Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Death, Grief, Loss
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Calling a Spade a Spade
Poetry & Prose by Kaitlyn Sanders
In this original collection of poetry and prose, author Kaitlyn Sanders reflects in depth on love and relationships, individual growth and self-love, grief, loss, hope and healing. Over the course of this collection, Sanders generates a diverse...
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Beyond the Gate
Poetry and Photography by Doug Jordan and Sidney Shapira
When the world amazes and words fail the rest of us, true poets step up to capture such moments forever, and then hold them up for the consideration, edification, and enjoyment of others … like precious gems best viewed from multiple angles. The...
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Excerpts From a Book Untitled
by Owen Cornell
Our lives are a collection of moments that accumulate over time, flowing one into the next. When we experience those moments as deeply as possible, and learn from them, we grow, and we change. Struggling to find where you belong. Looking for love...
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Distorted Happiness
by Neha Khanna
Written over the last four years during a time of global isolation, personal addiction, romantic trials and internal insights; it's an expression of darkness, hurt, love and anticipated light. May it bring you some comfort in knowing someone else...
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Memories of Me
by Andrea Pomeroy
Although as you read you feel a little of my pain know all things a bit broken can be made whole and beautiful again. Memories of Me is a collection of both rhyming and free verse poetry written as a way of coping with and understanding life’s...
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Inner Flames
by J. Kichuk
Inner Flames is a collection of poems written in a time of deep realization. Inspired by both the real and the imaginary, the poems touch deep in the heart and ask questions about the way things are, have always been, or can be. They are a...
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Upon the Token Grass
Musings & Inspirational Experiences of a Jamaican Poet by James T. Golding
A captivating collection of deeply personal yet intensely relatable poems, Upon the Token Grass: Musings and Inspirational Experiences of a Jamaican Poet, captures the past thirty years of the author’s life experiences triumphs and tragedies...
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to whom it may concern
sincerely, me by Kyla Hawthorn
you put the weight of your world on my shoulders now i am too heavy to carry my own In loving and caring for others, sometimes we forget to love and care for ourselves too. As we navigate through life’s challenges and focus on others, we get...
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The Tears of Pan
by Michael Finelli
There is no way to escape this fate This maze of languished torment Every turn compounds confusion The son of Pasiphae waits in twisting labyrinthian tunnels Ready to cut the string of order by which one strides Like the son of Pasiphae, poet...
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The Dreamer and the Dreamed
Collected Poems of Joseph Leahey Vol. 1 by Joseph Leahey
Shame and acceptance, love and loss, life and death. These dichotomies of being are at the heart of Joseph Leahey’s LGBTQ+ experience and this volume of collected poems. The Dreamer and the Dreamed: Collected Poems of Joseph Leahey Vol. 1...