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This is my second anthology of poems. I do not claim to be a poet. I have no pretensions in that direction. I just like writing. Sometimes ideas and feelings come out as what I describe as poems and sometimes they come out as my version of novels. For me it is all about communication and playing with words. Words are slippery things, like eels. Their meanings are nuanced. When you put them together they are tinged with other sheen. They wriggle into other forms. A word is amazing. It is a symbol, sometimes for a very tenuous concept, that we are able to use to touch each other with. We ...

Topical Poetry reflecting the age we live in - themes of anti-war, covid, subversion, love, hate, politics and social comment. Trump and Johnson come in for some heavy treatment.

Commentaries on life, from a planet ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths, in a world of inequality, war, poverty and misery, created by us. Commentaries on a planet of awesome beauty in a universe of wonder. Written post Brexit and Trump, in the midst of a pandemic, in a country governed by extremist nationalists led by a clown - in a world on the brink of environmental catastrophe.

The world waits, lungs paralysed, minds frozen, cocooned in hope, with expectations so enormous people cannot even imagine the scale of their dreams. Everything hangs suspended. They want a Messiah, a universal panacea, an end to this mess we have created. They have tried democracy. They have tried capitalism. They have tried populism. They now want poetry! They want to breathe again, to think, love, share and find spiritual enlightenment. Opher’s new volume may well be the answer!

Once de marzo Antología de largos poemas Incluye 47 poemas propios. Toda antología es un capricho, con más o menos acierto, puesto que obedece a una selección inexplicable. Cuando puedes centrarte en un periodo de más de treinta años, el riesgo es encontrarse con un desorden de posibilidades infinitas. Sin embargo, por el aliento de algunos de los poemas escogidos decidí dividir los textos en tres partes: Barcelonas, Persistencias, Ecos. En la vida nada se presenta con una única forma, ni con una única voz. Todo se superpone, igual que capas de una cebolla que se van desenvolviendo...

Here we are in 2023. There is so much going on. We have the Tory Party in complete meltdown over their lies, corruption, sleaze and incompetence. We’ve a mean old Trump either looking into the abyss of prison or an improbable come-back. We’ve a terrible war in Ukraine that’s threatening to either turn nuclear or cause the demise of Russia. We’ve the spectre of Xi looking on and North Korea has gone relatively quiet. Top that off with the cost of living, poverty and a world that is heating up and you can see that there are more than enough issues for me to get my teeth into. As the ...

It would be very easy to assume that a book titled “Life Through Stoned Eyes” would be centered around the marijuana-induced ruminations of a poetic pot-head. This, of course, would be a shallow assumption and one that not only misses the mark but completely shifts the mark. It would also signal a lack of appreciation for symbolism, allegory and the ingenuity of personification and metaphorical art. Immediately upon receiving “Life Through stoned eyes” for review and the honor of writing a forward for an author whose work impresses and motivates me, I began to seek out the metaphor ...

These are poems that I wrote when I lost two women that have played a role in my child-hood, my grand-mother and aunt. They both passed away this year, I mourned for them and wrote these poems. They tormented my life when I was young. I held the hands that once beaten me with love instead of with revenge. I forgave them, prayed for them and loved them before they died. In all these I thank God of heaven.

I wrote these poems when someone said to me “Doreen, just be content it is not yet time for you to prosper”. Another person said to me “my Pastor said an elephant is pregnant for 18 months. So don’t’ rush to want to prosper”. I told the person, I’m not an elephant but a human being. I did not have any source of income, begging for accommodation, food and clothing. I no longer had the luxury of buying myself clothes but wore second hand clothes some were too small or too big. I was told “remember beggars are not choosers”. These poems are not only of my personal life but of...

The Storeroom Gives Birth To A Story is a collection of Doreen C. Mampani poems. My soul was cast down in discouragement and despair. While staying in a storeroom due to poverty, God said to me "take the pen and write poems Doreen". These poems about pain, hope and courage where written within two days. Truly they are Holy Spirit inspired. Comment from my Pastor was "these poems are from God".

Life in poetry is an anthology of poems written about the everyday events in life, which accumulate to be the moments we remember and cherish as we make the journey that is our life.

In this long awaited full survey of the poetic writing of Korea’s leading literary spokesperson, the translators have gathered poems from 42 years, representing numerous of the author’s 135 books. Born in 1933 in southwestern Korea, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. In 1952 he became a Buddhist monk, and began writing in the late 1950s. Since that time, Ko has been recognized as one of the most notable of living Korean writers and has regularly been nominated and short-listed for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Green ...

60 poems that cross the ages and emotions. Here is a random selection: Soul For Sale - Explores a man recounting his life's misdemeanours. Claire - Two lovers meet in times gone past but tragedy awaits. Dots And Spaces - What do the gaps between words mean? Mind The Gap - My wife's lover. Shouting Up The Stairs - A desperate father shouts up the stairs to his daughter but realises he is shouting to himself. Dear Old Friend - Old friends meet but one knows the secret he keeps. Pebble On A Wall - A young boy carries a moment in time through to adulthood. You Saw Me Today - An older person ...

This book Souls In A Clay Pot is a collection of poems I wrote about people whose souls are imprisoned. It was during the time when my mother, half brother and sister did not want me to work or do business to have money so that I must be their slave begging help from them for accommodation, food and clothing. One of the many great things of our God is that “He is no respecter of persons”. There are mothers and fathers who are tormenting their children some even kill their children. Dealing with witchcraft unfortunately using the world’s systems is rather a complicated matter. One is ...

A SHORT POEM, FROM A BABYSITTER'S POINT OF VIEW.

Youth Searching For A Role Model is collection of my poems about the youth. The challenges they meet, the youth without role models. When I grew up what I observed was that in the African culture if a mother was widowed or a single parent, her brother or her uncle would be a father figure for the children. In Venda we had elderly men who would rebuke children who bunked school. There words would be "you are running away from school you will suffer when you grow up. If you can't read and write you struggle in life". Then the old man would ask "what is your name my grand-child? Who is your ...

Edited version This is my third collection of poetry in which I weave my thoughts and feelings. I hope that you as readers will enjoy my thoughts as well as the previous two collections of poetry.

ANTOLOGÍA POETAS PERUANOS PARA EL MUNDO Volumen 1, es una colección de poemas que reúne a poetas peruanos que unieron sus letras para representar al Perú en el Primer Campeonato de Poesía “Copa Versos del Mundo” organizado por “Consignas Escritores” La antología presenta los poemas que tuvieron origen en aquel campeonato y además cuenta con una colección de poemas que cada escritor ha querido compartir en este libro. En su presentación del libro el escritor y poeta Carlos Revilla Arenas expresa: “Cada poema es un susurro que nos habla de facetas del amor, de una lucha ...

Words of a Feather is a stunning collection of Short Stories, Poems and Sketches from author, Robert E. Kearns. There's something inside for every taste, and Words of a Feather comes packed with hours of reading pleasure. Replete with entertainment, there is sure to be laughs, tears, spills and thrills. Satisfying pleasures of the mind, Words of a Feather is a book you'll want to read again and again.

Thomas Roop has been fortunate enough to travel widely through his life, learning from a wide variety of cultures, traditions, and religions. These encounters inculcated and developed a love for humankind. While travelling through Denmark, he encountered and fell in love with the work of the 19th century poet, novelist, and playwright Hans Christian Anderson. The literature of T. S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, and others are all evident influences on Roop’s own work.