Others address personal or spiritual quests. Summoning by Jeanne Shannon A collection of poems and hybrid works that hover at the boundary between poetry and prose, and that range from the abstract and experimental to the concrete and accessible. The poems in this collection are all fourteen lines, and they examine the landscape of southern Oklahoma and the terrain of literature and the humanities as the poet finds them to be. As John Roche has written: Northern Compass by Isobel Cunningham. In Northern Compass , a debut collection of poetry by Isobel Cunningham, readers embark on a voyage.
They visit Montreal, the Canadian island city poised in the mighty St. Lawrence River and San Miguel, the Mexican winter retreat of the author. Shining observations of everyday wonders and acute examinations of the mysteries of the human heart allow the reader to navigate the inner world of ecstasy, pain and gentle insight. These poems, lyrical or narrative, escort us to new destinations.
The Heart of New Mexico is a collection of concise and keen observations of Socorro, New Mexico that are both factual and personal. DuBois, once again, doesn't pull any punches as she looks with unflinching but compassionate eyes at the city and rural area she has called home for more than 30 years. Accompanied by 30 photographs, her brief descriptions of infrastructure, history and organizations explored through personal anecdote provide an honest and kindhearted assessment for both visitor and resident alike.
Scota's Harp by Michele Buchanan. According to oral Celtic legend, a warrior princess named Scota came from Egypt and claimed Ireland for her son Ir. From Ireland, her descendants called the "Scotti," invaded more land and named it Scotland. Though this story is not widely accepted, the truth is found in their names, their language, and their courageous fight to keep their culture alive, and will be revealed the day the Stone of Scone breaks its silence. C - in Conduct: The poems are both lyrical and accessible and address common feelings with a slightly skewed perspective.
In topics ranging from trout to travel, snow to stoneflies, acorns to wax lips, Beth Spencer transforms the ordinary view with fresh, and sometimes, startling imagery. Enjoy a bedtime treat! This collection is about all levels of fatherhood — among fathers and sons and fathers and daughters; it is about the fatherhood and brotherhood of man; it speaks to the Father within us which is the transcendent Spirit, the source of redemptive love; it is about being stewards for the community and the environment.
This book, a pictorial and written record of life in rural Oregon during the late s and early s, includes a brief history of immigration to the United States and the Oregon territories. In these pages, author, Toni Gilbert, crafts a living, breathing picture of her pioneering grandparents. This book of poetry is beyond beautiful.
It is a tale of a talented and supercharged older sister who fearlessly tackles the challenges that life has to offer. The book beckons the reader from the streets of Manhattan, the freeways of Los Angeles, the hills of Provence, the fall foliage of Upstate, New York and the sparkling island of North Haven, Maine. It also takes us down the bleak corridors of hospitals and into nameless waiting rooms.
In this nostalgic rendition of postwar Albuquerque in the Fifties and Sixties, seven authors bring their unique perspectives as they share memories of growing up in what could be described as a "Norman Rockwell" time in our country's history. This anthology features seven voices from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds who tell their stories of childhood. No two stories are the same. One takes you to the candy counter at Fedway Department Store. Another talks about the debilitating disease of polio. Some stories hint at discrimination and cruelty, a reality during that time in history.
One story deals with the devastation of the Bataan Death March from a child's point of view. One deals with the Fourth of July, not as a patriotic holiday, but as an adventure into the vast world of fireworks. These stories will move you to laughter and to tears. More importantly, you will share the optimism of our writers and the nostalgia of the times as you are reminded of the taste of fresh apricot empanadas, the aroma of warm buttered tortillas, the sweet honey combined with puffy sopapillas, and the magic that was once childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Regardless of age or cultural heritage, readers will recognize universal human themes… the conflicts in family life, the struggle for identity, and the limits of parental love. In poems and brief prose sketches she explores the people, the losses, the places, the events that have helped shape her life. Always anchored in the world of growing things, challenged and renewed by the garden she has tended for many years, Ann Rayburn shares with the reader, as she does with those personally close to her, a thoughtful exploration of what life demands of all of us: It is through speaking her truth that Ginny Gaskill has survived—and thrived.
