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Dive into the enchanting world of poetic expression with "The Beauty of Words: A Poetry Collection" by Elizabeth O. Ogunmodede. This captivating anthology traverses through the intricate tapestry of human experience, touching upon themes ranging from the awe-inspiring beauty of nature to the complexities of society, from cherished memories to the depths of agony, and from whimsical fantasies to the warmth of friendship and family bonds. With each carefully crafted verse, Ogunmodede invites readers to explore the rich landscape of literature, where emotions are woven into words, painting vivid portraits of the human soul. Embark on a journey of introspection and revelation as you immerse yourself in the evocative verses of "The Beauty of Words," where every stanza is a testament to the enduring power and allure of language.

Préface Chers lecteurs, chères lectrices, C'est avec une sincère reconnaissance que je vous accueille dans l'univers poétique d'ÉCLATS D'ESPÉRANCE, une anthologie qui dépasse les barrières du langage pour capturer l'essence profonde de l'âme humaine. En tant qu' initiatrice du Groupe Fb: LES COMPAGNONS DES CALAMES ENGAGÉS: "CDCE" et anthologiste de cette collection exceptionnelle, je suis comblée de partager avec vous ces fragments de vie, ces éclats d'émotions qui ont trouvé leur écho au fil de ces pages. ÉCLATS D'ESPÉRANCE va au-delà d'une simple compilation de poèmes; c'est un périple à travers les pensées, les rêves et les réalités de 52 poètes engagés venant de divers horizons. Chaque poème représente une éclatante expression d'amour, d'espoir, et de la quête universelle de compréhension. Je vous convie à explorer, à ressentir et à célébrer la diversité de l'expérience humaine à travers ces pages. Que chaque poème soit une porte ouverte à la réflexion, à l'amour et à la fraternité. Avec toute la poésie de mon coeur, Saliha Ragad, also known as Khalice Jade. Foreword Dear Readers, I extend my heartfelt gratitude as I welcome you to the poetic universe of 'SHARDS OF HOPE, ' an anthology transcending language barriers to capture the profound essence of the human soul. As the founder of the Facebook Group 'THE COMPANIONS OF COMMITTED PENS: CDCE' and the anthologist of this exceptional collection, "I am delighted to share with you fragments of life and shards of emotions resonating within the pages of this anthology." "SHARDS OF HOPE" goes beyond a mere compilation of poems; it is a journey through the thoughts, dreams, and realities of 50 committed poets from diverse backgrounds. Each poem represents a radiant expression of love, hope, and the universal quest for understanding. I invite you to explore, feel, and celebrate the diversity of the human experience within these pages. May each poem be an open door to reflection, love, and fraternity." With all the poetry of my heart, Saliha Ragad, also known as Khalice Jade.

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the poem brings to life a magnificent world that fuses history with fantasy. Tom Shippey's new translation of Beowulf, reflecting a lifetime of engagement with the poem, makes its story clearer and more compelling than it has ever been. The original Old English text of Beowulf is included along with an extensive and innovative commentary, which guides the reader passage-by-passage through the poem and its criticism. In addition to the text, translation, and commentary, this volume contains an extensive bibliography, a translator's preface, and an appended essay by Tom Shippey on "Tolkien and Beowulf-A Lifelong Involvement." The 2nd edition (revised and expanded) adds new texts and translations (by Tom Shippey) of Waldere, the Hildebrandslied, and the Fight at Finnsburg.

Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the poem brings to life a magnificent world that fuses history with fantasy. Tom Shippey's new translation of Beowulf, reflecting a lifetime of engagement with the poem, makes its story clearer and more compelling than it has ever been. The original Old English text of Beowulf is included along with an extensive and innovative commentary, which guides the reader passage-by-passage through the poem and its criticism. In addition to the text, translation, and commentary, this volume contains an extensive bibliography, a translator's preface, and an appended essay by Tom Shippey on "Tolkien and Beowulf-A Lifelong Involvement." The 2nd edition (revised and expanded) adds new texts and translations (by Tom Shippey) of Waldere, the Hildebrandslied, and the Fight at Finnsburg.

