Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them." Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is magnified in our minds. In a series of thematically linked poems, Asfour draws the metaphor of the blindfold across the eyes of sighted citizens who are impaired by estrangement, emotiona...

Blinded by a grenade in Lebanon as a teenager, poet John Asfour came to Canada armed with James Joyce's words, "For the eyes, they bring us nothing. I have a hundred worlds to create and I am only losing one of them." Blindfold investigates the ways in which disability influences our lives and is magnified in our minds. In a series of thematically linked poems, Asfour draws the metaphor of the blindfold across the eyes of sighted citizens who are impaired by estrangement, emotiona...

Being born in Guatemala, a Third World country, I was brought to Canada and placed in foster care. As a child, teen, and young adult, I fought hard to find my “place” in our world.  There is a small handful of people I would like to thank for giving me the courage to share my innermost feelings: my love, Chris Moran, who always nourishes my emotions; a true friend, Sheila Braund, who saved me from a dark path; and my children, who remind me that the sun will shine tomorrow. ...

It is a simple principle: repeating a word feeds the mind with that word. So why not carefully choose words you want to feed your mind?Those offered here - in alphabetical order for easy memorization - are not the only ones possible. But this Alphabet offers one approach to applying this principle, together with meditations on each of the words proposed.

This is a collection of intimate poems, originally titled My-ku. They were intended as a study in constrained free-verse associative thought, and of course they grew. Cycling, diving, life ... explored in four lines. These works were written between 2009 and 2012 in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

A collection of writings from Kevin Matisyn, the former vocalist and writer for Evans Blue. This collection includes song meanings and extended writing for many previous songs as well as abstract writing on many different subject.

25 poems of love dedicated to my then girlfriend Gaynor. These are suitable whether you are straight or gay.

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

In this poetry collection, Michel Pleau uses simple and moving images that go straight to the heart. He shapes words with painstaking care to give us moments of pure beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. He evokes the nostalgia of childhood in language as refreshing and bracing as the wind. With this book Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous. Attentive to his worlds, he invites us to go back to the essentials, to natural elements, innocence and light, in order to mag...

Author James P. Wilcox takes a break from fiction to bring readers Musing of a Particular Bear: A Poetry Collection. The poems included in this new collection cover the usual, but timeless themes of love and loss, life and death, growing up and growing old, solitude and union, joy and sorrow. In a style that is both complex and free, Musings of a Particular Bear is easily accessible to all.

Chalk Outline These ThoughtsQuotes from behind the wheelI say quotes from behind the wheel because in many if not almost all cases the quotes come to me when I am driving and what that does for a morning commute would explain why I have a hard time arriving anywhere on time. This is a fact that can be verified by all that know me. As we go through our day to day lives I am often confronted by thoughts, analytical observations and personal theories. What we have listed here ...

This was a Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story of 1971.::Solitude is corrosive. Love and companionship can heal wounds, but they take time. And even with all eternity to work in, there may never be enough time to do the job.