It is so easy to get caught up in the fast pace of our society but while reading these poems you will feel yourself relax and enjoy the thought of a peaceful winter. Through this collection you will be drawn back to a time reminiscent of the early Canadian settlers. You will be able to picture the beauty while feeling the harshness of the season as well as its comfort in knowing what is yet to come. Winter Solitude describes the authors desire to take some much needed time to rediscover hi...

Many years ago, long before the present prosaic era, there lived in Yedo a young man named Toshika. His family belonged to the aristocratic rank of the hatamoto samurai, those knights who possessed the right to march to battle directly under the Shogun's flag (hata), and his father was a high official in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Toshika, whose disposition was of a dreamy and indolent nature with scholarly tastes, had no occupation. He took life easily, and when his studies were finished, he...

A heart-warming anthology of inspirational verse by Australian poet Ros Mansell. Ros' collection of poems is truly inspirational. Her work evokes feelings of joy, love, hope and understanding – a keepsake you will cherish for years to come.Ros Mansell (Tonge) was born in Perth, Western Australia – the youngest in a family of four. Writing poetry began in earnest when, during a health crisis in 1991, Ros discovered that she had an innate talent to express herself in verse in a way t...

The book Mystical Twilight is a manifestation of different mazes of emotion. It fleshes out the human experience from the eyes of a poet that responds to every incident of joy, anguish, triumph & deliberation with a heart that spontaneously beats & breathes the pulse of life.The poet reflects on a plethora of experiences ranging from war, peace, hope, childhood, innocence, fear, frustration, friendship & love. In away the book is a mystical combination of everything that spells out...

In addition to providing a good stock of enjoyment and entertainment, the present book analyses and expresses what we see and feel around us, and brings before us a new world different from our own. It brings before us a pleasing and surprising revelation of some truth or beauty which generally goes unnoticed in life until some sensitive soul brings it to our attention making us feel it. It's here my honest effort to bring it before the readers in beautiful and coloured words expressing my...

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little regard for Christianity. His close friend, Ezra Pound, exposed Yeats to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama, prompting him to write "At the Hawk's Well" in 191...

A touch of colour to a greying world A smile under a blazing sun A flower abloom on a misty morn To whom being itself is fun A lonesome star on a cold dark night That makes you smile even when you're lost A friend who will give you a hand to hold And a shoulder that thaws morose frost Laughter that bubbles from the soul Tears that well from the heart Wisdom that is wrapped in innocence Like the meaning hidden within art 'Being Purple' is all of the above and more. Here is a repertoire of s...

Inside a Toronto apartment with a view of Lake Ontario and a hillside covered with trees, seasoned poet David Murray penned his tenth collection of lyrical versesomehow meeting a lofty goal of writing one hundred poems in thirty days.While waiting for a rendezvous at a train station with a recently widowed friend, Murray passed the time during the longest month of his life by fueling his creativity and writing mostly sonnets that cover a variety of subjects and emotions. Murrays po...

Hues of my Mind is a book that relates to all and, everyone finds something for him/her in it: from a child to an aged, from a soldier to a doctor.while a mother may be touched by some gesture, a brother may be delighted to find sisterly love..not only a patriot will find oneself in it but also someone who is guilt-borne. It has poems for every mood and emotion: sadness to joy, it speaks of hope as well as despair, of anger and frustration, of love and dedication, of sacrifice.of egoand mu...

These poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to feeling alienated, misunderstood, or different, Gothic subculture, desire, morbid curiosity, and a love of all things dark, embracing our darkest fears, and confronting our inner demons.

Poetry has been a way of expressing the inner feelings I've had about my unusual life. I was disfigured as an infant by a burning kerosene lamp, resulting in years of reconstructive surgery and a life apart from my family, being adopted by cousins. I feel like the phoenix that rises from the flames. The Stare What hurts one so about a stare.. The look that puts one on a pin, That stabs your heart without a care So curious lust is satisfied With rape of eyes that probes each pore,Intruding ...