Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - General

"comatose" provides to the reader a collection of personal poetry. from arhythmic verses detailing a failed self-help program to three-beats-per-measure verses expressing the author's unconditional love for his source of inspiration, "comatose" will leave the reader desperately craving more of the insightful verses contained within.

I walk beneath the overflowing clouds and by statues reflecting our saddened faces, who with a steady glance, rose from the ground and covered me wholly.

It is where I fell inside the silent ring of death, and woke. from I Dreamt of Falling II]

Marcelo Ramos is also the author of Branches (2008)."

How does one summarize an eclectic collection of words that express the jumbled sets of complex emotions spanning a lifetime? What they mean to those who were the motivation for their creation cannot begin to be expressed to "mere" readers who happen upon this book as passersby to a recent accident. You see the results, but needed to have been there to fully feel the impact on your emotions.

Yet poetry, like art of a more physical nature, has meaning to each of us on our own level. It is with that thought in mind that the author submits these poems to the world. If nothing is gained from...

More than a book, "Crumbs from the Master's Table" is an anthology of insights, written to awaken the most torpid heart. With simplicity and originality, this work brings the reader face to face with imminent transformation and inevitable enlightenment.

In a poetic and paradoxical style, the author invites the reader to grow in awareness and to be transformed by the renewal of his or her mind. A thought provoking and enjoyable read, "Crumbs from the Master's Table" is a challenging journey into the heart of mystical life.

Aside from true substance, the following pages offer a poetic...

Erosion You are the tide and I am the beach.
No matter how scarred and ugly you wash over me, cleansing me, making me feel new.
You are sometimes rough, churning me up and mixing me around, but always leave me settled and whole.
You are also sometimes smooth, coasting in and caressing the surface of my matter.
You erode the sand castle walls away, never fearing what's behind them.
I see you coming over me and for a moment we become one.
And even though you sweep back out again, there is never a doubt that you will return.
The relationship symbiotic,...

A collection of poetry with powerful messages, such as love and mercy, as expressed in "A Book of Deeds," the theme of cover art:

"I held in my hands a book of deeds--
And every page was bare;
God had blessed me abundantly;
Yet, I had none to share...

I fell to my knees--
And I cried in shame,
"Oh God, Oh God,
Am I somehow to blame?

I did an assessment of my life--
And I began to rearrange;
I did all I could possibly do,
And I prayed for God to make the change..."

Upon reading, "Oh, For a Second There Radiohead Helped Me To Lose Myself" you will want to seize the day like no other time in your life. Perhaps calling a lost love, relishing a moment in time, or finally saying the things you never really said before. This collection of poetry brings together life, death, love, tragedy, hatred, pain, laughter, and so much more. You will hear about the Beatles, Radiohead, New York Yankees, shuffleboard tables, and a mysterious goddess always present. The words will invade your soul causing you to pause and see the world in a different light. These are not...

"The Secret Path" contains a series of mystical expressions that reach out to the soul of the reader and elevate it to new heights. It is a passionate, thought provoking collection that touches on love and the spiritual essence of humanity. Ultimately, the book masterfully attempts at expressing the inexpressible, the ineffable. For many years these poems have been read at weddings, spiritual ceremonies, and religious gatherings to warm the heart of the audience and to guide them to the secret path: the path of love.

"Earth Songs" unveils extraordinary views of the world discovered by a soldier-turned-poet amid a bitter war and brittle peace. From flowers blooming in battle zones to a dying love's parting words, these poems crackle with life amid death, a storyteller's own true song.

This book is about moving on beyond the funeral. It was written to show you are not half crazed with grief. This book shows you that you are not the only one with these feelings.

"A Field Where Memories Grow," is a collection of short stories in poetic form of my journeys through the seasons of life and the roads we all travel. I have written about world events, romance and spiritual experiences as well as the highs and lows we encounter in life. Also included are the fairy tales that I have always loved to write.

