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Grief Is a Love Language
Grief Is a Love Language is a collection of poetry that behaves like a novel, telling the story of a young woman dealing with the earth-shattering pain of loss and the painstaking healing process of recreating yourself in the wake of it. It shows us everything we learn from grief when we allow it to teach us, exploring love, mental health, family, self-love, and trauma along the way. It does all of this with unflinching honesty, through the lens of incredibly vivid and mesmerizing imagery. No emotion goes unexplored here, and each is masterfully expressed.
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Grief Is
Catherine O’Connor tells the story of grief in poetic form.
A moving and honest reflection of the desolation, isolation, and emotional consequences of loss and grief.
It brings light and hope to the heart.
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Glass and Keys
Glass and Keys is the first book published by Samuel Rankin. It features the very first poems he ever wrote as well as the latest. To read this book is to travel through the evolution of Sam’s poetic journey from writing behind a till on the back of receipts to his most recent and most developed material. This, above all, is an insight into the mind of a young writer who does not shy away from talking about his miseries, fears and views on the modern world. Whether you like fast-paced rhymes, laid-back first-person commentary or thought-provoking literature… Glass and Keys has it all.
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Giant Footsteps
Bill Milton’s poetry is a tour de force and is never far away from the experience of every day life and treads a fine line between the sublime and humourous. Most readers will be able to identify with many of the subjects covered, as Milton’s poetry manages to vividly paint a picture of daily life in postwar Britain.
Many of the poems have hidden depths intended to invoke a smile with some clever wordplay. This is Milton’s second collection in his trilogy of light-hearted poetry.
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Generation Care
Drawing on his experience of over 50 years of health care service the author has imagined how life would improve if mankind moved towards a more caring and loving society. While mankind has greatly benefited from the goods and services which have been delivered by capitalist societies, the excesses of capitalism and the selfishness which leads to inequity have ruined many lives. Love calls us to a caring capitalism in which competition delivers high standards while governance protects the poor. Everyone’s basic needs are met by this society. The model of inspection against governance standards has been used with great success by the Care Quality Commission to improve care and to protect vulnerable patients in the UK National Health Service. With the potential disasters of a viral pandemic followed by the environmental threat of global warming, capitalists are being called to work primarily for care and not primarily for money. It is interesting that this same message is contained in the teachings of Jesus who founded our culture.
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Frozen
You are not alone in your grief and anger. You are not alone in your despair, waiting for an honest call to action. You are not alone in your need to be empowered and emboldened. May you find the companionship you seek as you read the poems of Frozen.
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From the Mountain to the Waterfall
Come one, come all
Lace up your boots
It’s time for the hike
Side by side
Or single file, if you like
Pack your bag
With new & the old
The familiar, yet unfamiliar
Dress for the cold
Off on the journey, sticks in the ground
The guide leads the way
No map to be found
One foot in front of the other
The sun up ahead
The path unfamiliar
Companions, friends, lovers
Waiting to be led
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From Me To You
Daphne had always loved flowers, her garden and the countryside. She had a happy marriage and enjoyed bringing up her family of two boys and a girl. The family was never without a dog, who was one of the family. Daphne didn’t start writing poems until later in life, memories started flowing out of her. She would say, “One needs a long quiet time to develop talents, like drawing and writing.” Like those days she spent in the shelter during the War.
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From Inside The Beast
'The wild waters
Spoke in frenzied sounds
The thunder about a mile away
Barrel staves from the bayside
Broke through the Beach
Finally free
When the water and the wind
Swept the sand away...'This is a collection of 100 poems and appropriations of the many hundreds Salander wrote while serving time in the New York State Department of Corrections.
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From Heart to Mind to Words
Indulge in a poetic journey that unravels the essence of self and the enigmatic human conundrum, beckoning you to embark on a path of profound self-evaluation. These poems serve as mirrors, reflecting perspectives uniquely tailored to each reader’s individuality, fostering non-judgmental introspection on a deeply personal level.
The author draws from life’s observations, ingeniously crafting verses that encapsulate universal questions and fleeting glimpses of potential answers – questions that resonate with every soul who encounters them. With each verse, the reader is compelled to transcend the ordinary negativities that shroud their true selves, paving the way for unhindered and retrospective analysis of their actions and motives.
The fluidity of the writing beckons the reader to be wholly present, free of distractions, and beckons them to reflect with unfiltered honesty. Each piece becomes an invitation to explore profound inquiries: Is this me? Do I recognize myself in these lines? Should I take action? Or, at the very least, can I become better?
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Fox Spirit
In his third book of poetry, Wilson relates stories and dilemmas that grow out of the hidden tracks of everyday life, as they take us in time and outside of time.
In Fox Spirit, words are at play and hopefully even in the hardest poems we will still find happiness. From darkness they follow a light towards new understandings and discoveries.
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Forbidden
Forbidden is a collection of poetry full of humor, wit, and meditation upon all topics from love, places, to philosophy and the classics.
In this collection, the slow-moving and deliberately sensual verse leads to vivid imagery touching both the heart and the soul.
Patel also includes a medley of delightful nuggets from past poets interwoven within her own poems of today to seamlessly form a collection that reads briskly as one moving heartfelt piece.£7.99