After Shocks

After Shocks PDF Author: Tom Lombardo
Publisher: Press 53
ISBN: 9780981635408
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Book Description
Poet and editor Tom Lombardo brings together 115 poets from 15 nations with After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. This brilliant collection bears messages of recovery to its readers from the raw beginnings to long-term acceptance, delivered through the language of poetry: Grief, War, Exile, Abuse, Divorce, Addiction, Injury, Illness, Bigotry, Loss of Innocence. After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events is filled with clarity of story, emotion, voice, music, and language, with hope that readers will find comfort, guidance, companionship, and healing.

After Shocks

After Shocks PDF Author: Tom Lombardo
Publisher: Press 53
ISBN: 9780981635408
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Book Description
Poet and editor Tom Lombardo brings together 115 poets from 15 nations with After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. This brilliant collection bears messages of recovery to its readers from the raw beginnings to long-term acceptance, delivered through the language of poetry: Grief, War, Exile, Abuse, Divorce, Addiction, Injury, Illness, Bigotry, Loss of Innocence. After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events is filled with clarity of story, emotion, voice, music, and language, with hope that readers will find comfort, guidance, companionship, and healing.

Recovery Through Poetry

Recovery Through Poetry PDF Author: Bernadette Kirwan
Publisher: Thorpe-Bowker Australia
ISBN: 9780645952018
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Recovery Through Poetry is written by a survivor for survivors of trauma and child abuse. The painful reality of abuse and its many forms are laid out in a series of deeply personal poems before the author then describes the people and places that have helped with the continual healing process. It concludes with an exploration of the lessons learnt in life after gaining freedom from such abuse. At times confronting, these poems highlight the incredible strength in all survivors' ability to overcome the trauma of their past and to find the beauty in a life that is worth living.

Poems from Recovery

Poems from Recovery PDF Author: Roy Kearse
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781644260197
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Book Description
In 1980, Roy Kearse began his journey through recovery after almost fifteen years of drug addiction and criminal activity. In recovery he discovered a talent for writing poetry. Poems from Recovery includes poems to family, friends, and colleagues, and also spiritual enlightenment poems. About the Author Roy Kearse is a social worker and human service organization executive who sits on many community boards. He is also a deacon in his community church and active in prison ministry. Roy is a proud father of five children and happily married, residing in North Amityville, New York.

Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery

Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery PDF Author: Jack McCarthy
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Forty years sober when he neared the end of his life, Jack McCarthy gives the world something special in his final collection of poetry and true stories. This is his legacy to the people who saved his life. Jack McCarthy's poem "Drunks” has gone around the world on recovery websites and is one of the most popular poems on the harsh climb out of alcoholism to date.

Silent Screams

Silent Screams PDF Author: Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
Publisher: University Professors Press
ISBN: 1939686407
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Book Description
Silent Screams: Poetic Journeys Through Addiction and Recovery is a powerful collection of poetry for anyone who has experienced addiction or had a loved one trapped in its throes. The contributors from this volume courageously share their journeys with addiction, including pain, suffering, and loss. Granger and Hoffman have collected a masterful collection of accessible poems and provided a framework for understanding how poetry can be part of the healing journey. Though some wounds never fully heal, this book will help readers continue their journey toward healing and growth.

An Addicts Poem

An Addicts Poem PDF Author: Declan Mc Laughlin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983502583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An Addicts Poem is a selection of poems that illustrates gambling, alcohol and drug addictions and the relevant issues associated with this disease. This book of poems was written by an addict in the early stages of recovery with the hope that it gives some insight into that of a person with an addicted mindset. Poems Include; Gambling with Life, Living with H, Too Late, The Big C and many more.

Hunger Speaks

Hunger Speaks PDF Author: Carolyn Jennings
Publisher: Banyan Tree Press
ISBN: 9780982201510
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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"Poet Carolyn Jennings offers her life story that reveals the process of healing from an eating disorder [and] celebrates what recovery can be."--Website: http://www.writingourwings.com/hs.html.

Poems of Healing

Poems of Healing PDF Author: Karl Kirchwey
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101908254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Poemcrazy

Poemcrazy PDF Author: Susan G. Wooldridge
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307559122
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Book Description
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Fluttering on Earth

Fluttering on Earth PDF Author: Mary L. Westcott
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504328213
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Book Description
This collection of poetry originated many years ago when I wrote about my relationships with several active alcoholics. I use the image of the butterfly because these creatures are among the most beautiful in the world, and I attach spiritual significance to them. In poetry, butterflies often represent freedom, whimsy, or transformation. I started writing poetry about twenty-five years ago when I needed an avocation other than my career in public health. Since that time, I have undergone a spiritual change through twelve-step programs, Unity teachings, A Course in Miracles, meditation, and writing. The metamorphosis and the poems that accompanied this change are chronicled here. The format of the collection consists of a poem on one page and an affirmation with a statement about the poem on the page following in order to enhance understanding of the poem. I have found that affirmations are useful tools for turning around negative thoughts. The poems are arranged in order from darker themes to lighter, more spiritual themes. This collection can help others overcome the difficulty of a relationship with a non-recovering alcoholic or other addicted person. There are many paths to recovery that offer hope for dealing with the most challenging of relationships. This is one of those paths.