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In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration...

Leslie Lorraine Vardaman, known mainly and formidably by her official monikers, Samantha Komodo and "Cheezi D", is a Gray Wolf and American author/rapper/lyricist. She has been writing series of more than many fiction/action/thriller series book since the tender cub age of five; with her...

Here are some hard hitting and insightful poems. The end of the book has a delightful excerpt from my e-book "Primal Ethics: what our kids are taught in school and culture". There are poems entitled Salt, The Harlot's Cup, Wisdom, The News, Hero, Doors of Addiction, The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel and several others here.

The numbing of the nothing that you’ve becomeIs something for someone, but only for youIf you can’t try trusting,Then you’re of no useBecause they have to fill you with their filthAnd fit you with their noose.

A Poet's Cry, written by Heather Sullivan is a collection of over twenty poems on various subjects, categorized under the headings, Praises, Prayers, Thoughts, Relationships, and Descriptions. All of these words, whether praising God, delighting in a friendship, or describing nature, were written...

These are poems about things that make me happy. I think everyone could do with thinking about things that make them happy.

I would move a mountainTo heal your pain.I would take it allAnd not complainIf it could be in that bed,So torn and afraid.We share someone,The one that took your nameAnd gave me life.She’s my mother.She’s your wife.You don’t deserve this at all,And it’s not alright.

Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle’s The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, which is to say all prayers.

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, lights, the baby Jesus, and, of course, presents. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your ears, or maybe you even picture nutcrackers or Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Christmas has...

Jen Minkman was born in the Netherlands in 1978. Although she has always written stories in Dutch, the poems and lyrics she writes are almost exclusively in English. The title ‘Undercurrent’ refers to the reason she started writing poetry: whenever she could not express her emotions verbally,...

The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusual imagery drawn...

With my back against the wall, I bleed.The last of all I could ever needHas gone away.Empty of all illusion,As to what to say,I fill the void.All I ask is not to fall, but I seeThat the past has come to call and feed.I pray,Upon shattered knees; I’d rather beAnything but this emptyingSelf-delusion that I’m includedIn what’s become better than living bitterly.