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Afterglow

by Michelle Marie Jacquot

Afterglow is a collection of poetry from a strange time. Starting in 2020 and ending somewhere between then and now, it's about figuring out what living really means. It's laughing through the world's collapse, searching for meaning in almost everything, fighting and embracing solitude, and realizing that everything could change at any moment. It's learning to look for an afterglow in all things. To throw your hands up, surrender, and feel the sun coming.

Life on the Run: The Reverses of Life

by Brian Michael Hurll

Life on the Run is a continuation of my love for talking about Nature, Love, Holidays, and topical themes. is amalgamation of topics is a chance to continue with all the subjects that will always appear in my poems. Writing unloads my mind and is good and relaxing to my soul. I realised a while ago that our minds are very complex libraries, which continually fuel our thoughts and generate the work we write. So this larger volume with twice as many poems almost brings us up to date. Althou... more

The Best-Kept Secret

by Sophie Stewart

'Dragons don’t often eat Lancashire folk. They try now and then, but the clothes make them choke. It may be the wellies, the flat caps or coats, The wet-weather gear gets stuck fast in their throats.' A constant plume of smoke in the skies above the Ribble Valley is fuelling rumours that a local factory is the lair of a legendary fire-breathing beast - an ancient dragon, born of magic over four hundred years ago when King James 1st ruled the land and the Lancashire witches ruled th... more

A Black Queen's Flow

by Naci Sigler

Get The Powerful Daily Inspiration You Need Conquer Your World! This poetry collection is intentionally designed to provide concise, deep, fun, and meaningful inspiration. It's also taught in school settings and professional development workshops, making it a great gift. It functions beautifully as an invitation to begin or continue a dialogue about growing up, maturity, overcoming adversity, and becoming more confident. Women, Families, Teachers, and Trainers Love This Book!

My Smile Is My Mask: A Collection of Poems

by Francesca De Geronimo

A collection of poems exploring the challenging thoughts that adolescents and young adults often experience. Through the author’s personal experiences, she hopes to enlighten readers about struggles like masking our true emotions from the rest of the world. Each poem is written to stand alone, or when read together, can reveal the complexities we may face when confronted with perpetuating thoughts. At the end, the reader can find a few pages to write their own reflections.

All I Need Is a Typewriter and a Squeaky Ball: Poems by Crikey

by Diane Wasnak

Crikey, an Australian Shepherd was born with a hearing impairment, it was clear Crikey had to rely on his other senses, especially during his first year of life. Crikey's poems are a fanciful look at his world from his own doggie point of view.

What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing a Child to Addiction

by Lanette Sweeney

What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing a Child to Addiction recounts a mother's grief, guilt, sorrow, and search for meaning after her 26-year-old son's death by overdose. The book is divided into the stages of grief, with sections on denial and depression, anger, bargaining and, eventually, acceptance. Sweeney's son's poems appear throughout the collection, often in seeming conversation with his grieving mother's words. The author hopes the book demonstrates that even the most de... more

My Daddy Slays Dragons

by Stephanie Kahle

There is nothing scarier than a firebreathing dragon, ask any firefighter. The age-old tales of dragons are real today, in the forests of California and all over this land. Fire season brings modern day heroes to the front line in droves. They gather their armor and gear and travel toward danger to protect life, property and the environment. They leave behind families who guard their castles and hold down the fort awaiting their valiant return and the stories of adventure to follow.

Violet

by Sabrina Simon

Violet is poems for the ones who are willing to wait, idealistic in love, and love silently. It represents the true essence of intimacy: sensitive, emotional, authentic, and true.

Naughty Nonsense, Lascivious Limericks and Much More

by David Ellis

WARNING Be prepared to be amused by the odd ways of the characters here portrayed in the first section of the book devoted to Limericks. Be prepared to feel sympathy for their mishaps and trials. But especially be prepared to be shocked by their goings-on and shenanigans - the forger, the glutton, the cheat, the drunkard, the proud, the greedy, the slothful, the unfaithful, the exhibitionist, the sex-mad, the dominatrix, the cougar, the transsexual, the transvestite, the masochist, the ho... more

Poems for Wee Ones

by MaryAnn Diorio

POEMS FOR WEE ONES will delight the young child in your life with its gentle humor, its lilting verses, and its charming illustrations. Studies have shown that reading poetry to children contributes to their healthful emotional development and sharpens their pre-reading skills. According to Scholastic Parents Magazine, "nursery rhymes, songs, and poetry are key parts of preschool reading. Listening to, and repeating, poetry is a wonderful way for children to learn phonemic awareness." * ... more

Spirit

by James Murdock

Spirit dives deep into present beauty and brutality, enhancing the prism through which we perceive and value our experience. Murdock’s take is timeless; his poems are born when his heart catches his soul, exploring the warmth of friendship, joy of love, and shameful justification for cruelty and violence. The gamut lies within / sit down / open it / and bring your spirit along.

Don't put me in a box

by Lady Elegance

Skin & Bones: Song Lyrics

by Jeff Mellin

Skin & Bones is the first-ever collection of lyrics by songwriter / artist Jeff Mellin. Named for a lyric from his "tour de force"* album Jeff Mellin Saves the World (Stereorrific, 1999), the book covers songs from Mellin's bare-bones coffeehouse days to his later, more fleshed-out power-pop material. "While it’s often difficult to gauge the worth of pop lyrics printed on the page without musical accompaniment, it’s remarkable how well Skin and Bones reads, as l... more

Driveway Chalk Stars of Pajama Astronomers: A Year of Haiku

by Jeff Mellin

A year of observation and reflection. Of snapshots, soundbites, and tiny stories. Of kōans, riddles, and magic tricks. Of meditations and revelations. A year of haiku. Artist, writer, designer, and musician Jeff Mellin shares his year-long project to chronicle, in both words and images, the micro-moments of day-to-day life raising his three boys. Illustrated with 60 black & white photographs.

Player Piano (Dream 19)

by Jeff Mellin

A mysterious vision. A cryptic epiphany. A hopeful dream ballad for strange and dangerous times. Decorated with images adapted and collaged from “Chant d’Amour (The Love Song),” a painting by Pre Raphaelite artist Edward Coley Burne Jones, and the “Book of Flowers,” a 16th century nature catalog illuminated for Queen Claude de France.

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