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Savor the delicious flavors of joy, inspiration, and inner fulfillment with "Bite-Sized Bliss," a delightful poetry book that serves up delectable nuggets of happiness and wisdom. In these verses, words are the sweet morsels that tantalize the senses, offering readers a taste of the simple pleasures and profound insights that make life truly blissful. "Bite-Sized Bliss" is a poetic confectionery that celebrates the beauty of the everyday and the transformative...
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Award-winning author Jessie Haas takes readers on a ride back in time to celebrate the special bond between horses and humans. "We have all been changed by the horse, for better and worse." - Jessie Haas. Jessie Haas travels back sixty-five million years - from 5000 BCE to the present day - in 104 poems about our equine friends. Horses have shared some of the most significant moments in human history. In these lyrical and poignant pieces - some written...
4) Plastic
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you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Maori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life...
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John Ashbery's restless, witty meditation on aging and the music of change: A must-read collection from America's greatest modern poet The child's game Chinese Whispers, known in America as Telephone, is an exercise in transforming the recognizable into something beautifully strange. John Ashbery's twenty-fourth collection of poems, Chinese Whispers, re-creates in every line the accidentally transformative logic of the language game for which the...
6) Cat Lady
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To any tourist in Rome, Old Maria may seem to be an eccentric soul who feeds stray cats and thinks she can talk with them. Things are rarely as they seem. In fact, she can. A dying cardinal has given Maria a final, urgent wish. His time is running short. On the surface, it seems impossible to grant. Things are rarely as they seem. Especially with Maria and her cats at work. And for those who truly love, the impossible is only an illusion. What you...
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A collection by the author of twenty one, "easy to read" pieces of poetry for all ages, although aimed primarily at the younger reader.While the majority of the work is written in a simple and traditional style, ie. there is rhyme and rhythm in each stanza, while a few only embody other recognised formats but are, none-the-less, still very easy to read. It is the author's intention that his work is found to be entertaining, so please read on and enjoy....
8) Inspirations
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Inspirations is a collection of photographs, each accompanied by a poem depicting Constanze Hawkins' love of the natural world. The poems capture the thoughts and wonder inspired by the photos. Constanze herself took all of the photographs, mostly near her Perth home on the grounds of the University of Western Australia. Even the photo of the peacock was taken at UWA, which has a few peacocks and peahens roaming freely in its gardens.
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A 1995 collection of poems that finds John Ashbery at his most conversational, funny, and surprising In Can You Hear, Bird, John Ashbery's seventeenth collection, language is both a plaything and a sandbox. The poems are arranged not in the order of their composition but alphabetically, by the first letter in their titles, like the neatly arrayed keys of some fabulous Seussical instrument. In line after line, Ashbery demonstrates his alertness to...
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Siguiendo su propósito de vida, transformar el miedo en amor, Yolanda Rescalvo (Éibar, 1970) nos invita a enfocarnos en nuestros sentimientos para entenderlos y crecer emocionalmente.
Con frases potenciadoras, poesías, expresivas ilustraciones y reflexiones personales, Tatuajes del alma nos lleva por el camino del reconocimiento y la validación personal, y también hacia la revisión de nuestras perspectivas.
Con esta lectura, comprenderás la...
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The evolution of the poet who is one of feminism's greatest living voices Robin Morgan has always been one of the most original, technically skilled, and impassioned writers in American poetry, and Upstairs in the Garden shows the development of her distinctive voice. This book of selections from her previous volumes of poetry, plus new additions, summarizes the verse of two decades of iconoclastic work, and is an ideal starting place for a reader...
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First we remembered, now we're going to war. Waging War On The Night is the second installment in the series on The Emotional War Of The Heart by Jacob Z. Waldroup. Following 2022's release of Memories That Call In The Middle Of The Night the stories didn't end there, Waging War On The Night consists of 100 new stories traversing the darker sides to life, and the hope to make it through.
15) Soul Dates
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Soul Dates is a book of 50 love and romance poems full of so much passion and sentiment that it will touch the heart and soul of the reader.
This book is a celebration of love in all its forms and is perfect for anyone looking to connect with their emotions or find inspiration for their own creative endeavors. I believe that "Soul Dates" will provide a touching and memorable reading experience for all who indulge in its pages.
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Mariano Morillo B. PhD. Autor de redención, con su estilo distinguido nos hace entrega de una trilogía de alta ideología, conduciendo al lector por camino de amor, haciendo una realidad de la ficción.
El libro uno trae aforismos, frases célebres y anectotas.
En cambio el libro dos encierra una antología de poesías, canciones
y versos diversos.
Mientras que el libro tres, muestra la realidad como ficción en los cuentos de redención:
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This is a compilation of years of writings that culminated into a second book of poetry that reflects many different emotions.
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I've been writing for over 50 years. Specific poems are designated for specific types of sentiments that encompass and reflect on a wide variety of passions and feelings.
18) Beyond Dawn
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Tell me why I'm still scaredTo be on my ownTell me why I still feelThat you'll leave me, aloneOn my own, will you leave me?Catch you in December flakesIf we make it past NovemberOn my own, will you have me?~ Sakari
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The Gentle Words She Left Behind explores the rhythmic dance of words, weaving verses the mirror the ebb and flow of life's journey. Through vivid imagery and emotive language, the collection delves into the essence of fleeting moments, capturing the beauty of transitions, the pulse of emotions, and the ceaseless rhythm of existence. Each poem is a step in this poetic choreography, inviting readers to feel the heartbeat of the world and find solace...
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