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The Ocher of Abundance: Poems - Volume 16 by Wendy E. Slater is the third poetry book published in Slater's Traduka Wisdom Poetry Series. After a 20-year hiatus from writing poetry, she composed 20 volumes of spiritually inspired poetry which began in 2001 during a mystical sojourn to Scotland. Her poetry is the expression and integration of the inner dialogue with divinity and the spiritual journey of self-discovery through vision quests, spiritual awakenings, and the dark night of the soul.

She didn’t protect her daughter, yet she saved her life. Find out how in her poem, I Forgive You, and how author Heather Omara Reese overcame sexual trauma and life-changing adversity through the healing power of art and her faith.

In the beginning of Paradise Lost, Satan has ben banished to Hell and is working to organize the angels who fell with him and create his new kingdom. While a constant angelic war rages, Satan begins to wield his influence on the first humans created on Earth, and soon tempts them into defying God by using wit and logic to tempt Eve. The actions get Adam and Eve banished from paradise, and in the aftermath of their sin they get to glimpse the future of humanity based on their actions.

How Far You Have Come is an exquisite collection of poetry and essays from best-selling artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols. In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. Morgan weaves together personal reflections with her signature poems, encouraging you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as experiences of reconciliation, unity, and hope.

The best stories are told from the soul, right? The Epitome of Her is a compilation of journal entries, short stories, and conversations that are meant to strike a sense of healing and clarity. The compilations of short stories and conversations are fictional and solely based on the imagination of the author. The purpose of this book is to reach those who may battle with understanding the "Why" during their season of transitioning.

Esse livro é uma homenagem à poesia e a tudo o que ela é capaz de proporcionar. Com mais de 30 de seus emocionantes poemas, alguns deles inéditos, Bráulio Bessa nos conta um pouco das histórias do menino de Alto Santo, no interior do Ceará, que se tornou poeta e ativista cultural. Desde o primeiro encontro com a obra de Patativa do Assaré, aos 14 anos, até a fama na televisão, ele mostra como a poesia transformou sua vida. O livro traz ainda depoimentos de fãs de todos os cantos do Brasil.

Publicado em 1920, O Mensageiro: Suas Parábolas e Poemas é a segunda coleção de poesias filosóficas e contos do autor libanês Khalil Gibran. Sucessor espiritual de O Louco, O Mensageiro consiste em vinte e cinco parábolas e poemas relacionados à espiritualidade, ao amor, ao nosso eu maior. Uma voz visionária de conforto, amor e tolerância. Do autor do best-seller O Profeta, cujos escritos tocaram os corações e as almas em muitas nações e gerações. Já foi traduzido para mais de 50 idiomas e lido por milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo.

We are delighted to offer this excerpt from The Poems of Rumi as read by Coleman Barks, leading scholar and translator of Rumi poetry, and Robert Bly, poet, author, and leader of the men's movement. Jalaluddin Rumi is a beloved as a spiritual master and one of the greatest poets of all time.

John Donne was born on the 22nd January 1572 in London, into a Roman Catholic family when Catholicism was illegal in England, and there was turbulence and unrest with both state and church throughout much of Europe. During the 1590s, Donne wrote a wide range of verses, including both erotic and sacred poems, creating two major volumes of work. His strong vivacious and sensual style fusing intellect and passion, as well as inventive use of subtle argument and syntax, provided a new radical perspective that reached beyond his contemporaries.

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark. Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the midafternoon. Here is Bukowski knowing that the secret is beyond him, that people who never go crazy live truly horrible lives, that there's a bluebird in his heart that wants to get out.

With the same vulnerability and timelessness as her debut collection Old Monarch, Love Is a Dog That Bites When It’s Scared acknowledges the layers to our feelings, experiences, and humanity. Inspired by her own life, Courtney Marie Andrews speaks gently to love and its many layers. She comforts readers with the knowledge that though love is confusing, unorganized, bewitching, and often too hard, it is also magical, and surreal, and always worth it.

Poetry and prose by Heidi Rose Robbins. Heidi is a poet, astrologer, and podcast host of The Radiance Project. Each of Robbins' poems beckons us to feel more, express authentically, and freely follow our fiery hearts.

In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.

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Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our “glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.” This is the poet's continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or—in the case of the Theotokos—a womb can contain the uncontainable.

I think Christian poetry is similar to prayer in that it focuses on the Love of Him who is Faithful and True. If we can write so many poems about love, why not write poetry for the One who is Love Himself? Why not seek love from whom it can be found? This book is titled "Poems For a Faithful Heart" because it is a collection of inspirational poems for God, the One with a Faithful Heart. He is the Lover who seeks us and will never disappoint us. If you are looking for religious poems, poems for God or poems of faith, this book is for you. May it lead you to the One who loves you most!

The quartercentenary of John Milton (1608-1674) is celebrated next year. This selection of his finest poetry includes sections from "Paradise Lost", "Samson Agonistes", the masque "Comus", as well as sonnets and other poems. They are read by two of Britain's leading classical actors.

In Spirit, In Love is a compilation of poetry and essays written by Celeste A. Frazier with cover photo by Sunshine Daye. This book explores personal transformation and spirituality in mysticism terms and is an homage to God.

Frances Chesterton, wife of British journalist G.K. Chesterton, was a gentle poet and playwright. Her sweet works long lay in obscurity, except for a few Christmas lyrics, which have never gone out of print. Her plays for children were in demand when she wrote them; there is a demand for them again today. Her poems and plays reveal a woman of deep thought, a spiritual woman, a woman longing for Christ, and especially drawn to Him at the Nativity, when He was a small baby. To read these works is to understand better G.K. Chesterton's wife and spiritual companion. And so, these works are ...

Debut poet and devout Christian Kilgore attests that although he penned the poems in his ecclesiastic collection, “God is the true author,” and that the purpose of his poetry is to “bind hearts back to God” so that his listeners may find their own connection to Christ. Kilgore is most successful in this ambitious endeavor when he dramatizes his own spiritual euphoria, like in “Latter Rain,” which builds to these potent declarations: “This feeling that enraptured me // And shook my whole of frame, // Was God descending on my soul // His spirit’s Latter Rain.”