Download or read book Very Thought Provoking Poems and Poetry written by Sylvester R. Cade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon poetry that is actually quite stimulating. Subjects include everything from Listening Skills, Methods of Death, Nudism, Teenage Killers, and much, much more. It does not flow in the typical and conventional manner.Certainly a good read, great for gifts and holiday occasions.

Download or read book Food for Thought written by Dave Richmond and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't let the author's background color your expectations. Many of the poems in this book have received positive feedback from a wide array of readers and several of them suggested that the author publish his poems. The expression,, "don't judge a book by its cover" applies to this book. You will be captivated the author's command of the English language, the fluency and fluidity of his style of writing, and the beauty and complexity of his rhyming scheme. Each poem will make you think, hence the title of the book.

Download or read book The Last of the Renshai written by Mickey Zucker Reichert and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last of the Renshai is the first volume of a sword-and-sorcery saga that is enormous in conception, and full of complex and arresting fantasy detail. The adventure arises from the trials of a lone warrior, a champion driven to avenge the genocide of his race. The magic lies with the immortal realms: this is a world controlled by four wizards whose strife not only presages the conflicts and wars of humans, it also threatens consequences and destruction on a world- wide scale. And the last Renshai is doomed to take on all - he will be the key for humans, wizards and gods alike. Throw in a fabulously detailed, rich fantasy world, and you have a tremendous, value-for-money, page turning epic

Download or read book Being Me written by Matt Goodfellow and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three gifted poets team up with a collection of poems dealing with worries and anxieties and find ways to develop empathy and mindfulness. Read about the Land of Blue, where it's ok to feel sad, find ideas for what to do with worries, or how to slow down when your head is full of hurry. Give yourself time to chill out, find quiet voices in noisy places, and discover kindness in yourself and others. Then maybe your own special thought machine will tell you, "This is going well. You're doing great. You've got this!" And you have! This important and unique anthology of 45 poems by three leading poets, well known for their empathy and perception, speaks to the heart of what children think and care about, offering understanding, support, and encouragement.

Download or read book Thought Provoking Poems written by Timothy E. Stevenson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book So You Say written by Kenneth Laufle and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the authors mind and discover thought provoking writings that have taken place over 20 years. This book provides insight to what is seen and experienced throughout our lives. A little wit and creativity, offers a smile throughout the content, but I challenge you to look beyond what may appear to be the message, looking within oneself for the answers we all seek. From nature to nurture, these thought-provoking poems are written to inspire others that may have difficulty articulating their thoughts. I have found through journaling and sharing the writings, it allows me to release these thoughts from my mind through a pen and not through my spoken voice. Included is, a journaling page for each poem written. This allows you or, a loved one, to immediately capture a thought that now, can be released. This is the first book released from the So-You-Say series. Be on the lookup for the second, So-You-Say book entitled, View Through A Window. Remember...Nothing is ever as great at it seems nor, is it as worse at it may appear.

Download or read book Thought Provoking Poems written by Timothy Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your into personal growth, character building, and wanting to live a more enriched life then this just may the book for you. Enclosed are a select collection of heart-to-heart writings that I've written over a twenty-five year period. They are intentionally short, twenty lines are so, to allow the reader to absorb, contemplate, and reflect on what they have just read. For many the reading of this book will validate what they already have learned and know. For others, the life wisdom provided in this book just may be life transforming.

Download or read book Nature Poem written by Tommy Pico and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face. He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word “natural,” over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the “natural world,” he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.

Download or read book Poets Thinking written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.

Download or read book Poems That Make Grown Men Cry written by Anthony Holden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.

Download or read book 100 Poems That Matter written by The Academy of American Poets and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems that invites us to celebrate poetry’s power to capture the truths that really matter. 100 Poems That Matter examines universal themes of love, loss, and the experiences that define us. At turns moving, thoughtful, and thrilling, 100 Poems That Matter feeds into the connections we all have to poetry and encourages us to bring a deeper sense of honesty into our lives. Featured poets include Emily Brontë, E.E. Cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Audre Lorde, and Emily Dickinson.

