Download or read book As Far As the Heart Can See written by Mark Nepo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories carry the seeds of our humanness. They help us, teach us, heal us, and connect us to what matters. As Far As the Heart Can See is an invitation to be in relationship with deep and life-giving material. Many spiritual gurus present dense metaphysical theses with an intellectual approach for "working" a spiritual path; poet and philosopher Mark Nepo reaches people through their hearts, bringing something fresh and new to the field by stimulating change through reflection of thoughts and feelings. The stories he shares in As Far As the Heart Can See come from many places—from Nepo's personal history to dreams to the myths of our ancestors. Each one is an invitation to awaken an aspect of living in relationship with the sacred. Following each of the forty-five stories are three forms of an invitation to further the conversation: journal questions, table questions, and meditations. The questions, whether reflected upon in a journal or discussed in deeper conversation with friends or family, are meant to lead the seeker down unimagined paths and back into life; the meditations are meant to ground the learning. These stories and parables about universal concepts and themes offer a poet's sensuality and a philosopher's sensibility to personalizing the journey of the human experience in the world.

Download or read book Young Heart Old Soul Poetry and Prose written by Michael Tavon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry and prose that's bares the soul and heart of rising author Michael Tavon. Themes of love, refelection, and growth are all discussed in this inspirational collection of poems. "To the parts of youThat are too complex to understand I promise to forever remainA student of your heart I'll study your love overnight To retain intricacies of your Existence"

Download or read book Soul Kissing written by Michelle Schaper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of poems, prose, and musings is the first published work from Michelle, encouraged by her family, friends, and followers of her Facebook page. Michelle has endured much hardship in her life, as so many do, and has found within her a strength she couldnt have imagined she was capable of. By sharing her words and thoughts, Michelle hopes to be an inspiration for others to find their inner strength and chase their dreams. Michelle writes a lot of poetry about she or her, inspired by the women whove inspired and empowered her and others throughout her life and wishes to pass on that empowerment to all sensitive souls and playful hearts.

Download or read book Neon Soul written by Alexandra Elle and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Elle writes frankly about her experience as a young, single mother while she celebrates her triumph over adversity and promotes resilience and self-care in her readers. This book of all-new poems from the beloved author of Words From A Wanderer and Love In My Language is a quotable companion on the road to healing.

Download or read book w holehearted written by sara bawany and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (w)holehearted is a play on words to emphasize the idea of appearing whole and intact as a human being, but with fissures, scars, and brokenness peeking through from behind the tough exterior. it is the facade that many of us peruse our lives carrying, often neglecting our pain, our mental health, and most importantly, the way we are more prone to hurting others when we lack this self-awareness. (w)holehearted seeks to encompass as many stories as possible, touching on several topics, namely, spirituality, feminism, colorism, domestic violence, intersectionality, mental health and more. it aims to depict that anyone with the darkest past and pitfalls can still save themselves from drowning in the difficulties that not only plague our world, but also plague our hearts.

Download or read book Days of Soup and Holler written by Liesl Garner and published by Punto Rojo Libros. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: \"I got to see her triumph and fall apart. I wept and cheered for her. She was so beautiful and so strong, so weak and hurting, all swept together and intertwined.\" ~ from an included prose piece titled, My Life Story in Music.\r\n\r\nThese are poems from my idyllic youth, my rebellion, my wild abandon, up to my rescue, redemption, and rebirth as a functioning member of society, and a grown woman with a family of my own. In my early days, I wrote about pain, which was easy. The harder thing was to learn to write about all the joy and adventure of being happy and loved. \r\n\r\nIt wasn\"t until later in life that I found my community of artists and really learned to tell the tales from all the angles. I am indebted to the Fresno Rogue Festival, in California, where I first read for an audience and fell in love with receiving a standing ovation. Also, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Rogue Poetry Slam in Southern Oregon, where I learned to do competitive poetry and bring my best, and bring the poetry that I was afraid to share, that made my hands tremble and my voice quake, to sit in awe of the skill of other poets, and sometimes take home the money and win, even with the odds stacked against me, as other poets made the room jump and dance to their words. Oh, sweet victory! \r\n\r\n\"If you have ever loved another, been passionate about anything, mourned a loss, been a parent, heck, been alive - this poet will move you! Her rhythmic words pulse with the beat that promises (like it or not) the continuum of LIFE.\" \r\n~ Patti Thornton, in her review of Liesl Garner\"s 2008 Rogue Festival Poetry Show\r\n\r\n

Download or read book Serenity of the Heart Tranquility of the Soul written by Donald Thompson II and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry illustrates the author's passion for education, life, love, and collected mind which he utilizes to draw the reader into a different way of thinking and perceiving the world we live in. The tranquility and peacefulness readers will find in this book of poetry will leave them with an emotional sense of fulfillment. With poems covering all life has to offer from love and life to politics and religion, there are pages of prose for everyone and the author encourages you to find a favorite or few!

