Ether is Robert Darlingtons personally selected collection of his published and unpublished poems. Written between 1972 and 2006, these poems take the reader on a journey from blank verse to free verse; from sonnet to haiku. With Ether, Robert Darlington reveals his deep poetic vision and understanding of poetic forms. It is a poetry book that is both profound and easy to read, written in language that anyone can understand and appreciate. Cover painting by Michael Hindman

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

These are true poems of the heart and from the heart which look at the nature of hope and the futility of despair. Poems related here are full of naturalistic observations as well as commentary on the state of the world. These show how we must keep hope alive in a dark world around us.

The greatest birth of what we know is hidden in deepest snow - when the frost bite hard, we lose our last charade and start to see, the magnificence of all that life can be and hanging on a tree, the music free a special song to embrace the depth that winter carries on until the flowers bloom life's freshest tune.

Robert Lucas is a up and coming poet new to the scene, but wow do his words speak truth! In this compilation Robert Lucas takes on many themes of the human experience including love, death and perseverance. Buy now to see more from him in the future!

This collection of Japanese haiku by American singer and composer, Don Raye is a delightful contribution to the world of haiku written in the English language.Like Haiku sings as haiku should—of life and joy, and sorrow and the seasons. Nor is this surprising for Mr. Raye is a successful song writer. For him no subject is too trivial, and none is too deep to put into poetry. He writes for Hope and History; Women and Wanderlust; Soul Brothers and a Seeing Eye Friend; Ego an...

An energetically channelled collection of poetry.Visions, and observations of a Claricognisant.

So many questions in life seem unanswered. But looking deeper, into the heart of the bearer, the answers lie waiting, within the heart of the Creator. Loneliness, lost love, struggles in life, reflections of oneself,often are covered by the busyness of the every day world. In this collection of free verse, the author reveals the things that she could not speak herself, but only could whisper into the heart of the One who is unseen.

Invite these poems to companion your heart and let them stretch your soul. Brendas spare, simple words say big things. In this very intimate collection we are offered messages of lifes mysteries in a language as clear as any fine spiritual direction. Throbbing through the poems is her Celtic sensibility, offered in the calm dialect of a sagacious heart bred to thrive in Newfoundland weather. Taken as talismans of transformation, these poems beg rereading, like stories retold over strong te...

This is a collection of very short poems that will appeal to both poetry lovers and non poetry lovers. It is a perfect book for the coffee table; the doctor's office, or the bathroom,,,,,although it definitely does NOT belong in the toilet (lol). The author, Candice James is the Poet Laureate Emerita, New Westminster, BC CANADA

A contemplative, witty new collection from a "jewel of a poet" (Los Angeles Times).In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a badger disguised as a monk. For Spires, life is both a pilgrimage and a deepening—birth, death, and transformation all part...

This is a book of poems dealing with the themes of Heaven and Hell, Sin, Repentance, and Christianity as the struggle of an author trying to come to grips with spirituality. Other themes threaded throughout such as love, desire, beauty, addiction. It is not an "inspirational" book in the traditional sense, but tends to be of a darker nature.