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Women are some kind of magic volume 2
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"The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now--indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn't burn in this one"--Publisher's website.
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This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner.
Many of the poems are autobiographical:...
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Adrift in an ocean of pain and confusion. Sorrow and pain are my ever-present companions. My life's path is a winding road to where? The work of salvation has been accomplished through the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. There is a process of salvation, all the events of life leading up to faith in Christ. This book of poetry is a journey capturing the emotions, the questions, and the struggles of life on the redemption road resulting...
5) Remarriages
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"Remarriages" is for the outcast and the disappointed. Dark poems riding wildly through the mind of an angry man who both loves and hates the world. The words reveal a bitter struggle to reconcile with the horrors and the violence inherent in the world.
Dunn's poetry is psychological and raw, with a delicate balance between light and darkness.
Dunn's poems are valiant in expressing the darkness many, fear, yet others, embrace. Some of his poems nudge...
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Have you ever looked at a piece of art, or closed a book, and found yourself left with deep, profound feelings?
Often our lives resonate with unexpected beauty. For Marie, wandering an art museum is like wandering the hearts of artists, seeing their trials and tribulations on display, a chronicle of their efforts to make sense of this messy affair called life. In this illustrated collection of thirty-six poems, Marie wanders two European cities looking...
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Sometimes it's difficult to take that first step into your future and embrace the unknown. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays empowers you to embrace your next adventure with confidence and grace, drawing on invaluable lessons from nature.
Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols reimagines the classic heroine's journey—from the very first call to adventure, through trials, hardships,
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Poetry dedicated to the victims of genocide and war. An Homer award-winning book. Sona Van's subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Her family was driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance. Forward written by Award winning actress, Beata Pozniak
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There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt Like Feeling Nothing, r.h. Sin pursues themes of self-discovery and retrospection. With this book, the poet intends to create a safe space where women can rest their weary hearts and focus on themselves.
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing is the first book in the "What She Felt" series....
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing is the first book in the "What She Felt" series....
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Relentless is a collection of the poems chronicling my 2020. They start rather optimistic as I attempt to start the new year well, and push to achieve some rather large overarching goals for the year. Then the pandemic hit and things in my life changed. I could no longer easily rely on the support network that had seen me through many years of my life and I was floundering. It was quite the tough transition and I began to spend a lot of time alone,...
12) My Superman Has Left the Building: Dealing with the Loss of Losing My Father, Donnie D. Williams
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This book is directed to every person out there who has lost their beloved father and would give anything to see and touch him again. This book is dedicated to people that woke up the morning after losing your father and felt like you were in a dream. This book is dedicated to the man who was your first role model, first admirer, first supporter, and superman. This book is dedicated to people just like me who must wake up every day and find the strength...
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The poems in this book were written after the author was diagnosed young-onset Parkinson's disease at the age of forty-eight. Some of the poems include reflections on and accounts of his experiences of sadness, darkness, and struggle, especially during the first year following his diagnosis. More of the poems capture experiences of deep questioning, discovery, acceptance, joy, and hope. This range of reflections and experiences is what we would expect...
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"To read Climbing Clouds Catching Comets is to clamber inside the mind of a writer whose talent fizzes on the page: with love, pain, empathy and a wisdom far beyond his young years. Alexander wrote of the world he knew- a world of stop and search, homelessness, political blackness, big dreams and daunting challenges, crafting all of these into a poetry that transcends them all. The result is this work- at times a journey to find his voice, at times...
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In her fourth poetry collection, Sarah Agnew takes the reader on a poetic journey through community and individual crises of bushfires and the global pandemic, loneliness and friendship, and the grief following her beloved Dad's sudden death. With characteristic courage and vulnerability, these poems will lead you through lament and healing, loss and love, and the continued unfolding of self-understanding.
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Lumberton is a real town in an area historically denuded by clear-cut logging where the abused spirit of the land pervaded both place and people. The poems in this book explore various kinds of abuse and spiritual impoverishment as well as growth of awareness and healing. The journey from desolation toward wholeness proceeds in ordinary ways: waiting quietly like a bare field under a wide sky, noticing the budding lilac, or simply taking the next...
17) Swallow
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With the pandemic and isolation it made room for self-reflection. These poems helped me with accepting my pain and healing from it. It's about seeing my identity and finding self-love in the midst of trying to belong in a community, living in a pandemic and other injustices. It shares the journey of doing the work to unpack repressed emotions, memories, and properly processing them. It's about learning and growing through the connections and revelations...
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Human conflict frequently results in the ejection of the loser, yet it's the winners who usually write the stories. This collection gives voice to the loser. Through the framework of one whose life was upended by a sudden move from Florida to Alaska, poet Gregory Hartley treads the path of Exile, examining its causes and the destruction left in its wake.
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This beautiful piece of art is the whole world in a book, it is a collection of scars and wounds that open, some still healing, others mildly fading, some which I have endured, some not, but each marred page is a ravishing disaster of what makes us human. Heartbreak, loss, love, grace, humility pain in all senses, we may not be able to vanish these scars from existence but we can cherish them they are part of a story of who we are today The compilation...
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This book is a journey into the heart and mind of a poor devil, consisting of 150 poems that talk about afterlife, dying and living again, God, human, animals and nature. She experiences a self-exploration that stands as a spiritual journey which travels us through words to dreams, thoughts, and surreality. The secret is that the poor devil is now a black flower that speaks, uttering the hope that this life form be the last.
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