Frog Joy is a collection of free verse and micro poems that point to the beauty in everyday moments. Beth Gulley is making her own world without a fence. Sometimes readers join her as she stains her fingers on low hanging mulberries. Other times the readers chase her along the trail and try to escape the rising flood waters. Underneath it all, a chorus of frog calls, like fingers running along the edge of a comb, echo in the damp night.Few brief, gem-like poetic meditations shine like Beth's. Part diary entry, part koan or prayer, these new poems sparkle with wit and wisdom. I treasure them. You will too. -Kevin Rabas, Past Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019), Improvise

Charles Simic used to tell us that great poetry is a "superb serenity in the face of chaos," and that is where this volume of poetry finds its heart. An unflinching look at modern life and its personal chaos, whether it is the loss of a loved one, facing one's own mortality, or a range of other realities, Zampino shows us both the challenges and the options we have at our disposal in living a life worthwhile. He pays us the compliment of accurately describing modern reality - and then shows us why that is actually the power and the beauty that remains available to all of us.- Andre Vlok, Owner and Conflict Specialist at the Conflict Resolution Centre, South Africa and author of Hamlet's Mirror: Conflict and AI Sometime in the twentieth century - right around 1963, if I had to say - poetry lost its heart and its soul and its curiosity about, for a lack of a better term, the "permanent things." Thomas Zampino found them. They're in these verses.- Ben Boychuk, columnist and opinion editor, TheBlaze

Diary of Rhymes is a collection at the intersection of life's ups and downs. Moseley makes the reader her diary as she confesses the reflections of her everyday loss, love, growth, grief, beauty, and political rage. Her lyrical meter is accessible and perfect for readers that are new to the poetry genre.

"Dante Emilé has no dull edges. Turn Misplaced Organs & Various Saints on any side, you will find something to whet your blade with. This is a collection of asking: an asking of God, an asking of The Self, an asking of The Lover, all of which I recognize as prayer. It begs & demands. It is fantastic & fast. These poems hit hard, rattle the molars in the sockets. These poems pry the skin back. They shock, then delight in that shock. Misplaced Organs & Various Saints is vicious & bewitching. It will haunt you, like a father, like heartbreak, like a God that wants blood & regret. There is no doubt that Dante Emilé has hit the mark. This poetry lingers. Let it root down to the bones & live there." -silas denver melvin, author of Grit (Sunday Mornings at the River, 2020)

Deeply woven restorative love, raining down from our Father of mercy to the fatherless and the crushed in spirit. Live and lean into a captivating wonderment of the all-consuming and all-providing heavenly presence of our Father. "The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, " Abba, Father." Romans 8:15 (NIV)

This book is about me, my life, the good, the bad, and the ugly. You will read how prayer and having a positive mindset got me through these times in life. I speak on a few personal topics in this book - family, relationships, traveling and life lessons. However, the real question is, when faced with life's most inconvenient situations, will I survive? Will I be able to cope with the good and the bad? Will I make it out when it seems there is no way out? Journey with me through my life's poetry!

Ourigan, Oregon is a collection of poems, divided into two distinct groups, distinct in terms of time and temperament, but also wildly different in style, influence, and purpose. They were written by two different authors over two hundred years apart: William Clark of the Corps of Discovery, in 1804-1806, and an anonymous author, possibly posthumous, and seemingly from Portland, Oregon, in the years 2017-2019.Where the two meet is in the places and things found up and down and along either side of the Columbia River, the lifeblood of Oregon, from as far east as Dog River (modern-day Hood River) or even the Dalles, to the western shores of the U.S., where the Columbia River vomits sweet water into the brine of the "great Pacific Octean."To say that William Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, wrote poetry in his journals sounds far-fetched: he wrote in a prose that is, however, highly poetic in places. These are the Ourigan poems, co-authored, or rather edited, by Richard Robinson. They are 95% pure Clark: misspellings, warts, poetry and all; and 5% Robinson: editing, meter, rhythm, and rhyme where it works.The anonymous poems - the Oregon poems - are written, seemingly, as recollections in tranquility by an author whose background and whereabouts are equally uncertain. The poems were written in the same places along the river that Clark visited. But their themes, although similar, are wildly different. There is, in addition, a very particular pinch of modernness to them, which some might call depravity.We leave it to the readers to judge for themselves whether this collection of poetry coheres, or abruptly falls apart and dies, like water over an edge, or like autumnal leaves dropping, one by one, into the river, as they quietly "mend their way south" and "keep far from the strand."

