Verlag: BookRix
Morning Raindrops is a collection of poems and thoughts about suffering, healing, love and hope. The author fights with her own weaknesses and describes them in an incredibly gentle way, as if suffering was our everyday life. The title morning raindrops are traces after the night storm, which symbolize hope after the tragedy in our lives.
I wrote these poems incrementally, but collated, edited, and recorded them collectively. A process that was at first therapeutic and then brutally revealing. A lot of the pieces touch upon regret, lost possibilities, and missed opportunities born of trauma, neglect, mental illness, and fear, as well as the desperation that comes when you find yourself searching for hope inside of darkness.What could’ve been and what is, are not the same thing. A lot of my pain comes from an inability to reconcile those two disparate facets of my existence. I know I can’t have everything I want, no one can. But when you are broken, it can be hard to know what you want, let alone have any idea of how to attain it.Thus, I write. I write to heal, to express the darkness within, to get it onto the page, and into the light. To understand myself and to understand my understanding of the world.If you resonate with my words I encourage you to write some of your own - it will help.what could have beenis brokenand what isfeels like a dreamthese words servedas a temporary anchoragainst the swirling chaosof a corrupted soullonging for restwritingsaved my lifeeditingalmost killed mei hopeit wasworth itZum Buch
'I like having things. I like having lots of things. It reminds me that I'm... Y'know? A person.' Alice is done with fast fashion. Ben can't stop buying trainers. And Charlie just wants to sell out… one organ at a time. Billie Collins's play Peak Stuff is a fast-paced, funny, fearless deep-dive into consumer culture. In an age of retail therapy, climate crisis and click and collect - how does our 'stuff' define us? And have we reached peak stuff? The play was commissioned by ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre, was a winner of the New Play Commission Scheme, and was first presented on tour of the UK in 2024.Zum Buch
‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Trains - An Introduction 02 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon 03 - Song of a Train by John Davidson 04 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 05 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman 06 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy 07 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson 08 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by James Russell Lowell 09 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson 11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 12 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 13 - The Railway Train by Emily DickinsonZum Buch
The fifth and final volume of poetry by the author of Wild Cat Falling was originally published in India in 2013. There are 45 poems from the Master of the Ghost Dreaming, as he reels and sways through his long held interest in Buddhism and the Blues. While still writing about rejuvenation and the great cycles of Life, there is a strong awareness of finality, of passing on, of Death. Always lyrical, this is a wonderful offering from the award-winning poet.Zum Buch
The horror of the male experience during World War One was well documented in poetry, memoir, and fiction throughout the 20th century. Women's voices of despair, endurance and anger, however, have often been forgotten. These poems of political fury, widowed brides, industry undertaken, and sons and friends loved and lost, give a heartbreaking insight into the experience of women throughout World War One. The full list of poems included in this collection are: - Joining the Colours, by Katharine Tynan - War Girls, by Jessie Pope - August 1914, by May Wedderburn Cannan - Rouen, by May Wedderburn Cannan - Dedication 8 March, by May Sinclair - Belgium, by Edith Wharton - Lament, by Katharine Tynan - Spring in War-Time, by Sara Teasdale - The Falling Leaves, by Margaret Postgate Cole - 'I know the truth! Renounce all others!', by Marina Tsvetaeva - Lamplight, by May Wedderburn Cannan - In a Soldier's Hospital 1: Pluck, by Eva Dobell - Perhaps 1916, by Vera Brittain - Field Ambulance in Retreat, by May Sinclair - At the Movies, by Florence Ripley Mastin - Reported Missing, by Anna Gordon Keown - from At the Somme: The Song of the Mud, by Mary Borden - from The Work, by Gertrude Stein - After the War, by May Wedderburn Cannan - The Veteran, by Margaret Postgate Cole - Epitaph On My Days in Hospital, by Vera Mary Brittain - Roundel, by Vera Mary Brittain - War Mothers, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - The Lament of the Demobilized, by Vera Brittain - The Cenotaph, by Charlotte Mew - A War Bride, by Jessie St. John - Screens (In a Hospital), by Winifred Letts - The Deserter, by Winifred Letts - The Spires of Oxford, by Winifred Letts - Night Duty, by Eva DobellThis audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.Zum Buch
A Bigfoot Bestiary and Other Wonders is a compendium of natural and unnatural astonishment, anatomizing all those big, hairy monsters that haunt the human condition. Follow their footprints through these pages, and Martin Achatz may just make you a believer in the greatest mystery of all: Love with a capital "L". "Martin Achatz knows what it is to be big and hairy and to express the animal inside us. To paraphrase the Zen koan, live as if you were already Bigfoot. If Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin Bell has his Dead Man poems, Michigan's Achatz has rendered poetical the great ape of the Northwoods, and he eloquently and determinedly immerses us in the dream, meanwhile paying homage to Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and all the other wonderful monsters." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of The Waters and American Salvage "Martin Achatz reimagines the legendary Bigfoot in his newest book, a funny and moving collection of poems that is playfully serious. Achatz melds cryptozoologic wonder with the heartrending stuff of the everyday world ... a fierce Sasquatch howl that illuminates and reveals the fragile state of our collective humanity." --W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings "I believe Martin Achatz intended these pages to impart joy (and other wonders) to those who read with an open paintbox at the ready, its colors so pure they demand that monster landscapes be captured and dimensioned within the nether worlds of dreams and the genius of second readings. A 5-star book without doubt." -- Sue Harrison, international bestselling author of The Midwife's Touch Author of The Mysteries of the Rosary and a former U.P. Poet Laureate, Martin Achatz lives in Ishpeming, Michigan with his family. In his spare time, he chases comets and Bigfoot.Zum Buch