Our journeys through life reminds me of the changing seasons and much of my writing is comparing nature with the human stages of life.

"From one small seed a tree will grow tall and from its roots a forest will come to be. As does one seed from man when...

Ronnie is a woman serving her country and trying to find the American dream. She is enlisted and trying to find the right paths to successfulness within the depths of the Army. She is dedicated to the service but is looking for love in all the wrong places. She is finding new friends and sharing hardships in both her military and personal life. She is finding it hard to be in a man's world nevertheless working through the stereotypes. She strives to be the best mother and wife that she can be. She must make a hard decision to stay in or get out to raise her family. Will the love she found be...

5 Days Out is the fictional, yet reflective, poetic journey recorded by "Delta" Don McKabe during his last days as a death row inmate inside Louisiana's famous Angola State Penitentiary. Hailed as an innovator in what has been tagged "industrial poetry," McKabe's verse speaks of the love, loss, fear and anger of a turbulent life while at the same time revealing an ironic glimmer of hope in the words of a condemned man.

"With you, desire does not waken slowly, but arrives within me as a thing complete, filling every limb at the same instant." Writer and poet John Carter presents a fresh and fragrant breeze in this collection of poems and prose beautiful enough to be enjoyed in the living room, and erotic enough for the bedroom. Classical styles mix with free verse and lyric, while prose sings poetry. In the long tradition of Rumi, Byron and Neruda, John Carter sets his pen firmly on the path of romance and sensuality expressed in written words. "Infinity's Edge" breathes new life into the art of love poetry....

My thoughts are
like rivers running to the sea...

The sea, where knowledge is pooled
in stillness and reflected in meditation...

This collection of poetry explores many of life's most perplexing questions; celebrates anew the awe and wonder of nature; and offers insight, wisdom, understanding, and hope.

It vividly describes the simple joys of everyday life to the more exotic northern lights. It takes you through a gamut of emotions by candidly discussing challenges and issues in a thought-provoking, inspiring, and uplifting way.

Pam is best known for her ability to...

"Osborne Street Attic Blues" is the perfect collection for readers who appreciate thoughtful, accessible poetry with an ironic twist. A graduate of the writing program at William Paterson University, Bill Gleeson, M.A., weaves the hope and happiness of childhood with the regrets and nostalgia of middle age. Semi-autobiographical and sometimes surreal, the forty-four varied poems of this collection begin, like so many lives, in curiosity and end in transformation, and are designed to appeal to readers who enjoy an engaging, rich style and a diversity of form.

Abstract poetry for those sound in mind, disbelief, and unhindered inquiry.

The monotony of daily existence, appreciation of natural beauty, religion versus self, nostalgia for the past, paradox, satire, the repression of human nature, facing death, and the search for some form of chaotic reason within the black and white of worldly madness: all present in the poetry herein.

Metaphor beats upon metaphor, uniting to form a whole, and one must search through words to find the answers to the riddles that aren't quite riddles, that only present themselves and don't require answers, simply...

"Poetry Of A Mad Housewife" is a collection of poems written over several decades. It is an insight into the life and times of a woman who has battled depression, alcoholism and mental illness. An interesting and sometimes comical look at the changing seasons throughout the course of a lifetime. Of love, loss birth and death, Spring through Winter.

See the World through Lillian's eyes as she experiences passion, despair, children and the loss of her greatest love, her husband John. Lillian's poetry has helped here express her innermost feelings and helped her to deal with the many...

This book has been in the makings for 24-years, since his last book of poetry, which was originally his first published work in l980. The author was asked to define his poems in this book, he remarked:

"This book of poems is about real life, death, the times, I suppose my times, God; --places and travel. It tells it: whispers it: yells it It has craft, and paradox, anxiety, expediency and calmness--; it is a fortress of strength, and a ruins. It is a mountain; a crow waking up for a second flight, possible its last. It is a story of stories, emotions, and thoughts in timeless space,...