The Yellow Elder is a book of poetry compiled over the years during various seasons in my life, depicting my love for nature, my family, and my country. It is named after the national flower of the Bahamas.

Deep beneath the ocean lay the beautiful and magical kingdom of King Neptune. He had six mermaid daughters, the youngest of whom was considered to be unsurpassed in her beauty. They lived a wonderful and carefree existence in their underwater arcadia. The world beyond was an uncertain and dangerous place and for this reason all mermaids were forbidden to travel up to the surface before their fifteenth birthday.When her time finally arrives, the Little Mermaid travels up to the surf...

I had found it! This house was the perfect place to write the great American novel. I tumbled into bed, anxious to start the next day. Within half an hour, I was awake again. The sounds were back.I got up and peered out the window. That's when I saw it. In the ghostly light of a half moon shining through the darkness, I saw a young girl chopping at the trunk of a huge oak tree behind the house. She was only about five or six years old, wearing a tattered dress that was soaked in the...

20 poems of lesbian love. I wrote these when I first came out for my then girlfriend.

Poetry is emotion at it's rawest. When it's first felt, that jolt in your back when you love, lose and are betrayed. Through the Eyes of a Teenager is just a glimpse of what was and what has made me.

“Mermaids and Butterflies” is not even remotely as lighthearted as the title might lead one to believe. Called "an unsettling tale of loss and loneliness" by editor of CICADA magazine Deborah Vetter, the magic realist short story dumps readers into the life of a disturbed, unnamed protagonist as she is confronted with the question of what a person is and how a person can change.

On a deserted beach late at night, a man encounters a miracle...for the second time.

The way Wade Elgin see's the world in different angles. Using words to express different feelings. The relationship between Love, God, and State of Being. In this book Wade fully expresses his love for God and His fellow man. This is his first time writing poetry and with this you get to see inside himself.

THE SHORT STORIES OF N.G. DIAN* He Put A Flower In My Hair* I Know I Miss You* The Miracle of My Aunt's Hands

Call it a confession of poems about a son and a father, and collected into it the us that a father and son are. This series is an admission of poetry, and honesty about fathers and sons, how we hold hands and are willingly lost. When We is ultimately about letting go, and that is our irony: that which we hold to the tightest is what we must let loose. When We is the tightness of our hearts, a torture of relinquishing.About the Author:J. A. Tyler is the author of A Man of Gla...

This is my first book and is a selection of 45 poems that trace my journey from starting to write poetry for performance at Café Create, making connections with myself (& what I want to say), with my audience and with God. The best way I can describe it is that it is rather like sowing seeds from an unmarked packet and seeing what springs up! My next book is currently under consideration with the working title "Snapshots of the Kingdom" which looks at aspects of christian life and experien...

This is Ruperake Petaia's second collection of poems, Petaia continues his search towards the inner-side of life: the heart, the soul, the spirit. The poems reflect the ever presence of the storms of life, and ultimately the patches of life supreme; that the prophetic rainbow aspires to maintain.And once again the poems about life are short, sweet and sour and with that final twist of a laugh, a pinch or whatever turns the poems may hold for the reader.