Memoir Poetry

A deep personal expression of life, love, and pain that's torn my heart over the years before stitching it back together again. Witness me find the strength to live through the heart slashes of life.

Part poetry, part memoir, and all authentic, Heavy Light documents a three-year journey of what it means to come into your own. Whether navigating difficult relationships, understanding life’s purpose, or searching for self-worth, Heavy Light presents a lyrical tour de force that is both a reflection and celebration of womanhood. Told as poetic diary entries from 2020 to 2022, Foots’ poems capture the rhythm, elegance, and strength of her own transformation in a voice that will resonate long after the audiobook ends.

Christian poetry, spiritual poetry, all original artwork. Original poetry that will help everyone who is struggling and loves rhythm poetry!

A child born into a dysfunctional family is trying to find out how she fits into the world, by watching the mistakes of others; she has to learn to love the skin she is in, while not letting her family define who she is capable of becoming. This poetry will pierce your soul and the images will remain with you for years to come. This book was written to help all those who feel they've been left behind. There is hope.

Recently, Forbes magazine named John Lennon the ultimate, all time, iconic rockstar for the ages. While that’s certainly true, John was even more than that: a dedicated peace politician, philosopher, early women’s advocate, proponent of yogic meditation, Hare Krishna and Eastern philosophy, as well as his well known anti-war efforts and timeless inspirational music. Here is a man who made his brief life count!

Bloodied and barely conscious, a teenage boy wakes up at the side of a railway track in the middle of nowhere. It’s night and the dead of winter–bone-chillingly cold. Where he is and how he got there, he doesn’t remember. Nor does he remember anything else for that matter–not even his own name. The only clue left behind is a backpack covered in a foot of snow lying next to him. The one thing he knows for sure is that if he doesn’t get up and start moving, he’s going to freeze to death.

Emily came to Los Angeles, like everyone else, with a hope and a dream. She left Los Angeles 15 years later with a new husband and two beautiful children, and headed to Boise, Idaho. The contents of this audiobook are glimpses into what transpired in the in-between time. From her first apartment in Beverly Hills, to her rented room in West Hollywood and finally her bungalow apartment on Ridgeley Drive, when she met her love and began a new life.

Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to autoimmune basal ganglia encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word

An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor.

In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to recreate the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, losing faith, finding God.

Pose Prose and Poems: My Thoughts Exactly was the first compilation of poetry and prose by Janna Hill and was copyrighted in 1998. The verses reflect the hopes, dreams, hurt, and disappointments found in the human condition.

Ci sono poeti che non saranno mai letti. I motivi che possono determinare questa mancata opportunità sono molteplici. Ad esempio, un poeta può decidere di non divulgare i propri scritti, facendo in tal modo della poesia un'esperienza privata e discreta. Un altro, invece, può stabilire di non comporre poesie, rimanendo sì interprete (nella vita quotidiana) della propria indole poetica. Un altro, ancora, pur nutrendo il desiderio di pubblicare le proprie opere, può trovare soltanto l'indifferenza da parte dell'editoria.

No Apologies is the inappropriate joke at dinner, the drunk uncle in the room shouting obscenities, and the ugly truth no one talks about in polite company. Part poetry, part fiction, part memoir, and all honesty, No Apologies is a compelling slice of human experience in all of its crass, hopeful, sincere, and tender glory. And it says it...with no apologies.

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were united not only as man and wife, but also as writers who shared and debated ideas, values, and literary craft.

Through entrancing narration of essay and poetry accompanied by soothing sound effects, Nora Nneka (Dr. Nora Ekeanya) details some of the traumatic events that led to her estrangement from her mother and decision to pursue a career in psychiatry.

Foolish/Unfoolish is a collection of vibrant and honest "reflections on love" by R&B singer Ashanti. Ever since she was 13 years old, Ashanti has kept journals of her poetry, thoughts, and ideas about life and love. Now, in this very personal collection, Ashanti presents her poems about love, along with stories about what (or who) moved her to write them. In Foolish/Unfoolish, Ashanti explores such universal themes as falling head-over-heels in love, becoming insanely jealous, feeling broken-hearted, and being single but having hope for the future.

Meet. Love. Break. Recover. That’s been the routine of Staceyann Chin’s romantic life. But at 35, after yet another devasting breakup and overcome by an urgent and all-consuming desire to have a child, Chin realizes she’s running out of time. So she sets her sights on a single target: motherhood.

Short stories about life’s humorous, happy, and dark moments. Some of the stories from my years in nursing, Steve's clumsiness, and my cooking disasters might make you spit out your coffee laughing. The stories of my pets will put a warm smile on your face, and the stories about life's darker moments might make you wipe a tear or two.

After 45 years of marriage, celebrated author and poet Abigail B. Calkin explores the complicated relationship she has with her husband who served three tours of duty in two different wars. Raw, riveting, and engaging, Calkin recounts how war and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shaped their marriage and family.  Told in prose and poetry, The Soul of My Soldier is a vivid exploration of the history of war on family, the extended and significant impact war has on loved ones, and how war affects deployed military personnel far beyond their tour of duty.

Barbie Robinson is a Canberra, Australia-based arts advocate, artist, and poet whose practice encompasses writing, photography, design, event management, radio presentation/production, and arts marketing. That Looks on Tempests: Thoughts on the Nature of Love is her third solo work of poetry and the first to be published by For Pity Sake. The work is highly personal, created as part of Barbie’s "Gratitude Project" after a life-saving stem-cell transplant.