Download or read book My Colorful Poetic Journey written by Suzanne Zurilgen Strauss and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a step into my world, and enter into a dimension of complete excitement, as I take you on My Colorful Poetic Journey! I will take you through WWII glimpses by my father, to love letters he wrote to my mother, and all the details of growing up in America. Then, I will entrance you with the tales of faraway places, such as Morocco, Thailand, China, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France, England, Russia, Greece, Argentina, and more. I will acquaint you with 5 years of living in Europe. You will also discover things you have never heard about, like “ice stock shooting”, a Central European sport, after 30 years of involvement. You will also discover my roots, dating back to 1451 on my Swiss side of the family. You will experience what my English ancestors went through coming to America from England in 1822. You will hear my heart singing through pages of poetry or lamentations to others. I have even included speeches I wrote while being a Toastmaster. I also expressed deeply felt eroticism in my poetry section, called “Erotic Awakenings”, where I express personal feelings of love and lust. Most of the book is written in rhyming couplets, either while detailing an adventure, or longing for love and acceptance. Also, many of my writings are letters to family and friends. Leaving home at 18, to travel abroad, captures the occasional youthful distress, but more of the excitement of discovering the world around me. Follow me through two marriages and many more adventures, both in California, and in New Hampshire, but mostly be part of my many adventures abroad. Jump on the Strauss plane and be captivated by the magic, the mystery, and the machinations of a poetic mind.
Download or read book Vivid written by Julie Paschkis and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the colors of the rainbow in a whole new light!
Download or read book Poetry Potpourri written by Carolyn J. Mollica and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Potpourri is a carefully crafted collection of poems designed to lift your spirits and soothe your soul. Its author has had an eclectic life as a singer, model, teacher, and writer. As a widow and parent of seven children, grandparent of twelve, Carolyn Mollica has chosen to permeate her world with joy and share it with others. “Seven is Heaven” is a work that applauds all mothers of large families while “The Optimist “ proclaims every baby a miracle. One great writer has said: “Poetry is an expedition in search of truth.” This petite book takes its reader on a delightful journey of laughter, hope and love!”
Download or read book My Poetic Journey written by Gerald W. Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Poetic Journey" is a collection of poems from over the years, that I've written expressing my thoughts, moods, feelings and views of things, as well as people and issues which had an influence on my life.
Download or read book Once Upon a Star written by James Carter and published by Caterpillar Books. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a star, there were no stars to shine -- no sun to rise no sun to set no day, no night, nor any time. Discover the origins of the universe! The worlds of poetry and science collide to create this unique book about our sun, our planets, our Earth--and YOU!
Download or read book Tan to Tamarind written by Malathi Michelle Iyengar and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems in celebration of brown skin color.
Download or read book If There s No Heaven written by Barbara Minney and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Marie Minney writes personal and emotional poetry that describes her feelings, thoughts, and passions while struggling to live her truth as a transgender woman. She began her transition to living authentically as the woman that she now knows she was meant to be a little over two years ago at the age of 63 after repressing her true gender identity for over 60 years.
Download or read book Today in the Taxi written by Sean Singer and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the passenger seat of Sean Singer’s taxicab, we witness New York’s streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity’s intimate music, of the poet’s inner journey—a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field. Jump in the back and dig the silence between the notes that count the most in each unique moment this poet brings to the page. “Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient of Singer’s jazzy curation as I move from page to page. Today in the Taxi is threaded through with quotes from Kafka, facts about jazz musicians, musings from various thinkers, from a Cathar fragment to Martin Buber to Arthur Eddington to an anonymous comedian. The taxi is at once a real taxi and the microcosm of a world—at times the speaker seems almost like Charon ferrying his passengers, as the nameless from all walks and stages of life step in and out his taxi. I am reminded of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, of Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn... Today in the Taxi is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like Honey and Smoke before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.” —Laurie Sheck
Download or read book All the Flowers Kneeling written by Paul Tran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political violence.” —New York Times Book Review A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen) Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.
