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  • Up at Gabby's House

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    For Up at Gabby’s House, we’re making brand new memories Please know my door is open, visit any time you please There are few things more special than spending time with those you love the most—or looking back fondly at the many wonderful...


  • Winter Wonderland?

    Poetic Form in Service of the Modern Experience
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    A fairy tale that does unfold a red carpet, on which we are actors trying to live other people’s lives. It is meaning that we are losing as we try to just survive. Madness of the medicated, it’s all a violation of the question, “What is it to be...


  • A Plea to Our Mother

    A Poetic Journey of Childhood Incest to Resilience
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    A Plea to Our Mother is a beautiful, complex, difficult collection of autobiographical poems that chronicles one woman’s experience of childhood sexual abuse, and how the abuse suffered by other members of her family led to and complicated her...


  • Relatable

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    Relatable is a collection of easy-to-read rhyming poems exploring marriage, divorce, parenting, mental health, and so much more. While some poems were written when the poet was a kid, most are inspired by all of the life events Candice has...


  • Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks

    A Journey of Self-Discovery
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    "Little Painted Eagle and The Teaching Rocks: A Journey of Self-Discovery" is a free-verse poem about a young mixed-blood (European and Indigenous) male who, during a solo canoe trip, discovers hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs. By...


  • Are You In There?

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    Life is full of excitement. Life is choosing to overcome any obstacle that may arise. Life is having an imaginary mind. Life is putting yourself to a challenge. ARE YOU IN THERE?


  • The Courage to Be You

    Poems Sharing About Our Life Struggles to Become Persons of Integrity in Todays World of Interconnectedness
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    My poetry wants to speak to more life experienced readers who are interested in exploring more deeply various facets of life. The poems are introspective glimpses into my contemplations on various issues of life often expressed in a thought...


  • This may sound strange

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    “This may sound strange” is Christopher Taylor’s second collection of poetry. It brings together a wide range of poems that are always in motion - in sound and subject, in image and tone. Simple in syntax, these poems remain in the reader’s mind...


  • Poetry Extravagance

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    Mental illness, Covid protocols, and paranormal encounters are just a few of the topics explored in this genre-blending collection. Flitting between prose poems, personal essays, and fictional vignettes, Poetry Extravagance is extravagant in both...


  • When a Romantic Writes Poetry

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    Poetry has long been used to give tangible form to the most intangible of thoughts and feelings, with the voice of poets speaking universal truths for us all, even when we ourselves do not have the words. And there is no intangibility more...