English Poetry

Inspiring Words to help with Depression Are you feeling depressed? Suicidal? Are you seeking words of encouragement? Are you suffering from low self-esteem? Do you feel like there's no hope? Well check out my book, "Cordell's Poems of Spiritual Inspiration". I too have dealt with depression and thoughts of suicide for years. It was Jesus Christ who literally saved my life. Now I want to share the love of God with you. Depression as well as anxiety attacks is something many people struggle with, especially teens. Anxiety attacks are still an issue for me. I don't make any promises. What I'll...

Volume one of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in 2009 by RTE. Volume one contains four collections published between 1966 and 1975: Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out and North.

"Letters to My Exes" - Poetry Book of Grief and Heartache Jessica Villegas has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember. She has written poetry about love and heartache, but it wasn't until her own experience with a break-up that she was able to write poetry in the rawest form of feeling. It was then that she created "Letters To My Exes," a poetry book full of poems about how she felt after her break up. What makes Jessica's poetry different from others is that these are not just some sweet words; these are true feelings put on paper after years of journaling them in hopes to ...

Never Expected He Would Be the One... but I Had Fantasized. Guess that's the same as wishing! My first time! It’s really going to happen. I want this so bad, but I know it’s too BIG. “It’ll be tight, sweetheart. But we’ll make it fit!” A hot erotic short read. Older Man, Young Woman, Taboo situation, M/F intimacy.

"Dear Children" is a compilation of poems and beautiful love letters from a mother to her children. The author, puts into words and captures in time this special reminder for her children. She hopes they will never forget how much they are loved now and even in her absence. May you, the reader, feel love on every page no matter who you are or where you are. With love, From a mother’s heart.

"and i don't think it's all my fault anyway" Here! We have more! The thing is, it never stops. The migraines, I mean. Skulk is about the end of all things, big and small and middling. Mortality, I suppose. From cosmic road trips to blood moon princesses, to where you were when the world ended, Skulk is an exploration of eighteen migraines in poetic catharsis.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron, was a leading English poet in the Romantic mMovement along with Keats and Shelley. Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788. He was a great traveller across Europe, spending many years in Italy and much time in Greece. With his aristocratic indulgences and flamboyant style, along with his debts and a string of lovers, he was the constant talk of society.

Unwittingly, we weave the fabric of our lives to perfection, like the spider mindlessly spins the perfect web. There is great beauty in the process, a beauty which is only perceived in retrospect; towards life's end. Way of the Wise follows one man's journey from youth's blinding impetuousness to the enveloping clarity of maturity's hindsight, only to arrive at the inescapable: The realization that each of us has but one course to follow, a course that we alone must navigate. Soon there will come upon that incessant wave of experience an encroaching weight of awareness...

In this particular collection, I present to you the darkness and its many forms. Whether it is the darkness around us or within, it manifests in many ways. Arising as shades of fear, melancholy, rage, guilt, or complete emptiness. When the last embers of light have gone out, what then does the darkness dream about? Come inside and see…

As you walk with David, the main character, he shares how he is feeling victimized by life. Through serendipity he meets some wise guides, Ted and Sophia, who show David how he can move from feeling like a victim to being a creator of his own life. The Power of TED* offers a powerful alternative to the Karpman Drama Triangle with its roles of victim, persecutor, and rescuer. The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) provides the antidote roles of creator, challenger, and coach - and a more positive approach to life's challenges.

For more than 30 years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened, and dazzled readers and listeners. As sharp and outspoken as ever, this artist long hailed as a healer and a sage returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and give listeners an unfiltered look into the most private parts of herself. In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism.

Delve deeper into the complexities of love, heartbreak, hope, and despair as each poem uncovers a unique aspect of what it means to be human.

Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters is a collection of over 100 entertaining, fictional mini stories about comical human behavior. Written in sonnet form, each of 22 chapters starts with a cartoonish illustration by Joella Goyette that introduces the theme of the stories that follow. Humorist, Ken Mogren, features grandmothers who are anything but stereotypical, as well as other folks whose behavior is best described as unconventional.

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass exalted the body and the material world.

The Psalms Of Everything God is an elegant mix of inspiration and creativity. It is 150 poems dedicated to the things of God. From the magnificence of God to the wonder of creation to the wealth of the bible, the poetry covers a variety of subjects about the awesomeness of God. Whether as part of personal devotion or worship, The Psalms Of Everything God will move your mind and heart towards God.

They told us salvation came in one image—pristine, pale, and divine. But what if that image was a lie? Whitewashed Black Jesus is a bold and lyrical exploration of race, religion, and identity, peeling back centuries of manipulation to expose the subconscious programming that shapes our beliefs. This book centers on the idea that Jesus is the reflection of all humanity, not bound by one race, culture, or image. The core message: when we look into the mirror of faith, we should see Christ within ourselves—not as a figure imposed by history, but as a living truth that transcends color, ...

For Hala Alyan, 29 is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past - memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith - winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘novel in verse’ is an epic poem that voices with enchanting beauty and literary courage the perspective of Victorian women. Aurora Leigh forges her own path to become a poet, successfully proving her worth, defying the ideals of her era, and rescuing her spirit from the suppression of a routine domestic life. Infusing the work with her own experience and passion, Browning produced a true masterpiece.

Rhymed & Ravished: Crown’s Kinky Fables for the Bold & Bound Step into a storybook soaked in lipstick‑red ink, velvet rope, and whispered consent. Hypno Dom Joseph Crown—bard of moans, collector of brats, and author of NOLA Reverie—returns with an anthology where every page crackles like a fresh flogger strike. Inside, you’ll prowl through the Leather Lane Crossroads Café, sway beneath the Carnival of Consent’s neon tents, and bloom in the Garden of Growth where trust ties tighter than rope. Singing brats, rhyme‑drunk Dominants, ghost‑worshipped subs, and a digital dungeon ...

IT SANK IN THE NOW, ex-pat down with all hands seen one Wednesday in a sinking southern city. It hit the April showers serving death en route to Yorkshire, killing peace and war and Mary timed it well, she was the biggest, longest woman to float the virgin shore. Oceanus tells a story that’s been told a thousand times before, one that’s known all around the world – the tale of a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with massive loss of life. Oceanus tells the story of the RMS Titanic. *** Praise for Eyes Like Lighthouses When the Boats Come Home: “Recommended for ...