Here be divagations, wanderings through Covid-stricken Manhattan streets woven together with accounts and excursions through the mind's spaces, memories real and imagined, incidents and adventures comic and sad in a world off-kilter, a mix of marvelous and concrete, quotidian and outré all playing against a pandemic background of " Time, the chorus," now luxurious as prose-poem, now expansive as fiction or essay, sheltering in place or moving through landscapes foreign and domestic, all held together floating in nervous air while the mind tells stories like Scheherazade, trying to trick the tyrant into a change of heart and set us loose again to wander where the sun never sets and Ya-Honk! goes the wild gander. It's an amazing book. These prose meditations circle, engage, even deflect the looming presence and isolations of the Covid year. Swann's "emergent occasions" are vividly described city streets, domestic moments, dreams recalled or proposed and wonderfully angular, brief narratives. In their digressive qualities they recall Defoe's Journal, not as source but as precedent. Covid left us all with varied emptiness and arbitrary time. Swann offers us his effort to fill in the blanks. -Michael Anania ... chronicles the Covid-19 pandemic as dystopian sci-fi literature, capturing the uncertainty and fear through direct experience.... And then, as can happen, when the daily trappings of life are stemmed and a community is ordered to shelter in place, the writer extracts resources from his files-memory, imagination. In the fertile, isolated mind, in the storehouse of recall and creativity, the vignettes arise. Astute and conversational, Swann's fragments swirl swiftly from encounter to concept, from ordinary moment to momentary insight. -Martine Bellen ... Brian Swann tells us the Iroquois term "ononharoin" is the ceremony in which the brain is turned upside down, where you can only riddle to get what you want. His prose poems and fictions circle real-time memories ... to recreate the mysteries of one "who captures the blue in the prism all around" and "the noise the emptiness makes." The narrator finds maggots under the floormats in "The Other Side," a man "who strangles balloons into sausages" in "The Contortionist," and a penknife that animates a desk in "Ducks." Each piece is a kind of riddle, plunging into life and where they emerge is always a surprise. -Terese Svoboda

In her latest collection, Lorrie Ness paints an intricate, aching portrait of landscape and inheritance. Here, the wonders and cruelties of family and the natural world braid together, not quite healing but rather reshaping one another, the way an American elm crumbles so that "[e]very summer, woodpeckers / fledge from its core." When home is both "a grave and a nebula," Ness reminds us how to hold the stories of where we come from with exquisite and unwavering attention.- Empty House Press

雷海辰这位"00后"诗人的诗充满了新语素，新意境，新的修辞风格，宏大超凡的想象空间和深刻的哲理，每首诗都散发着一种"春来发几枝"的馨香。"对过去的思索/和对未来的叩问"是他诗意的主题；"机器人吻我的瞬间/我将变为机器人的机器"是"00后"诗人对人类未来的诗性预言！海辰的修辞也别具一格："夜得深，暗得黑，嘶得鸣"，这种"得"字格新用，可以说是修辞的一种突破，任何一个诗人读到这儿，都会驻足不前，需要用力想象一番，如何"夜得深"？何以"嘶得鸣"？这需要另一种我们不曾习惯的想象力。各种新的语素、新的意象使他的抒情别有一番"00后"特有的新意境。

These poems do what poems should: they interrogate the world in the name of the earth. They are not rhetorical questions. They concern the sacredness of life. The voice here is serious but not grave. They are spoken from an ancient tradition by a man who is a father, a husband, an elder of an extended family that includes you, the reader. They question, sometimes with biting humor, the authority of a world that ignores-or worse-destroys the bonds of humanity to the sources of life in the earth. They celebrate the music and poetry throughout human culture that nourish the roots of community. The poems become brief ceremonies that remind us of our original belonging in the company of love. -Bill Tremblay, award-winning poet

The Horizon Shifts Sideways has arisen out of the poet's deep engagement with the observed world. Her work displays an informed curiosity about the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it - both human and animal. With unflinching candour, it explores and challenges the ways in which our preconceptions, prejudices, memories, and self-deceptions shape our worldviews.

Dancing between two worlds, 'Canvas Echoes: A Poetic Odyssey Enkindled from a Symphony of Paint' takes readers on an enchanting journey through the realms of art and poetry. In this collection, each poem serves as a portal into the vivid landscapes and intricate narratives captured within renowned paintings.Through the strokes of words, the poems unravel the hidden depths and unspoken emotions behind each brushstroke, breathing new life into timeless masterpieces. From the haunting beauty of a moonlit night captured by By Johann Gustav Lange's" Full moon over winter landscape" to the tender embrace depicted in "Domestic happiness." by Eduard Antoon Portielje; these poems offer a fresh perspective on beloved artworks, inviting readers to explore beyond the canvas. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of paintings spanning various genres and eras, 'Canvas Echoes' celebrates the power of art to evoke profound emotions and ignite the imagination. Whether it's the serene tranquility of a pastoral landscape or the tumultuous passion of a historical scene, each poem paints a rich tapestry of imagery and sentiment, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the vibrant colours and whispered stories of the art world. Through lyrical verses and evocative imagery, 'Canvas Echoes' invites readers to embark on a transformative voyage, where the boundaries between art and poetry blur, and the echoes of the canvas resonate in the depths of the soul.

