Poetry, Subjects & Themes
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I Confess
How a Very Religious Catholic Boy Learned Dirty Words Sex and Celibacy Avoided Suicide Embraced Death Found Love God & Himself Not Necessarily in That Order by A.W.Richard Sipe
Throughout his remarkable life, Richard Sipe has followed one simple yet demanding dictum: Tell the truth. He has done so as a priest, a mental health clinician, and a writer exploring the trials of celibacy and the tragedy of child sexual abuse. ...
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Riverlines
Poems of time and place along the North Saskatchewan River by Douglas Elves
Douglas Elves writes of the North Saskatchewan River. Ranging from midstream to far watershed, the Saskatchewan Glacier to Cumberland House and beyond, his poems are of those who have lived and worked on or near this river: the coal-miner fishing ...
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Jaime's Inspirations
Poems from the Heart and Mind by Jaime P. Fidler
I kept your love inside me, like a dove that wanted free At different moments in our lives, we all experience feelings of intense emotions. We all find our own ways of handling good times and bad, and the consequences they bring. But we can ...
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All of Me
by Amelia Musselman
All of Me is an emotion-packed collection of short poems whose focus is heavy and human. Here are thoughtful, stirring pieces on subjects as universal and challenging as self-image, personal courage, and loneliness. These poems—a representation of ...
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Live to Death
The Beginning by Kol Melnychuk
"Live to Death" The idea of this book title was quite spontaneous as I find it difficult to find that perfect anything. However, the title does makes sense with my beliefs and a lot of what lies in this book. The idea is to simply live life to the ...
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We Miss You
Giving All My Flowers To A Ghost by Chloe Martin Snell
We Miss You: Giving All My Flowers to a Ghost is a timely, compassionate, and evocative book of poems about topics which touch all of us in some way over a lifetime, but which we often have a hard time talking about. The poems speak of dealing with ...
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Being Is Belonging
A Notebook of Lyrical Reflections by p. d. crawford
Being is Belonging is a collection of brief poem-like reflections about the meaningfulness of our everyday lives, set against the backdrop of the seasons of the year. Its focus is simply what its title implies: the deepest significance of anything ...
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War
by Bjaine Dorach
Sometimes, in the most extreme situations, out of desperation, words come about. Not to be shared with others, nor to ever be read again. They are words scratched out onto paper in an attempt to give some kind of shape to the crucial & desperately ...
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Of Course It Hurts
by Brett Elena
Warm fuzzies for the soul. For anyone who has ever felt silenced, confused, or frustrated. Who has gotten mad unintentionally, spilled coffee, or lost sight of the stars. For the dreamers, for the doers, for the "I-just-showed-up-can-I-leave-yet." ...
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Stones Will Shout
by Helen E. Herr
In Stones Will Shout, Helen E. Herr shares poetic anecdotes that demonstrate life's ironies and loveliness in equal measure. "Our children have left home for their careers/I just begin mine," she writes, reminiscing about obtaining a theology degree ...
