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This simple book of poems (Book title) was written for a legacy for my sons Jake Cody and Elkara. These poems are written from my heart to yours. If you have any resistance ready these poems remember, that you have been protecting your heart since the first time it was hurt. I feel something different each time I read them. In my opinion it's this heart connection that makes this book so unique. For years I regarded my poems to be inferior and classed...
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The book (a collection of thoughts) was based on my own experiences during this fast growing rate of youth problems of abortion, crime and even suicide caused by the Bullies. Not only that, I have seen the destruction, devastated effect of the killer whale: the Voices of the Silent Bullies. The book attempt to deal with the themes of identifying your early warning sign: stop and think: act appropriately: Sort out problems before you reach the point...
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CROSSROADS OF LOVE Enter and exit loves many roadways as you travel on the Crossroads of Love in this enticing poetic journey. Understand what it means to truly become your own best friend after you have journeyed through the labyrinth of anticipation, confusion, ecstasy, disappointment, joy, denial, shadow and celebration and embraced every aspect on loves road. Finally take a glimpse into an optimistic future by choosing a new road to love. When...
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Glenda has suffered from a mental illness for most of her life and experienced depression from a young age. As well as having to care for her mother, who has Bipolar episodes, Glenda has felt despair, at its greatest extent. But, no matter how bad things became, the single and most important thing ever for her is how she never lost faith in God, which she credits to her trust in her Savior, Jesus Christ.
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If life seems jolly rotten there's something you've forgotten And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing When you're feeling in the dumps don't be silly chumps Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing And always look on the bright side of life Come on, always look on the bright side of life (from the Life of Brian) This is Jans first foray into self-publishing though many of these poems have been read, performed or produced privately...
6) Pieces of Me
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Pieces of Me is a collection of short stories, poems and verse presented under eight themes: Beauty, Eternal Essence, Dreams, Perfection, Destiny, Reflection, Reality and Higher Dimensionality. The first four themes relate to our connection with the physical world and, in particular, our relationships within it. The last four themes take us beyond the physical realm by challenging us to consider the relationship we have with our Selves, our own Higher...
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It has always been my dream to publish my book of poems, which I have personally composed. It all began when I was nine years old, and since then, I have been writing about everything and everyone that has touched my life and influenced me in so many ways. The most noted influence was my wonderful late maternal grandfather, Mr. Upendra Chandra Das, who passed away in 1979. He wrote the first piece of this book entitled The Indian Milkmaid in Malaysia,...
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Married to Nazim, proud Mom of Shehana and Isham, Grandmom to Omar, Luca, Maximillian, Roman, Alexander and Zoya. Childhood memories of life in resplendent Isle of Sri Lanka, harboring dreams of Hope, Peace and Love for all beings, my mantra for Life. Love of music rhyme and lyric and a love of nature, which is the greatest artwork that keeps on giving and inspiring, using every color of a paint box and more took me on a flowery path to writing this...
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Savvas Marangidis demonstrates how our life experiences can make us who we are today through his collection of thought provoking poetry. His life struggles and experiences reflected in his poetry are not as individual to him as one may think. They are life's true realities and their manifestations seen by him. His reflections depicting life is experienced by many of the young today everywhere around the world. Those who have been met with temptation...
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Patricia Heppolette was born in Bhusawal, India. She moved to Australia in the early 1990s. She now lives in Perth, West Australia. Patricia has three daughters. Patricia has Published one Book of Poems titled: Mirrors of the Soul. In the Silence is her second book. Patricia is now working on her Autobiography.
11) Images of Life
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Dinesh Malkani Born and brought up in Bombay after which migrated to Thailand for work presently based in Dubai working in fabric marketing. Inspired by Louis L'Amour, Neville Shute, Jack Higgins and a love of nature is an aspiring poet and author. Living with wife and 2 kids based in UAE owes his life's happiness to his parents' good character and upbringing along with the grace of God.
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This book reflects the personal feelings, thoughts and experiences of the author. It covers a broad spectrum of lifes facets such as health, relationships, money, the environment, leisure activities and mans hormonally driven operating systems underpinned by the foibles of hate, fear and greed. The poems in this compilation are divided into six chapters, which include: Life what is it all about; Lifes effects on me, and; Some fun with a twist of truth....
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ASK The Tree of Knowledge When examining the myths and folklore of the ancient Vikings and earlier Norse Tribes of Scandinavia, we find a recurring Legend passed on as fact. Before the beginning of time when the Spirit was upon the earth for all to know and see, the first man grew from a sweat gland upon the Sap of the Tree of ASK. The tree, ASK released Spiritual spores, the invisible zygote manifested form in the physical. The cells within became...
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A self described burnt out rock n rolla turned poet, Luke Kingsley Green currently resides in Nanango, Queensland, Australia, the town of his birth. Luke Kingsley Green was born in the year of the snake 1977 and is a Taurus. A semi practising socialist and non- committed Catholic, Luke has two teenage boys and a 6 years old godson. He is also a cricket tragic and collects garden gnomes. In between writing theres nothing Luke enjoys more than a cold...
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Many of my poems centre on the theme of having a positive or moral outcome. We are all the same in that we all feel emotions regardless of who we are. I have always been of the opinion to use rhyme as a simple means to express, as concisely as I can, the reasons why we feel the way that we do and perhaps the reasons why we do the things that we do. For whatever takes place in life, we are all susceptible to the same emotionsregardless of our varying...
16) My Remains
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A small collection of dark poetry not meant for the fainthearted.
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This collection erudite, insightful, observant, realistic, empathetic, playful, whimsical, hopeful teases our knowing in the direction of wholeness, personally and communally. Thank you, Jim, for the gift. Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Jim McPhersons powerful and engaging collection will be a great resource for philosophy and religious studies at both secondary and tertiary levels. You'll want to return again and again because...
18) My Poetry
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The poetry in this book has been written by me over many years. I once received a book of poetry for a birthday present from an aunt, written in the front cover was I hope you can write poems like these one day. I write to express my feelings when somebody I care about dies and sometimes I just write for the fun of it. A variety of different things inspire me and sometimes these poems just come to me. I hope that you enjoy these poems. Belinda Roach...
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Paul Farrugia is experienced information technologist educated in Australia and has come across a kaleidoscope of technologies; some now antiques in the authors own life time. A technology career would seem at first far removed from any works poetry or even a literary career. Yet are not both means of capturing at the very least a message? Poetry is the time honoured way of capturing vision and the thoughts of mind and heart throughout history. It...
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Walking Without a Shadow, is a collection of twenty-eight original Arabic poems by a well- known Saudi poet Mohammad Mashat, that encompasses a breathtaking range of subjects some are romantic, others explore political issues and some others offer a glimpse into the dynamics of Saudi Arabian society. The resultant work is a richly embroidered tapestry that captures the zeitgeist of the region as well as well as present day problems and aspirations...
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