Download or read book The Grieving Heart written by Deb Rosman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloriously positive and intimate! Deb Rosman's The Grieving Heart celebrates the good in grieving. Loaded with gems. This exquisite treasure finds a favorite for everyone.Priscilla Doremus, Houston, TXAuthor (www.priscilladoremus.com)Incredibly inspiring to read touching my heart strings and expressing emotions I have never been able to put into words. I find reading this comforting and assuring me that we are not alone in this journey. This is a must read and share as you will want to spread the warmth.Donna Manring, Madison, WIOwner, Manring Consulting & TrainingDeb Rosman's The Grieving Heart puts a smile on your face when you don't feel like smiling. These poems and stories make you feel less alone through difficult times. What an uplifting read.Sarah C. Cooper, Westerly, RIInnkeeper/ArtistBeautifully and warmly written, Deb Rosman poetically articulates profound personal experiences. Relatable in every way. The Grieving Heart is poetry prose that massages the soul.Adiel Eshkenaz New York, NYFilm Director, Producer

Download or read book the Bourgeois Poet written by Karl Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All I See Is You written by Jessica Urlichs and published by Jessica Urlichs: Early Motherhood Poetry & Prose Collection. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Hardback includes bonus pages of additional poetry!** "Oh, how the days are long it's true Yesterdays are many But todays are a few So I'll fill them up With all of you And simply be, Here With you. "'All I See Is You', captures the heartfelt and honest moments of early motherhood. Jessica's words encompass the highs and the lows, the raw and the vulnerable and everything in between. It's the kind of book you want on your bedside sitting next to the bottles or breast pump. This book of 60 poems and proses will take mothers on a journey of healing and growth with a powerful affirmation that you are not alone. A popular gift around the world for expectant mother's, new mother's and mothers with grown children. There are words in here for everyone. "Jessica found a way to put into words the very soul of motherhood'. "This writer writes as though she's taken the words out of every mother's head... the feelings that most mothers will experience but can't always express. So relatable, so beautiful, sometimes funny and often emotional, I challenge you not to get teary eyed!" "Thank you for your poems, your writing makes me feel human again". Jessica's poetry books have sold tens of thousands around the world. 'All I See Is You', is Jessica's second in her collection of poetry, with 'From One Mom to a Mother' being her first and 'My After All', the final in her collection. Jessica is also a best selling author of 'The Rainbow In My Heart', a picture book on emotions. Jess's poems can also be found on Etsy! www.jessicaurlichs.com

Download or read book The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart written by Alice Walker and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become." So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker about her beautiful new book, in which "one of the best American writers today" (The Washington Post) gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. Imbued with Walker's wise philosophy and understanding of people, the spirit, sex and love, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage—a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is an enriching, passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review).

Download or read book Abandoned Breaths written by Alfa and published by Alfaworldwide. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned Breaths is the debut poetic collection from Alfa. Between these pages she has gathered the warehouses of the unsaid, and weaved together the voices that have remained silent in our heartbroken hotels. All the abandoned breaths that we hold on to after serving time in heart warfare never really go away. They cling to dusty shelves, tucked into darken chambers among past wreckage; longing to be given life. She has cleaned house and opened musty windows, letting pulsing words breathe and transform into poetic release. The focus of these writings is to give the heart and soul permission to ache after love and loss. The author is unapologetic about her realistic take on heartache and grieving. She touches on the past, trying to make sense of her experiences, to move forward. This book is filled with timeless and vintage feeling poetry. It will touch every individual heart that reads it, no matter the age group.

Download or read book Crazy Brave A Memoir written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.

Download or read book TENDER a Literary Anthology and Book of Spells written by vanessa german and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry, prose and art by 19 Black womxn and femmes in Pittsburgh grew out of a longing for connection and comfort in a city and a world that is not always tender toward them. The book is a balm they made for themselves. Co-edited and co-published by artist vanessa german and writer/editor Deesha Philyaw, TENDER is brought to you by late-night conversations among Black womxn and femmes telling our stories, talking about us, loving on us. Conversations of reckoning and consideration of the heart and the soul and how we are living with ourselves, friends, family and lovers, through times of stress and social media and false media. This book is brought to you by healing hands, prayers, loud laughter, and freestyles.

Download or read book Hearts and Empires written by Cynthia Go and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe the saddest lines can't really be written, and the saddest thoughts can't really be uttered. And maybe, I miss you, is the closest thing we could have. Hearts and Empires is Cynthia Go's first book, a collection of her most heart-wrenching tales, prose, and poetry, that will surely tug at your heart and soul. Written raw, and sometimes with almost whimsical and magical feel, this book is comprised of different sections that will touch every part of you that aches and needs healing, and every part of you that feels. Parts: Love and Heartbreak, Tales and Magic, Grim and Darkness, Healing and Fire, Love Letters to the Dead

Download or read book A Suffering Soul written by Darren Heart and published by Darren Heart Poblishing. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Suffering Soul is the first volume in the Dark Love Poems series of short poetry books written by Darren Heart. Containing a collection of poems by the author that, not only investigates the lighter side of love, but also dares to delve deeper, taking the reader on a journey into the darker aspects of love, such as indecision, rejection, fear, betrayal, loss and finally death. Inspired by his own love story, and subsequent bereavement, the author writes emotionally, and from the heart, often resulting in poems that bring a tear to the eye. For information on other chapbooks in Dark Love Poetry series, please visit the authors website located at: www.darrenheart.com

Download or read book Winners Have Yet to be Announced written by Edward Michael Pavli? and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life. Among mainstream audiences Hathaway is perhaps best known either as the syrupy voice singing with Roberta Flack in "Where Is the Love" or for his shocking death--he was found dead beneath the open thirteenth-story window of his New York hotel room in 1979 at the age of thirty-three. Less well known are the depth of his classical and gospel training, his wide-ranging intellectual interests, and the respect his musical knowledge, talent, and versatility commanded from collaborators like Curtis Mayfield and Aretha Franklin. Meanwhile, among listeners with special affinity for soul music of the 1970s, even almost thirty years after his death, no voice burns with the intensity of Hathaway's own in the great solo ballads and freedom songs such as "A Song for You," "Giving Up," "Someday We'll All Be Free," and "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black." Winners Have Yet to Be Announced pushes poetry toward the rich characterization and depth of a novel. Yet it is the capacity of poetic language that allows the book to examine Donny Hathaway's vivid and remarkable life without attempting to resolve the mysteries within which he lived and created and sang.