Poetry

Dylan Thomas found his purpose by expressing himself through music & poetry as a young child. He had always felt misunderstood. This is his escape & his home away from home. Music & Poetry has always been there for him when he needed to express & release himself. In this collection, You will find Happy, Dark, Inspirational, Inner-child Healing, and Mental Health/Trauma. He isn't going to sugarcoat his work for you.

Maravillosa fábula acerca del sentido de la vida y el insospechado valor de nuestros actos diarios. ¿Qué nos espera en el paraíso? ¿Algo que nos permita...

Inferno (Italian: [iɱˈfɛrno]; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen".

Dead Souls, Gogol's epic poem in prose, is widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. We follow Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned conman, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise as he arrives in the provincial town of 'N' and begins visiting various landowners to make each a strange and ghostly offer.

Through Coleman Barks’s translations, Rumi is the world’s most popular poet. The newest addition to HarperSanFrancisco’s “A Year With” series, A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Coleman’s mystical, elegant, and beautiful translations of Rumi’s poetry, for listening, reflection, and embarking upon your own journey inward.

Lisa Moore’s moving debut is funny, cerebral and endearingly witty. These are a collection of beautiful, personal poems that speak of female life. Birth, love, motherhood, menopause, ageing, sexism, friendship, home and death. The full rainbow spectrum of life is given her wryly truthful voice. An anthology for women everywhere.

Christina Rossetti’s poetry has never disappeared from view. Critical interest in her poetry swelled in the final decades of the twentieth century, a resurgence largely impelled by the emergence of feminist criticism; much of this commentary focuses on gender issues in her poetry and on Rossetti as a woman poet. Collected here are 16 of her most beautiful, haunting, and renowned poems.

Haiku-dô propone setenta haikus japoneses como enigmas a ser descifrados. Dado el carácter especular del haiku, empero, todo esfuerzo por desvelar un haiku tiene como resultado el desvelamiento del corazón de quien lo intenta. Más que de un desciframiento, de lo que se trata es de un acto de vaciamiento y de exponernos al haiku como ante un espejo. De ahí que tanto la escritura, el estudio o la lectura de los haikus pueda convertirse en un camino espiritual.

The many journals which reported Browning’s untimely death all spoke of her as the greatest woman poet in English literature. The highly respected Edinburgh Review expressed the prevailing view when it said that she had no equal in the literary history of any country: “Such a combination of the finest genius and the choicest results of cultivation and wide-ranging studies has never been seen before in any woman", and the esteem in which she is held has never dimmed with her poetry still widely studied and admired today. Collected here are 16 of her most beautiful, haunting, and renowned poems.

In the heart of the western wilderness, a lone hiker encounters an ancient traveler with a story unlike any other—Lucifer himself. In this 1667-line epic poem—Paradise Lost was published in 1667—Devil’s Desert reimagines the creation of the universe through the eyes of Lucifer. Blending novel Satanic mythology with philosophical musings, the author weaves a tale of cosmic wonder, loss, and the ultimate solitude of existence.

The poems in this book are insights, discoveries about some of the special characteristics of people who matter to me, captured in poetic form. These discoveries came like surprises for me, doors opening on thoughts and ideas that I want to share.

Ce que la Lune apporte est un poème en prose écrit le 5 juin 1922. Cette histoire a été publiée pour la première fois dans le National Amateur en mai 1923. Cette histoire est racontée à la première personne d'un narrateur anonyme. L'histoire décrit un paysage de rêve surréaliste. Le narrateur se promène un soir dans son jardin et, au clair de lune, assiste à de nombreux spectacles étranges. Il atteint bientôt un ruisseau. Après avoir traversé un pont, il se rend compte que le jardin n'a pas de fin.

Inside “How to Backwash”, you will find one hundred and eleven provocative and controversial haiku that are sure to make you: cringe, grin, roll your eyes, tear up, curse my mother, moan out loud, chortle uncontrollably, cause your anal sphincter to tighten, write a strongly worded letter, and much, much more!

In this original poem, the story of the birth of the Christ Child is told from the perspective of heaven and the angel who would announce the birth to shepherds below.

The world turns upside down for a young girl when her father begins a fatal battle with the merciless affliction cancer. Before his illness finishes its devastating rampage through her adolescence, she is confronted by a new demon. She falls victim, by the hands of a trusted adult, to sexual abuse. The devastation of these events causes her to question God's roll in her life, and whether He ever loved her at all. The Tablet of My Heart is a collection of Poetry from the journal of that young girl.

For the first time in the world, an Indian entrepreneur is publishing his romantic poetry in Hindi and English together.

In the ever-changing tapestry of life, each individual is a unique thread, each moment a brushstroke, each emotion a note in an unfolding symphony. The following collection of free-verse poems endeavors to capture this complex interplay between the individual and the universe, the temporal and the eternal, the tangible and the ethereal.

From award-winning writer and poet Chris McClelland comes a chapbook of strong philosophical and spiritual-oriented poems, meditative and spanning the ancient religious sites of the Yucatan, the ghost-filled streets of Paris, and the verdant countryside of Ireland dotted with medieval castles. As a recent convert to the Mormon faith, McClelland allows these voices to explore questions of inspiration and personal spiritual impressions through his new Latter Day Saint perspective.

Publié en 1857, Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire, est un recueil de poèmes qui explore les thèmes de la beauté, du mal, de la mélancolie, et de la révolte. L'œuvre, souvent considérée comme un chef-d'œuvre de la poésie française, reflète les tourments intérieurs du poète face à une société moderne et aliénante. Baudelaire y exprime un profond malaise existentiel, oscillant entre fascination pour le sublime et attirance pour la décadence.

A delightful selection of entertaining poems, short essays, and written conversations involving the people of 20th century rural Australia and some of their working animals. This collection includes “When Dad Drives Home From Town,” “When the Sailor Rode the Brumby,” “The Old Barn School,” and many more.

Queerness, family, magic and Indiana weather combine in These Indiana Winters, B. T. Roen's debut chapbook. Their imagination skips across Seussian animals, fantastical characters, and the struggles of being a queer pastor's kid in the Midwest. Roen's wit and wonder reveals a spark of magic hidden in the everyday.

Esson’s first collection of poems, Bells and Bees, was published in 1910; a second collection, Red Gums and Other Verses, in 1912. Although Esson published no further poetry collections, his verse continued to appear in magazines such as The Bulletin until the late 1920s.

Uncover the interconnected beauty of life—listen to Dancing Mockingbird today and let Steven Dale Davison's poetry awaken your senses and spirit.

A unique collection of profound musings by R Hill that spans over four decades of heartfelt reflections, insights, and experiences. Each poem within this extensive compilation captures a fragment of R Hill's evolving perspectives, mirroring the shifting landscapes of his personal evolution.

Poetry comprised from random thoughts, compiled throughout a life; fully lived.