She invites us to begin, and begin again, as we enter into that shared experience where life takes on new meaning through opening to all that love holds. Borderland Stories and Plays is a compilation of fiction, nonfiction and ten-minute plays that explore the borderlands, both literal and figurative, where individual resourcefulness, creativity, intuitive knowing and courage make all the difference.
Moments of Time Mark Fleisher. If using musical terms, Moments of Time by Mark Fleisher ranges through several octaves and timbres, and up and down the scale to define his inspirations and poetic voice. His observations range from uncomplicated subjects to romantic love to thoughts both personal and universal about war and conflict. Along the continuum are poems reflecting his sense of humor, often frivolous and whimsical. Moments of Time contacts the senses and stokes the emotions, but also entertains, encourages laughter, and revives nostalgic memories.
Writing in an approachable and accessible manner, Fleisher remembers his youth in the s and s of New York City, the horrific inhumanity of Vietnam and a major personal loss to finally find new life in an unfamiliar place across the continent. Limitlessness , a collection of poems by Matthew Crowley, explores self, nature and cosmos. Fearless, microscopically honest and authentic, Crowley invites us to journey with him into the boyhood magic of muddy puddles, through the dark night of personal searching, the terrors and joys of love, and the awe of grand landscapes, both inner and outer.
Selected from 18 years of inspired writing, Limitlessness delves into spiritual cosmology and relationship, both personal and ultimate, and demonstrates the poetic process of writing through revealed snapshots of the authors life experiences. The central thread that runs the length of these poems is the will and courage to love above all else. No Sins of Omission: In it she tells and shows us what it is to be stuck, not able to move forward or backward. In the next moment, unstuck shows itself as redemption and putting one foot in front of the other and breathing.
From her thoughts and ruminations of loss and longing and playful celebration of ordinary moments in time, we are transformed by the human spirit that keeps on. These poems are funny and heartbreaking at the same time, displaying the mystical and everyday, the bodily experience and fully engaged brain attesting to our need to make things mean something.
Written almost exclusively in the format of Shakespeare, many are read as if one in the sixteenth or seventeenth century had sat and penned sonnets of the Renaissance Period; thus, a feeling of that period may be felt. Being blessed in knowing fabulous women throughout his life, Mr. Thompson has crafted these sonnets so that the reader can experience the deep love and admiration he has felt for these women. Immerse yourself in these sonnets and feel the passion of romance and thrill of adventure. Recovered Memories Barbara R. Reaching for Air Gayle Lauradunn.
Reaching for Air, Gayle Lauradunn's debut poetry collection, tells the story of a childhood spent in a landscape full of beauty, hardship, and violence. In their restless yearning and relentless motion, these poems feel completely American. Interspersed with the voice of the child is that of the adult woman, as both an extension of the child and as a counterpoint to the child's experience.
Each poem stands alone, yet is a piece of the whole.
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This is poetic storytelling at its finest. A Dad's Journey Luis M. Luis takes the reader on an honest and insightful journey as he slowly comes to terms with his two sons diagnoses of Autism. He gives fathers a voice. Their lives cannot be summed up in one conversation over a drink or just driving down the road.
Most fathers are he-men, private, tough, stoic, unwavering, and the rock of the family until Come and join Luis on his sometimes humorous, certainly adventurous, and continuing journey as he discovers how to become the father that his autistic boys and family need him to be. Outline for a New Mythology John Ashbaugh. The Earth as a Planetary Life Support System is now on the cusp of intensive realignment of elementary forces. The times of change will be quite challenging to the centers of human population growth around the world, regardless of religious affiliation, political organization, or ethnic identity.
Those factors will come into play as the forces of chaos and control intersect and intertwine. EarthTribe Gather is for all of us who care, who choose to live and work together to create a caring humanity, and who know that the darkness ahead is for us to walk through, together, into the Light of Dawn. Few people know that at least three million of us die each year from infectious diseases. One particular killer is caused by a bacillus called Yersinia Pestis. Over the course of several centuries it has taken over million human lives, and is still doing so today, about a thousand a year.
