Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
This book was inspired by the author's everyday life, the people he encountered and the world around him. It is a truthful view of life through the eyes of a man living with paranoid delusional schizophrenia. It offers an insight to the secrets of Graham's heart.
Sailing and the Eastern Seabord are the inspiration for shared emotional connections and conveying a sense of place in this debut collection of poems with themes of love and romance, unrequited love and nostalgia, father and daughter relationships, motherhood and friendships, a celebration of heroes, spirituality and God. The Back Bay Collection will resonate with readers who feel a kinship to the sea, the search for renewal, and the human and environmental passions that encompass life. Twentieth and twenty-first century black and white photographs of coastal New England and iconic New York Harbor scenes are included in the ebook and print version.Show book
The title is a line from a song that came to Danny when he started what he could see as a real career path as a plumber's apprentice. "Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling." Unfortunately, the bottle and another kind of pipe had already started calling, leading to the kind of choices that can change a life in the blink of an eye. A story about Family, faith, values, life choices and consequences.Show book
Thort, a highly decorated demon from the upper ranks of Hell-ops reports to his next multi-generational assignment, who just happen to be from the same family lineage as Peter, a disciple of Jesus Christ. Little does he know, this family is on assignment as well, holding to the promises of their Savior and walking powerfully in the gifts of the Holy Spirit to defeat every scheme of their unseen enemy. Thort will find himself completely depleted by defeat, questioning his allegiance at a crossroad that will define his role in all of eternity.Show book
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians. The collection came quickly and relentlessly, drawn from the depths of the author's soul during a movement for a free Palestine and aligned with a solar eclipse. It beckons readers to re-evaluate what is perceived as immutable and to imagine pathways toward Utopia. "Blood Orange"- the title an homage to the Yaffa Oranges (which were appropriated first by the British and subsequently by Israel) refers to the author themselves, their homeland and blood spilled in the name of settler colonialism. This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it. The poems within "Blood Orange" were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.Show book
‘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. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Mystic East 2 - Only Breath by Jalaluddin Rumi 3 - The Guest Is Inside You and Also Inside Me by Kabir 4 - An Ocean Without Shore by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi 5 - Neither Hindu Nor Muslim by Bulleh Shah 6 - Acceptance by Janabai 7 - Go To That Impenetrable Realm by Mirabai 8 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 9 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 10 - The Lute Will Beg by Hafiz 11 - The Song of Chess by Abraham Ibn Ezra 12 - The Value of Friendship by Confucius 13 - All Things Pass by Lao TzuShow book
The father of Ulysses, The Dublineers, and Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce) was also an avidly prolific poet. As of recently, most of his poems entered the public domain, so let us continue with this season's overarching theme of reading early twentieth century Irish Literature, and do a deep dive on the poems of one of Ireland's greatest literary giants--poems of love, life, happiness, sorrow, and rebuttal... but most of all, love.Show book