Fortitude, resilience to overthinking, the walls which go beyond my limits, to imagine things that are not. Tomorrow is a new day transcending doubts, pushing forwards, though the body says "rest" and suggests complacency, the enemy to new horizons. I am the reason I have failed.I am the reason I have succeeded.With a simple choice to give in or go beyond.

Something Man-Made Is Here and It Is Dangerous is a pamphlet of poetry that finds humour, beauty, and fascination in the post-human. Stefan Mohamed explores landscapes that might be unfriendly to us but friendly to others, and in doing so plays around with the strange voices and concepts that might spring from that. This is a remarkable work that engages with science-fiction, scientific language, eco-poetry, the evolution - and loss - of language, and the thought processes of abstract beings.

Critical perspectives from the Army Surgeon General's 40-year career as a frontline emergency doctor in crisis and war, using poetry as a means to sustain his personal mental resilience.

The Words of Others are All We Have is a poetry conversation between Louise Machen and J. Daniel West illustrating working class landscapes in an era of gentrification and widening social disparity.This collection traverses the topographies of the city and its surrounding suburbs, examining the contradictions that arise in the relationships between people and the places that provide a familiar comfort whilst surreptitiously encouraging a coalescence with the inability to escape economic and emotional deprivation.These poems are rooted in the everyday, in the discord between the metropolis and the natural world, in the importance of our 'root networks' and the realities of class restriction. From terraced streets to high-rise flats and glass monoliths to nostalgic landmarks, this conversation of poetry discusses experiences of childhood, adolescence and aging in the urban sprawl of the north."Set in a vivid landscape of urban decay, a brutal Eden where paradise isn't lost, it was just never an option. These 'conversation' poems rise above their beginnings like a plume: part smoke, part accusation and part defiance and without sentimentality into vital poetry written as a remembrance and as a warning to the rest of the lifestyle obsessed world that we were here and some still are."Jack Caradoc 4/10/23"With relentless "fire and fury", this uncompromising pamphlet of poetry centres on issues of social, economic and cultural deprivation in Manchester. The poems, which highlight poor living standards and the "gritty filth" of environments, also focuses intently on adverse life experiences and lack of opportunities of an underclass and working class struggling at the edge; all the more tragic because of the gentrified communities around these poor estates - the distant "sun-kissed monoliths" of new housing development, which sharply contrast with poverty-stricken neighbourhoods. In focusing on deep inequalities, the two writers in the collaborative work shine an uncomfortable but necessary light on the grime of neglected areas and the insurmountable challenges people born without privilege face in trying to break out of the poverty trap. This no-holes barred account, rendered with sharp poeticism, makes gripping reading."Matthew M. C. Smith, author of The Keeper of Aeonsand editor of Black Bough."The words of others are all we have is an aptly-named pamphlet, as each poem perfectly speaks in conversation with one another in a way that harmonises in a beautiful melody throughout.The pamphlet is a delve into gritty urban settings honeyed with nostalgia but sharpened by hindsight, and we are warmed by personal moments of exploration of both what constitutes as 'home', and the relationships that define and refine us from those places. From synthetic underpass lights to rows of Primarks and John Lewises, there is an acute ache of familiarity, along with the throb of a home altered beyond recognition.These powerful poems will leave the reader bathing in that 'fire and flood' of yesteryears long gone, leaving the inevitable question; where does that now leave us?"Scarlett Ward, author of Ache and Founder of Fawn Press."Urgent, vivid, and important poetry from perspectives that tend to be silenced, grasping, among other things, the entrapments of poverty, and the slipperiness of memory."Dave Haslam, writer, broadcaster and DJ

Alastair ('Lala') Ashford-Brown was born in 1953 in the heart of rural Wiltshire. He attended Marlborough College, one of England's top schools, from which he was expelled for cutting down the school bells celebrated by Poet Laureate John Betjeman. After a brief period as a shepherd on Exmoor where he had his heart broken for the first time, Lala set out to seek solace on the roads of Europe where he wandered for nearly twenty years in the pursuit of meaning and the magic he felt to have vanished from life and above all to find romance and adventure, both of which he found along with much despair. He travelled with the Gypsies and lived with them in their great encampment in the Pyrenees. He drank, he fell in love, he lived on his wits and broke the law and was imprisoned in his beloved Greece, where he started to write his story: Hedges, Ditches and Dreams (Tales from the Flames of Youth). The poems in this volume are those he wrung from his blood over the years.

