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  Short Poetry Collection 145

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2015.

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of William Shakespeare's most enchanting and beloved comedies—a magical tale where love, illusion, and mischief collide under the moonlit sky. Set in ancient Athens and an enchanted forest nearby, the play weaves together multiple storylines filled with romance, mistaken identities, playful deception, and whimsical fantasy.
  
  At the heart of the story are four young lovers—Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena—who find themselves entangled in a complicated web of affection and jealousy. When Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, as commanded by her father, she flees into the forest with Lysander, the man she truly loves. Demetrius follows in pursuit, with Helena chasing after him in desperate devotion. What unfolds is a night of chaos and comedy when fairy magic interferes with human emotions.
  
  Hovering over the forest is the quarrel between Oberon, the King of the Fairies, and Titania, his Queen. Their dispute disrupts both the natural world and the lives of the mortals who wander into their realm. Determined to teach Titania a lesson, Oberon enlists the mischievous sprite Puck to use a magical flower whose nectar causes the victim to fall in love with the first creature they see upon waking. However, Puck's playful mistakes lead to hilarious consequences, causing lovers to switch affections and turning order into delightful confusion.
  
  Adding another layer of humor is a group of amateur craftsmen rehearsing a play for the Duke's wedding. Their clumsy performance preparations provide comic relief, especially when one of them, Nick Bottom, becomes the unwitting target of fairy enchantment.
  
  Through poetic language, witty dialogue, and imaginative storytelling, Shakespeare explores themes of love's irrationality, the thin line between dream and reality, the transformative power of imagination, and the unpredictability of desire. The forest becomes a symbolic space where societal rules loosen, identities shift, and characters confront their true feelings.
  
  Both lighthearted and profound, A Midsummer Night's Dream remains a timeless celebration of romance, magic, and the human heart. Its blend of fantasy and humor continues to captivate readers and audiences, reminding us that love—like a dream—can be beautiful, bewildering, and wonderfully unpredictable.

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  Gigi & Dar

  Josh Azouz

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  'Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.'
  A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
  Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she'd be shot today. And there's a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that's okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
  A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz's play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter.

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  This Way to Change - Poems Prose...

  Jezz Chung

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  Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercises, guided meditations, and more to help listeners tap into their powers of self-healing on their journey through change. 
   
   
   
  For anyone interested in: 
   
   
   
  ● Healing through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence 
   
   
   
  ● Building community to address collective crisis, interdependence as the intersection of self care and community care 
   
   
   
  ● Transforming yourself to transform the world 
   
   
   
  ● Holistic and alternative approaches to wellness including guided meditations, reflection prompts, somatic practices 
   
   
   
  ● AAPI listeners interested in Jezz Chung's Korean American perspective on identity, sociopolitical engagement, and intergenerational trauma 
   
   
   
  ● Self-Love Poetry, Heart Talk, and such bestselling authors as Alexandra Elle and Yung Pueblo

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  Black Bones Red Earth

  Lee Richie

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  An Australian/English historical drama set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s, the story follows the life of Katherine, an English child migrant who is consigned to an austere life on an isolated property beyond Broken Hill. There is little love in Katherine's life until Aboriginal station hands offer their friendship, but love comes at a deadly price. 
  Part two brings listeners to the modern-day English Lake District before taking us back to Australia for the story's climax. Inspired by the true experiences of family and friends closest to the author, Black Bones, Red Earth is a story of hope, love, sacrifice and resilience. 
  Beautifully read by Australian actress, Sandy Gore, star of television, film and stage, this heart wrenching tale is the sometimes harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting story of a child's search for love, and a woman's test of faith. Katherine's journey is an emotional roller-coaster with a deeply satisfying ending.

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  Poems Of Peace

  James Allen

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  Wordsworth held that every true poet was a teacher; and he said, “I wish either to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing.” The poems in this volume are designed to teach; and as instruction is best administered by methods which please while they elevate, the immediate object of these poems is to comfort, to bless, and to make happy; and, being framed on the principles of Truth, I doubt not that they will inspire men to embrace loftier ideals of life, draw them to a closer acquaintance with virtue, and lead them to a more intimate union with that perfect Wisdom whose ways are “ways of pleasantness,” and whose paths are “paths of peace.” 
  - James Allen 
  In this unusual departure from his usual practical and direct style, Allen here writes a series of thoughtful, reflective and inspirational poems laying out his unique thoughts in a new style.  
  Spiritual, secular, and deeply embedded in the genuine practice of faith, the book begins with Eolaus, an extended work following a man struggling through the depths of his spiritual sorrow, comforted and assailed by the vocies of earth and nature.  
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  James Allen wrote nineteen self-help books combining Buddhism, Confucianism, and classical Christianity between 1903 and 1912. Born to improvrished parents, one of whom was murdered when searching for work in America when Allen was fifteen, he went on to combine the esoteric and philosophical slant of eastern religions with the solid practicality and common-sense approach of a Victorian Englishman from Leicester.

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