Life Poetry

From Patrick Ware comes, Life's a Sprint: The Allegory of Truth; a poetry collection detailing the author's spiritual journey from 2017-2019. Succeeding his first two collections, which were poetic memoirs of the journey, LAS details everything Patrick has experienced under the sun.

This audiobook is about a passion for writing. The poems contained herein are a selection of many I have written. They are a variety of many places of the mind and in our times. Throughout the years, I have been in contact with some special people and some special places. I have been offered a rare opportunity to be a part of recording things as I saw them. It is great fun to rearrange words to give a different meaning to what we thought we already knew. I will continue to write poems for those who enjoy reading them, including myself.

Book 3 introduces you to friends and acquaintances and the story poems I've written for them for special events in their lives. I've changed the names of all the recipients, but not the actual poems I wrote for them.

My love for travel has led me to a lot of different places leading to interaction with a wide array of people. Some of them being very special, I wanted to remember those encounters. Hence I started portraying them through my poems.

Book 1 introduces you to why and how I started my writing career, not only through my rhyming verses, but also via the background information accompanying each unique poem. In this book, you are introduced to my son Jodi who has autism and whose disability proved the catalyst for my rhyming poems and verses. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

A Life in Rhyme - My Family is the second book in a collection of rhyming story poems I've written over a period of years. None of them were initially written for book publication, but I have received such encouragement from friends and family about them, I've decided to compile the verses into four different titles. Book 2 introduces you to my family and the story poems I've written for them on their special birthdays and anniversaries.

A book of dark poems written by R.M. Spears in times of despair and sadness. Sadness and darkness are natural cousins. Since ancient times, people have worn black to express their grief. The poems in The Darker Side of Life may seek to romanticize sadness and depression.

Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar originated such famous lines as "I know why the caged bird sings" and "We wear the mask that grins and lies"? From his childhood in poverty and his early promise as a poet through his struggles to find acceptance as a writer and his tumultuous romance with his wife, to his immense fame and his untimely death, Dunbar's story is one of triumph and tragedy.

Steven Bates writes his fourth poetry book, again dealing with content that affects us all, from PTSD and depression, inspiration, and motivation to even touching on the pandemic and politics. Steven invites his friend and fellow poet Jennifer Fehrn to add her collection of poetry to this book in hopes that even more persons may be reached and helped by perhaps a different viewpoint, style, and perspective.

These poems beautifully convey that our spiritual journey equates to dancing with life; that dancing with nature is the same as community; that dancing with the spirit is the same as ministry. As we listen to these poems, a story slowly emerges, a story that is only our private and intimate story, one that others will never see, offering us an opportunity to discover our personal rhythm in the dance of life.

The Vita nuova is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion by the use of "screen-loves", to his overwhelming grief at her death, ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven.

Anikwa and James, 12 years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James' family has ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising - the British and American armies prepare to meet at Fort Wayne for a crucial battle, and Native Americans from surrounding tribes gather in Kekionga to protect their homeland.

The foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators - including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander - share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister, Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn’t so bad after all. Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical voice captures Lonnie’s thoughtful perspectives of the world and his determination to one day put a family together again.

Misfits, Mystics, Love & Life is a collection of poetic works that truly takes you on a journey. From the emotional repercussions of war and broken human systems to the bliss and tumult of falling in love, Raminder Bajwa's poetry is sure to speak to your soul on multiple levels. Often child-like and innocent but steeped in old soul wisdom, the poems in this book are an expression of the spirit and, like all poetry, will resonate with other souls and touch on ideas and emotions deep within.

Eighty-four original poems, written between 1981 and 2014. Some never before published, and many others pulled from my various poetry collections of family, sports, arts, love, and places poems.

This book holds not only the beautiful rosebuds of life’s growth, but also its sharp, threatening thorns. Every poem is left to fulfill another journey, never relying on that of another to do so. Sometimes, words sit seemingly simple, but more times than not, its vines will burrow deep into the root of life, tugging at its very existence.

Con este libro les quiero invitar a que abran sus corazones y a que sigan creyendo en el amor. Vivimos en un mundo materialista donde hemos perdido los valores; esos principios de cómo tratar, conquistar y querer a una mujer.

In diesem Band findet der geneigte hörer didaktische Verse, welche unter anderem philosophische Betrachtungen über Sinn und Zweck des Lebens als solchem anstellen. Klingt das interessant? Das findet der Autor auch! Hören Sie sich Wolkenkönig: Verse über das Leben an und erleben Sie die faszinierende Welt von Poesie und Lyrik.

In this story the child is invited on a journey where inner strength reigns supreme and shines through all fear, doubt, and concern. “The There Barely” offers a standing invitation to the child. The hunt is the beginning of an adventure that the child will naturally join in pursuit. The Child will be fascinated with the opportunity to see themselves as the strong, independent and fierce individual that they are. The child will learn that there is always hope, light, and support for them in their own internal Self.