Fred Dickinson’s diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century."The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson’s 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giv...

What happens when someone who never imagined becoming a writer discovers that poetry has been waiting inside him all along?In Musings from the Sapphire Poet, Larry Turner presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry shaped by emotion, imagination, faith, reflection, and a fascination with the possibilities of human connection.Across the collection, Turner considers romantic love and longing, hope and personal discovery, spirituality and creativity, prejudice and ha...

The author invites you on her journey...A spiritual life quest to find a partner. She encounters many soulmates along the way. Those who become detours, blessings, roadblocks, heartbreaks, and ultimately teachers. Reminding her that everything she is seeking lies within herself.Experience her profound angst, heartache, and joy in this search for pure love.

The book Mystical Twilight is a manifestation of different mazes of emotion. It fleshes out the human experience from the eyes of a poet that responds to every incident of joy, anguish, triumph & deliberation with a heart that spontaneously beats & breathes the pulse of life.The poet reflects on a plethora of experiences ranging from war, peace, hope, childhood, innocence, fear, frustration, friendship & love. In away the book is a mystical combination of everything that spells out...

A poetry book from longtime Rosicrucian Michael Shaluly, this collection explores a mystical perspective on life.

Beating Hearts and Butterflies is a book of poetry with purpose: inspirational, dreamy, empowering, spiritually healing and transformative.Beating Hearts and Butterflies contains 122 story-telling, inspiring and relatable poems, verses and reflections on love, loss, failure, healing, embracing darkness and your authentic spark, transformation, fate, destiny, emotional and heart intelligence, and the beauty of wishes and dreams that keep our hopes flying high....

What if the deepest pain inside could become the source of your greatest strength? Bittersweet Catharsis is a journey through darkness to find the light that still burns within you. With raw, unfiltered poetry and soul-stirring art, Amel offers a window into a heart that has known the deepest sorrow, yet refuses to stay broken.Amel's writes of battles fought in silence, of moments when life seemed unbearable, and of a search for meaning in the midst of pain. From a childhood marked ...

*Adventures in Penmanship* is a captivating poetry collection by the talented young author, Aanoyah D Sarmah. Inspired by random internet quotes, Aanoyah skillfully weaves these into compelling verse, creating narratives that resonate across all ages. Each poem reflects her imaginative ability to find inspiration in unexpected places, transforming simple quotes into vivid imagery and thought-provoking reflections.Through her words, she explores themes of beauty, complexity, and the...

Writing poetry, to me, is one of the best therapies that I can imagine. It matters not what the subject may be or what the feeling happens to be;p when the lines are written, the heart becomes light and free. The things on this earth are so exciting and wonderful that merely writing about the antics of an insect can be an enthralling learning experience. A purging of the mind, heart and soul is exhilarating; and one can feel cleansed, even if only for a little while.....to explore....

"Step into the evocative world of poetic expression with this captivating collection that delves deep into the labyrinth of human emotions. From the poignant whispers of love lost to the triumphant cries of resilience, these verses resonate with the universal truths that shape our lives.Journey through the highs and lows of existence as each poem unveils layers of introspection and insight, inviting readers to contemplate the complexities of the human experience. Through vivid imag...

The poems of Cătălin Coleașă, presented in his debut collection "The First Struggles", are imbued with a profound romanticism. The author is revealed as a hopeless romantic, forever captivated by love. Only with this understanding can one fully appreciate the nuances of his verse: the sensitivity, the inner turmoil, the melancholies, and the aspirations tied to his loves, each bearing the name of a woman.

For forty years, poet Simone L. Hamlescher turned to her notebook—in her spare time, when she was frustrated, when she had no one else. She learned that every poem is a life experience. Growing up and growing old, love and grief, birth and death—a poem can illuminate our inner worlds and everyday lives. That’s what the poems in Herding Cats in the Forbidden Kingdom: A Poetry Collection (1986–2026) do. They reveal life’s twists and turns and the many experiences that shape us.Writin...