Inspirational Fiction

Be with yourself for a moment. Be yourself for a moment. Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment. From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Beyond My Imaginations Giving Back and listen to poetry in motion.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Freedoms Of Speech and learn about poetry in motion!

In early innocent days, I assembled words like LEGO® bricks when my heart felt more than I could speak. On a rare occasion, I presented my poem to a crush, a grade-school girl unsure how to respond. I felt the risk and sometimes the sting. So I returned to my mask, realizing most people weren’t ready for honesty. But in the quiet shadows, I didn’t need to lie. Poetry became my portal.

Rumí es posiblemente el erudito y poeta del mundo musulmán más conocido en Occidente. Con sus metáforas de la embriaguez, el jardín y el Amado, despliega ante nosotros la riqueza de la vida del místico que busca el amor y la unión con Divino. Su mensaje no podría estar más vigente. El poder evocador de sus poemas y las profundas enseñanzas morales y espirituales que contienen han hecho que actualmente sea el poeta místico más leído. Cada uno de nosotros está en un viaje interno, y este libro es una guía para ese viaje...

This book tells how a family moved on after the tragic event. We are not alone in our pain and sadness; God comforts us in many splendid and miraculous ways. Communities can come together and rally. Miracles do happen. Hope can prevail.

The many journals which reported Browning’s untimely death all spoke of her as the greatest woman poet in English literature. The highly respected Edinburgh Review expressed the prevailing view when it said that she had no equal in the literary history of any country: “Such a combination of the finest genius and the choicest results of cultivation and wide-ranging studies has never been seen before in any woman", and the esteem in which she is held has never dimmed with her poetry still widely studied and admired today. Collected here are 16 of her most beautiful, haunting, and renowned poems.

War poet Robin Horsfall became a soldier in 1972. He served from the age of 15 up to the age of 32 with the Parachute Regiment, the SAS, the Sultans of Oman’s Armed Forces, the Army of Sri Lanka and was a Major in "Frelimo" the Army of Mozambique. He studied Karate for most of his adult life achieving the rank of 6th Dan Black Belt until 2011 when a neck fracture changed his life.

Festus Claudius McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on the 15th September 1890, He was the youngest son to parents who had gathered enough assets to secure them the right to vote. As a boy he was fascinated by English Poetry and literature, although at 17 he took on work as an apprentice woodcutter for two years before becoming a police constable in the capital, Kingston. In this mainly white and affluent town racism was rife and its nature awakened his political instincts and pursuit of social justice. He soon returned home and published his first two poetry collections in 1912.

From inspirational Poet & Voice Artist Ashley Lord (@loveashleylord) this beautiful collection of poetry takes you on a peaceful and inspiring journey beyond the mind, diving you deep into a relaxed and peaceful state with her ethereal poetic narration. Through a soft and graceful lens she invites you into a beautiful, powerful world of healing, spirituality & self-love. Perfect for anyone who wants to relax the mind and soften anxiety & overwhelm, her work is particularly healing for those navigating a challenging time in their life.

Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was a seventeen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds to pursue his passion. His early poems, beloved verses like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” were written without formal training, often on the back of napkins and envelopes, and were inspired by the sights and sounds of Black working-class people he encountered in his early life. Blues in Stereo is a posthumous collection of these early works, in which we see Langston Hughes like we’ve never seen him before.

Six verses are among the most comforting in all Scripture. Psalm 23 is the basis for this classic book from 1921. Filled with poems and stories, this should leave each listener with assurance and comfort. There's more to these six verses than you might have believed.

स्वातंत्र्यपूर्व काळातील मराठी कवितांच्या आठवणी जागवत संदीप खरे यांनी अनेक कविता येथे सादर केल्या आहेत.

तुळशी माता महापतीव्रता - शांताबाई महाराज देशमुख यांच्या स्वरात एक पोवाडा

Wherever he goes, the Dreamseller enchants, stirs up trouble, and inspires his listeners to search for the most important thing: the heart of the human soul. Every person he meets is someone who has abandoned their dreams and is struggling through life: a professor who has stopped pursuing his passions; a lonely alcoholic with no family; the elderly who have lost their zest for life. Through his wisdom, the Dreamseller helps them to look into their silent hearts and get to the root of their unhappiness.

In the poet's home county of West Yorkshire a few years ago, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields at the top of the road into a new cemetery. These poems, in regular, cascading tercets, sparked into being as Simon daily walked the site, with moorlands rising beyond it and the wind turbines of Brontë country to the north, watching the land tamed: eventually the muddy construction scene gives way to fresh headstones and mown lawns, and, during the Covid-19 lockdown, the spectacle of grave-diggers in Hazmat suits and socially distanced funeral services.

জোসীমউদ্দীন অথবা জনপ্রিয় হিসাবে পরিচিত - পল্লী কবি ছিলেন এক বাংলাদেশী কবি, গীতিকার, সুরকার এবং লেখক।তাঁর কবিতা পরিচলিত হয় তাঁর ভূমিকেন্দ্রিক মডার্ন ব্যালাড সাগার লেখার ভঙ্গির জন্য। তাঁর লেখা নকশি কান্তর মাঠ ও স্বজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট কে বাংলা ভাষায় লেখা সর্ব শ্রেষ্ঠ গীতিকার কবিতার মধ্যে ধরা হয়ে। আসুন শুনি জোসীমউদ্দীনের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা।

Grace Gardner has done everything she can to try and fit into society, but she simply isn't that kind of girl. With her love of horses and passion for the wild terrain of Texas, she fears that she will never find a man to marry her. But, just maybe, if she takes matters into her own hands, she might find the right man after all. Owain Jones left Wales with hopes of making his fortune, and helping out his family. Offered the chance to start again by Sheriff Kimball, Owain makes his way to Faith Creek, but can he ever leave his past behind and build the loving family he longs for?

Seventeenth book in the Limericks for Meditation series by Christopher Molling. Poems are numbered 1601 to 1700.

"Paolo Avanzi ci mostra una ulteriore interessante tappa del suo percorso letterario, con attenzione alla dimensione della ricerca poetica, e confrontandosi con le ricerche più attuali della poesia contemporanea.In particolare i testi di questa silloge ci mostrano una diretta connessione tra esigenza espressiva e simbolismo, tra la liricità della scrittura e una forma allusiva, che ricrea il mondo fragile ma intenso dei sentimenti umani, con le sue ossessioni e la sua contingenza.