Download or read book Touching Hearts Through Poetry written by Dora Davis-Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touching Hearts Through Poetry written by Dora Davis-Kennedy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can remember writing poetry as early as the age of fourteen. For me, writing poems was either an expression of young love or a means of escaping farm life. I do know I write what I feel deep in my heart. Sometimes I would daydream about what life would be like after leaving the farm. At that time, I did not appreciate or value the importance of farm life. Then falling in love for the first time gave me words that would flow like water. That was the beginning of my poetry. Then came my retirement from the Air Force. I took a job as a substitute teacher to test the waters and see if I wanted to go back to the classroom. On May 23, 1995, was my last substitute teaching positions for the year. The last period of the day was a literature class, and yes, you guessed it, it was an assignment to write a poem. After directing the students on what they were to do, I sat back, thought about my daughter, who was also graduating, and at that moment, I wrote with them. The poem that came out of that session, "Life Captured," was the first in this book. After that, the words would sometimes overwhelm me. It did not matter where or when. I would sometimes wake up from a deep sleep, and there were words on my heart. Driving down the street, I would have to pull off the road. And can you imagine sitting in church, concentrating on the words of the pastor, and poem comes into your heart? That is what it was like for next few years. When the word came, I made every effort to put them on paper. If I did not have a notepad, I would write on whatever was available, a store receipts, the back of an envelope, or even a paper bag. It did not matter; I just knew I had to capture the words. You see, there was a problem with these abrupt encounters with words. I found, through experience, that I could not ignore them because if I did, they would be lost. Yes, the words that were flowing so freely at the time would be gone if I did not take heed at that exact moment. So I learned incredibly early that it did not matter when or where the words came; I had to stop everything and write them down. So you see, my poetry comes to me at times when the spirit urges it. I cannot just will a poem to be. It must be stirred up in my spirit. My poetry is a combination of spiritual and emotional love. The love for people and my love of God. I never know which will spark the flame, and that does not matter, but I do know I must be ready to put pen to paper when it happens.
Download or read book Touching Hearts Around the World Through Poetry written by Earnestine Smart and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Readers, As you browse each page of this inspiring book of poems, my wish is that you relax and let your mind receive the Peace and tranquility of this heartfelt book while exploring every topic that has been given. Touching Hearts Around The World Through Poetry has finally arrived as my dream of writing it has taken place of my accomplishment. I invite you to kindly accept its invitation and let it be a companion in your home, expressing all its love. My many Thanks to all of you! Sincerely, Earnestine Smart
Download or read book Touching Hearts Teaching Greatness written by Tom Krause and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coach Tom Krause is one of those teachers you never forget. His lessons in class or on the court stick with his students for life. Now this gifted instructor shares his inspiration and insights on the bigger game of life.In Touching Hearts, Teaching Greatness, Krause delivers his favorite stories and poems, many inspired by his students. Everything in this book comes from the heart, and readers can't help but be inspired, touched, and motivated by this rich material. From persevering to valuing others, facing fears to friendship, Krause shoots true.
Download or read book Touching Hearts Along the Way written by Theron Gatewood and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I began writing as a young teen and continued into adulthood, writing through lifeas struggles and, finally, giving wings to the life I choose to live. I marvel each day at the peace I have come to enjoy through writing. I share with you the beauty of inspiration and love, appreciation of the wonder of nature, pieces that will cause you to think and pieces that may bring you to tears. The greatest honor is the confidence God has given me to share my poems with others, and my hope is that they touch your heart in a special way as they have mine.
Download or read book Poems for the Heart written by Joseph J. Cacciotti and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have put together fifty poems that are sure to touch your heart. This book won an award for being one of the top five inspirational books of 2011 by the American Poets Society.
Download or read book Poems That Touch the Heart written by A.L. Alexander and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.
Download or read book Touching Hearts written by Edna Salona-Labrador and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections for Touching Hearts written by Brock Tully and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touching Our Hearts with Poems written by Lee Davis Fleming Sr. and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pieces of poems intends to share the moments in the authors life that altered the way he would continue to move and grow. From his faith in God, the love for his family, the loss of both of his parents and the hope he has for our men and women in the military as well as the men and women of God. Seek to read each page and sit in aww... poems like Flowers of our Years, Shoulders in Battle, our Families, A birthday of Though (However), the Love God showed, and so much more. You will experience a southern drawl as you read his heartfelt poems and he hopes the reader will find hope and faith through his experiences as a Spiritual Leader, a Husband, a Father, a Friend. Some of the poems are without dates but chosen to share in the highlights of the poems with dates. Poems that you can share with family, friends, and community. The author is not ashamed to share his heart with his readers. The author also hopes to inspire all to stay encouraged and engaged with the process of growth in their own lives. Where one poem is for one and another poem for someone else, you will see a variety of poems that speak to the complete wholeness of the author, his belief, and his love for his life. Hope, Strength & Love. The author challenges you to enjoy searching for a Poem that speaks to you!
Download or read book Of Land and Sky written by Toby Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of sixteen poems accompanied by the whimsical and wonderful artwork of Michelle McDowell Smith. The poems uplift, reassure and offer courage to children and adults alike. "Of Land and Sky" reminds us of how hopeful childhood can be and keeps us optimistic for the future.
Download or read book SoulSongs Words and Verses to Touch Hearts and Transform Minds written by Vibha Hasija and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can words be invested with the power to touch and transform lives? Can poems be gifted to the ones you love and treasure? Have you ever wanted to open a book to your slice of the Universe's message? Have you wished to place a bookmark on a special set of words and share it with the one you think who needs it the most? SoulSongs is one such book. Born from life experiences, deep introspection and divine guidance, this book will take you on a journey into yourself and help you see life in multicoloured perspectives. The verses and poetic prose are arranged in sections - from pieces on the dark and the lost to Divine Messages, Transformation and Love, covering the spectrum of what life has to offer. Pick up the book, open a page and let the warmth of the words infuse your soul. This impactful book is the one for your bag, your bedside and your beliefs. Let these songs strum your Soul...The SoulSongs.
Download or read book Words That Touches Hearts written by Deborah D. Fisher and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of words and visions that twirled about in my mind for many years. They seemed like powerful, little, and colorful tornadoes that went round and round in my head. They originally had no meaning until I decided to write them down. I was able to arrange them into order. The words began to have meaning and make sense to me. I have always been a dreamer and being able to organize my thoughts and put them into words gives me a sense of peace. It is my desire to share my poems with others thus, allowing my words to touch many, many hearts and with this thought in mind, I have hopes of opening many eyes, brightening many days, and spreading the beautiful love that God has given me, all over this world.
Download or read book Broken Hearts Make Beautiful Words written by Danelle Simpson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this book, there is poetry that will make you feel as though you are not alone in the struggles associated with life and love. They come from the heart of someone who did truly feel alone. Broken Hearts Make Beautiful Words is a book of poetry that is based off experiences with heartbreak, love, loss, and acceptance. Moving forward is hard to do when life crashes unexpectedly, when memories stay behind even when the people dont. You will find understanding in these words and know that even though you may feel isolated and alone, you are really among friends, even when that isnt easy to see. So open one of my books, read it, and join me; our destination may not be the same, but we all make a similar journey.
Download or read book Poems That Touch the Heart written by A.L. Alexander and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.
Download or read book The Poetry Home Repair Manual written by Ted Kooser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.
Download or read book Heart Beats written by Catherine Robson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
