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  • Touch of an Angel

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    Step into the soul of a single day, where sunlight sways with precocious softness, dreams dissolve like dew, and each moment is both fleeting and eternal. Touch Of An Angel is a collection of meditative poems that explore the passage of time...


  • Thought Bytes From The Carpenter

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    They greet the rising sun with hammer, saw, and square. Where nothing stood for years on end there is now an edifice there. Thought Bytes From The Carpenter is a collection of poems designed to make us pause, reflect, and consider our lives. With...


  • The Blessing of Friendship

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    Oh, I woke up early, before sunrise And prepared a simple meal. I hear the Book of Life speak, And this is what it said. In our present digital world of social media, building and maintain strong friendships can be a challenge. We return to...


  • Banished Rose

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    Banished Rose is a luminous collection of poetry spanning over two decades, tracing the delicate arc of one woman’s journey from adolescence to creative maturity. With raw honesty and lyrical grace, Leila invites readers into an intimate world...


  • Song of the Brown Man

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    In my early years, I read and wrote to learn English as well as I could. There were moments when I had no courage to use words that were new to me. But believing no one will ever see those words I wrote, I went ahead, discovering after a while my...


  • 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...


  • 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...


  • 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...


  • Requited

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    What is unrequited love? What is requited love? And what does it take to heal when love is gone? In this honest, enthralling debut collection of poetry and prose, Kerri Olivia gives voice to love, loss, grief, and healing. Her insightful...


  • In the Presence of Beauty

    New and Selected Poems
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    With remarkable attention to detail, a broad range of knowledge, and an obvious love of language, Dow moves between detailed nature poems, poems about personal grief, lyrical love poems, and narrative poems of times spent in far-off places. With...