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  AWAKEN: Finding Hope Beyond...

  Ítala Veloso

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  When your world falls apart, where does hope hide? 
  What if the breaking was never meant to destroy you — but to awaken you? 
  In Awaken: Finding Hope Beyond Brokenness, poet and life coach Ítala Veloso shares a testimony in verse — written for every soul that's ever felt lost, unseen, or too broken to begin again. 
  These poems are not polished prayers. 
  They are raw honesty, battle cries, tear-stained revelations, and encounters with grace. 
  Ítala walks with you from the depths of despair to the freedom of faith — reminding readers that healing, hope, and spiritual renewal are still possible, even in the darkest seasons. 
  Her words are prayers in motion, carrying the ache of human pain and the healing of God's love — a poetic journey through heartbreak, surrender, forgiveness, and the miraculous rebirth that only love in Christ Jesus can bring. 
  Awaken is a call to the lost, the broken, the weary, and the doubting: 
  to remember who you are, whose you are, and that no valley is too deep for resurrection. 
  Come as you are. You are not forgotten. You are not alone. You are already being made new. 
  Awaken.

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  Top 10 Poets The - The U S - The...

  James Weldon Johnson, Georgia...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  The United States may be far younger than many nations on Earth, yet its tumultuous history has reaped a harvest of poets and poetry of very fine calibre.  In this volume we explore the verse of the South-East.

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  Deceptive Calm

  Patricia Skipper

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  Against the turbulent backdrop of declared martial law in South Carolina, a stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, lives in a Catholic orphanage for Blacks. After a series of racial traumas, Vanessa obtains the birth certificate of a deceased white baby and uses this document to assume the child's identity. She moves to California and enrolls at UC Berkeley under her newly acquired name. 
  Vanessa marries into one of California's wealthiest families. Her charmed life abruptly ends eighteen months after the birth of her first child who is diagnosed with sickle cell trait. Discovering that the woman he married is Black, as is his toddler son, Vanessa's ruthless husband plots his revenge but they both survive. The police investigation that follows seems pretty clear-cut until a curious, young detective uncovers some clues to her private life where nothing is as it appears. The aftermath of the discovery brings down a pillar of San Francisco society.

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  Poetry Is My Voice

  Mea Finch

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  A collection of poetry written from a neurodivergent mind about the multitude of emotions and experiences one can go through just to make it through adolescence. All of which envelope deep emotions and experiences such as anguish, despair and discrimination, but also poetry that touches on subtle emotions like hope and tranquillity. The poems written upon the pages of this book have come from a fifteen-year-old all the way to now a nineteen-year-old who is thrilled to finally share them with the world. These poems are the face of feelings that have been internalised for far too long, and have served as a form of self-expression through not just adversity, but also times when hope and snippets of joy felt strong. Poetry has helped the author understand their emotions and how they take in and process the environment around them. The way the author sees the world is likely different from most, but the emotions within their poetry unwrap the harsh and kind feelings that may have, at least once, been felt by all. "When the world turns their ears away It's poetry I send words to Because there, You might just realise the value of my voice." – Mea Finch.

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  The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal -...

  Elizabeth Siddal

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  Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall was born on the 25th July, 1829 in London into a working-class family where she received an ‘ordinary education’.   
  Whilst accounts differ, it is clear that she met the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Deverell whilst working in a millinery shop and he asked her to model for him, describing her as "magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling ... she has grey eyes, and her hair is like dazzling copper, and shimmers with luster."  She personified female beauty for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and her face became well known in Victorian Britain, gracing many famous paintings such as John Everett Millais's Ophelia, where she is portrayed drowned, floating in a pond. From the experience she also caught pneumonia.  
  Although Siddal (she later changed the spelling of her name) endured a toxic and probably controlling relationship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who wouldn’t allow her to model for anyone but himself, she made great strides under his tuition and in her endeavours as an artist.  She was the only woman to exhibit with the Pre-Raphaelites in 1857 where she sold one of her paintings to an American collector. 
  She created many paintings, often inspired by Medieval themes, but her output of poetry was scant despite the positive reception to her verse.  Their motifs were sad and often tragic, dwelling on lost or doomed love.  As well they suggest a strong connection with nature and often plead with God with a haunting yet evocative simplicity. 
  Allied to this was a laudanum addiction which may have contributed to a still-born birth in 1861 and from which she never fully recovered.   
  Elizabeth Siddal committed suicide by an overdose, whilst pregnant, on the 11th February 1862.  She was 32.

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  The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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