Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - General

"The Rough Side/The Soft Side" explores one woman's battle with depression, failure & self-hatred. Step by step, "The Rough Side/The Soft Side" details how she overcame the demons that drove her insane. There is no knight in shinning armor at the end, but no doubt there is a happy ending.

"26-year-old introverted shoegazer with no self esteem seeks the best girl in the world. Must have own headphones."

"fight for your frequency" is more than just a volume of poetry. It's a cautious love letter, shy and introspective. And even though the topics of reflection are often written about (love, self-doubt, getting the girl) Steven Williams attacks these subjects in his own thoughtfully unpretentious way. From a cross-country trip with a girl with wind blown hair to springtime Sunday evenings, you'll feel like you're in the middle of a pretty song that you never want to end.

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Ogden Nash, Dave Barry, Bill Maher, Oprah Winfrey, Rudyard Kipling, and Dr. Seuss are among the myriad writers and celebrities who have inspired retired Colonel Steven Selman to put his pen to paper. In "Prehumous Unpoetic Poems," Selman shares his own unique and humorous musings on subjects to which we can all relate. The result is outrageous, irreverent poetry covering a broad range of topics from holidays to politics to religion. From the irony and cynicism of "Wall Street Secret" to the introspective quality of "Wasted Time," Selman offers a personal and realistic view of the world around...

Poems descriptive, satirical, ironic and surreal. These are "Snapshots" that will remain in the album of your memories.

"The Bingo Farm" grabs you by the funny bone and won't let go. We've all been in or exposed to the situations that unfold through these hilarious pages. If that impossible goal is beyond our reach, so what. The unattainable can still be a rib-tickling journey.

Follow this desperate family as they try to bring mom back to reality. Will Doctor Dwell be able to undo the harm that this everyday addiction has brought to all?

Switch gears as you search through the uplifting poetry and spiritual writings of one of today's most prolific poets. Be a passenger on the many revealing journeys into...

"Urban Love Thoughts on the Subway" is a captivating collection of sensual and erotic poems that explores the power of sexual fantasies. From anonymous women he saw on the New York City subway, to those he has truly loved, author Vaughn A. Young's encounters with women inspired this unique personal introspective of unbounded passion and sexual fantasy. "Urban Love Thoughts on the Subway" awakens your erotic side, showing you that sex is as much an act of the mind as it is of the body. Exploring his addiction to beautiful women, and his desire to pleasure each one, Young allows you into his...

For those who fall into a coma at the mention of the word "poems," this collection of short you-know-what's is for you. Each poem (hey, wake up ) is a soft tipped arrow aimed to brush past your funny bone and then bounce off your verse averse heart. (High-risk readers are advised to wear an extra sweater).

Most of the tiny epics gathered within these covers were written in New York City, during the years of the Guiliani administration. Themes touched on include love, stars, snow, city, and office. As a collection, "everybody gets lost in brooklyn" is alive with the poet's task to seek out...

"i am cabbage" is a collection of poems both long and short. It takes its title from the first short poem. The volume is divided into nine books or sections. The last poem is from a retired firefighter of twenty years and dedicated to the lost firefighters on 9/11.

For more than forty years I have been a sometimes poet. Thoughts have rattled around this old head of mine like rocks in a tin can. To push these thoughts away so I could get on with the business of living I wrote them down, tossed them in my desk drawer. Sometimes I would rediscover them, reread the pile, and throw away any...

"Real World Poetry" contains a group of individual poems, which I wrote over a very extended period of time. Some few of these poems have singularly appeared in some of my other writings. The mood of these poems is intended to address the lack of objective truth within many of the major philosophies of the world's cultures, and to dress those wounds, of cognitive dissonance, with a dressing of hope and guidance towards a more reasonable outlook upon life, and of life's struggles to discover a meaningful perspective, which can be embraced by reasonable peoples, allowing them to find a guiding...

An excerpt from "Painted Toes"

"Paintbrush" Colliding colors in a palate we created run together to blend a portrait of exploding desire. I begin the sketch from memory and fill in lines of character produced from voices, photos and perception. The pictures take form- live and breathe each moment we perpetuate their life with our love.

Throughout this collection of warm and witty poetry, Leslie Chiappetti uses vivid, feminine imagery to relate emotions as a vibrant kaleidoscope of colorful experiences.

