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In this day and age men hardly ever talk about their problems or feelings, let alone turn them into poetry, perhaps this book can be a catalyst for men finding a sense of power and honor in vulnerability and how it's a huge part of being human. “Our darkness is a classroom with the lights off, but the lessons there are truly enlightening”

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without love? Life is a priceless gift deliberately crafted and packaged for our enjoyment, but it is not a bed of roses. It is a mixture of the good, bad and ugly-including pains and gains, sadness and joy, despair and hope, failures and successes- and it ends in death. Death reminds us we must make the most of this gift before it expires. How can we do this? Love and life are inseparable, dependent and complementary; love powers life while life makes love visible.

Jim Harrison's popular novels represent only part of his literary output—he has also been widely acclaimed for the "renegade genius" of his powerful expressive verse, collected in several books such as The Theory and Practice of Rivers and Other Poems (Clark City Press, 1989). After Ikkyu is the first collection of Harrison's poems that are directly inspired by his many years of Zen practice.

Andrew Marvell's classic plea to his mistress to show her love for him while they are both still young and passionate, read by Bill Wallis.

The Pilgrim's Progress is written as a dream by author John Bunyan, a strict religious man with Puritan beliefs who began writing the book while imprisoned for his religious convictions. The dream is of a man named Christian who is tormented by spiritual anguish. A spirit guide appears to him and explains to him the path he must take to salvation.

Silence is rare in Nature. When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone. Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature’s beauty is always there for us. In these 60 minutes Nature takes us through her world of wonder.

In But & Though, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families, its title a nod to the language of dependency, its circles of prevarication and excuse. Hawkey’s poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings, and take an unflinching look at a parent–child relationship sometimes painfully inverted through alcoholism.

Award-winning author Felix Alexander returns with his third collection of love letters and poems, and the fourth installment in the Forever Poetic series. A saga about missed chances, unrequited love, longing and hope, and never leaving anything unsaid. The book begins with a series of love letters confessing a secret admiration that slowly evolves into unrequited love.

In Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it. He explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his generation is and will be. His unabashed and drivingly musical poems are a call against repression, a rebuke of cultural norms and shame, and a celebration of human authenticity – even if to live under such philosophies is dangerous.

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'". It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared.

Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.

The Lioness Awakens is an audiobook of short poems with a bite. Lauren Eden crafts provocative poetry about love, sexuality, heartbreak, and feminism, combined in a creative expression of female empowerment and confidence.

The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well, it is in the form of a poetic dialogue between the epic's hero, Arjuna, and his friend Krishna, believed to be an incarnation of God.

Schillers weltberühmte Ode "An die Freude", vertont durch Beethoven in dessen 9. Sinfonie...

This collection was published in 1923 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the author in the following year. It is laid out in three main sections. The first is a lengthy poem, titled New Hampshire, the name being given to the entire collection. The second section bears the title "Notes", and consists of 14 poems, including the mini drama, "The Witch of Coös". The final section, which contains 30 poems, many of which are very short, is titled "Grace Notes."

En este audiolibro recitado por la autora, conocida por su faceta de psicóloga especializada en relaciones tóxicas, ella nos muestra su otra forma de hablar y sentir el amor y el desamor, la soledad y la amistad, la tristeza y la alegría. La voz de mis alas es un audiolibro de poemas y prosa poética lleno de sensibilidad, en el que la autora nos muestra su yo más vulnerable y nos enseña que solo los valientes son capaces de amar.

El gallego Ramón Pernas, autor de media docena de novelas y varias narraciones breves, reúne en estos cuarenta poemas, escritos en castellano y en gallego, un poemario muy personal que nos muestra su viaje hacía su propia experiencia vital, hacía propia intimidad. Un recorrido por sus viajes, sus mudanzas, por ciudades y paisajes. Paisajes sobre todo gallegos, que se convierten en protagonistas casi absolutos de un libro que es pura sensibilidad convertida en poesía.

In her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of national crisis. Controversial, revolutionary, ethereal, or illuminating, her poems about race, Black lives, violence, gender, and family move readers of all ages and backgrounds.

Take a journey across country, explore the love, the hurt, the pain. In this poetic trip down shady lanes and beachside promenades, stay in identical hotel rooms, feel the tug of the sea, and witness shards of history and the jagged fangs of mystery.

In this collection of 30 cat poems, author Debbie De Louise shares her love and knowledge of the felines she’s known throughout her life. Most of the poems are inspired by her current and past cats. Some poems are funny; others are sad, but all reflect the beauty, intelligence, and special characteristics of these animals. If you are a cat lover or enjoy poems about cats, you will be both touched and entertained by this poetry collection that also includes notes about how they inspired her to write the poems.