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...

this collection of poems is residue from my encounters during the 20 years from (1964-1985). ok, 21.people, places, events seen sometimes wryly, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes playfully and sometimes darkly.

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 ...

25 poems of love dedicated to my then girlfriend Gaynor. These are suitable whether you are straight or gay.

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.

This is a collection of intimate poems, originally titled My-ku. They were intended as a study in constrained free-verse associative thought, and of course they grew. Cycling, diving, life ... explored in four lines. These works were written between 2009 and 2012 in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

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.

A town at the center of a broken universe, Newt Run was never meant to exist; it is a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. There are holes here, gaps in the fabric of things, and some of them are wide enough for people to slip through. Rumours have been spreading about disappearances in the mines, and someone has been defacing the town's walls with rings of painted blood. Strangest of all are the tales of outsiders - mysterious visitors who can only be seen by users of the drug...

A barren queen gives birth to a lindworm after making a terrible mistake. Now she and the king must find him a bride, before their other son can marry his beloved.

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

Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment and desire. They socialize incorrigibly with lakes, lovers, fire, and...