Download or read book Poems of Reality written by Tony Gorman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pebble I am a pebble dropped into the water Spreading my ripples to all those around Each little wave bringing hope to the needy Easing their worries bringing smiles not a frown Spreading and rippling to far distant boundaries Drawing in help with its tidal display And they too will drop pebbles creating more ripples Lending a hand to the needy as they go day to day The lesson from this is to help one another And dont be afraid to spread yourself around And be like the pebble causing all of those ripples As those that are dormant are the ones on the ground I hope my poems were like the pebble and caused ripples of peace and joy in your life as you turned each page. Many Thanks to those who have bought my book Tony Gorman
Download or read book A Village Life written by Louise Glück and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poet A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees— The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. —from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines—expansive, fluent, and full—manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.
Download or read book Radical as Reality written by Peter Campion and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry. Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury objectivists, late twentieth-century poets, his contemporaries, and more, Campion unearths an American poetic landscape that is subtler and more varied than most critics have allowed. He discovers commonalities among poets considered opposites, dramatizes how form and history are mutually entailing, and explores how the conventions of poetry, its inheritance, and its inventions sprang from the tensions of ordinary life. At its core, this is a book about poetic making, one that reveals how the best poets not only receive but understand and adapt what comes before them, reinterpreting the history of their art to create work that is, indeed, radical as reality.
Download or read book Well Well Reality written by Rosmarie Waldrop and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. WELL WELL REALITY is a collection of poems written in collaboration by Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop over a number of years. The distinct voices of these two momentously prolific poets merge to create a new, lyric voice: a vast, plural assemblage of name, gender, and language. "When Rosmarie Waldrop writes poetry, when she writes poems, she writes her poems: the poems, the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop. When Keith Waldrop writes poetry, when he writes poems, he writes his poems: the poems, the poetry of Keith Waldrop. But when Rosmarie and Keith, when Keith and Rosmarie write poems together, whose poems are those poems? They are the poems of a third poet, whose name and gender and origin and language we do not know. But what we do see, and hear, are the poems."--Jacques Roubaud
Download or read book Life Poems written by Danny Ray Christian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic incident of my thirty-years untreated mental illness had made me attempted to kill someone close to me which taught me that out of the greatest pain can come the greatest beauty. All of the poems in this book were written while I was in the mental hospital being treated for my mental illness, and prove to me that What Satan meant for evil, God can and does use for good. I was out of my mind when I committed the act of attempted murder, yet the worse day of my life became the turning point when I awoke to the fact that I needed to first surrender to God and then ask Him for direction and purpose for my life. That prayer was answered through me discovering that I had a talent for writing poetry and motivational speaking while in Elgin Mental Health Center from 20032013. These poems are not the mad ramblings you would expect from the criminally insane, but are the personal expressions of deep pain and revelations of a man who awoke from a state of apathy to a new world of love and beauty. I hope that all those who read these poems will come to understand that the bitterest lemons can be turned into the sweetest lemonade, if you are willing to look at life and your experience through different glasses than those you have seen its pain and ugliness through. Danny has been certified by Toastmasters International as a competent public speaker (1991 East Moline). He received his GED from the Chicago City Colleges (1981) and obtained a certificate in graphic arts from Southeastern Illinois College (1987). He is a former member of the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party. He spent twenty years in prison and ten in Elgin Mental Health Center. While in the hospital he wrote over eight hundred poems, three books of daily meditations, and numerous speeches and Afrocentric anecdotes. He also acted as a mentor for younger consumers while there, leading his own peer-support groups and chairing GROW for four years (200307). He has been clean of all illegal drugs and alcohol for fourteen years. His mission is to be the most infectiously optimistic and exceptionally giving person possible and to encourage others to be equally optimistic and giving. Danny is not one who believes you cant make it because you have some strikes against you; he is one to tell you that, Anything you can conceive and believe you can achieve (Napoleon Hill). You can post comments on my e-mail at [email protected].
Download or read book Poems of Reality written by Charles Monk Sanders and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book, Poems of Reality, has been written based on my living experiences and relationships with those who have surrounded me throughout my life. Guidance from God and encouragement from my wife Carol and my mother have led me to write poems on spiritual blessings, human suffering, love and compassion, education, and politics. Poems on Reality reveals love and concern for those struggling for life and the multitudes suffering from government and corporate greed in America. My wish is that Poems of Reality will encourage readers to apply for the five earthly promises of God found in Psalms 41:13 and become eligible for an eternal home in heaven, listed in Matthew 25:3140.
Download or read book Complete Poems written by John Keats and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Keats' complete poems is designed expressly for general readers and students, including composition dates, identifying quotations and allusions in the notes and referring readers to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The introduction provides central facts about Keats' life and describes the themes of his best work.
Download or read book Reality Poems of the Modern Day written by Isabella George and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a politically and socially courageous eclectic collection of short stories and poems of contemporary predicaments and issues that often escape mainstream sensibility. Each poem is a compelling short story, versified in a style of poetry I have tagged as, "Versery Rhymes" which is contempo lyrical verse with a bit of urban vernacular dialogue. A range of poignant topics in this collection pertain to credit card entrapment, drug trafficking, lesbian lovers, prostitution, factory farming, death row, psychotic episodes, cigarette smoking, smoking weed, the Prince of the air, the blues, ghosts, etc. the list goes on. A bit less poignant topics are of teen age love affairs, boys and frogs, the rain, Barbie dolls, fashionistas, hot wheels, puppy's, parakeets, baptism, death, forgetfulness... and much much more...this just names a few. As Langston Hughes penned: "Poetry is the human soul entire, Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words". The reality of truth in atomic words that are direct commentary on issues is what this work is about.
