Author: Patricia Donegan
Publisher: Shambhala
ISBN: 1611801885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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An exquisite collection of love poems in a striking gift book format--published just in time for Valentine's Day. Haiku is celebrated as a concise form of poetry able to convey a singular moment with great clarity. While haiku most often depicts the natural world, when focused on the elements of love and sensuality, haiku can be a powerful vehicle for evoking the universal experience of love. In this elegant anthology, love is explored through beautiful images that evoke a range of feelings--from the longing of a lover to the passion of a romantic relationship. Written by contemporary Japanese poets as well as by haiku masters such as Basho, Buson, and Issa, these poems share not only the haiku poets' vision for love, but their vision of the poignant moments that express it.
Author: Julia Frazier White PhD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664161767
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Dr. White is a mother, grandmother, Sunday school teacher, Information Systems consultant, editor for technical and scholarly writing projects, and is retired from IBM Corporation as a Senior Systems Engineer. Other books by Dr. White include Forgiving: Learning How to Forgive, and she is co-author and Senior Editor of the anthology George Liele’s Life and Legacy: An Unsung Hero. She is currently working on One Woman’s Journey to Wellness, and Ordinary People: Extraordinary Parents. Dr. White delivers workshops, speeches, and courses on forgiveness, and teaches computer software classes. Dr. White holds a BA in mathematics with minors in chemistry and German from Murray State University, an MS in Management (concentration Project Management) from Colorado Technical University, and Ph.D. in Christian Counseling from Newburgh Theological Seminary.
Author: Charles Edward York
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365902463
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Love Poems: a collection of romantic, erotic and spiritual poems is a personal journey through the most profound of human relationships. His 113 poems explores the romantic, sexual and spiritual aspects of human relationships, the ups and downs, from first blush of love to the deeper spiritual challenges of faith. Influences of Pablo Neruda, William Stafford, E.E. Cummings, Nikki Giovanni and Maya Angelou are sewn throughout his poetry, both in free verse and rhyme. Meant to be enjoyed alone or with someone, Love Poems promises to open a door for explorers of love, sex and faith for everyone.
Author: Robert Holden
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401958818
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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"May Robert's wonderful life and work and heart keep helping others to know that inherent in life . . . is Love." - from the foreword by Daniel Ladinsky "I didn't have much time for poetry when I was young," Robert Holden writes in the introduction to this elegant and inspiring book. "Maybe I was in too much of a hurry. . . . Fortunately for me, one poem after another found their way through my defenses and came to my rescue. Slowly, but surely, I began to see that inside each poem there was a gift waiting for me. A gift to help open up something inside of me-a new awareness, an epiphany, a cure for loneliness, renewed courage, and a call to action." Finding Love Everywhere offers that same gift to you. A luminous collection of original poetry set within a framework of deep wisdom from an acclaimed teacher, it invites you on a journey that will move you and transform you as you awaken to the awareness of love's presence all around you. The 66½ poems in these pages "are meditations with lyrics," Robert explains. "They invite you to be wise, to choose love, and to live your most authentic life."
Author: Momoko Kuroda
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1611729084
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938) is a remarkable haiku spirit and a powerfully independent Japanese woman. The one hundred poems here—her first collection in English—show her evolution as a poet, her acute lyricism, and her engagement as a writer in issues central to modern Japan: postwar identity, nuclear politics, and Fukushima. Abigail Friedman's introduction and textual commentaries provide important background and superb insight into poetic themes and craft. I wait for fireflies / I wait as if for someone / who will never return Momoko Kuroda is one of Japan's most well-known haiku poets. Abigail Friedman lives near Washington, DC, and is author of The Haiku Apprentice.
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807069116
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns "words into gems": Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Brother Damu, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Often arranged in strings of twelve or more, the haiku flow one into the other in a steady song of commemoration. Sometimes deceptively simple, her lyrics hold a very powerful load of emotion and meaning. There are intimate verses here for family and friends, verses of profound loss and silence, of courage and resilience. Sanchez is innovative, composing haiku in new forms, including a section of moving two-line poems that reflect on the long wake of 9/11. In a brief and personal opening essay, the poet explains her deep appreciation for haiku as an art form. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku contains some of Sanchez's freshest, most poignant work.
Author: John Zheng
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498543332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a central activist in civil rights and women’s movements, and an internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez’s haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contemporary African American poetry, have expressed not only her ideas of nature, beauty, and harmony but also her aesthetic experience of music, culture, and love. Aesthetically, this experience reflects a poetic mind which has helped the poet to shape or reimage her poetic spirit.
Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231152817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Author: Olivia Tatara
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359034489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Batty Watty is children's story for all ages. It teaches you to use your imagination to change your reality. Nothing is as it seems and sometimes you find love in the most unexpected places. Allow your dreams to come to life and watch your reality change before your very eyes. This story is about love and true self transformation. Batty Watty is in all of us.
Author: L.A. Evans
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503589242
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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I have created a diverse collection of poems, ranging from limericks to iambic pentameter, free verse to haiku, and everything in between. In terms of mood, they range from humor to thoughtful introspection and sadness. There is only one thing they all have in common: their intent is to softly caress your heart. Read the poems slowly out loud to a friend, taking time to absorb the underlying feeling, and let your emotions respond accordingly. The poems present life as I see it and therefore provide a glimpse into who I am. If you hate it, you hate me. If you love it, you love me. If its just okay, thats okay. I still love you.
