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Wrinkles
$3.99I think it was Maxim Gorky (lower depths) who once said that laughter not only opens the mouth to laugh but also opens the mind to thought.
In this book, there are many poems that give that food for thought, for consideration and debate, but I have added a humorous bent on much of the material, for as in my case at least, humour is a good, strong tool in dealing in many cases of diversity.
As for the rest of the book, well, it’s a mixture really with funny poems, well, just for a sake of a laugh.
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Poet and Priest
$3.991968-1970 Dobbins Vocational School Degree in Computer Science
1971-1974 Community College of Philadelphia Associate Arts and Sciences
1974 Naropa University – Audit
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
1992-1998 International Christian University, Masters of Arts Degree
June – 1993 – Ordination – Jameson
Evangelical Association, Reverend
Married Dec 9, 2000 to his sweetheart Emma Ruth Shumsky
A member of Deliverance Evangelistic Church 10/2012 to present
30 face to face meeting with Jesus since August 1979
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Afro-American Me
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Afro-American Me is a literary collection of my poems and essays written while pursuing an associate degree in mental health/chemical dependency at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. I used to think writing papers about self-inventory and awareness was a way of inducing a severe headache. Boy, was I wrong! I learned so much more about myself than I could ever imagine. Attending college has been more than just a higher education; it’s been a journey of discovering my true purpose and creative talents.
All my college instructors brought out the best in me. One instructor told me, “Always write what you know about.” That advice grew with me, and it’s never failed me. My poetry teacher always challenged me to go deeper with my poems. That advice motivated me to rewrite and revise my poems until they become masterpieces. I will never forget the last thing my poetry teacher said to me: “When you write your book, I’d like to have a copy.” Every poem and essay I’ve written has a personal connection-something I know about, a personal experience, how I feel, or my opinion about something.
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Mlle Manhattan: Miss Manhattan (French)
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Mlle Manhattan capture vraiment la richesse de la diversité et la simultanéité de la vie à New York. Le texte est riche, tumultueux et stratifié, mais jamais chaotique comme les sensations des gens, des voitures, des oiseaux, des fleurs et de toutes les formes de vie urbaine en cascade autour de l’attention de l’orateur (et du lecteur). Cette collection unique montre intelligemment la résonance inhérente à la vie dans la ville, dans une belle et joyeuse et parfois agitée, mais toujours avec un sens de la vie et de la force créatrice, pas de destruction ou d’entropie. Ces poèmes vivent dans le corps individuel, même s’ils décrivent une expérience externe et collective.
Biman Roy écrit de la poésie depuis trois décennies et a été largement publié. Ses écrits ont été nominés pour le prix Best of the Net et Pushcart. Biman Roy est l’auteur d’un recueil de poèmes en prose, Of Moon and Washing Machine, et de deux autres recueils de poésie, Dinosaur Hour et Navigating the Quartz Forest.
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Creeping Shadows
Price range: $3.99 through $30.99The son of John and Viola Hastings, author Swede Hastings was born in 1941 in the small town of Roseburg, Oregon. In his early years, the family moved about the western part of the United States, following the fruit and work available. His family later returned to Roseburg and bought a small farm.
In 1958 Swede joined the US Navy. The next year there was a major explosion in the city of Roseburg, devastating the town. Swede, age 18, received emergency leave to help his family. While on leave, an accidental hunting tragedy resulted in his 15-year-old brother’s death. Due to the emotional trauma, he was suffering, Swede was institutionalized in California, where he had relived details of the accident. It was this tragedy which inspired him to write his first poem, Creeping Shadows.
Once released from the hospital, Swede found that keeping busy kept his mind off the accident. Throughout different highs and lows of his life, Swede would turn to words as an outlet. As with his first poem, the page seemed to hold the answers for dealing with things too emotional to confront any other way.
Swede feels that there is a time and place for each thought to be expressed, and we all have our unique individual ways to express our feelings. Since the experience of accepting the Lord, Swede believes that the best is yet to come.
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Poetry and Thoughts Throughout My Years
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Growing up in Ohio, Mildred Thayer Carneal enjoyed all the pleasures and pains life had to offer. But it was when she entered third grade that she realized how she could express herself through the magic of poetry.
Written over fifty-eight years, from 1954 to 2012, Poetry and Thoughts reveals Carneal’s life from childhood through adulthood by using anecdotes, thoughts, and poetry. Her words reveal a diverse perception and a keen attention to detail, and each section is filled with vivid imagery.
