Life Poetry

This volume contains spiritual stories so uplifting your entire world may just shift. Every volume has been designed so you can listen to any story from any book in any order and at any time and still receive all of the subconscious benefits. The question is, are you ready for it?

Composed around 1294 in Italian, the Vita Nuova tells the story of Dante's encounters with and love for Beatrice, culminating in her early death and its effect upon him. Utilizing and developing the conventions of courtly love, in a mixture of prose and verse, Dante deepens the emotional content of the genre, while pointing the way towards the intellectual and spiritual journey of the Divine Comedy.

Ocean Child is a magical tale of one girl's adventure at sea. She runs away from a troubled home, dresses as a boy, and stows away on a ship. She is finally fulfilling her dream of sailing the ocean, but she has no idea what lies in store for her! She is discovered by the ship's captain and crew, who are actually good, decent men, and the ship sets sail. Finding that she has stowed away on a "Questing Ship", she then has an encounter with dolphins that changes her life.

Petals of Vision is an anthology of 72 poems and sonnets in which the vicissitudes of human love are addressed through lyrics and flawless rhymes that fill the soul with love, sorrow, hope, joy, humility, depth, and even laughter. Presented through a world characterized by versatility and surrounded by symbolism, sincere images, and heartfelt thoughts, this new anthology gives lovers of classic poetry a great opportunity to revel once again.

The life of Letitita Elizabeth Landon - pen name L.E.L. - was one lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and recreates the literary London of her time.

Do you love your job? Then this book probably isn't for you. This is poetry for everyone who works to live but doesn't live to work. These are verses of corporate commiseration, bite-size business dread for the alarm clock averse. So help clear your "case of the Mondays" with this set of cynical snipes and sighs and remind yourself you're not alone (even if everybody else went home early).

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge share Equiano's life story in "found verse," supplemented with annotations to give listeners historical context.

Tamara Branch’s Sprinkles: Poems and Musings on Life touches on soul-stirring themes of oneness, love, change, loss, self awareness, beauty, art, and so much more. In this inspiring collection, Tamara shares personal reflections and observes our aliveness with candor, generosity, and a sense of play.

The reconstruction and comparison of the model’s forms in the portrait and face image, in connection with new discoveries in science and archaeology, has aroused some interest in the funeral cult and its supernatural techniques. Continuum, plastic, and graphics of African art. It was a leap to understanding the image of Nefertiti, its unusual proportions, and the spiritual ideal in the work of Modigliani in his gallery.

Join us as we introduce you to the real you, through this parable, Rock Star: Finding God's Purpose for Your Life. Listen as the main character in this audiobook, who at times felt lost, confused, depressed, and without guidance, finds his life purpose, the very reason God placed him on this earth, and became even more than he ever imagined possible! This audiobook will circle the world, from boardrooms to bedrooms, schools to factories, as it inspires people of all ages, to finally experience the life they've always dreamed of. Guaranteed.

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.

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.

O que a gente faz quando o amor acaba? Nesta colagem de poemas, pensamentos, bilhetes e desabafos, Bruno Fontes fala não apenas sobre a dor do fim, mas também sobre o aconchego adocicado que vem do abraço da saudade.

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection - from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more - detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future.

Yveolution is a poetry book about life, love, current affairs, and the reflections of the author.

En este emocionante y anticipado audiolibro para niños por la poeta inaugural presidencial y activista, Amanda Gorman, todo es posible cuando nuestras voces se unen. Cuando una niña guía a un elenco de personajes por un viaje musical, ellos aprenden que tienen el poder de hacer cambios - grandes o pequeños - en el mundo, en sus comunidades y sobre todo dentro de ellos mismos.

Presented as 73 narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, A Revised and Expanded Edition: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains summarizes much of what the author, Alan V. Goldman, learned in his more than 30 years of climbing. Many of the same moral issues that confront us in everyday life are present in the high mountains, only to a sharper degree.

Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an audacious masterpiece of wit and erudition that blends Homer's discovery of the alphabet with a man's return from near-death and a boy's struggle to see the adult world through the prism of an ancient epic.

When your life changes where do you find yourself? How do you find yourself? This is a collection of short stories and poems describing the journeys of these women as they cope with life, accept the changes, and discover their new selves.

The author's poetry answers questions about how life in the Middle East is viewed: What is it like to live through numerous wars? Why do Christians from the Middle East live in diaspora? How do those in the Middle East live in peace? What is it like to have been a Bedouin, and later forced to settle down?