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In May Sarton's seventeenth and final collection of poetry, the writer reflects on life, aging, and mortalityComing into Eighty presents a poet's look at age. Herein, Sarton gives readers a glimpse into her quotidian tasks, her memories, her losses, and her triumphs. The volume explores topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the struggle of taking a cat to the vet. Dark and immediate, this work catalogues both the tedium and the splendor of life with equal...

Tanis Helliwell's poetry evokes the mystery of spirit in its beautiful forms—be it lovers, beloved friends, nature, or God. A term sometimes used to describe this kind of poetry is 'sacred poetry' because it contains teaching lessons that assist us in our spiritual transformation.Reminiscent of the witty and intimate teachings of Hafiz and Rumi and the celebration of love and life found in the words of Pablo Neruda and Mary Oliver, Embraced by Love urges us to wake up and love in al...

Unrequited love has three distinct phases; the search for love, love seemingly found, and love eventually lost.This book offers poems that aid the readers understanding of the emotions and turmoil that are experienced by individuals who have been caught in this gut wrenching phenomena.

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...

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writerliving in New York City. Her work has appearedor is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications,and anthologies across six countriesand three continents. Sweta has attended severalwriting residencies and workshops in the UnitedStates and Europe. She is a VONA writer and agraduate of Columbia University.About this Chapbook...We have all lost a dear one at some point in ourlives. Grief, depending on the...

These poems were written with various anonymous-person perspectives in mind. A window from each of their lives is slightly cracked open for the reader to eavesdrop on their movements and words through an accessible free-verse poetic style.We all know of marriages and relationships in general that begin beautifully and end happily ever after, but this book doesn't paint such picture-perfection throughout its poems. A real-life relationship between a man and a woman---aside from Face...

Journey to the Meaning of Love offers a collection of poems that follow the progress of a souls quest to understand and come to terms with romantic love and the nature of the heart. They appear in four sections, beginning with experiences and observations of love as desire, yearning, gratification or pain, moving to a more detached awareness of human interactions and needs, evolving to a deeper understanding and acceptance of the balance of opposites which leads ultimately to the recogniti...

All too often, life happens to us without us pausing to reflect on what we have and how it makes us feel. That’s where a work like Love's Illusions: Poetry & Thoughts comes in. Poet Margaret Dent’s delightful and thought-provoking poetry explores how our connections with nature and others shape our lives. Love, desire, friendship, loneliness, loss, and our interactions with nature are experienced and considered in the over 70 poems and quotes in this collection. Dent’s purposeful reflections ...

Welcome to my world.Welcome to my thoughts.Welcome to my visions.So begins Welcome to my world, poems that navigate the author’s search for “the stars, the moon, the ultimate tune,” alongside his road to healing from satanic abuse and drug addiction. Whilst some poems speak of suffering, others are full of joy—celebrating survival, the act of writing, and the sacred connection to Mother Earth, the Four Directions, and to the Creator. An act of prayer and acceptance, t...

There is an old expression which states, “write what you know”. That is exactly what this young, new author has done. In his first book, Poems of a Wounded Heart, Alex used his own pain and heart ache he experienced on his road to find true love as his muse. Alex is now in a loving, committed relationship and now his heart sings with joy and happiness. His newest book, Poetry of Love & Hope was born from his new found love and outlook on life. Alex believes we were put on this earth throug...

I have been working, feeling, seeing in recent months the infinitesimal boundary between ourself and the sublime. And like Xeno's paradox, the oh-so-thin veneer DOES disappear. And then and only then do true poems come out.All the writing I have ever done, is just a means of wearing away that layer: being ever closer to the moment, the moment that does not end.And if these poems are conduits to the sublime, then so is every man and every woman.Peace. Begin.-...