English Poetry

As I walked around on this gorgeous day, I reflected on my life and then prayed, “Father God, thank you for being You. Thank you too for the many blessings.... I would try to count them, but they are countless. Thank you for being holy.... All good things in life reflect you.” At that moment I realized.... You and I, we were made to praise his name. You and I, we were made to love and be loved.

The Magic Table is a collection of poetry, satire, and short stories reflecting on what is talked about, laughed about, and felt in a society of elders. Having moved into a retirement community at age 84, the author discovers beauty, friendship, humor, memories, and newfound pursuits to celebrate in later life. Insightful, a must hear for boomers beginning to contemplate their third act. Recommended for anyone who is or loves someone in their sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond.

A book of over 135 poems from the heart of the young woman who went to Romania to teach English in Anne's book "Once Upon a School Day". These warm, catching, sometimes modern, sometimes classic poems will touch your heart and bring tears to your eyes as you read the journey this young woman has walked through life.

Finding Light in Philadelphia is a collection of poetry and short stories that explore several existential questions and society issues. The book takes the listener on an exciting journey filled with thought-provoking questions, excitement, deep reflection, and self-evaluation.

Exploring the see-saw tension between frustration and faith, between the paralysis of despondency and the vitality of hope, between the inevitability of dread and the surges of joy, The Lovely Sight of Ithaca strives to document the travail in attempting to walk the "steep and narrow path" of a spiritual life. Though interspersed with occasional light verse, the poems of this volume speak heavily on love, loneliness, longing, despair, insanity, Divinity, serenity, and triumph.

You can always be better than you were yesterday, and if someone accomplished something before you, then you can do it too. And that in totality is what summarizes I Am a Product of Better Days, which is a collection of poems, passages, and perspective that leave the listener guessing what’s next.

Written over the course of five years, these poems grapple with purpose and reality from a myriad of existentialist perspectives and themes. Through these poems, we travel through the cosmos, to various mythological settings, and even to our own neurons. If you’re seeking to rearrange your grey matter, this is the collection for you.

The Flaws in Our Teen is a collection of poems that brings the experiences of the teenage years into focus. This book will coerce you to think deeply, empathize, smile, reflect with joy, or cringe; some pieces will even draw a tear or two as you journey through these poems. Sasha Davis and R. A. bentinck balance the challenges, triumphs, and resilience of this universal stage in life in a refreshing and inspiring way.

In Incomplete Maps, storyteller and self-care supporter Judy R. Sebastian shares valuable lessons on how to channel your inner strength, rebuild your self-esteem, and heal at your own pace. The collection of easy-to-digest yet eye-opening poetry is filled with enlightening messages. Coping with grief, challenging the norm, exploring sexuality, understanding spirituality, and recovering from trauma are some of them.

A collection of poems that lends insight into the character of God and how He works personally in our lives, through every circumstance and season.

Lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poetry that en­courages, teaches, inspires and entertains, evoking emotion and reflection about Christian living and spiritual growth.

Insight and practical answers for those who seek an abundant, purposeful, peace-filled life amidst the confusion of the world in which we live.

In the name of our sacred pen, we incline our hat to all fans of poetry, and all youth who devote themselves to literature. Our ink advocates for freedom while questioning the true meaning of existence. We are an unexploited resource and cultivated citizens without a country who sing to eradicate exclusion, discrimination, and racism in society. Being conscious of our unique genre, we also believe we must share our verses with our peers and the world.

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair game for Ramsey, who finds poetry in love and sickness and life, of course, but also in knitting and unreliable bladders and the peculiar name of Kalamazoo. Neruda makes an appearance, as do Eric Clapton and Brahms, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Jimmy Stewart.

Double Vision: Seeing God in Everyday Life Through Devotions and Poetry contains 30 devotions, each paired with a poem on the same subject - a double eye-opener. Viewing the same spiritual truth from two angles will help you see daily life from an eternal perspective. Pasch's simple yet thought-provoking analogies will prompt you to take a second look at the most ordinary experience.

A book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry designed to take the reader to distant horizons. Explore the red sands of Mars, travel to the distant reaches of the universe. Go to the next Earth and find exotic adventure. Come imagine wolves and kings in worlds of fantasy. Rocket ships and twilight horizons, time travel and dark shadows, aliens and the settlers who make their way on new unexplored worlds, this is the essence of Farthermost Dream.

Emerging from the ashes as a phoenix, Jewels shares her healing poetry that she wrote over the course of one year as she continues to heal from multiple sexual assaults and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

Poetry Cubed, Volume 3 is my third attempt at collecting my writing into something for people to enjoy.

Poetry collection by Diane B. Copeland.

Whether we've seen it on the screen or experienced it for ourselves, we are familiar with those marking moments: the first glance, hearing his laugh, the moment your heart knows time is standing still, the thrill when she reaches for your hand ... attraction, romance, love ... it happens when it happens!

What impact will a dying mother’s tragic prediction have on the life of her newborn daughter? In the hectic halls of a mental hospital, a woman pleads with the nurses to attach a handwritten poem to the daughter she’s about to give birth to. The nurses tell the woman she’s overreacting because she believes she won’t survive childhood. But just as she predicted, the woman who gives birth to Sonnet slips away shortly afterward. Adopted at an early age, Sonnet has never been curious about her birth mother until her 18th birthday.

This proud nation with its long history - sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, and sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices - has produced a long succession of artists and poets.

In the latter category, Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent; his words and phrasing are on a plane few can equal and most are in awe of. But in this volume we do put forward others who have their own words and voice to add to this rich tapestry.