Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious

Ruth Steinberg's Frame of Reference is the Holocaust. But the Holocaust is a minor character in these gripping and evocative poems. The major players are the poet and her parents as they learn to live in the aftermath of their dislocation, trauma and loss. With an honesty that adds intensity to the poems, she uses her poetic power to explore the implications and consequences of her history.

"I was deeply moved by these poems and admiring of the line Steinberg walks: speaking of the unspeakable is a daunting task for a writer and she always avoids the cheap shot, the sentimental, and the...

Words touch the core of our souls. They heal the broken hearted and uplift the downtroddened. "Chocolate Flavored" is an excellent collection of poems and short stories. Through its honest expression of words pretense is nonexistent. A word of encouragement is all that is needed to revive our hearts. "Chocolate Flavored," through its poems and short stories, revives.

Journey to the island of Jamaica through its collection of poems. Travel to Tobago and Africa. Hear the words hidden in the hearts of men. Be encouraged by spiritual poems. Allow its words to express the thoughts of your mind....

This collection of poems and stories examines the existential angst of individuals who are confronted with the impure, the contingent, the Other.

It incorporates elements of myth, mass culture, and race to interrogate notions of purity inherent in the formation of self. By turns dark, philosophical, and poignant, "Clean" reveals its complicity with the dirt with which it is forced to reckon.

Poetry gives voice to the human soul, revealing emotions through honest words. These words, in all their simplicity, spoken against silence allow us to bask in the reflection of who we really are. Armed only with my pen, I have painted the internal landscape the body so often forgets to feel. It is in the moments when we walk this landscape that raw emotions are exposed and the hand comes the nearest to self-understanding. An empty canvas captures the ink spilt when body and soul collide. My hope is that through the words I have laid out on paper, you too can explore your own emotions and...

"A gripping web of poetry that takes the reader from one extreme to the next. Little. Girl. Blue. is a sensitive expression of a black woman's plight in the modern world. It is much more than poetry. It is the compilation of thoughts, emotions, and experiences that are common to the human condition. Kristen Danyelle is an emerging poet who echoes the brillance of great writers before her. This work is funny, sad, happy, ocassionally bittersweet, and above all, honest. Little. Girl. Blue. is the first in what is sure to be a brillant library of collections from this young poet."

Are you Ready And Willing to Receive an Awesome Word?

Barbertha Walker will take you through spiritual revelations, using a unique art form to deliver powerful messages. Spiritual acronyms are constructed in a creative way through poetry, to challenge the reader to hear the words, while receiving a hope-filled message.

"See What I'm Saying" is a spiritual eye opener to the mind; it reaches into the spirit, causing you to think beyond measure. Strength, testimonies and encouragement will embrace your spirit.

"See What I'm Saying" is not a book to be read one time and forgotten! The...

"Barefoot Boy" brings back the idyllic days of childhood in the Blue Ridge Mountains----picking up stones by the creek bank, chasing bumblebees, swinging from grapevines, gathering blackberries, and being immersed in nature's symphony of sounds.

Reminiscing about the old homeplace, granddad playing his banjo and sharing his tall tales, and how life on the farm reflects the cycles of life offer the flavor of those bygone days. Selections such as Saying Goodbye reflect on lonesome times and The Oldtimer on threatening changes.

The beauty of nature is both magnified and personified in...

This book in its poetic form, explores the emotions of the heart, skillfully and artistically deals with the realities of every day life, while other poems explore the many wonders of nature, and thus reaches out to touch your heart, soul, and mind.

This book will empower you to face life's problems with joy and thanksgiving. Then you do have life and life more abundant. These poems are the lessons put into action from serving God and country.

Years ago Robert wrote, I though not a hero, am an American Veteran like many others. I was in the first trucks to go into Berlin in the early 60's and can assure you of these things. The American soldier has always and will continue to endure, triumph over and stand up to any thing that any government can bring against them. The men in my platoon were called to ride directly in front of enemy...

There is much to see in the mind's eye. Conjured from evil or told from on high. There are moments that come and go like the wind. And others that stay, never leaving again. Can you believe there are so many things to see and say everyday as we try to find our way?