Unlike other diseases, there is no inoculation for it, and it is mutating to the point where conventional antibiotics may not successfully stop the next pandemic. In the United States it sometimes goes undiagnosed, most untreated patients dying of pneumonia. In the Middle Ages its occurrence changed history, bringing about the fall of an empire, rise of a powerful theocracy, and changes in medical interventions. Although research abounds on the history, course and treatment of this disease, there are hardly any accounts from survivors.
This is a story of hope and recovery that will resonate with many people, as epidemic as addiction is in our society. It is an archival publishing project that has saved, organized and honored over 20 years of fun, teaching and heartfelt experiences, making these memories accessible to savor and to share with others. Like the tattered photo albums from which much of the material was rescued, these 8. From Lipstick to Chapstick Barbara R. DuBois is the honest, humorous and straightforward accounts of a woman who records life with curiosity and fairness.
As a series of compassionate but unsentimental anecdotes, this memoir unfolds before us into a tapestry of a long life well-lived. A Must Read for anyone who works with young single adults, ages During that time 83 couples met each other, dated, and married. Chuck Brown and his two assistants, David Hardy and Jay Cobb, together with their wives directed this incredible process.
If you've ever wondered how to communicate more effectively with young singles, motivate them to participate in your group and influence them to change their lives in positive ways, this book is for you. The key to their success was coming to know and embrace a principal called Critical Mass! We all grieve, and often feel lost and alone. At times we try to help others maneuver the messiness of living. Spills, after all, are messy. Sometimes our breakings just require acknowledgment that we are not alone in our pain and that the agony will pass.
Here, in Maggi A. Petton's remarkably raw and moving Psalms of the Broken Hearted, we find ourselves not only acknowledged but comforted and companioned in our brokenness. Regardless of your faith tradition, these poems are loving prayers of connection and perhaps even healing.
Notes to My Mortician Bruce Noll. Behind the warmth and seeming simplicity Noll has a way to make us rethink the commonplace of our lives. Through his gentle prodding we come to new insight into human relationships as well as our interactions with nature. Snapshots of a Life Elaine Mingus. Snapshots of a Life, Elaine Mingus takes the reader on a remarkable journey through various aspects of place, class and culture in 20th Century America—all through the keen eyes of a woman determined to find love and meaning within, and beyond, the world as it unfolded before her.
In this uniquely structured memoir Mingus creates twelve snapshots for each of its four sections. Each snapshot is accompanied by a back-story or supporting information that provides further relevance and vitality concerning places and events, many now lost in the bustle and remake of history. In the first snapshot she is six years old; in the last snapshot she is well into her eighties.
Astute though kind in her assessments, Mingus makes good use of a long life of sharp observation. Open about flaws in her life, and humble about successes, Mingus searches her heart as well as her mind in the telling of these stories, digging deep for their meaning. She tells how important love has been in her life, and with the wisdom of her years she shows tolerance for every person, family and otherwise, who has crossed her path. People in all walks of life will find something to appreciate in this honest story of a girl from a background of poverty and without a college education, who raised a family, put out three newsletters, was sought after as a spiritual adviser, wrote poetry for the sake of art, and became a James Joyce scholar.
Elaine Mingus has two previous books: Papers on James Joyce ; and Leally and Tululy: Hush Hush and Other Veneers: The story shows how greed and lies kept her from being believed. Hush Hush and Other Veneers is a journey of resilience and courage in the face of self interest and denial from a society that looked the other way—it is a story of hard-won freedom. Once again, in Dorothea and Preston, a story of love, David Bachelor has captured humanity at its awkward but noble best, striving as always against unforeseen odds.
In while hate and destruction in Europe were building to a second world war, Dorothea Dolan runs her quiet boarding house on the shores of Lake Michigan. Here she loves and cares for the elderly who have been broken by the Great Depression. Into this setting Michigan State Police Detective Preston Duhamel strides in search of thieves and incorrigibles—who he finds, and sometimes who find him.
Preston, however, is fleeing his own afflictions. With redemption just around the corner, Dorothea tries to help her lover and herself, as they are both challenged by elemental powers beyond their control. Reflections on a Long Life Barbara R. Reflections on a Long Life, Barbara DuBois delights the reader with stories and poems depicting her busy, happy life with her family.
