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  Begin With A Question

  Marjorie Maddox

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  Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey— often in stops and starts— toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, " Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God.
  
  
  Begin with a Question is published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

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  Southern Fried Shakespeare - A...

  Robert James

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  Welcome y'all! This project was created for those who think they don't like Shakespeare. It is a completely unsanctioned and unconventional interpretation of some of the works of William Shakespeare. If you are a purist be forewarned! I have always been fascinated with the written works of Shakespeare since I was a child trying to decipher the giant volume of his works I discovered in my father's library. I knew it was important historically but the language had me often running to a dictionary in those pre-Google days. Understanding a live performance was an equally challenging task as the British accents combined with the lambic pentameter rhythm left me struggling to understand the meaning. But once you figure what he's saying you realized these timeless stories of dysfunctional families and political intrigue are just as relevant today as 400 years ago. Every actor in training experiences the works of William Shakespeare to some degree. While memorizing lines I would try various characters and accents. For Richard III's famous opening monologue I settled on a genteel aristocrat from the Southern United States. I shared with my instructor and after some initial eye rolls he had to admit it was easier to understand. Eventually I created a one man show around the idea and wrote original songs that I believe express the emotion and underlying intentions of the pieces. And of course what's a variety show without an MC or two. In this case two squabbling siblings Auntie Bella and her twin brother Beauregard to bring a small respite to the drama. During the COVID pandemic I decided to record an audio version of the show. I hope you enjoy my family of misfits as much as I did creating them. But hey, to thine own taste be true. Cousin Willy must have had a sense of humor to write some of this stuff!

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  Museum of My Soul: Redux - The...

  Dornel Phillips AKA D-Nice Keoma

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  Redux has 30 more poems, reshaping the narrative created in the first book. This version tells a longer and more heartfelt story. Museum of The Soul is a collection of poems that tell a love story. These poems cover the real dynamics of romantic relationships, seen through my eyes. The title The Time IT Took originates from the time it took to put together a body such as this. The title also loosely represents my romantic relationship history. Museum of My Soul in that sense is a collection of artifacts (poems) from different periods of my life and relationships. The book still obliges to three exhibits set forth in the first book: Exhibit A: Falling, Exhibit B: Being broken, and Exhibit C: Ending

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  Top 10 Poets The - The War Poets...

  Wilfred Owen

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death.  Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 
  3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen 
  5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen 
  7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 
  8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas 
  10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 
  11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 
  13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 
  14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 
  15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke 
  17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg 
  18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg 
  21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 
  23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 
  26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney 
  28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney 
  29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 
  30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 
  34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker 
  35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 
  36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon 
  38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon 
  39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 
  40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 
  43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley 
  44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley 
  46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 
  47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  51 - The End by Alfred Lichtenstein

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  Haikus of an Addict

  Brett C. Persson

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  Witness haikus drawn from the mind of a recovering addict. 
  Gritty, authentic, and deeply personal, this complete collection of Poetry of an Addict compiles over 125 haikus that explore the darkness of addiction and offering a mixture of musings, reflections, and thoughts captured from moments of author Brett C. Persson's life. Ranging from vivid wordplay written while sober to fragments and flashes of thought that were snatched from the depths of drug and alcohol use, these poems illuminate the mind of a man who struggled for decades with pain, grief, and substance abuse. 
  Balancing the sorrows of addiction with a redeeming message of hope and growth, readers will be taken on a journey that will offer them a window into the mind of an addict, revealing the inner conflicts, struggles, and suffering that grips the throes of addiction. This collection provides a new perspective to any poetry fan who wants to deepen their understanding of addiction, find a new source of human resilience, and see how one man managed to rise above his addiction to reclaim his life. 
  Perfect for kindred souls who have struggled with addiction, Haikus of an Addict shines as a guiding light that will help you reflect on your own demons – or build the courage to confront them.

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  A Child of Science

  Gareth Farr

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  'One day this will work. One day we will gift two honest, decent, trusting volunteers a baby. I know this more than anything else in the world. I know it in my soul. We will do that.'
  In 1978, three pioneering doctors changed the world of fertility as we know it. Supported by an army of immensely brave women from all over the UK, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy achieved the impossible: they created human life in vitro.
  Faced with fierce criticism and hostility, and hounded by the media for 'playing God', trials had to be kept largely under wraps. But the trio's determination to give hope to the thousands of families struggling to conceive eventually led to the first 'test-tube baby' and the creation of IVF, a procedure which has since supported the birth of over twelve million babies worldwide.
  Gareth Farr's play A Child of Science is a fictionalised account of this true story of ambition and courage, based on extensive research and interviews with embryologists and fertility doctors, as well as those affected by and enabled by IVF. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2024, directed by Matthew Dunster.

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