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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...
2) 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...
7) 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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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.
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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.
11) 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....
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"Lost Poems of My Youth" beckons the soul into a profound journey through the tapestry of the human condition. Poems written in my youth and rediscovered after three decades. This collection of poems and cantos, penned with the weight of introspection and the grace of a bygone era's quill, chronicles a pilgrimage through landscapes both desolate and lush with vivid emotion. Each poem-a reflective shard of a larger mosaic-explores the depths of existential...
14) Ghost Work
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How do we redefine the self when memory begins to deteriorate?
This question is at the heart of Ghost Work, a suite of poems that explores a son's gradual loss of his father from dementia. In compassionate, well-crafted pantoums, triolets, ghazals, and sonnets, Rob Colman probes family connection, digging into the liminal space memory preserves between our natural and built environments. Ghost Work is at once a tribute to a lost family member, and...
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This touching volume of poetry is devoted to the emotions and the emotional costs of war. Whether soldier or veteran, mother or wife, family or friends, the ravages of armed conflict affect us all in some way.
Pat Keachie, through her words and poetic images, helps us all express our tears, loss, grief, and gratitude for the brave souls who take on the ultimate service and sacrifice. In return we give them not only medals but, more importantly,...
16) Requiem
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Through its 211 interwoven poems, this double-tiered recursive crown of sonnets takes the reader on an epic journey to the heart of mankind's would-be nemesis – herself – and back again. Does her destiny await in the unexplored depths of the cosmos, or in a toxic wasteland of her own making? Does she have the will to shape her own future, or is she a slave to her myopic wants and impulses? Requiem takes the existential threats facing humanity...
17) Devoured
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LET YOURSELF HURT, SHIVER, BREATHE, AND LOVE. LET YOURSELF BE DEVOURED. DEVOURED is an exploration of the pleasure and the pain that can only come from love. I wrote this book of poems for all the souls who wander with shattered hearts. Whether you are a fan of modern or classical poetry, or you are just beginning your journey - this raw, intimate collection will satisfy your craving. A.X. Salvo is the author of the international bestselling poetry...
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'When the Mask Slips...' by Emma Veilwood is a heartfelt dive into the silent battles against loneliness and self-doubt. It's a book of poems for anyone who's felt the weight of the world, offering a hand to hold on the road to healing. Here, we celebrate the brave moments of showing our true selves and finding strength. These pages whisper a simple, powerful message: you're not alone, your story matters, and your mental health is important.
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Dugan's poetry collection, A Record of Change, is a tapestry woven with the threads of age, love, and the poignant weight of loss. The author's words remind us that vulnerability is the wellspring from which true metamorphosis emerges. Join Dugan on a voyage, where the soul's evolution is illuminated through powerful writing that challenges, heals, and ultimately celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. "Attuned to the bluesy frequency of both...
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This powerful and provocative new installment of poetry is a recipient of the 2014 National Poetry Series Prize, as chosen by Campbell McGrath.
The National Poetry Series's long tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets delivers another outstanding collection of poetry by Joshua Poteat.
Through an investigation of the haunted spaces where history collides with the modern southern American landscape, The Regret Histories...
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