Eight sections tell about her farm, her parents and children, her past, and her present. Paul, Minnesota and from the American Southwest, both rural and urban, each author has contributed a score of poems and included their own introduction, giving the reader an opportunity to befriend the poet and settle into their craft and high art.
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These writers speak unabashedly of love and of death, and in so doing make invitation to experience our tragedies, deceits and glories as veils, stations and gifts along a journey of miraculous unfoldment. They do the work of poets—they reflect the mysterious wonder and unbelievable fortune of being in a body, on a planet, all together—and knowing it.
Motivational Coloring Book Dr. Nancy North This motivational exercise was created to positively activate both the creative and rational aspects of the brain through intuitive illustrations and effective affirmations. Feel free to color outside the lines and doodle to your heart's content as you take note of all your current realizations. Take a look inside for further instructions. Arranging the Constellations Robb Thomson. Arranging the Constellations is the record of a man who straddles the worlds of science and myth and is faithful to both.
There is a hard-won courage in these poems: Behind them, there is a deep-rooted belief in Beauty—in the elegant equations of physics and mathematics; or the magic of language that speaks, at moments, with a power beyond what we know. Once you start down [Blackwell's] ditchbank path, you will find it difficult to stop or step aside.
The book is a real landmark that will prove that acequias , the bordos footpaths along the waterways , and the "collective imaginary" they inspire are true world treasures. The Ruby Moon Ruby Jebbour. The Ruby Moon by writer and performance poet Ruby Jebbour is a narrative poem—an autobiography in poetry.
It is a dense and beautiful journey through time—a conglomerate fusion of verse touching life, nature, spirituality, religion, and history.
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Among her students, we meet a bored overachiever who just wanted to be pointed in an interesting direction and told to explore, an insecure boy who overcame stuttering to become a published writer, and a poet who hated high school then became a teacher More info on Amazon. Whether it is about family, place, love lost and found, friendship or the experience of military service and its aftermath, Elizabeth lets the hands of her poems go and reach towards yours.
Hold tight or shake loose! From the whimsical to the emotionally searing, these 59 poems evoke vast landscapes rich in myth and mysticism, loss and hope. Motivational Coloring Education Dr. Nancy North, a chiropractic doctor treating professional, Olympic, and college athletes for over 25 years. Coupled with fun and intuitive drawings by illustrator Tantan Araya, the affirmations in this book have been created to bring your mind to a better place.
Using the written word, color therapy and visualization, anyone interested in adopting healthier attitudes and manifesting well-being and increased happiness will surely benefit from this inspirational jumpstart.
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Become your own personal life coach and feel free to color outside the lines. Free Verse print and Kindle Elaine Mingus Here a common person speaks to you in simple language, believing that there is meaning to be found without frequent help from Webster. This collection is largely autobiographical. The verses also reflect love of children and love of family. Included are Christmas verses. Hopefully the balance is there. This collection is meant to be enjoyed.
Jubilation , by Barbara R. DuBois, is a selection of her poems, favorites chosen by herself and her family, rejoicing in love and life. Remarkable in scope, every poem stands on its own while arranged in chapters that lead the reader through an epic journey of human trials—poverty, desire, injustice, racism—and ultimately to a transcendent awareness of beauty, joy, love and personal triumph. Naked Underneath Valerie Haugen. That is at the heart of Valerie Haugen's belief system. That is precisely what poetry has done for her every day.
The poems included in this collection are about family, friends, history, and how we move through this world. The poems and prayers included here emerged through the daily practice of writing poetry. Haugen is also an actress who has had the opportunity to perform her poems. Seeing, feeling and hearing how her poems affected others, gave her the strength to put these words to print, baring her soul in the hopes that the power of words, the power of feeling, and the power of poetry, will be meaningful to others—anyone for whom poetry can be a salvation. Having early experienced the gift of poetry summoning her, she has remained faithful to its call.
These poems are without exception an expression of her gratitude. Sweet By and By David Bachelor The heart of this good story is about an old man finding meaning and love in his last days. As the author writes: The author takes us through quotidian days of lovely folk living hard and complicated, but good, lives. Lives are lost in this exciting story. But life and hope are also promised in the Sweet By and By. DuBois humorously shows us the way to live well, surrounded by the beautiful and exciting colors, animals, and land of her beloved Southwest.
