This collection of fifty original poems consists of both metered and free-verse poetry divided into three sections: GREEN, RED, and BLUE. The poems are organized under these headings by the general connotations associated with the colours. Even though they all generally fit under these colours, remember the grey in every poem. None are as simple as the colours that define them and all have deeper meaning.

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a catfish, a butterfly, a mouse, a bird and many others.Some of the animals are kind and friendly, while others are decidedly less so. What will happen to poor tiny Thumbelina? Will she ever...

Published in 1875, The vain tenderness is a poetic work of René-François Sully Prudhomme. French poet Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1901. Combining the formal precision of the Parnassian poets with subjects reflecting his keen interest in philosophy and his early training in the sciences, Sully Prudhomme forged a career that drew wide praise during his lifetime. According to C. D. af Wirsén of the Swedish Academy, writing on the oc...

Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human co...

This collection consists of thirty poems that relate the notion of love, loss, and hopelessness. The verses contained herein presents the struggle to find ourselves after a moment of despair threatens to engulf us; which is heartbreaking, yet something that binds us in our humanity despite our differences. It is our frailty that makes us human; and our strength to not give up when hope seems lost. We are not alone in our despair as we struggle and lay all things bare.

Teasing, funny and celebratory - Rays is a wry and tender lover's gift. Continuing Richard Price's virtuosic playfulness of form, it improvises on the formal shape of sonnet and canzone, charging them with the energy of blues and rock, glimpsing narratives of desire. In a restless, sleepless landscape where language becomes shrill, an alphabet of love poems creates a dreamy island, between the solace of haiku and the precisions of Emily Dickinson. The Renaissance poet Louise Labé and an im...

"Postcards From Around The Globe" brings you the haunting beauty of the Earth in all its variety, deserts, mountains, seas and jungle comes across in picture combined with poem as you join the poet on his quest to capture the very essence of life.From the Himalayan mountains to the jungles of Malaysia, the deserts of Iran and the beauties of Croatia's sea coast, you begin to explore a world rich in variety, experience and romantic possibility.You are about to ship out on a ...

Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leoš Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late in the composer’s life when he had fallen in love with a younger woman. It also points towards the intimacy of letters themselves, the visible pieces that make up language. This collection begins with love poems, then moves to a section (“Wretched in This Alone”) dominated by...

We feel a little trickle - Springtime start to tickle; then, we start to explore - Springtime pushing at our door; and now we start to hear Spring's vibrant humming atmosphere and it becomes so clear: Spring's no slouch defender - it's on a mighty joy bender.

Un compendio di emozioni che sgorgano ora inattese e dirompenti dall'intimo più profondo dell'autrice per donarsi al lettore come sottili pennellate di una vita vissuta pienamente nel segno dell'amore più intenso.

"Colored Lights" is a book of poetry which was written around Christmas 2014. It explores many different thougnts and ties up the year.

These poems were written over a period of several years. They cover a range of topics from memories of segregation in Alabama, to high school loves, to the discovery of an exotic, albeit unsavory, world from Malaysia to the Philippines. Back in the U.S., the elation and heartbreak of love led to philosophical skepticism which he expressed in brutal sarcasm. Both the light and darkness of life can be found here.