The Altar of Four Posts and Pillows: A Love Song is a dialogue between the Lover and its Beloved. Modeled after the Song of Songs, and borrowing its poetry for the prose poem titles, the erotic exchanges explore the numinous nature, the I and Thou, of sex. Erotic splendor is in these pages for your spiritual enrichment. Find the freedom, the vitality of sexual connectedness in this volume of love songs for lovers. Whether between a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and a man, ...

Kahlil Gibran (full Arabic name Gibran Khalil Gibran with the more standard spelling Khalil;[a] Arabic: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān;) (January 6, 1883 April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. In t...

An enlightened plea for "Universal Awareness" envelopes a unique added perspective to written thought projections originally cast by one of Americas most recognized Rock Icons, Jim Morrison. A "Heady Trip" that is intense, erotic & enigmatic. "Beyond The Lords & The New Creatures takes a concept of an ever expanding awareness through a poetic realization of a current declining "World Way" fueled by excepted greed, selfishness, war, the arts & death.

My poetry is in essence about spiritual awakening. Each verse a moment of passion (in all its forms) captured in a weaving of words. They are designed to have many layers of meaning, responsive to the mood and need of the reader. I aspire to be the woman I would hope to be, to achieve that I must carry on my own journey of creative and spiritual awakening. Enjoy my poetry; let them cast their glamour before you, arousing your senses and creativity.

´Love Letters´ is a rose in full bloom. From the first page to the last, this collection delivers on its promise to grant the poet total transparency, while granting the readers full access to the heart and mind of the painter.“A splendid and wonderful breath of fresh air. ‘Love Letters’ did exactly what a collection of love poetry is supposed to do, it pulled me in completely. From beginning to end, I was eager and happy to fall deep into the trance that ‘Love Letters’ birthed ins...

The poems of David Hatfield Sparks resonate with the rise of the postmodern, multicultural, LGBTQ and feminist political and spiritual movements. Inspired by Walt Whitman, H.D., Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and his close friend Gloria Anzalda, and drawing upon ancient and indigenous mythologies and spiritualities, together with magical practices, a passion for Nature, and a delight in Camp, Sparks seeks to trace the multilayered, multidimensional, at times nostal...

The process of aging occurs one day at a time. It is cumulative and at some point, every person becomes aware that they have more of life in retrospect than prospect.Under ordinary circumstances, that awareness comes as a surprise: it is suddenly there; unbidden and unexpected. Suddenly one is forced to face the reality that there are more yesterdays in one's life than there will be tomorrows.This is a collection of poems for those who have become aware of that reality in t...

A panoply of poems all in free verse exploring the abstract and enchanting, sublime realm carved in words and drawn with such an abandon and flourish upon the vast canvas of a creative tapestry. The poems beg to be felt, to be perceived through a faculty that cleaves to something ineffable and yet draws upon the effervescent, that deep yearning chasm that only the beauty of sound and word can satiate. It is an invitation to tune into the whispers and resonance of that seat of aesthetics. H...

These are poems I have written over the past 15 years. Some sad, funny, gentle, thoughtful poems. Poems related to disasters, the war, love and personal.There is something for everyone in it.

Fear is a poetic sequence of events in one mans life, beginning with the discovery of his unconditional love for his child, the loss of that child, his descent into depression, anxiety and panic disorder, guilt complex, and prescription drug addiction as a result of that loss, and his gradual recovery. He is now able to forgive himself of his guilt for this loss, love again, and regain his ability to live his life with a new commitment to Christ..

I was born Isabella Elizabeth Kelly in Renfrew, Ontario, on April 27, 1944. I lived for the first fifteen years of my life in Matawatchan, Ontario. My parents were Isabella Margret Hutson and Clifton Kelly of Matawatchan. My mother died at my birth and I was raised by an aunt and uncle, Flo and Harold Carswell. My father moved to Yukon in 1954. In 1959 my brother Brian, age seventeen, and I, age fifteen, went to live with my father and his second wife, Fran, her two children, Richard and ...

The POEM generically is the most colorful literary facility for articulating ideas whether of philosophical discourse, romantic rhapsody, or socio-political protest a kaleidoscopic omnibus. Underlying this is the fact of poetry as a potent mechanism for actuating the power of language. I have put together this work, my first, essentially as a testimonial to this personal perception of the versatile vitality of the art form a labor of love. Calabash of Colors is therefore a vigorously varie...