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Poems catered to the everyday lives of normal people. Regardless of race and financial status, these poems can be related to as well as enjoyed. Words combined to influence your day in a positive and motivational way.

The poems in this collection originated as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" and metamorphosed into poetic responses to quotations and epigraphs on a variety of subjects.

Songs of love, songs of war, songs of faith, and songs of spring. Here is an unusual collection of poems reflecting the dreams and sense of wonder of a gifted, sensitive Jewish poet who is able to convey the tenderness of man’s agonies and loves, his despairs and his hopes, his failings and dreams...

A rainy day retreat; gray skies and rain drops are given a place of thoughtfulness and care throughout this collection of calming and peaceful poems. The calming verse offers peaceful moments in a relaxing space. These calming and meditative poems provide a sense of repose and reflective contemplation. You...

Ministering to Your Soul presents Patricia Kinards first collection of poetry. She has heard the still, small voice of God encouraging her to share her thoughts in poetry to glorify God. In response to that voice, she offers these verses that come from deep within her soul, written to minister to...

"He says that he's instructed to reply (And he has so instructed me) that sin Like yours--and this poor gentleman's who's in For bad advice to you--comes rather high; But since, apparently, you both begin To feel some pious promptings to the right, And fain would turn your faces to the light, Eternity...

Most of the poems in Aerial Muse were written in the sky -- on commercial airline flights. A few other poems are populated with birds, real or imagined. But these poems are less about transportation than they are about transformation and transcendence. Often the poems themselves take flight -- imagination...

Red Trousseau is the latest work from one of America’s greatest modern poets. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Carol Muske has discovered a way to work magic within the boundaries of technical achievement … Her contemplation of experience is personal yet moves further, into the spiritual and philosophical;...

Bold, bodied, and bristling with emotion, Heidi Lewis's poetry crosses the boundaries between man and woman, friction and peace, fear and faith, and the past and future. Her debut collection, Can I Rest Awhile?, is an embodiment of her being—it is a window into her childhood, a taste of womanhood,...

One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization....

Being born in Guatemala, a Third World country, I was brought to Canada and placed in foster care. As a child, teen, and young adult, I fought hard to find my “place” in our world.  There is a small handful of people I would like to thank for giving me the courage to share my innermost...

The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio) in the original Italian. According to Wikipedia: "Durante degli Alighieri (c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later...

A collection of poetry from award-winning poet Vera S. Scott centering on family, friends, people she has known and the type of relationships that resonant in everyone's life.

An exquisite collection of poetry reflecting the mind of a most extraordinary man. Proceeds donated to cancer research, at the author's request.