This is a celebration of the poetry that is life, that which runs through our veins and keeps us alive even through the darkest of moments. An Ode to Life in Poetry is indirectly a truth seeker's handbook in navigating the motions of the inner oceans and the infinite tides of feeling. It encompasses a vast emotional terrain, ranging between ecstatic joy, blissful wonder and embodied empowerment to the depth of loss, grief, sadness and rage, and beyond. With a subtle undertone of tantric intimacy with existence permeating the pages, the collection moves through the seasons as an honouring of the cycles of life, exemplifying how things are continuously shifting and moving, yet an unshakable foundation of love within the human condition remains. It is a story of perseverance and hope, of spiritual endurance and surrender to the inevitability that is life, both personal and impersonal, individual and collective.

It's Okay to not be Okay is directed at everyone that suffers in silence and to those who are lost and can't put words to their feelings. It's not a self-help book; it's only an inspiring story to encourage others to ask for help. This book is a journey of how the author built and found her true self by recovering from an eating disorder. From three stages of her recovery to three chapters - Exhausted, Rollercoaster and Light - and from pure darkness to light and hope. It's also illustrated with her own messy drawings, showing that imperfection can be beautiful too. This journey shows that pain does not last forever, and that if you choose to stand up, the outcome will always be positive.

Mahler's Cigarettes is a heartfelt collection of poems by Benjamin Szijarto dedicated to the memory of his beloved. Through delicate words and vivid imagery, the author takes us on a journey of love, loss, and longing. Each poem is a tender reflection of their shared experiences, capturing the essence of their connection.With a blend of raw emotions and lyrical beauty, the author's words paint a poignant portrait of love's complexities. From the bittersweet ache of separation to the lingering presence of memories, this collection invites readers to delve into the depths of the author's heart and explore the profound impact of a love that transcends time.

How does our humanity limit us, andhow do we get free from habitual ways of thinking and acting?All Is Chosen is based on a series of eight paintings painted over 10 years, each representing an archetypal image of what it means to be a human being.It is also inspired by this time period in our human history.We are currently confronted on a global scalewith the possibility of making choices from love as opposed to making choices from fear.What we mostly see through our media is the stronghold of fearinfluencing choices that are taking a tremendous toll bothon our humanity as well as on our climate and planet.Fear is strong, yet Love is stronger.As more of us continue choosing from Love, we can radically changeany previous negative historical trajectory to one ofhealing, possibility, and peace.

Black bodies. Black skin. Black men. Black lives.In light of all the murdered Black men, this poetry collection gives an insight into the men behind the headlines. At its centre, is the relationship between a father and a son. It a collection of pain and justice and hope and transcendence. Carl Patterson deconstructs the world we live in, alters the lyric to his whim, and gives an insight into the personal, challenging the reader to view themselves internally.

Nostalgia is a blessing and a curse in one breath. To love and be loved in return - not every lover is fortunate enough to experience it. Ria Kid in her book of verses, The Muse of Manifestations, wants to leave no doubt in the mind of the person she loves that what she felt, what at one point they both may have felt, was real. Her poetry gleams as an ode to her muse, her words the very manifestations of her unrequited emotions and longing. All her efforts to forget has been in vain; so, she would rather remember.

Throughout this standout collection of poetry, Jaylene Hibbs celebrates the magic of being a woman, touching on themes of love, resilience and the enduring bonds that weave us all through the fabric of life. She delicately navigates the complexities of relationships cherishing the precious, and sometimes fragile threads of friendship.This collection is more than a book; it's a reminder of the extraordinary magic that every woman carries within.

Folk poet Waldo Williams (1904-71) wrote about rural Welsh life, about pacifism and the brotherhood of all peoples. He is considered one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century, and in today's troubled world, his writing about the importance of peace is more relevant than ever. This bilingual collection sets some of his best poems in the original Welsh alongside translations into English by Menna Elfyn - an award-winning poet herself - in an effort to bring his work to new audiences. The book includes an introduction assessing the cultural and literary importance of Waldo Williams.