World Poetry

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in free fall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last 60 years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the 10 birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory.

Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Her first new collection in 17 years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death.

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.

Amora dares explore the way women love each other - the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed.

Helen Hayes, Raymond Massey and Thomas Mitchell read a selection of the world's finest poetry from the greats including Keats, Browning, Kipling and Gray.

Unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings. This gives you, Courteous Listener, a much better appreciation of how Franklin wrote and thought. In particular, you will find that the full body of the Poor Richard almanacs contains a great deal of religious and spiritual thought in which Franklin laid out and propounded his understanding of Christianity as it stood in his day.

This book is a great book that will uplift your spirit, and make you smile. If you have lost a close love one that was close and near, then this book will bring back several memories and may make you smile plus drop a tear. Be happy till the end, so start reading this book from the very start till the very end. Now " Let's begin ! " Kiss!

Nafsi is a collection of poetry and prose, calling you to a spiritual revolution. This compelling work examines the conflict between the soul and the body: its desires, its pain, its love, and its hope. Through poetic allure, this collection will speak directly to your soul, in a way that is hauntingly beautiful.

From two-time Newbery Medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald."

In Forester's latest book of prose, he explores the multi-faceted tapestry of life in Maine, a state where nature's grandeur and human resilience interweave to create a landscape as complex as it is captivating. From the salty embrace of its jagged coastline to the earthy soul of its inland farms, Maine offers a sanctuary for those who find poetry in the everyday, the extraordinary, and everything in-between.

GROWN UP POETRY: ODES to sports, politics, life in general, family, profit, city growth, recessions. A little sarcasm, a lot of seriousness.Insight into the world we live in, suggestions on skewed views perspectives.

Poems that starts quoting Auden, another time has other lives to live, and Les Murray, art can contain only one idea, to thresh the cardinal points of life, based on the power of love. From the poems cabezón Steps emphasizes the idea of ​​changing the world, trying, and the yoke of oxen, small contrition, the liver of Prometheus, of empathy, of travel, to dream of Scipio and the voice of silence.

EMPOWERING, INSPIRING BOOK. Janelle makes ordinary experiences glow. Listening, living, hearing, watching & breathing in the world around her inspires Janelle to write expressively, as her Real & Raw Poetry does not fail to cut deep into your heart strings. An aspiring Author with talents expanding into the Fiction & Non - Fiction world of novels, songwriting, & submitting books to film, is something Janelle will explore. Janelle is a mother, wife and Nana. Janelle's family is her strength in life. When Janelle is not writing, she is passionate about being in the outdoors connecting to Nature.

expressions of quandaries. life, happiness, dissatisfaction, bullying, choices, obstacles, ideas, thoughts....a twenty-something shares her mind. creative writing can sometimes help you figure things out. getting personal with others is difficult, but sharing sometimes does reach out and help others going through the same things.