Religious Poetry

These are the words of a prolific man, one who has left footprints and will create many more. A man who still burns, not surface fire, but coals that smolder purposeful.

In Sticks and Stones, DeVries paints a poetic picture of love found and love lost and rising above toxicity, delving into what it means to find strength in the human spirit. Through poetry, the listener finds a voice of strength and the rebuilding of one's heart and home despite all the sticks and stones thrown upon it. Newly expanded with 41 new poems and a rewrite of "Drowning in an Ocean of No Tomorrows", DeVries shows a full poetic picture of turning pain into poetry in order so you can rise above whatever is pulling you under.

Each one of these poems is infused with positive energy and given marching orders to reach those who need it most. There are common themes throughout but it is my heart's desire that one of them touches your soul and inspires you to make an amazing change in your life. I believe each person is special and that there is something inside you to share with others. This is the gift you were born with. Many never find it, but I promise it's there, waiting to be discovered, and maybe one of these poems helps you do just that.

In-depth poems of inspiration and encouragement to help make the most of everyday life.

The reflections presented here are the offspring of the author's own silence and slow time in caves, forest monasteries, and countless retreats. Written with the wisdom, humility, and humor of one who has taken the time to examine one's self and the nature of the human condition, this new collection of story-poems regards concerns of the experienced meditator.

Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography.

Es el nuevo libro del autor de la insólita epopeya de El rey desnudo. En esta ocasión, las composiciones también tejen un argumento en el que se dan cita infinitos viajes en autobús, encuentros profundamente irrelevantes en el interior de un autobús, absurdos intentos de meditar, dejar la mente en blanco o algo por el estilo en el interior de un autobús.

Rumí es posiblemente el erudito y poeta del mundo musulmán más conocido en Occidente. Con sus metáforas de la embriaguez, el jardín y el Amado, despliega ante nosotros la riqueza de la vida del místico que busca el amor y la unión con Divino. Su mensaje no podría estar más vigente. El poder evocador de sus poemas y las profundas enseñanzas morales y espirituales que contienen han hecho que actualmente sea el poeta místico más leído. Cada uno de nosotros está en un viaje interno, y este libro es una guía para ese viaje...

Bernadette is a rural country girl like any other. She has grown up in a good family, is true in her faith, and is popular among her friends. She enjoys her alone time with God in the woods, where she can get away from it all and cultivate her soul in prayer without distraction. All that changes when she makes a disturbing find one that threatens to send her to the place she fears above all others.

Based on a true story, author Sue Quinones records a thought-provoking glimpse into the unknown territory of the mystical forces around us. She captures her adoptive daughter's life, revealing her baby's supernatural gifts from God. One can only imagine the astonishing journey.

"Qual è il senso della vita”? La Guida dello Spirito: Viaggio nella vita è il secondo libro della "Tetralogia del Risveglio”. Risponde alla domanda precedente in un romanzo interessante ed eccezionale, scritto dallo Spirito Guida di una bambina di nome Amara, che segue il suo viaggio spirituale di risveglio e illuminazione. Questo libro, narrato dallo Spirito Guida di Amara, Bodhi, si concentra sulla nostra esistenza umana e sulla connessione significativa con il nostro Spirito interiore.

A Poet's Journey: Quotes by Poet is a book of quotes that I have written and quoted over the last eight years and included in one of the 20 books I have written. I have written this book for many reasons.

Poems to Enjoy is read by a husband and wife couple, experienced educationists and readers with a life-long love for literature and performance. Gillian and Verner are cofounders of the International Proverse Prizes for unpublished writing submitted in English. These poems, chosen by Verner Bickley, are by many different, varied writers, some world-famous. All can thoroughly enjoy Poems to Enjoy. Adults can renew and extend their own youthful enjoyment, finding long-familiar and also new poems, while students can make enjoyable discoveries.

In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length book, R’s Boat. During the pandemic, she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape Boat. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson’s ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism, the male-dominated philosophical tradition, the daily forms of discourse, and the possibilities of language itself.

When a young man finds himself in that awkward stage between middle and high school, a difficult time for anyone, he begins to understand what it means to find yourself in the modern world. Between navigating life both in school and online, his family begins to crumble around him, and everything he once relied on becomes everything he fears. As the struggles at home and school pile up, he begins to lose the few things he has left until he feels there is nothing left to lose.

A delightful book that states everyone has a story with a need to be heard—expressions with visions of gratitude—beautifully crafted short stories, with excellent bold and comforting poems to your soul. Open Doors describes a pathway to a future of new ideas taking leaps and chances. This book talks about a variety of feelings about life, death, hate, love; it mentions being rich or poor. Open Doors is a fiction adult book with a splash of interesting tales for everyone.

Eric David Matthews can’t imagine why God would select him for anything. He’s a longtime business owner with no interest in the Creator of the Universe, and no remaining zest for life. Unexpectedly, he meets a woman of devout faith who tells him what Jesus has done in her life. In quick order, Eric turns his middle-aged and mundane life over to God. He soon finds himself in a whirlwind of divinely guided activity, discovering that the Lord will and can use anyone—young or old.

Cineasta, tarólogo, psicomago, novelista, invitando a una mutación en lo más profundo del ser, explora los meandros del alma humana con 'humildad de perro', sin dictar pretenciosas sentencias de filólosofo o de maestro místico.

Un día, Gabriel lo pierde todo, hasta la memoria. Por fortuna, un misterioso trotamundos llamado Leafar decide ayudarlo. Algunos dicen que este podría ser un viajero del tiempo. Gabriel, al lado de Leafar, aprenderá a vivir en las calles, conocerá el valor de la amistad y tendrá muchas otras lecciones por aprender.

Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento y hacia el reconocimiento de su derecho como mujer artista.