Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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Photographic Poetry
by Kreistina Blinova
Have you ever wished there was a real time machine? Do you want to laugh so hard you cannot breathe? Whatever happened to that old school love? These are the questions of a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. Through heartbreak and loss, nostalgia...
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Memories of a Lover
by Jayson W Rampersad
Rejected love, ecstatic love, misguided love—Memories of a Lover explores complex and intensely vivid experiences of love and relationship in this collection of poems. Rare moments of perfect connection between the lover and the beloved sit...
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Spoonful of Tears
by Victoria Allyce
How do we cope when the person we’ve hung our hopes on inevitably disappoints us? How can we love again? What if we can’t forgive them? What if we can’t forgive ourselves? In Spoonful of Tears, poet Victoria Allyce explores the emotional knots we...
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I Just Love You
by B.B. and E.E.
Sometimes the greatest love stories are the ones you didn't see coming. The authors, both on their own at the time, rediscovered one another and fell in love. Each week, inspired by his love for her, he would write a love verse for them to share....
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When The Sun Rains
by A. Zovic
I just want to feel safe enough to love and loved enough to trust it. A. Zovic’s debut collection of poetry unmasks experiences often silenced, stories we are told to suppress—those of heartbreak, of mental health, of body image issues, of...
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The Sentient Error
by Cory Aitken
As humans, we are made up of so many things we understand as “self.” We fear death and resist the inevitability of change. We want what we cannot have, what cannot be, instead of what is and what must be. We live in contradiction. In The Sentient...
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The Elements
by Amber Rune
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit. These five elements are central to witchcraft, and indeed to the lives of us all. Yet all too often, we wander with little understanding and awareness of their presence around us and their influence on this world....
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A Flatlanders View
the poems of Joseph Miller by Joseph Miller
In this début collection, Joseph Miller pays tribute to his life. Buzzing with gritty, inner-city Canadiana, crackling with wit, thrumming with deep love and intimacy, these poems acknowledge sorrow and celebrate beauty. Asparagus grows from a...
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Wash Me Away
by C Lynn
Wash Me Away is a moving collection of short prose poems reflecting on relationships, sexuality, heartbreak, and the process by which we move on from messy relationships. Straddling the line between essay and poem, these pieces explore the nuance...