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Life was smooth sailing and quite normal up until my mom Janis was killed in a car accident heading from Santa Cruz California to Carmel when I was 11 years old. After her death, life changed drastically from a nice gentle breeze to a category five tornado; an inferno of drugs, lies and alibis. Let's just say… No more smooth sailing. When the dust began to settle at the age of 24, I enlisted in the United States Navy and set sail for a better life...
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Written through times of Burnout and contrastingly, through times when exaltation encapsulated the air, leaving a taste of 'Melancholy Euphoria,' this very book is the amalgamation of blood and nectar, suggesting the co-existence of strength with weakness, telling on the agonizing truths while maintaining solidarity. Some of the pieces deal with themes like acceptance and endurance while some are outrageous messages, lamenting over the bloodshed of...
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Expressing love is the primary spiritual function of our being alive. Animals bring out the love we have inside, and provide a constant loving presence that is especially painful to lose.
In poems and messages from "Oneness," Infinite Healing expresses words to aid in healing grief, and in knowing that our animal companions heal us in life, and then after physical life in timelessness.
5) Modern Ghost
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Modern Ghost is a short collection of 31 creepy micropoems by poet Amy Ellis. These tiny poems spin the standard Halloween camp into silvery spiderwebs and weave tradition, witchcraft, myth, and modernity into a tiny images meant to unsettle and prick at your skin. This chapbook highlights the shadows of autumn, blending the shadows and the pumpkin spice into Modern Ghosts.
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This collection consists of thirty poems that relate the notion of love, loss, and hopelessness. The verses contained herein presents the struggle to find ourselves after a moment of despair threatens to engulf us; which is heartbreaking, yet something that binds us in our humanity despite our differences. It is our frailty that makes us human; and our strength to not give up when hope seems lost. We are not alone in our despair as we struggle and...
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Are you struggling to heal from a broken heart? Do you find solace in reading poetry during tough times? If so, "I Moved On, Now What?" is the book for you. Dive into a collection of 40 touching poems, carefully curated to help mend your broken heart."I Moved On, Now What?" is a thoughtfully crafted book to guide you through the challenging journey of healing from heartbreak. The book offers a collection of 40 beautifully written poems, each chosen...
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Amor y muerte son las pulsaciones que mayores pasiones provocan en nuestra especie. Ambas familiares y al mismo tiempo extrañas, pues cualquiera las puede reconocer y constantemente se vive en su horizonte. Pero cuando se manifiestan resultan insólitas.
Este volumen contiene el poemario ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura Joven Raúl Padilla López 2023, Hundir las manos temblorosas, de Melissa Cordero Novo. Un preciso recorrido por la experiencia...
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There are times when we need to be silent, to just listen,And times when we need to speak out.In this hectic world of ours, the times to be silent seem to be fewer and fewer.Silence can remind us of the truly important things in life.Yet, there are times when silence can be hurtful if not deadly, times when our voice must be heard.This is one of those times.This is a collection of poems that hopefully remind us that silence is indeed a virtue, sometimes.Pick...
10) 7 Years of Grief
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It is not polite conversation to bring up death at weddings and dinner parties. So how do you authentically navigate soul-crushing, bone-crumbling, heart-wrenching, asphyxiating grief? You cannot alchemize what you are unwilling to face. So treat this poetry collection like a melancholic music playlist when you are in a place to feel all the feelings that come with someone you love dying. It's written through the lens of losing a child, but with...
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As we go through life, we often fail to listen,Not only to others, but to the world around us.More often than not, we fail to learn from the past. This is a collection of poems that hopefully will cause you to think, laugh, and maybe shed a tear.They are my thoughts on what I have observed as I listen to the echoes of life.Grab a copy and hear what this poet has to share.
12) Scribbles
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Scribbles is a collection of poems written to express feelings that come with intense love, anger, betrayal, trauma, confusion, trust, and worry, and to help make sense of things.Its goal is to shine a light on some thoughts and feelings one may be having when experiencing the worry for a friend's death, death of a lover, falling in love, or being betrayed, or being abused, trying to figure out one's own mind, or feeling as though one has lost their...
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"Poems of Life, Love, and the Meaning of Meaning" is the first full length collection of poems by Wren (Paul Gorman). Through a meditation of 107 poems, the poetry celebrates the cycles of an individual's journey on earth.
Organized into 3 sections titled 'Life', 'Love', and 'The Meaning of Meaning', this collection reflects on major moments of individual growth and awareness as we journey through loss and despair, hope and longing, love and purpose,...
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Rich, complex, exciting, confusing, life, death, and beyond--all words to capture a bit of truth about this very rich, complex world inhabited by all kinds of individual particles emerging into flora, fauna, animals of all kinds, including humans who together make up a unity. This book is my attempt to celebrate the unity and the diversity. Poetry hints of an openness to complexity while certainty tends to become restrictive dogma. Other Ways means...
15) The Hardest Part
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Life will never be simple for those who experience it, only moments will be easy, and many will be hard. Having negative thoughts is not an unfamiliar experience while going through difficult moments in life, and trying to understand these moments can be even more challenging to manage.Relief can be found through connecting feelings with others. In this collection, moments of grief, sorrow, and anger are all to be related with as it's read, alongside...
17) A New Dawn
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Within the tender pages of 'A New Dawn,' find solace and comfort. This poignant collection of poems and inspirational quotes is a beacon of light for those treading the difficult path of grief and loss. Offering a heartfelt embrace to those who seek sol
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I am mine to reassemble,to complete as a whole.I am no one's project but my own. A Quiet Unfolding is a collection written by eight Filipino poets discussing the theme of healing. It is the maiden collection birthed from a call for submissions to discover emerging poets from the Philippines, spearheaded by Filipina poet Dawn Lanuza's community called a soft landing.
19) Dead Ends
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Pardon meif I seemtoo morbid,but it's my ownmemento mori.Sometimes Itend the dead;other times Iwhistle pastthe cemetery.Amanda M. Blake tackles the morbid and macabre in this poetry collection about death and dying and what might come before, during, or after. Whether humorous or disturbing, natural or supernatural, Dead Ends promises a varied tasting plate of a subject most people find distasteful or uncomfortable, but which we all must confront...eventually....
20) Relative Sanity
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An elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan's north country. "This lovely collection is a kind of travel narrative by a writer who 'can never get enough sky.' In poem after poem, she travels the lands of heartache and joy with grace, clarity and wisdom." -- Jerry Dennis, author of Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons "Within this...
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