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This book is a collection of written ballads as a small poetic tribute to the natural beauty that surrounds us.
From the author's desk, "In 1969 three friends and I booked a big-game hunt with a guide and outfitter in Montana. This hunting area lay astraddle the Continental Divide in the Bob Marshal Wilderness. None of us had ever been that far West. From the outfitter's ranch, it was two days in on horseback. We rode through flower-covered meadows,...
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An emotional winner is a person who has made mistakes and learned from them. We talk things through and move on to become a better person.
Anyone can accomplish this if they want to. It's okay to show your feelings and emotions to one another as long as they don't hurt you or others. When being honest, it isn't necessary to use hurtful words. There's a way to say things without being unkind. Our words can scar those around us. Scars are hard to hide...
3) Songs I Sing
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Songs I Sing is the raised curtain to a woman, wife, mother, and leader who writes poetry because she must. These one-hundred-plus songs-simple, sweet, sacred, serious, silly, and sensual-seek to upturn every stone in the readers' heart, resonate in the readers' mind, and coax a repartee that reflects the impact of the poet's thoughts, her experiences, her aspirations, her principles. Set to the melody of self-reflection, the rhythm of purposeful...
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Many years ago, while attending high school in Stockholm, Sweden, we read a poem that I simply fell in love with.
It was Vintergatan (Winter Street) by Zacharias Topelius.
Fast forward to 2010 when I happened upon my old book of poetry. I reread Vintergatan and was just as charmed by it as before. Wishing I could share it with my husband, children, and friends who did not speak Swedish, I searched for its English translation. I found a few that...
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About My Writing
Dive into the ocean that is the English language in the style known as romantic existentialism. Go on a journey into the impossible made possible. Stretch your heart and mind and imagination to the depths of the universe and back. Go on adventures that will lead you to emotions you never knew you had. Visit depths of thought which will lead you to love and heartbreak, seasons which know the living and the passed. Die and breathe...
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Poems in this collection cover many aspects of life at different times such as unexpected chaos, tough times, blissful moments, memorable events, time wasted, and time well spent.
With this collection of poetry, no one should feel alone.
Some may make you cry, some may make you question why.
Some may make you smile, or have you thinking for a while.
Whatever situation you may face, it can have a poetic embrace.
This book is perfectly...
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Cory Markert's The Pizza Toad and Other Poems is a wonderful book of poems with accompanying commentaries. The poems are based on Mr. Markert's observations, brainstorming, and imagination. This book includes funny, witty, and moving poems that are sure to please almost all ages. The poems are long, short and medium in length. This book also contains sixty beautiful, full-color illustrations by three talented artists.
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Good deeds fill the hearts of many with goodness and bad deeds fill the hearts of many with sadness. One deed, you can not undo, indeed. Any good deed is easy to seek, But which so many forsake to seek. Whichever one you seek, will follow you indeed forever and ever. So, choose the right deed or you will be drowned bit by bit in an ocean of regret, indeed.
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This book was written during a journey of trying to heal from PTSD from experiencing extreme violence, sexual abuse, entrapment, and rape. It has been creatively turned into poetry as poetry is generally about life situations and emotions.
Since a broken heart or a heart of sorrow needs something creative to read with heartfelt words that are needed as well as a little guidance, pain was twisted with passion of writing and became a book of guidance...
11) The Drumbeat
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The title Drumbeat is rooted in the African culture of using the drum as a voice and a means of communication. Drums are among the most important percussion instruments in African culture, and the sound of the drum, the time it is played, and the rhythm played will vary according to the occasion. The rhythm of the drumbeat is meant to reach and move the entire community. Songs accompanying the drumbeat are usually composed in simple language, understandable...
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This book combines two previously unpublished volumes of poetry, POEMS 1973-1987, and BROOKLYN and AFTER. Together, these works comprise the author's complete work in poetry from the time he started writing in his early twenties through the 1990's.
After a long hiatus, during which the author devoted his time to the demands of his career in risk management, he has once again begun to write poetry, and he is currently working on a verse narrative...
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This book is an authentic collection of creative rhyming poems. While this specific genre offers the reader an extensive array of interesting and provocative titles, it also connects the poetry to real-life.
In this collection, the seventy-seven poems are organized into seven diverse and distinct categories. They include, African American history, pets, holidays, education, retirement, family reunion as well as thirty extraordinary poems about real-life...
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The lotus is a beautiful, colorful flower that typically grows in the filthiest of swamps, blooming out of the mud. When the load of the world starts to weigh heavy, pick up this book and read yourself into another world. A world where you can find some comfort in knowing you are not alone. Even in your darkest moments, even on your worst days, someone else out there begs the stars just as you are.
Help yourself to the sensations each entry brings...
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Her Mama's Poetry Book is about a new mom during her early years of motherhood. It's about balancing a relationship while being new parents. It's about self-awareness, self-love, acceptance, and forgiveness. It's about honesty, but mostly, it's a book about love. Her Mama's Poetry is a love note to her daughter and a reminder to herself.
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Dear Reader,
I stare longingly
out at my panicked city
assured, and ready.
We thank you for reading Corona-ku: A Quarantined Conversation in Haiku. We believe the response to coronavirus had challenged us all in different ways. We also believe this collection is a slice of ordinary people navigating extraordinary times and experiences. We also believe this voice here has tremendous potential since this experience was so global in nature. This...
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Grasshopper Dreams is a collection of poetry for our times--times of change, uncertainty, and social confusion. It explores what confronts and eludes us. It takes on the unchanging uniqueness of the Deep South, family dramas, social tides, and our wandering spirituality. It is composed of equal parts contentment, humor, and confounding confusion. Grasshopper Dreams is inspired by historical artifacts, societal struggles, spirituality, genealogy, and...
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Have you ever considered the darkness behind a poem? Poetry, for centuries, has been written to entertain, persuade, and inform audiences of their times. It has taken various forms from haikus to freestyle and many others. Yet what have we said about darkness other than it is the absence of light? Adventure into poetry like never before. Watch it breathe life into your soul and show what really hides in the darkness.
In this book, poems have been...
19) Broken Thoughts
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The mind becomes too powerful to think than it becomes broken thoughts.
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Students with exceptionalities are often placed in "boxes" based on societal norms. Some students from early in my teaching career, in their singsongy voices, reminded me that they were more than the diagnosis, the huge binders of documentation. They are the best teachers and reminders that we all have purpose.
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