The Collection by Jacqueline Belle features elegant and passionate poems that explore themes about love, hope, nature, and sadness. The third poem, “I Know,” combines the soft, invigorating feelings from nature with the unspoken words and lingering questions between two people. In the poem “Reach...

Poet's Back Door: The American West Encouragement Love & Hope Patriotism by Allan Tidwell Is a book of poetry using rhymes to convey love, encouragement, loss, hope, and even history of the old west. He divides it into a few segments, one for the history...

Special family connections. The simplicity of treasured family moments: “Curled on Grandpa’s lap,/ while he spins the tale/ on the Three Bears…” Childhood memories like a visit to the zoo or flying homemade kites: “we feel its every torque/ and tug through the taut tether,/...

Life is full of experiences, some good, some not so good. It’s all these experiences that make us what we are, lead to where we should go, record what we have left behind. Each moment in life is an experience, a nuance of something else,...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda is a collection of poems that detail the sensual glamor of humanity, ranging from love to eroticism to grief. The collection begins with a brief description of the poet, and how important his poetry...

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...

Labour of Love by Liz Ragoùt is a collection of poems that encapsulates her zest for life as well as her home and memories that stir within her. The narration that proceeds throughout the entire book is one that feels close to the heart. As...

Smoke in the Afterlife is an adult poetry book. Each poem is written in free verse so it contains no patterned rhythm or rhyme. Penned by Emilio Iasiello, Smoke in the Afterlife describes the sufferings the author experienced during his childhood. Certainly, some of the...

What JAH Feels: The Words of the Scribe by Moses Shehan Denalee is a collection of spiritual poetry on love, on finding that true love, holding on and experiencing every beautiful thing that comes along with it. Each of the poems in this collection shares...

Finding Their Way Home: The Words Have Come Home to Share Their Story is a collection of poetry covering a variety of themes, aimed at all ages and written by Brenda Baker. The poems within the collection are written in an accessible language and with...