Love is a powerful feeling that allows us to dream and seek a better future. However, our life experiences can make us doubt its authenticity. Reflections of a Hopeful Romantic approaches the subject of love from a realistic perspective. Stephanie Anyaoha shares both positive and...

Why do people climb mountains? For generations, some humans have chosen to venture where no ordinary mortal should go. Despite the danger of avalanches, hypoxia, and getting trapped, they still hunger to reach the summit and conquer the mountain. In Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey...

Realms of My Soul II by Lali. A. Love is an enthralling collection of intimate poems. These poems explore the various facets of the human condition, searching for ways we can better ourselves. "Warriors of Light" tells the story of a person who was lost...

Render Me Bountiful is a collection of inspiring poetry by Pamela K. Yarborough. It is divided into Rhapsody, Stars and Dust, and Labyrinth. I find the poem Butterfly particularly uplifting, celebrating one of the wonders of nature as follows, "Tall Ivory towers, meteorite showers/ Amazed...

Reveal Yourself is a book of poetry by Matthew Lawrence Scigousky. The author expresses his desire to inspire and motivate others and relates poems with themes of mindfulness, positivity, growth, patience, and energy. Scigousky’s poems are free-flowing and use enjambment. The author’s words are inclusive...

Rise: A Collection of Inspirational Poetry, Prose, and Affirmations by Shana Danielle is a collection of poems that will uplift readers and motivate them to push through, survive, and rise, regardless of the adversities and challenges they have faced. Though all the topics tackled in...

Rise Unstoppable is the third book in the Rising poetry series by Michelle G Stradford, a compelling collection of poetry that delights as it inspires. The poems celebrate womanhood and the entire collection is divided into five parts: self-care, transform, amplify, rise, and unstoppable. Themes...

Release: YOU by Jasmine Farrell is an insightful and thought-provoking collection of poems that will motivate and inspire readers to delve into their inner selves and discover and get rid of self-limiting beliefs that have stalled their progress moving forward. There are a lot of...

Robert Letters’ poetry collection, Recipe for Garum, throws us pleasantly into a world of alliteration and words that have a life all of their own, such as on page 78: “Cassiopeia in the east/last locust/rubs her legs together” from Part III Then You Said Come...

Roots and Tendrils by Heidi Dellaire is a beautiful book of poems dealing with love. She writes about lost loves, heartache and finding herself. The poems show us how the one person we need to love is ourselves before we can love others. Heidi Dellaire...