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  Waves & Waves & Waves - On War...

  Laura-Elena Mireanu

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  Life is water. Water is life.
  
  The motif of water is ever-present. Drops of luck. Pouring anger. Draining sadness. Gushes of adrenaline. Lake of knowledge. River of wisdom. Waves of worry 
  
  clashing,
  
  crashing,
             colliding
                        into my mind.
  
  Waves of passion, of protest, of power;
  
  waves of highs, of lows, of in-betweens;
  
  waves of woe, of wonder, of war;
  
  waves of lust, of love, of life.
  
  And amidst all this water, I try to swim through it all. 
  
  Through the love,
  
  the wars,
  
   the other trivialities that life has in store for me.
  
  Submerging in the oceans of possibility, of experience. 
  
  Sometimes I float, sometimes I drown. 
  
  Sometimes I prefer one, sometimes the other. 
  
  Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes colliding, cleansing, crashing into me like
  
  waves & waves & waves.
  
  Swim float drown against the waves waves waves
               words gush out on the page beyond my control and I am left dry.
  
  For now.

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  Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  Walt Whitman consciously set out to forge a personal path for himself as a poet. Inspired by contemporaries like Emerson who expressed a need for a new, uniquely American style of poetry, Whitman eschewed conventions he saw as outdated or undemocratic. Setting aside traditional rhyme, meter, and even brevity, Whitman favored a style that was declarative, direct, and maximalist. For subject matter he focused on the common individual, as democratic representative of all humanity, and the natural world of which humanity exists as an integral part. "Song of Myself" is perhaps the most well-known exemplar of this aesthetic. Whitman's poetic career took an abrupt turn during the American Civil War, and his poems from that time draw on his experiences volunteering at military hospitals. These, coupled with his elegy for President Lincoln after his assassination ("When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"), helped to cement Whitman's position as a particularly American voice. Among Whitman's recurring themes are the embracing of sensual pleasures, including frank acknowledgments of homosexuality. This latter aspect drove several contemporary critics to reject his work as indecent. Threats of censorship and outright banning encouraged his supporters to speak more publicly in defense of his work, however, and Whitman is now considered to be one of America's most important poets. Leaves of Grass was continually edited and extended over most of Whitman's life. Months before his death, he announced that the next edition would be the complete and definitive one. Referred to now as the "deathbed edition," it was published in 1892 by Whitman's literary executors, and is the basis for this ebook.

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  Saffron Rosa

  John Dedham

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  'Who has a key to open all doors?
  
  When all doors open into closed rooms?
  
  One room contains the happiness of human lives.
  
  One room is furnished with desolation.
  
  One room is a silent swirling cosmos.
  
  But who has a key to open all doors?
  
  The golden key to a golden existence...?'

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  Artaban and the Quest for the...

  Jason Markiewitz, Henry Van Dyke

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  Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.Artaban and the Quest for the King is based upon the 1895 novella "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke.  Jason Markiewitz adapted the story and developed the script used in this production.  This dramatization is performed by a full cast of international, award-winning voice actors and is surrounded by majestic sounds and cinematic music.  More importantly, this story is suitable for all ages and is a heartwarming story of family, hope, perseverance, faith, and love. Artaban and the Quest for the King is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production.

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  The Tablet of My Heart

  Elizabeth Alker

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  The world turns upside down for a young girl when her father begins a fatal battle with the merciless affliction cancer. Before his illness finishes it's devastating rampage through her adolescence, she is confronted by a new demon. She falls victim, by the hands of a trusted adult, to sexual abuse. The devastation of these events causes her to question God's roll in her life, and whether He ever loved her at all. The Tablet of My Heart is a collection of Poetry from the journal of that young girl. It is narrated by the author of the journal herself, who paints a portrait of words illustrating her emotional journey from hopelessness to healing. It is dedicated to victims of abuse; to bring to them the realization of hope that there is a light at the end of the silence. Elizabeth Walker is passionately dedicated to aiding in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. The abuse that she endured as a child fuels her ambition. Elizabeth currently resides in Colorado.

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  Applause - Poems

  Carol Muske-Dukes

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  National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause
  This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.
  Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. "What a strange phenomenon," she says, "to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity."

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