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  Darkly Gothic Poems - Never More...

  Rachel Lawson

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  2 gothic poems by author poet Rachel Lawson.

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  Dances Towers Hills and Skies

  Del Elle

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  I spent years avoiding poetry, and what happens?  
  Got me when I least expected it.  
  Born after seeing a tv programme: 
  Pushed by a need to escape from writing that epic.  
  Reflexes to landscapes, skyscapes and flowers: 
  Reflexes to music that stirs the beat. 
    
  Dances: 
    
  The first book in The Poetry Collections.

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  Poets & Their Inner Demons –...

  William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe,...

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  The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death. 
  In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents. 
  In this volume we bring together the poems and verse of those wordsmiths whose lives were corroded by depression and the black moods it wrapped them in.  For many the condition would return again and again often deepening into other more malign conditions as well.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents.

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  Tears Laughs and Dreams - A...

  Alicia Rades

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  Experience the tears, listen to the laughter, and follow the dreams of one young author’s journey through life in this collection of short poems.

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  So This is Love

  Oliver Forward

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  Remember, true love cannot be measured, when it has been emptied from the heart. These romantic poems composed by Oliver Forward, remind the reader about positive thoughts in their past with the hope those feelings recur in the future.

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  Swansdown

  Donald Platt

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  In Swansdown, Donald Platt makes a study of life' s inevitable transitions, from love' s astonishing evolutions, to aging and its attendant losses. With the poem " Cloud Study" Platt brings his own mortality into view. Returning to a painting by Constable, he considers his own perspective, sitting by the Liffey, tending an injured knee. Young mothers, lovers, and runners pass, reminding the poet of who he once was and how quickly life, like weather, shifts. " Two minutes later, // The clouds would have taken on a different cast of light and shape / just like the thunderheads / now piling up above the Liffey."
  
  Platt advises: " To approach old age, one needs a new harsher style." And yet these poems are proof of the softness that may follow life' s harshest reckonings, like the wisps of hair on his beloved brother' s head as he lies dying, " fine / as milkweed silk. / His head a split / dried pod whose seeds / wind will scatter." The poems of Swansdown point us to a " larger landscape," they are the clouds " that scud across the blue escutcheon of sky. . . Sun' s blazon through rain rampant."

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