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  Fifty Shades of Fathers - 50 of...

  William Wordsworth, Laurence...

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  Our own lives are possible because of fathers.  It may be as limited as a procreational act and we never see them again.  But more hopefully these are kind, caring and protective relationships that are central to our lives helping us to explore and achieve the people we want to be.  From the childhood dependency of early years to sometimes troublesome teens to independence thereafter they help guide, advise, cajole and share their lives with those they most love. 
   
  Our classic poets who range in stature from William Blake to William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anne Bradstreet fill their verse with their own unique take on just what a father is. What he should be and what he can be.  These poems give us both an insight into the role of the father in previous generations and the mirror of how some things do not change. 
   
  Beyond the nurture and the genetics one fact remains a constant, these relationships go both ways; we need them and they need us.  But for many that can remain unsaid.  Those words can mean much and should be often thought and sometimes said. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction 
  2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield 
  3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley 
  5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon 
  9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon 
  10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker 
  11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley 
  13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter 
  14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
  15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford 
  16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth 
  19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
  20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay 
  21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
  22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford 
  23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan 
  25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
  26 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
  27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
  30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
  31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall 
  32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte 
  33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman 
  34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  36 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
  37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch 
  38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
  39 - Seashore by Tagore 
  40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune 
  41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke 
  42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
  43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats 
  46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe 
  51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling

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  My Sisters' Keeper {Unlocked}

  Ra'Sheeka Keonique

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  Meet Ryder, Angela, Torey and Delylah. These four intelligent, brave, beautiful, and witty heroines have been best friends their entire lives. If the title My Sisters’ Keeper were people, it’d be this tribe of women… Until, All Hell Breaks Loose, that is. When the tide turns, the besties find themselves on four life-altering journeys, but because the sisters’ lives are so Entangled, they embark on their separate journeys together. Their paths take them into the abyss, where things get real dark, real tumultuous and real heinous, real quick. When it ain't all Go best friend -That's My Best Friend- anymore, Ryder, Angela, Torey & Delylah are left infuriated, betrayed, and devastated. Will the girls survive the conflagration, and find their way back to the tribe? Or, will the ferocious waters of love, friendship and sisterhood be just a tad too murky for them to navigate their way home? Most importantly, will they still have a home to go back to?

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  Death etc

  Harold Pinter

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  A collection of political essays, poetry, and dramatic works by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright and author of Betrayal.   Throughout his life, playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of power and those who would defend the status quo for the sake of their own security and comfort. Awarded the Wilfred Owen Prize in 2004 for his poetry condemning US military intervention in Iraq, Mr. Pinter has succeeded in combining his artistry with his political activism.  Death etc. brings together Pinter’s most poignant and especially relevant writings in response to war. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on the state-sponsored terrorism of present-day regimes, to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized, Mr. Pinter’s writings are as essential to the preservation of open debate as to our awareness of personal involvement in the fate of our global community.

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  Five Senses

  Arthur Macy

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  Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from the Indians, paid them fairly for it, treated them with justice, and lived on friendly terms with them. In many ways Arthur Macy showed that he was a Nantucketer and, at least by descent, a Quaker. He often used phrases peculiar to our island in the sea, and was given, in conversation at least, to similes which smacked of salt water. Almost the last time I saw him he said, "I'm coming round soon for a good long gam."Arthur Macy's view of life was certainly broad and generous, with a philosophic flavor. (from the Introduction (by William Alfred Hovey) to POEMS BY ARTHUR MACY (1905))

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Ruth Pettite

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  Incorporating real-time happenings, "Bedeviled Nightingale" works to explain tragic times for even those people to whom we don't think it could happen. Brianna is an author, hunkered in her cabin for relaxation and work. She uses the cabin as her office and her home, away from the hustle from the city. 
  Divorced and focused, Brianna wants nothing to do but to take care of her world. She enjoys the nature around her and what it provides, until her ex-husband comes knocking down her door. Her Southern ways taught her many things, including ignoring people she doesn't want to be around or talk to. Nathaniel brings bad news from the lower country, cuing Brianna to pack and go with him to her father. 
  Family secrecy is one of many things found in this town. Brianna's family is no different. From the lack of communications to the destruction of other family members, this family was doomed from the start.  
  Desperation brings out the best in people, but not always in the best circumstances. Brianna and Nathaniel both find this out when Short Story Press and Ruth Pettite present "Bedeviled Nightingale". 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Odyssey One Day In His Courts -...

  Stephanie Dale

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  A collection of twenty-five poems on faith and ocd. Intrusive thoughts come up with what seems like a million flashing warning lights like those coming up all at once on a car's faulty dashboard. None of them make sense but they all feel so real, so personal, yet so alien to the person's heart, nature and beliefs. Suffering in silence, unable to talk as it feels like no one will understand, or worse, that they will judge harshly... anxiety levels soar... isolation follows, even from God, because "He knows". The thing is, He does know. Brains glitch, they can be like the car's faulty dashboard. They are not our mind, and they are not our heart. The battle is very real and the steps taken to overcome must be acknowledged, but the journey was never meant to be travelled alone. These few poems are a prayer voyage towards restored intimacy in the courts of Grace and in the safety of one's hiding place, tightly tucked against His heart, positioned for recovery.

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