This Collection contain 77 poems divided into 4 parts as follows:Rice in Peaceful landWhen the Royal Azala BloomsLove Song of a Broad RockSudal’s WhisperAuthor Lee Su-dal personifies the poetic object and its emotional communion and empathy through allegory to have a primary surface meaning and a secondary hidden meaning.In this collection, author made the poems concise and easy to read than creating images, and he personif...

One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies.Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry.Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed.Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Je...

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...

The world I now see opened up for free and what is left is neither deft nor cleft - it is the simple flow of life tumbling with thoughts we know are gathered apace as round our garden light and energy space a trace of the divine when we breathe in our own time.

**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 ...

"Cries of coyotes, the croak of frogs and chirping of crickets exemplify the concertos of the Smoky Mountains. I appreciate the age-worn rocks’ accommodating a waterfall’s endless challenge. I hear gospel songs, and I can see myself clogging to great blue grass harmonies."Linda Dickert’s collection of poetry and prose celebrates life in the Great Smoky Mountains. Her short essays, conversations, and inspirations draw from the happenings in the mountains of North Carolina, sharing w...

Poetic meditations on solitude by acclaimed author May SartonThis collection borrows its title from Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote, "Love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning." It is a fitting sentiment for a collection on solitude, wherein the author finds herself full of emotion even in seclusion. The first poem, "Gestalt at Sixty," finds the author reflecting on the joy and loneliness of being solitary. A Durable Fire is a transformative work by a...

In this new collection of poetry, written after retirement from his scientific career, author Nirander M. Safaya portrays the thrills and challenges of life in general and of love in particular. Reflections on Being Human shows how our ordinary needs and experiences lead us to the light of self-knowledge. Divided into three thematic sectionsLife, Love, and Lightthese verses provide a thought-provoking panoramic view of the pragmatic, romantic, and spiritual aspirations that lie at the core...

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 ...

"These verses emerged in moments of clarity and chaos, longing and loss, movement and stillness. They are fragments of my journey—reflections on love, memory, identity, and the shifting tides of time. Some poems came like a storm, demanding to be written, while others arrived gently, like waves touching the shore, shaping themselves over time. They explore the battle between past and present, freedom and belonging, stillness and flight. They are woven with questions, with quiet revelations...

SMUG SENRYU, a collection of 240 syllabic haikulike 'itemettes,' is intended to be very jokey, very fun. The essential smugness may be seen in how the author of the aggregation strove to cling absolutely to rigorous aspects of **5-7-5** in terms of counting the included syllables; also, each of the individual brief items might seem to insist on being only one basic English sentence. That no wish or attempt ever existed to honor some of Basho's supposed haiku approaches may at leas...

This is a book of American haiku. The form is Japanese, forged by the Japanese genius to express the uniqueness of everyday life. The author writes with a refreshing, simple style, capturing the experience clearly in a few words. The reader cannot help but finish the poems with a greater appreciation of the simple things in life.The haiku book is divided into two sentences, a large one of haiku and a smaller one of eight tanka. The tanka is a form of Japanese poetry that i...