Grief Poetry

National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist, and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldier's life: Driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown in the dry Iraq heat; writing a love letter; listening to a mother recount her dreams. Written with evocative language and discernment, Powers' poetry strives to make sense of the war and its echoes through human experience.

Pain and trauma are what makes us human, arguably unifying us as a species. Finding our way out can be traumatic itself at the best of times, always confusing and so often riddled with false starts and mistakes. Through poetry, this collection will make you cry, laugh, empathize, question, and eventually help you find your way through and out of that dark place. From someone who has experienced the journey, and put in the years of study and work required to build a tool set to make the needed progress toward better mental health—the time is right to share this work with the world.

The Snake, the Scorpion, the Sage: A Poetry Book contains 38 poems across the themes of chaos, madness, lost love, violence, shadow work, dreams, nightmares, death, and the messy side of life experience.

Love Glutton is a poetry anthology that features 75 poems on the adventurous mysteries of love, lust, life, and memory. Tadhg Culley is a professional screenwriter, published author, and poet from the UK. He has written 10 feature film screenplays, nine poetry books, eight TV series scripts, eight novellas, three guidebooks, one memoir, one novelette, one collection of short stories, and many other short-form works, delving into documentary, theater, animation, and games.

This is a collection of poetry by the author that functioned greatly as a diary as she navigated her way through the rocky existence that was her mid twenties. She describes what it's like to burn with anxiety, drown under the weight of depression, feel misrepresented with chronic health conditions, grieve the loss of a loved one, and more.

Una jornada en apariencia normal y corriente encierra las últimas horas con vida de cuatro poetas: Cesare Pavese, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton y Gabriel Ferrater. Fin de poema registra, como una caja negra, los sutiles instantes que preceden a su muerte.

My Way With Words is reamed from decades of jotted thoughts and poems. Jotted thoughts are easily understood, but jotted poems I believe in my case deserves an explanation. Many of my poems were completed beginning to end with no changes between or very little editing and that includes a few longer poems.

Mental health is not a disease but a disability in which its reality can become problematic for everyone without help. The mass shootings stem from individuals who have not been help or are off their medications to avert them from criminal activity. Suicides are high amongst our youth, due to depression and those that surround them fail or refuse to acknowledge their cry for help.

Adam Scott Campbell survived a life-threatening brain tumor at age nine that recurred as a young adult. When thereafter he faced death again, he was ready for heaven. Instead, heaven came to him. Visited by his Angel, she filled him with the strength, courage, hope, and life to continue on with a purpose--to share that we are never alone and that we are stronger than we know.

Paper Heart is a collection of poetry stemming from the places where light and darkness have shaped who Jennifer LeBlanc is as a writer. Written over years of introspection, love, pain, and hope, each poem is a placeholder for something that held her mind for either a bright moment or a dark hour.

You will confront your darkest fears and beckon them to the surface of your mind. Nightmares will cause conflict between the charcoal days and bleak nights. With a splash of colorful, sweet sentiment to contrast the shadows, Dark Days will leave a twisted, yet merry mark on your soul.

Quietly reflective, the beautifully written poems in this slim volume offer a welcome respite from the noisy insistence of modern life. The language, now simple and direct, now rich in associations, double-meanings, and imagery, has its own natural rhythm and appeal regardless of subject and rhyme.

I wrote most of these poems when I was in a bad place, a dark state of mind that eased its hold when I wrote them down, and so these poems were created, they maybe disturbing for most and very intense, but if you have been in a dark place too, you may understand.

This short poem, first published in 1717, became one of Pope's best-known verse works. The actual history of the lady appears to have been intentionally concealed by the poet under a mysterious veil. Dr. Johnson offers the following details, based on the content of the poem: that the lady was distinguished by her rank, fortune, and beauty; that she was committed to the care of an uncle who was being crossed in her affections by her guardian, who opposed her marriage.

This audio collection of poetry from Gregory M. Thompson has over 35 poems about love, despair, and death in structured and free-form styles. Includes the two horror epic poems ALTHEA and MODERIA. Enjoy different types poetic styles from traditional to rhythmic to serious to humorous.

We wake up and sip our morning cup. Appearances mean nothing because we are always hiding something. In this book (come take a look), you'll find the darkness in your mind is real. So to whom do you appeal?

Los poemas de este libro tienen que ver directamente con el amor, no como un pretexto sino como la materia central del poema. Son escenas interiores o exteriores, donde están presentes la ciudad, la naturaleza, el viaje, la fotografía y la pintura. El amor a veces está acompañado del erotismo, el humor, la infancia y la violencia que vive nuestro país. Por supuesto, el desamor y el duelo también tienen cabida, como la otra cara de la moneda.

The Soul Knows These Simple Truths is a poetry audiobook that contains 101 poems across a wide variety of themes such as heartbreak, grief, loss, hope, faith, inspiration, philosophy, tragedy, and the healing power of art.

Poems that make you feel alive. Poems that rip false assumptions from your heart to leave you bare. Poems to provoke thought and provide courage to take on this damaged world. Having experienced wild love and cancer in the same breath, the broad theme of Iain McLean’s work is the battle between science and romance. A dramatist and published writer Iain lives in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid with his family.

An English poet and soldier, Owen depicted more graphically and effectively than any poet before him the horrors and realities of fighting in the trenches. His poignant verse has made him one of the greatest voices to emerge from World War I.