The thoughts and feelings disclosed in Philip's poems are less about pain and more about grief over separation from loved ones, dread of loss of identity, and doubts about death's meaning. In these disclosures and in the selection of images and stanza forms used to convey the disclosures, ...
Many years ago, when I was a poet, an editor described my poems as “games of rhythm and repetition”, which was apt. I came to enjoy the circularity of Bae’s world in Untold Night and Day, and the chunks of repetition. The quotes on the book jacket are similarly apt: “As crypti...
Alethea also penned the AlphaOops picture books, The Wonderland Alphabet, Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, Beauty & Dynamite, The Dark-Hunter Companion (w/Sherrilyn Kenyon), and a myriad of poems, essays, and short stories. Princess Alethea lives and writes on the Space Coast of ...
•Five Important Things to Sayto all our loved ones, regularly: Thank you; I love you; I'll never forget...; I'm sorry...; I forgive you. (St. Charles Church) "We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to...
She was a frequent contributor to the press, the York (Pa.) Evening Herald, having printed many of her poems and other literary efforts… [Her] brother, George W. Sands, was a member of the Maryland legislature, and a United States collector of internal revenue by appointment of President...
“Pat McNees’s collection contains carefully selected and ordered pieces – poems, prayers, prose, and fiction. The anthology explores a range of experiences: living when you know you are dying; caring for and about someone who is dying; saying goodbye; and dealing with how it feels to be...
texts were composed during the same time period as that of Moses and the Hebrew exodus from Egypt, acknowledging that their cultures borrowed and adapted both language and theology from one another. These poems were a psychological code providing a guide for how to live as well as how to die...
[M]y prayer is that many of the poems in this book may help to bring joy and peace and understanding to those souls who may be grieving for loved ones whom they call "dead" but who, in reality, are still living in a real world of beauty, being able to manifest to their dear ones...
B. Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems. Revised and edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright (c) 1924 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. 13 Is Buchanan right? Has America "ceased to be a moral community"? I think so. Look, for example, at the growing ...
- This testimony reflects the daily mysteries in God’s plans for our lives: He can provide healing for us, while at the same time, bring others into that healing, and faith and peace in God. - By Catrina Engle - Just the end of last year I had to be hos