Whether Carneal reminisces about the apple trees and cows of her childhood, meditates on the emotions of motherhood, or inspires others to remember the true reason for Christmas, her accessible language and thought-provoking turns of phrase will encourage you to think about God and where He is in your life today.
Enjoy the comforting feeling of God’s hand caring for those you love or the memories of times shared with loved ones now grown or gone.
Whatever inspiration you need, you’ll find it in Poetry and Thoughts.
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The Monkey Tree
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99This is michele heeney’s third book of poems and photographs. Michele has lived in marin and monterey counties of california, and also maui, hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in new mexico. Her house in on the cochiti reservation, just south of santa fe, in the little town of cochiti lake.
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Echoes of Faith and Love: Collections of the Fallen Dove
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Faith Alanna Richardson was the fourth of five children in Jacksonville, Illinois. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s degree in public administration. She worked in public service, being a voice for other minority women in the government sector in her community. She wrote persistently throughout her life before passing away.
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Intimate Exchanges: Passion Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99First in the mind then all over the body! The arena of our mind is where the struggle begins and will end as long as we are aware of our inhibitions and
commit to eliminating them. In order to win the battle between enjoying sex and just doing it, we must fuel our intellect with blissful intercourse! These creative writings consist of thoughts, feelings, and some facts and are not based on any particular experience or person. To this end, I hope these intellectual episodes prepare your mind, stimulate your imagination, and make you really horny to a point you will be dripping with . . . Let your imagination run wild and free for her or him!
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Reflections III: The Magic Beyond the Pain: The Journey, My Impact, Their Impact
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99This book reflects life-each and every one of us in our journeys as all of us inevitably end in the same place. It is our journeys, individually and those we share time and space with, along with the many souls on four legs that define the happiness inside. It is also imperative that we find ways to help the world we live in-for those many starfish that ended on the beach, and for each of those starfish that we can throw back in the water,-well, one more life we have saved. Inevitably, it is the lives we save that actually save us-aren’t they? They fill our souls with energy with that special feeling that we mean something that we actually are all connected but to live life with purpose-well that is ultimately the most fulfilling of all important feelings. To each of you I hope you fill those moments in the simplest of ways-giving back, and pay forward to become the power and energy that will save us all.
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Keep The Change
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99This is Michele Heeney’s second book of poems and photos. She has lived in Marin and Monterey counties of California, and also Maui, Hawaii. Michele now lives and writes in New Mexico. Her house is on the Cochiti Reservation, just south of Santa Fe, in the little town of Cochiti Lake.
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My Paper Children
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99A book of photos and poems by Michele Heeney spanning 45 years, from the mountains of Western Pennsylvania to the sixties in San Francisco and beyond. It includes photos and poems from West Africa, Mexico, Hawaii, the central coast of California and New Mexico.
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The Polka Dot Chair
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Michele Heeney found her outlook changed when the ’60s lured her to San Francisco.
Californian for many years after that, she also lived in Marin and Monterey Counties–as well as on Maui–before moving to New Mexico. She now makes her home in the town of Cochiti Lake on the Cochiti Pueblo reservation south of Santa Fe.
Besides writing poetry, her loves include bicycling, shopping at thrift stores, and photography, which she began underwater in her years as a scuba diver.
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On the Way
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99When William (Dub) Brooks and George Sayre first met, they soon realized they shared a mutual love for Ireland’s northwest coast. One had a passion for writing verse. The other had a love of photography. They decided to spend a month together in Ireland viewing with their separate lenses and combining their views in this book. There were four driving mechanisms.
Most of us dream of taking a “time out” to go on a journey. Virgil and Dante come to mind.
The two authors have a yearning to see Ireland again but in a differing light. It would cover thirty-three days of grand effort and joyous exploration.
That prism being also enhanced by the frame of raw winter. Who knew a Nor’easter would blow through the island and captivate and intrigue the people in the grip of HY’s unique brand of cold? It certainly added flavor and character to the sojourn.
The basis of our journey was threefold.
One was to capture the powerful hues and chromas of Ireland. No other land hosts such verdancy.
The second was to trace the various and sundry foot paths of W. B. Yates, writer after the Irish manner, romantic and modernist, dramatist, poet, and passionate believer who proclaimed Ireland’s wondrous brand of seeing and expression.
