The Natural World in Pictures and Poems is a collection of beautiful nature photographs, which have inspired many thought-provoking and entertaining poems. It will take your thoughts on a delightful journey to frozen waterfalls and show you a rainbow of flowers. This colorful book is full of nature images from around the world that will educate and entertain. Learn about the great hornbill and her young from the poem Monogamous, or ponder Gods relationship with nature as you read the poem ...

In One Hundred Butterflies, photographer Harold Feinstein showcases butterfly varieties from around the world, turning exquisite details into mesmerizing works of art. Feinstein's breathtaking photographs capture the color, vibrancy, and infinite variety of patterns that occur on the wings of these ornate insects. One hundred impeccably reproduced, oversized photographs allow viewers to appreciate the Blue Morpho of Central America, the African Birdwing, and the Asian Swallowtail ...

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.

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...

This book is a collection of poems and prose written over a number of years. It is inspired by the unmistakable magic of Africa. Each page paints a picture of life in Botswanafrom the vivid unforgettable sunsets and the clownish wildebeest to the stately grace of the elephant and the unrealized beauty of the spider. Through all seasons and even the occasional drought, living in Africa truly is a unique and unparalleled experience.

My Frog Sings:  SynopsisWhen change comes it brings an end. The past is replaced.A new beginning rises: for some there is sunshine, for many the shadow of hopelessness, feelings of being unwanted and unloved.For me only a buried past could open my gate; that is when I started to gather a garden piece by piece. There, I found a world that shared the weight of memories, spoke of a cure for each ill, showed the difference between imagination and reality. My emotions wer...

Through poems and meditations, Holy Trinity: Maiden, Mother, Crone delves into the life phases that a woman must enter, explore, and resolve to discover a hidden of wholeness. The poems are grounded in nature, each section beginning with a prose meditation that addresses trees as totems of the human experience.While the poems are particular to the life of one immigrant woman, the whole is emblematic of the spiritual lives of all women, especially immigrant women, who strug...

As I stood in freshest breeze, the wind a garden memory tease of musicality in summer's ecstasy.

Jerry celebrates his 50 years together with Dani in Poetry. A true love story for all ages.

Everything new that is created is something that has emerged out from the deepest and densest ocean of pre-contemplated thoughts in the heart.The heart abstracts its new creation from the ocean and asks the aid of the brain.The brain interprets the hearty language and translates it into human coherent language, using the archived words in its files and in a way gives rise to something new and something innovative.People initially say that a writer has a creative mind, ...

This book is an attempt to take my private thoughts, inspirations and imagination into a public platform. I also want to document what some of us experience in life and perhaps not get an opportunity to express. It remains a challenge to previously disadvantaged South Africans like me, to write and share their perspective and understanding, amongst themselves and especially with the citizens of the world, through the power of the mighty pen. I included work done in isiXhosa, to promote ind...

After a long day, relaxing on the couch with a cup of tea and a book can be the perfect way to unwind. The Looking Glass evokes this comfort: stormy weather outside and you, the reader, warm and cozy inside. This collection of rhyming and free verse poetry navigates meditations on nature, God, and love in its varied forms. Through her thirty-six years as a critical care registered nurse, poet Lisa Sherk has witnessed many miracles and profound heartache. This balance is evident in these po...