From the humor of Thanks for the Rain to the sadness of Clearing out the Room, Mr. Lannom has written a wide variety of poems and says, There are lots of words and even more spaces and it is the spaces, the between, that gives it meaning.

This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books About Opposites: Discover the surprising, clever, and ...

Do you love writing poetry? Dream of being a writer someday, but can't get yourself to write regularly? Or you have no idea what to write about? Then this book is for you. Based on the theme of autumn, it will have you writing poems every day for 91 days - all the way through fall and all about fall. Everyday there is a prompt to build on. From acorns to apple cider to raking, you will soon be scribbling away your own poems about fall.

Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you into a garden where the exotic and prosaic, domestic and feral, all show the writers deep faith ...

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God a...

Focusing on what happiness you have will help to put everything into perspective.Donna Mertz has been recording her observations, feelings, and life lessons in poetry since her creative writing teacher introduced her to the free verse style. At a very early age, Donnas father handed her a camera and she has since spent most of her free time capturing the beauty of Gods creations. Donna was one of the first women in her area to become a professional photographer specializing in blac...

In simple things in your life are hidden values, like love letters from Home. Each one is designed to free you from negativity and liberate your soul.

The swiftest fleet of wing can make a soul to sing - we hardly ever know where inspiration flow - but in the light that glow, a twinkling of an eye lets our spirit fly. Animation - life creation - ever upward, live sensation - not quite as we thought - for life with joy consort.

A couple of dozen poems about a particular relationship, a particular planet, and a personal grab bag of memories and dreams.

This luminous collection is Maxine Kumin's twelfth volume of poetry, the first since her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo.Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.

Amera is a classically self taught poet, award-winning author, social-butterfly and Renaissance thinker who leads from the heart toward a world of unlimited possibilities. She believes that every person is worthy of being loved and deserves to know and explore their own unique and beautiful talent. Amera believes that poetry is a gift and with help and support from other poets that gift can be perfected and carry the art to a new level. Amera is a formal poet who has written in more than 5...

Trees are amazing. They are as practical as a log on the fire. They are as mysterious as a dark woodland path. They are as imaginative as a child's (or grownup's) treehouse. And so much more. There is a spirituality, wholesomeness, fun and wonder that can be seen in trees; in their variety, in memories evoked, in scenes enjoyed, in their revelation about the God of Creation, or in any of a hundred other reasons that they hold our fascination. Herein the reader is invited to walk between th...