Dromahair (Lough Gill), Drumcliff, and Sligo being our northwestern home base.
Lastly we wanted to follow and appreciate the establishments and creative works of St. Cohlumncille, artist and author of Celtic Christian communities and hand-drawn books from the sixth century CE.
We hope that our journey inspires your own freeing journey of the heart that allows each of us to realize and to expand our inner horizons and to liberate our souls’ deep desire to see. -
The Beacon
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Life sometimes takes us to task.
So we seek our knowledge from the past,
Only to learn that life is an ever changing path
that rolls us in and out of the shadows.
Like a captain of your ship a sail,
Without a Beacon, you’ll surely fail
To find your way upon the seas of life,
And run aground in tears and strife.
That’s why the Beacon came to be,
To shine its light on you and me,
And help guide us safely to shore,
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My Dad (Mr. P): THE POET AND HE DIDN’T KNOW IT
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Joseph L. Piranio is kind, loving, and a sincere person who loves his family. He always puts other people first. He can put a smile on anyone’s face. He would start a conversation with anyone. As for hobbies, he has lots. He would go fishing and race pigeons. His favorite one was singing Frank Sinatra’s song, “My Way!” in karaoke sessions. His on-circuit name was Mr. P. Everyone knew him as that. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. He served in the Korean War. He worked as an electrician for Kansas City. He helped build projects like Worlds of Fun, the Kansas City International Airport, and Liberty Hospital. He has five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. One of the things he is great at was writing down his thoughts as poems. He would teach his two sons to hunt and fish. Anyone who knows him knows family is very important to him in every way.
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Poetic Heaven or Hell
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book of poetry presents a thirty year collection of thoughts, both about life in the here and now and life in the hereafter. It shares the message of God’s forgiveness and seeks to awaken the spiritual beings in everyone.
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Take Any Ship That Sails
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99This 5th book of Michele’s spans 45 years of writing poems and thousands of miles of geography. It is a selection of poems from when Michele was in her teens in Pennsylvania to recent poems inspired by the beautiful mountains and Mesas of New Mexico. There are poems from Monterey and Main counties, California. From times spent writing at Esalem in Big Sur. A few are from her time in Hawaii. They cover nature, love, art, and personal growth. There are some of free verse and classical form. Her favorite poets are many, including the sufi poets Rumi and Hafiz, the English and Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney. If you love poetry this is a book for you.
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The Castalian Crave: A Collection of Poems
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99The Castalian Crave: A Collection of Poems, by Fletcher DeWolf, is worth far more than an hour of everyone’s time. Each poem is meant to be read, deciphered, and read again. The degree of this work’s depth will instill energy in the lackadaisical and offer serious contemplation to the erudite.
The freshness with which Mr. DeWolf delivers his messages intensifies the readers’ awareness of the inner recesses of our minds and the workings of our souls and hearts.
Multifaceted meanings result in an exquisite torture, forcing one to pause and consider while hungering for more.
Castalian Crave: A Collection of Poems is a book of epic proportions, bringing lovely rhymes to the times in which we live.
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UNTAMED: A Rich Collection of Freeform Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Readers who connect with fresh, vibrant and well-crafted poetry will enjoy these poems. Insightful, witty, profound and wide ranging, they speak in a variety of voices with clarity and strength.
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The Big One: The First 52
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The author examines the invaluable gift of time within the context of eternity, through the lenses of profound themes in the forms of storytelling and poetry. Employing urgency and directness, these poems encourage you to consider knowing Christ, and to make Him known, your priority. The command of The Great Commission dominates your thoughts more completely as you read and meditate on the truths confronted herein. From questions about the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace, to the importance of decision making and the potency of the blood of Jesus, The Big One uses a simple and straightforward style to convey a message of joy, faith, peace, and hope. The benefits of struggles in the life of the believer and the power of God’s love are conspicuous throughout. These discussions are centered not only on the eternal destiny of mankind, but also on the possibility of living successfully and abundantly in this life. The Big One flowed from a loving relationship between the author and his Savior and is a unique gift from God. These verses portray fundamental concepts in a lucid, unpretentious and honest manner. As you read, you will experience a magnetism which pulls you to the secret place of the Most High and propels you toward the real reason you are alive-to fear, obey, enjoy, and glorify God.
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Words Of Expression
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99In her poem “The Lost Courage,” Tanya Marie Breaud exhibits the style and emotive voice that weaves its poignant way through Words of Expression, her first published collection of verse.
