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You hear it all the time . . . "I'm fine!" "We're doing great!" Sometimes, it's true. A lot of times, it's BS. Because no one likes to admit their lives are a mess.Tales From a Broken Girl is me doing just that, admitting my life is one massive hot mess! But it's also my way of cleaning it up instead of just sweeping it all under the rug.These are the things that piss me off. These are the things that make me cry. But these are also the things that...
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This selection of poems by a new author was triggered by the tragic death of his 28-year-old daughter. So the collection begins with loss and the aftermath of loss: the hope of the author that his daughter and he may be reunited in the life to come. This hope underlies many of the poems. This is clearly articulated in 'Osler and Son', where a father grieves for loss of his son in World War I but in a stoical, unexpressed manner.
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Are you struggling to heal from a broken heart? Do you find solace in reading poetry during tough times? If so, "I Moved On, Now What?" is the book for you. Dive into a collection of 40 touching poems, carefully curated to help mend your broken heart."I Moved On, Now What?" is a thoughtfully crafted book to guide you through the challenging journey of healing from heartbreak. The book offers a collection of 40 beautifully written poems, each chosen...
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Amor y muerte son las pulsaciones que mayores pasiones provocan en nuestra especie. Ambas familiares y al mismo tiempo extrañas, pues cualquiera las puede reconocer y constantemente se vive en su horizonte. Pero cuando se manifiestan resultan insólitas.
Este volumen contiene el poemario ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura Joven Raúl Padilla López 2023, Hundir las manos temblorosas, de Melissa Cordero Novo. Un preciso recorrido por la experiencia...
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Life was smooth sailing and quite normal up until my mom Janis was killed in a car accident heading from Santa Cruz California to Carmel when I was 11 years old. After her death, life changed drastically from a nice gentle breeze to a category five tornado; an inferno of drugs, lies and alibis. Let's just say… No more smooth sailing. When the dust began to settle at the age of 24, I enlisted in the United States Navy and set sail for a better life...
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Written through times of Burnout and contrastingly, through times when exaltation encapsulated the air, leaving a taste of 'Melancholy Euphoria,' this very book is the amalgamation of blood and nectar, suggesting the co-existence of strength with weakness, telling on the agonizing truths while maintaining solidarity. Some of the pieces deal with themes like acceptance and endurance while some are outrageous messages, lamenting over the bloodshed of...
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Trauma is never something easy to deal with. Trauma can also take many forms. During my teenage years, the biggest trauma took the form of death. The loss of a very prominent figure in my life, my band teacher, who was like a second father to me, sent me into a downward spiral of depression. My salvation was my family, friends, and a creative outlet, poetry. I took the deepest and darkest thoughts that swirled around in my head and molded them into...
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Life will never be simple for those who experience it, only moments will be easy, and many will be hard. Having negative thoughts is not an unfamiliar experience while going through difficult moments in life, and trying to understand these moments can be even more challenging to manage.Relief can be found through connecting feelings with others. In this collection, moments of grief, sorrow, and anger are all to be related with as it's read, alongside...
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A car slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on Route 80 west in Parsippany on July 10, 2019 killing the driver. As a sister is left in despair and awakens in disbelief to the tragic news of losing her brother, she's also forced to reevaluate her life and awaken to her spirituality. In the midst of the pain she has to face the burdens of her brothers negative lifestyle and all the snakes he left behind. Discovering her strength through her pain...
10) A New Dawn
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Within the tender pages of 'A New Dawn,' find solace and comfort. This poignant collection of poems and inspirational quotes is a beacon of light for those treading the difficult path of grief and loss. Offering a heartfelt embrace to those who seek sol
11) This Is My Soul
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This isn't a book of fairy-tale poetry. This Is My Soul is an empowering collection of raw, powerful, and haunting poetry. In her literary debut, Sandoval's work takes the reader through a journey of survival from life's nightmares, struggles, pain, betrayal, and ultimately healing and growth.
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is this methis voicethese wordsthat lead somewhereto a placewhere everything makes sensewhere peace existswhere we find godin the worldall around usand that questionof what does it all meanloses significancewhen we let goand just livewhen we rise and retreatwith the moon and the tideand we fly unfetteredleave grief behindI'm there nowmy friendswith just enough of mestill tethered to the earthto share these thoughts
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Unbindingwhen the fetters come offwhen you slip free of your chainswhen you liberate yourselffrom the pain another person can bringor the dominion of self-hatethat's when you realizeyou can fly freecan you feel ityou're a bird, soaringriding that thermaland all the earth belowis yours to seeFlorida Man Writes!
14) Dark Essence
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The words on the page seemed to pulsate with both life and death, each poem teeming with raw emotion. The pages were like a kaleidoscope of human experience, one poem bursting with vitality while the next dripped with sorrow. Sun and moon motifs adorned the covers, representing the constant duality of light and darkness in these verses. Each line was a brushstroke, painting a vivid picture of what it means to live and die, to be alive and unliving....
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Donald Hall's fourteenth collection opens with an epigraph from the Urdu poet Faiz: "The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved." In that poetic tradition, as in The Painted Bed, the beloved might be a person or something else, life itself, or the disappearing countryside. Hall's new poems further the themes of love, death, and mourning so powerfully introduced in his Without (1998), but from the distance of passed time. A long poem, "Daylilies...
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"Parirle a la Muerte" trata temas existenciales desde una perspectiva intensamente personal y poética. O. T. Socas utiliza un lenguaje evocador y lírico para crear una conmovedora experiencia poética que ahonda en distintos aspectos de la vivencia diaria. Los poemas emplean metáforas y simbolismos para transmitir pensamientos y emociones relacionados con la mortalidad, la pérdida y la lucha contra las adversidades de la vida.
17) Vixen
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Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence.
Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying.
"Thicket" introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and-too...
18) Dark Mirror
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A collection of light and dark writings, poems that span the spectrum from uplifting to harrowing. Each verse holds a unique power, whether it be for good or for ill. Some words will inspire and uplift, while others may chill the heart and stir uneasy feelings. Together, they create a balance, showcasing the beauty and darkness that exists within our world.
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Mothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: In Justin Boening's debut collection of poems, selected for the National Poetry Series by Wayne Miller, nothing is as it seems.
Peopled by figures both uncanny and tragic-lionesses who dance and cry, surgeons who carry with them the trauma of past lives, an opera singer whose notes go awry-Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last uses the language of dreams...
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