Download or read book My Life of Poems written by Dwight A. Bloodman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life of Poems contains poems covering a variety of topics, including but not limited to history, anger management, love, and God. My Life of Poems will appeal to all types of people, including students and families, based on the variety of poem genres and the writing style. Each poem is accompanied by an explanation as to what inspired that specific poem and/or the purpose for which it was written. These descriptions will help different readers understand and identify with the poems on a deeper level. The poems may even help readers process life's many dynamic issues, as writing the poems did for the author over the years.
Download or read book Poems to Ponder on the Road to Life written by Bruce K. Avenell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do your horizons limit your dreamsor do your dreams expand your horizons? The poems included in Poems to Ponder on The Road to Life reveal personal experiences in expanding horizons as one learns how to travel on The Road TO Life. Poetic allusions spark the spirits curiosity to seek out the technique buried within the prose. Some of the poems are original while others were dictated from beings who have traversed The Road TO Life; a journey of the soul. Through all the dreams and apparent realities there is a way; a path when you find it; a road when you start to explore it; and a highway when you learn to travel upon it. It is a labyrinth of progressions that teach you how to manage the energy of divine life. You must learn how to hold the velocity, energy, and magic of that level of life in your own being. The poetry in the collection is about some of the authors experiences, observations, and conclusions as he journeyed back along The Road TO Life.
Download or read book Field Guide to Reality and Other Poems written by Lee Robertson and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Field Guide to Reality" is the tale of a year in the life of an artist living in the backwoods of the Ozark hills. The day to day life of the forest, the remembrance of things past, and the poignance of the present are all here.
Download or read book Echoes of Reality written by Wonna Elam Cornelson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of Reality speaks not so much to the beauty of nature as the agony of the soul. Behind the luscious rose, theres the prickly thorns of reality, like the wisdom revealed in these parabolic poems. Within are poems that tell a story, metaphoric poems, villanelles, and free verse, and a couple of prose poems. Several pieces of W. Cornelsons artwork is included as well. 1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV: No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. We all go through similar trials. This is part of the message I want to convey. Her poems evoke emotions and images. Wonderful. S. U. Swopes, Administrative, Los Angeles Community College District. evokes the reader to reflect on their own soul struggles a thoughtful and compelling collection of written art. Mrs. Tammy Hendricks, MHR, Published Award Winning Artist.
Download or read book Life on Mars written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.
Download or read book Reality Poems written by Isabella George and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality Poems (2016) is the revised edition of Isabella George's first e-book, Reality Poems of the Modern Day (2014). The title has been shortened, but content increased. In this revision, the poems are presented as more intense in-depth... and reveal an enriched ever-evolving awareness and determination to address issues more explicitly, without trepidation or regard to criticism. Reality Poems is a body of work that is now a collection of 70 short stories and poems of controversial issues relevant to modern culture. Each poem is a short story that creates mood and movement in a rhythmic lyrical contempo cadence aptly called Versery Rhymes™, some poems are written in an urban vernacular. Many stories in the collection of political and social issues are not usually topics of discourse in traditional poetry. These stories in atomic words are a clear and concise commentary on controversial issues not usually considered to be poetic. A range of poignant topics in the collection includes: Credit card entrapment, drug trafficking, interracial lovers, 9/11 conspiracy and other theories, the horrors of factory farming, death row, psychotic episodes, cigarette smoking, Lucifer Prince of the Air, strippers, the blues, ghosts, frankenfood, baptism, the death of one's mother, civil rights struggle of the '60's, sea level rise Miami and the Everglades, smoking weed, imagining the New World Order, aging cougars. Less poignant topics include: Teenage love crushes, forgetfulness, boys and their frogs, Barbie dolls, fashionistas, Hot Wheels, puppies, parakeets, heartbreak, Kool-Aid, the Brazilian Samba, gremlins, island living and many other topics of life.
Download or read book Vanished Reality and Other Poems written by Tapeshwar Prasad and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology Vanished Reality and Other Poems is startlingly artistic in emotional endowments, poetic materials, in style and ability, and in structure and texture to reveal innate literary distinction and touch the heart of the readers for a perspective view of life through poetry. The poet possesses the perfect instrumenthis virtuoso language. His poetry bears on existential gravitas. The author seems to dovetail his subtle, objective, ethical ideas and thoughts in his heartfull subjective feelings and emotions, and he presents them on a pheromonous platter of perfumed and glittering potentialities. Intertwined with the words are cosmic truths. The meanings are besides the words and behind the lines and under the slippers. An enchanting illusion and delusion hallucinates the reader and keeps him mesmerized, albeit saner and wiser. Simple and concrete, thoughts and ideas interlaced and intertwined with deep philosophical certitude keep the readers entangled and enthralled, bound with amazement with the tapestry of playing existentialism and haunting individualism. Verse with verve. The ideas that the words and the poems convey are sacrosanct as they are both jettisoned, felt and followed. Only with regret could a genuine reader and connoisseur pass but casually over such a rare and unique vibrating book and literary bonanza.
Download or read book Reality Poetry written by George Winters and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality poetry is poems of all walks of life from people in prison to farmers working the land, and some are history of the old west and some outlaws and Sheriffs and Indians . A few are in series form telling about outlaws or Indian wars and so forth, so those will be more than one poem written in sequence. I try to make it so the person reading it becomes the person in the poem. The reality of being in someone else's shoes as the old Indian saying goes. Feeling the pain and anguish of someone else and also the joy when something good is happening. Reality can be hard sometimes but is needed to fulfill our life while here on earth.
Download or read book Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets written by Max Eastman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Colors of Life: Poems and Songs and Sonnets" by Max Eastman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