“Hear me when I cry at night,
be Mother’s arms that hold me tight.
Bring me up when I fall down,
Come to me when no one else is around. . .
Listen to the words that I speak,
give me courage when I’m scared and weak.”
With inspiration continuously evolving from her personal experience, Ms. Breaud delights her readers with poetry that tugs at their heartstrings while wringing out their disappointed, wet washcloths of heartache. From high-spirited enthusiasm to sad, distressing loneliness, these poems run the gamut of truth, longing, forgiveness, faith, and hope. Readers will surely find solace in this poet’s words, as well as the reassuring momentum to keep going in life, despite the obstacles placed before them.
In true spiritual observance, Tanya Marie Breaud confides in the Introduction to her book, “All the chances I never took, I’m now taking. For the longest time I have searched for a way to express myself. I finally found my way through Words of Expression.”
It is her hope that her readers will, too!
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Reflections on Being Human
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99This special addition of Reflections on Being Human contains 150 exquisite poems, written by Dr. Nirander Safaya after his retirement from a brilliant scientific career. These poems portray the thrills and challenges of life and love in general and the saving grace of spiritual light and wisdom in particular.
The poems are divided into three thematic parts-Life, Love, and Light. The structured arrangement of poems followed in this book allows a coherently flowing exploration of human feelings, emotions, and aspirations, and of the human behavior; thus taking the readers through a panoramic journey of self-discovery. The verses are eloquent and evocative, with dazzling imagery that touch the senses and soul, delving into the pragmatic, romantic, and spiritual longings of human beings. These lucidly written verses reflect on, and expose, the secrets of achieving success in love, peace, and happiness.Positively uplifting and illuminating, Safaya’s poetic work is reminiscent of classical poetry, for it is deeply thought provoking about human nature and condition. Foreword Clarian Review wrote, “Reflections on Being Human works toward truth and self-actualization with many poems hinting at ultimate perfect unity …surprising imagery to uncommon and timeless effect.” Kirkus review remarked, “This earnest collection tackles serious questions…[c]onsiders the subject of love both abstractly and concretely.” An editor at iUniverse, A. Spencer, wrote, “these poems have a rare intellectual and spiritual depth as well as lyricism.”
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The Art Of Dying
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Much writing on the subject of death, dying, cancer, and grief is often sugar coated. That is understandable, considering the difficulty experienced by those dealing with it. However, in the process of grieving, it is essential to express, in often raw terms, how excruciating it is. Jere Truer, being both a therapist and a widower, worked through his grief via poetry and honesty, with the hope that these poems will validate others’ reality, give permission to bear down into grief and emerge on the other side of it.
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Intuitions: Book of Poems
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99Intuitions Book of Poems is a book that took four years to write. I wrote this book after my mother passed. I hadn’t done any writing in twenty-two years. Once I started writing I wrote three books in ten years. Intuitions was one of the three conceived. I have a total of six books completed. I only write when I’m inspired.
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Poems
$8.99‘Poetry is a collaboration between readers and author. The author writes his impressions and understanding of a given subject but relies on the imagination of the reader to share and explore the implications of his words. Although we are separated by time and distance, a spiritual and emotional
bond is achieved when author and reader share the epiphany of a poem.’
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Poetry for the Soul: Plus Satire
Price range: $11.99 through $18.99God’s spirit can fill our very soul;
We are restored, and love reigns whole.
God blesses freedom and allows you to choose,
But those who steal freedom are destined to lose.
Bad thoughts from the past can be banished at last. Then your heart is set free to be all you can be.
What you think is what you feel.
Emotions are but mirrors real.
The Lord will protect better than ever we can,
For even in the worst of times, He can perfect His plan.
What sets this collection apart is McPhee’s versatility as a poet. Each poem is a testimony to her ability to seamlessly transition between introspective messages and razor-sharp wit….Yet beneath the humor lies a deep sense of compassion and understanding, reminding us that laughter can be a powerful tool for introspection and growth.
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Particles Of Truth In Fractured Sunlight
$24.99Particles Of Truth In Fractured Sunlight is a Book of poetry and thoughtful reflections written by Peter McDonough Sr. It is an exploration of multiple themes across various perceptions always with a common theme of seeking truth. It is a window into the world the author has experienced living in Maryland just outside the city of DC his entire life. It represents a relentless search for purpose and meaning.