"Alert and modest, generous and perspicacious, Daniel Webster's poems invite us into the various worlds his questing curiosity opens up: worlds not only of other languages and cultures but of the entire world outside the self. What I am tempted (if not qualified) to call Webster's excellent translations--graceful, deft, poignant--from Russian and German stand out in this collection, as do the riddles, but "KEEPING ORDER ON MY SHELF" as a whole is, with its winning clarity, worth a place on many shelves."
--Rachel Hadas

"The Boat Rocker" is a poetry of life that both presents a philosophy of life and describes an art of living that has been learned the hard way--by actually living a life; by having tasted all the joys life offers and having suffered many of the tragedies and pains life inevitably brings as well.

While "The Boat Rocker" will not help a person to avoid all tragedy and pain--those are a part of every life--it will help everyone who takes it's message to heart to avoid some needless suffering and to get through whatever vale of tears is encountered through a simple act of faith, for fidelity...

"Life's Experiences In Rhyme for Everyone's Mind" is a thought provoking compilation of poetry derived from reactions to life events as seen through the eyes of the author. Although based on the observations, interpretations, values and beliefs of one individual, "Life's Experiences In Rhyme for Everyone's Mind" will stimulate your thinking to agree/disagree with its contents or even challenge your present belief system. We are not that different as humans. It is our differences that make us who we are. "Life's Experiences In Rhyme for Everyone's Mind" is not my life story...but it is stories...

One would think, living alone on a mountain ridge would produce the net effect of one's having everything. In fact the impact of having to live day to day happy to breathe the mountain air is captured in the pages of this book. There are birds to feed and clothes to fold, there is romance, there is the life of hiking boots and bath oils, of warm gloves and nail polish, of quilts and computers. All is inlaid with the life and the love, the freaks and the fights, the saints and the sailors.

In these compelling, conversational poems, John Schenck takes you to familiar places, then shows them to you in an entirely new way. As he guides you from the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park to a carpet-seller's shop in Cappadocia, Schenck will show you how to see, hear and simply notice the world with fresh eyes and ears. "The Millennial Pedestrian" is more than a travelogue in verse. Memory, regret and moments of joy mingle in poems about love, death and the relentless passage of time. Friendship is celebrated, love honored, and sadness given its inevitable due. In every poem, the...

"Journey from Darkness" is a roller-coaster ride of emotions from the depth of insanity to the heights of recovery.

It is divided into three sections: Midnight of the Soul, containing poems of extreme distress and darkness; "Journey from Darkness, " which covers various aspects of the recovery process and the first glimpses of an end to the mental suffering of the abuse survivor; and Sunrise at Last, where the poems take on a message of hope and inspiration.

This autobiographical account of one person's journey has a near-universal appeal to anyone on a journey of recovery from abue or...

"120 Paragraphs" may seem to jape at the question of what a valid paragraph really might be. As if stuck in a jazzy or surrealistic world of horsing around, each 'paragraph' moves both nonchalantly and somewhat skittishly, at least in many instances. The real possible pleasure of the entire collection must be decidedly verbal, since verbal style definitely may seem to be prevailing over 'meaning'. Even so, traditional grammar remains both paramount and never to be at all disrespected. The author's main Literary Theorizing might include and re-include a strong likelihood that many time-honored...

Dr. Thomas William is a retired psychotherapist and educator; however--as his latest volume of poetry will amply demonstrate--he will never retire from being an avid student of the human condition. "Nolo Contendere" brings us yet another collection of brilliant insights spanning the gamut from amusing wit to tragical poignancy.

Dr. William's other published works include three other volumes of poetry, "Poems on Alaska and Other Planets," "Chant of the Gemini," and "Cryogenic Suspension"; two novels, "The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien" and "Placida House"; and four books of...

"New Dimensions, Volume One: A Poet Speaks" is a wondrous medley of thoughts captured in poetic fashion and verse Varied scenarios of feeling and the many turns of life are expressed with wonderful use of language and creativity within these pages.

Through reflective poems of joyful love, the stunning heartbreak of loss, of friends and treasured loved ones, or just free verse of whimsical daydream...you are sure to smile in remembrance perhaps of your own experiences, sigh with regret at an opportunity missed, risk taken or chance left behind, or well with tears at words that seem to...

In her writing of "Poetically Speaking--100 or So Poems," Irene Senior-Pomeroy addresses the whimseys, misadventures and triumphs of all age groups. She criss-crosses humor with pathos in ballads, sonnets, haikus and a wide variety of other poetic forms. Extensive travel to Europe, The Orient and across North America gives her ease in lending a universal tone to her writings. She holds two graduate degrees from Columbia University in New York City. From her varied experiences in education, the health field and professional theatre she weaves farcical and emotion-provoking incidences...