Thoughtful new poems take us to other fascinating foreign as well as domestic sites. I Wished for a Serpent poems by Nate Maxson.
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Part twilight language, part Jungian koan, overlapping symbols and poetic fragments, full of a topsy-turvy logic, HolyFunk is an artbook, toward the quirky end of the spectrum. HolyFunk is affectual brain play, the heart of art, full of paradox and contradiction. The book is comprised of manipulated, painted Polaroid photographs in combination with poetic lines meant to encourage the reader toward the spiritual wisdom of unknowing, with intent, bafflement and wonder.
Rather than make a career of poetry, Stanley Thompson has engaged a number of careers from which he has drawn the details and essence of personal experience and which he brings forth in Sonnets of Life Well Spent. Motivated by the death of his beloved wife Patricia in , the stories of his journey have come into sharper focus with an enhanced meaning that has allowed him to present this collection of poems in the style of memoir.
The reader will not only experience sonnets in the format, and even in the tone, of William Shakespeare, but will come to appreciate the life of the author, a life, indeed, well spent. Barbara DuBois is a self-avowed lover of language, but don't think that makes her blind to its imperfections. What some might call the absurdities of language fascinate her and prompt the wry, witty pokes she takes at the mongrel dogma we call English usage. I can imagine DuBois holding her own on a verbal seesaw with Ogden Nash, who must have been a kindred spirit.
I'd romp through their wacky word-play-ground any day. Luckily, Love of Language shows us where to find the entrance. When Alice Hurst was run over by a car she was faced with a new reality. Through journal entries, Alice documents her incredible journey as she navigates through a year of hospital stays and physical therapy. Upside Down Rainbow shines a light on the path to healing for others to follow.
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The love unexpected, essential and of the highest nature one can conceive. A journey that is out of this world. One you have been invited to take. For Joseph Bottone everything is relationship, and his poems point ultimately to one relationship, our relationship with the divine and the silence in which we discover it. Whether set in the desert mountains of New Mexico, the coast of Big Sur, cabin or cityscape, his hand-sized poems are always arriving from silence.
Teasing out the Divine Ellen Marie Metrick. Some poems are meant to be heard, and some to be soaked up by the eye. These poems delve into dreams, mountains, ravens and rattlesnake medicine, relationship and the mythic life of the human spirit, and remind us that what we seek is in our hearts all along. This book is for all of us who care, who choose to live and work together to create a caring humanity, and who know that the darkness ahead is for us to walk through, together, into the Light of Dawn. Celebrating a group of New Mexico poets from differing generations, ethnicities and cultural settings, the Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology includes a variety of forms from the sonnet and villanelle to open verse and slam.
Rather than rely on a regional, academic or ideological theme, this collection includes the best poems from a grassroots community that meets monthly in Albuquerque, New Mexico to perform, discuss and appreciate the written and spoken word. Blessed is a collection of seventy six photographs of the Carmel area captured by Bruna Odello who shares her knowledge of the region and her appreciation of the sublime in these stunning images.
Ms Odello is a member of one of the original settling families with intimate connections to both the rural coast and the long established religious institutions that serve its residents. Her intensive camera work over a period of nearly forty years celebrates a perspective that brims with gratitude. Images of the Carmel Mission and Carmelite Monastery are juxtaposed with those of wetlands and grand sunsets to give travelers a kaleidoscopic yet focused view of the area, and provide those who are already familiar with the Carmel coast a deeper appreciation of their beloved religious landmarks and magnificent coastline.
A Sculptor's Journey is a memoir about the author's struggle with flaws in her vision, her carvings and her new marriage as she searches for her identity as an artist.
Colleen Brezny brings forth ancient teachings, eternal truths and perennial wisdom necessary to spiritual development and transformation. Educated in the philosophies of all spiritual and religious traditions Colleen teaches and guides the seeker searching to understand our truest and most authentic nature, that which breathes in us and around us. This wisdom, a sacred magic, answers and softens the heartbreak that is inevitable, leaving behind the gift of inner freedom and profound knowing. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.
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