Download or read book For All of Us One Today written by Richard Blanco and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic story anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013, and beyond. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares for the first time his journey as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American. He tells the story of the call from the White House committee and all the exhilaration and upheaval of the days that followed. He reveals the inspiration and challenges behind the creation of the inaugural poem, “One Today,” as well as two other poems commissioned for the occasion (“Mother Country” and “What We Know of Country”), published here for the first time ever, alongside translations of all three of those poems into his native Spanish. Finally, Blanco reflects on his life-changing role as a public voice since the inauguration, his spiritual embrace of Americans everywhere, and his vision for poetry’s new role in our nation’s consciousness. Like the inaugural poem itself, For All of Us, One Today speaks to what makes this country and its people great, marking a historic moment of hope and promise in our evolving American landscape. In 2017, U2 is featuring “One Today” during their Joshua Tree tour throughout the United States and Europe. The poem will be projected on the stage screens as people enter the stadium to reflect and discuss America and the American experience. 2014 International Latino Awards Winner: Best Biography – Spanish or Bilingual
Download or read book A Question of Colour written by Patricia Lees and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These two children have been in our Home in Townsville for more than two years, and in view of their very dark colouring, have not been assimilated into the white race. Every effort has been made to place them in a foster home without success because of their colour.' Queensland State Children's Department correspondence, 21 June 1960. The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families remains a dark chapter in Australia's history. Pattie Lees was just ten-years-old when she and her four siblings were separated from their mother on the grounds of neglect and placed into State care. Believing she was being shipped and exiled to Africa, Pattie was ultimately fated to spend the rest of her childhood on the island once dubbed 'Australia's Alcatraz' -Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement, off the coast of Queensland. A Question of Colour; my journey to belonging provides a first-hand account of Pattie's experiences as a 'fair-skinned Aboriginal' during Australia's assimilationist policy era and recounts her survival following a decade of sexual, physical and emotional abuse as a Ward of the State. A Question of Colour is a deeply moving and powerful testimony to the resilience of a young girl, her identity and her journey to belong.
Download or read book A Poetic Journey written by Barbara Drucker Smith and published by Barbara Drucker Smith. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Poetic Journey, travels through life in these poetic sections: That´s Life, World of Nature, Animal Tales, Personal, Healing (Chicken Soup), Religion (Spirituality), Travel (Orbiting), Ships (Sail the Ocean Blue), Writing (Alphabet Soup), Humor (Well, I Think It´s Funny), Arts (Poetic Creation of Artistic Image), War and Peace, and Death (The Last Roundup). The poems are philosophic reflections of life taken from historic world events, the human experience of day to day situations and happenings, and travel. "...(Smith´s) poems express with imagery and careful attention to details. Her poems convey her sensitivity to people, to our companion creatures and to the earth itself: her joy and her love of life." L. Nelson Farley, poet and author. "...(Smith´s) poems are as varied as "Children´s Palace in Shanghai, China", to a mother´s fears for her growing child, to goldfish at a wedding. They are humorous and serious, but always approach life from its best side." Serena Fusek, poet and author.
Download or read book My America written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.
Download or read book Song of My Softening written by Omotara James and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot “It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.” —Starred review by Library Journal The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.
Download or read book A Poet s Journey written by Sam Mirror and published by Win-Win Guru Publishing . This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have a boiling point. The point at which we decide to be better and desire more than we have; the point at which we decided to swim or sink. “A Poets Journey - Bon Voyage” is a collection of invigorating poetic expressions. Each poetic expression and technique represents a milestone throughout the poets’ journey and is accompanied by practical solutions and lessons learned. Dare to step outside of the box.
Download or read book Eye Level written by Jenny Xie and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I’ve been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. I’ve gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight, my overreactive motion sickness. 9 p.m., Hanoi’s Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine. Voices outside the door come to a soft boil. —from “Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season” Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here—colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes—bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, “Me? I’m just here in my traveler’s clothes, trying on each passing town for size.” Her taut, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet, caught in between things and places, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception—both to the tangible world and to “all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.”
Download or read book A Poetic Journey written by Kat Copeland and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's society, we are burdened by Hollywood's portrayed version of happiness. Our vicarious stimulation through Hollywood's relationships and glamorous lives lead us into finding unhappiness in our own reality due to unrealistic expectations. We are lacking emotional stimulation of the positive attributes in our life's struggles and partnerships. We all need to bring us through to perseverance. We crave connection through these trials and humor to aid us in our ability to press through them. Take a journey through poetic tales of a ten-year marriage in these pages. In complete honesty of these stories, you will find hope, enlightenment, understanding, and laughter.
