 'The Hand of Papa' in June 2022.
Download or read book Winter Bees Other Poems of the Cold written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold summons forth the charms and dictates of winter. Just as Joyce Sidman captured the drama of the pond in Song of the Water Boatman and the night woods in Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, here she captures the drama of the cold. Why don't snakes freeze to death? How does the tiny honeybee survive frost? Learn about the secret lives of animals happening under the snow and how it buds to spring!
Download or read book Rainbow Promises written by Raynette Eitel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainbow Promises is a collection of poems written from a place of grief. It will be understood by any who have experienced a loss of a loved one, whether a parent, spouse, child, or dearest friend. The metaphor of a rainbow as Gods gift to us is meant to give focus on the journey throughout grief and then to share Gods gift s as we heal. Grief is often described as a journey. This book can help you go on your journey comforted by prayer and happy memories.
Download or read book God Hath Not Promised One Hundred More Poems by Annie Johnson Flint written by Annie Johnson Flint and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravi Zacharias has described Annie Johnson Flint as the greatest of hymnwriters, and this second of three newly published volumes of her work illustrates why she is held in such high regard by the countless thousands who have enjoyed and have been encouraged by her poems over the last 100 years. Together with her biography, 'The Making of the Beautiful', this collection of Annie's legacy is certain to be enjoyed by a new audience.
Download or read book Promises written by Cassondra Beers and published by Eyedentified Publishing Solutions. This book was released on 2016-08-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Yahweh, God, spoke creation into being, He made a promise. Though we have forgotten this promise because of the fall, Holy Spirit reminds us of the promise made by our Heavenly Father so that we can fulfill all promises made to us. Learn how to rest in the immutability of the promise, of the only One who has the power to keep the promise.
