Family Poetry

These are a collection of poems that I wrote as a teen, young adult, newlywed wife, and mom. I hope you enjoy them, and always welcome and appreciate feedback from my listeners.

This is the 5th and final Poem written about the wonderful Karolina and her Violin playing in California on the streets of Santa Monica. Includes some verse on her family.

Perspective of the Forgotten is a poetry collection that showcases a mother and son’s journey through life while providing the ups and downs of the world around them.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Five Poems and learn about some ways to raise your children.

Diese Compilation enthält Lesungen von folgenden Gedichten: „Das Huhn und der Karpfen“, Sprecherin: Christine Davis, Regie: Heinz Nesselrath, ES: 23.11.1991, „Bei Goldhähnchens“, Sprecherin: Christine Davis, ES: 04.05.1991, „Die Todeslilie“, Sprecherin: Christine Davis, ES: 04.08.1990, „Das Schwesterchen“, Sprecherin: Christine Davis, Regie: Harald Körner, ES: 28.04.1990, „Der Schatz“, Sprecherin: Christine Davis, Regie: Heinz Nesselrath, ES: 08.10.1988.

"BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt]" er en digtsamling om brutalitet. Amina Elmi skriver om at leve med en kappet forbindelse til sin families historie, ritualer, sprog og identitet. I sine digte forsøger hun at etablere en forbindelse til alt det tabte, men tavsheden står som et tomt centrum – alt det, der ikke kan siges, fordi der ikke findes et sprog for det, eller fordi det er for smertefuldt. Det er digte om tavshed som både nødvendighed og vold. Amina Elmi (f. 1994) bliver uddannet fra Forfatterskolen til sommer. "BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt]" er hendes debut.

Poems about my life, my perceptions, my love of God, and my attempts at loving others and myself.

Im Reifrockputz, mit Blumen reich verzieret, Schönpflästerchen auf den geschminkten Wangen, Mit Schnabelschuhn, mit Stickerein behangen, Mit Turmfrisur, und wespengleich geschnüret.

Poems exploring our most fragile points of connection to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work—with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.

We all create false mountains to climb. Gypsy Muse is a collection of free verse poetry chronicling that journey, and how we move beyond.

The poems in Riddim & Riddles throb with the heartbeat and drum beat of Jamaica. From the cool, majestic Blue Mountains to the hot, bloodied streets of Kingston it paints vivid and vibrant images of contemporary Jamaica. The poems in this collection move from urgent social insights about masculinity, the environment, and how the bony fingers of history reach into the present.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Love Drunk: A Poem and learn about poetry.

Songs for My Father is a raw and honest collection of free verse poetry about the author’s relationship with her father. It chronicles how his anger and abuse left her emotionally trapped for many years, and how she found her way back into herself through her art. Katherine Lazaruk takes the listener through her early childhood experiences, drawing connections between how family, music, and learning shaped the writer and artist within her. It is a poignant window into the things that so often go unspoken, the elephants in the rooms of our families.

Ugly Sisterhood The Forbidden Truth is a poem that details a plea from one sister to another to rally together instead of living as rivals.

Daddy's Roaming Wild Thing is a poem about a courageous misfit receiving life advice from her passed on father in spirit.

This audiobook contains poems about places, problems, and people that the author has encountered over his 70 plus years of life. They are reflections on relationships and struggles, as well as on the natural and built-in environment where we live.

Blood Aside I Take It Personal is a poem that details the trials and tribulations a person experiences while trying to start over in life after the betrayal of friends and family.

Am I My Mother's Child is a poem about a daughter questioning her maternal lineage while experiencing cruelty from mother.

A Life in Rhyme - My Family is the second book in a collection of rhyming story poems I've written over a period of years. None of them were initially written for book publication, but I have received such encouragement from friends and family about them, I've decided to compile the verses into four different titles. Book 2 introduces you to my family and the story poems I've written for them on their special birthdays and anniversaries.

Run run run. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating...Thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP. It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody. Everything is changing, just like the apple Annie's been assigned to draw a hundred times.