Welcome to life.

"Words, Rhymes & Rhythms Volume I: Abstract Journeys of Thought & Soul" is the first in a trilogy of poetic verses, freeform thoughts, street life tales and short story imagery by D.H.S. Bogan. Each selection weaves a tale that travels the emotional gamut from humor to angst, raw reality to vivid imagination...

"At First Light" revolves around the author's great love of the natural world. Captured in a philosophical and sometimes Zen-like style, much of his poetry compares the cycle of nature to the cycle of human life. Readers are encouraged to stop and smell the roses, and to look at our surroundings and inner selves. Carry this book with you on the trail, or on a business trip for some peaceful, yet thought-provoking reading.

"We Are All Chosen" looks at the holy in the everyday. Deeply moving but simple poems, written in free verse, beckon the reader to see extraordinary beauty in a dull commute, and wonder in even the plainest places. "We Are All Chosen" is poetry that can be read at stoplights, in carpool lines, at bus stations or on a coffee break-psalms that make you grateful for even life's most routine obligations.

"OneLilo" is a book of poems and thoughts covering areas such as the elasticity of mind, self knowledge, the treadmill of our dreams, the entertainment of our miseries, the fake and easy solutions to our problems, the baggage of memories, the giant genetic lottery, religion, the clash between our principles and our comfort, the simplicity of our happy unimportant moments, the fact that it's the last word that kills and that we cannot hate what we are afraid to touch. It also attempts to shed some light into the shapeless friends, the transparent rope we often try to balance on, the discovery...

All the sonnets to Dr. Sarah Joan Tuccelli-Gilbert. the author's wife, express an abiding love between two persons. A few were written before their marriage, most written directly to Sarah during their lifetime together and a few after she is gone. Fifty-two in number, each sonnet represents each year since the author first met Sarah. Their eternal theme of romantic love reveals joys and sorrows that relate to everyone. Older readers recall with fondness and pathos similar feelings in their own lives, while younger readers may find inspiration to fulfill their hearts' fondest dreams. Once...

With the opening poem "The World's Poet" Sintax takes you by the heart and begins the parade through his depths. Reminisce about days of youth with "I Remember"; then journey with him through life's many doors with "Share," "Why We Are," and "Love." Rhymes flow smoothly between metaphors as the poet Sintax soul speaks through traditional, free verse, and his very own style known as vision-tale with "Country Divorce," "Wait Up," and "Phone call."

Sintax sweeps you off your feet and into the most private of places with memorable poems like "Visiting Jane Doe," "Surrender," and "Time to Love."...

"Magic Moments" is a selection of poetry from the work of three poets. It runs through a gamut of various forms of poetry as it travels a gauntlet of emotions. An adventure awaits you. Let your imagination free as you read poems from the narrative section. Relive the good and bad times as you read from Memories. Exercise and stimulate your mind with selections from Deep Thoughts. Relive love past and dream of love to come and recall those who have gone in Romance, Love and Loss. If you dare, delve the deep in The Dark Side. Maybe your time is short. You have only enough time to read a tiny...

This book is about the feelings and experiences of John J. Daly during his early teenage years and through to his premature death while in his early fifties. The poems illustrate the author's zest for life, feelings of love, as well as his times of sorrow and loss.

The beauty of poetry is its ability to convey concepts that would otherwise be nearly indescribable. Emotions, social circumstances, and the wonders of the natural world are just a few of these concepts the author examines in this-his first book.

In the amalgamation of three sections, the reader will be taken on a journey though the stages of life, the daily challenges of our world and the mysteries of our very own minds. The first section deals with the human condition and the realities of daily life. The second section focuses on love and various other emotions we all experience from one...

In "Defining Moments," Joseph LeBlanc takes us on a journey through times and happenings in his life firm in the belief that so many of these moments have been lived by each of us in countless ways that are, in the end, so much the same. His words speak of hopes and fears and loss and pain and of the spirit that survives. He finds in these moments a common thread and finds it well. These are roads well-traveled as we make our way, sometimes halting, sometimes tentative, always in search of more meaning. There is much to savor that should not be missed. Rare will be the reader who is not found...