From the humor of Thanks for the Rain to the sadness of Clearing out the Room, Mr. Lannom has written a wide variety of poems and says, There are lots of words and even more spaces and it is the spaces, the between, that gives it meaning.

This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books About Opposites: Discover the surprising, clever, and ...

Do you want to write? Do you get stuck on what to write about? Greyscale offers forty-one black and white photos to spark your creative self. Use the photos themselves or use over one hundred and fifty creative writing prompts to get your hand moving across the page or your fingers tapping on the keyboard. Greyscale can be used to prompt free writes, or to develop your creative thinking.

The swiftest fleet of wing can make a soul to sing - we hardly ever know where inspiration flow - but in the light that glow, a twinkling of an eye lets our spirit fly. Animation - life creation - ever upward, live sensation - not quite as we thought - for life with joy consort.

Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you into a garden where the exotic and prosaic, domestic and feral, all show the writers deep faith ...

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God a...

Do you love writing poetry? Dream of being a writer someday, but can't get yourself to write regularly? Or you have no idea what to write about? Then this book is for you. Based on the theme of autumn, it will have you writing poems every day for 91 days - all the way through fall and all about fall. Everyday there is a prompt to build on. From acorns to apple cider to raking, you will soon be scribbling away your own poems about fall.

In simple things in your life are hidden values, like love letters from Home. Each one is designed to free you from negativity and liberate your soul.

LIFE LYRICS: love, sex and other deviances gives you the decadent sensation of sneaking a look at someone's personal diary. It is a journey of life experiences and observations about the author and people the author has encountered. She reaches into your heart, holds your feelings in her hands and then her pen tells your story and often yours... This is a poetic experience you shouldn't miss...

**A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistEarthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).**"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of ...

Find a love of nature and our human connections with the supernatural, from earthquakes to lightning storms, in these poems. J.J.Brown's words pull readers into a stream of union with the natural world. The author writes of supernatural fears, spiritual visions, and love poems to probe both tender bonds.

This is my first book and is a selection of 45 poems that trace my journey from starting to write poetry for performance at Café Create, making connections with myself (& what I want to say), with my audience and with God. The best way I can describe it is that it is rather like sowing seeds from an unmarked packet and seeing what springs up! My next book is currently under consideration with the working title "Snapshots of the Kingdom" which looks at aspects of christian life and experien...