Download or read book Night of the Republic written by Alan Shapiro and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who “seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart” (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals the surreal and dreamlike features of these familiar but empty night spaces. Shapiro finds in them not the expected alienation but rather an odd, companionable solitude rising up from the quiet emptiness. In other poems, Shapiro writes movingly of his 1950s and ’60s childhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, with special focus on the house he grew up in. These meditations, always inflected with Shapiro’s quick wit and humor, lead to recollections of tragic and haunting events such as the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK. While Night of the Republic is Shapiro’s most ambitious work to date, it is also his most timely and urgent for the acute way it illuminates the mingling of private obsessions with public space. “His poems are both artful and unpretentious.” —Boston Review

Download or read book Cinder written by Susan Stewart and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the finest poets of the last fifty years.” —Salt to the Nth, like the truth of an ending unskeined across the crust of the white field. Though it happened only once, I am sending the thought of the thought continuing. To return to the field before the mowing. When a goldfinch swayed on a blue stem stalk, and the wind and the sun stirred the hay. —from “After the Mowing” Cinder: New and Selected Poems gathers for the first time poetry from across Susan Stewart’s thirty-five-year career, including many extraordinary new poems. From brief songs to longer meditative sequences, and always with formal innovation and exquisite precision, Stewart evokes the innocence of childhood, the endangered mysteries of the natural world, and deeply felt perceptions, both acute and shared. “Stewart explores our insatiable desire to remember and make meaning out of this remembering,” Ange Mlinko writes in The Nation. “Stewart’s elegiac bent has broadened, over time, from the personal lyric . . . to what might be called the cultural lyric. Fewer and fewer of her poems reference what she alone remembers; they are about what you and I remember.” Reading across this retrospective collection is a singular experience of seeing the unfolding development of one of the most ingenious and moving lyric writers in contemporary poetry.

Download or read book Poetry Daily written by Diane Boller and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem-a-day book from the Web's No. 1 poetry site

Download or read book Here in Harlem written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent introduction to poetry, social issues, and memoirs; and a wonderful complement to Live Oak's 2008 Odyssey Award winner, Jazz (also written by Myers)."-Booklist

Download or read book Before the Mirror written by Mike O Nwangwa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrors are very beneficial. Standing before a mirror is not new to you, I believe. We use the mirror because we want change. We want the mirror to show us our flaws: the part of our dressing that needs to be corrected, that unbuttoned shirt, uncombed hair, not-too-bright eyes etc. The mirror points to our flaws in order for us to take care of it. Afterwards, we emerge to the public as confident, happy people. This book is intended to work like a mirror. Infact it is one! What you are about to explore is a compendium of some of my favorite poems, written over time. They are an expression of my heart, covering different issues of life. You will come across serious truths presented with a blend of humor, sarcasm, inspiration and wittiness. They are written in modern day language so many of us can follow. Besides, as you read, you’ll find yourself identifying with several characters in the poems. I hope this book blesses you. Reading this book will be fun I promise you. Just remember, it works like a mirror. It can only show you your flaws, but won’t do anything to correct them. You are responsible for the necessary change in your life. I challenge you to do something about the imperfections you will notice as you stand...before the mirror.

Download or read book I Am Not a Slave So I Write written by Willie James Harvey and published by I am not a slave, so I write. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Willie James Harvey, spent most of his childhood growing up in a little country town in Georgia called Perry. He currently lives in Belle Glade, Florida, where he is a dedicated employee of Wal-Mart. His life as a black man has been filled with disappointment and pain, yet he has allowed none of it to discourage him. His life has led him on many journeys, and during these journeys, he has attained an eye-opening viewpoint on life. This book is a collection of poems that reflect his thoughts and views as a young black man. He believes that nothing can stop the human spirit, except for the willingness to settle for less. This book will connect his readers to his struggle as a young black man while provoking social conversation among the masses.