Religious Poetry

Writer Rodney Walker paints an engaging portrait of disillusioned high school teens struggling both academically and existentially. In a final attempt to help the students graduate, a radical new biblically based course in home economics is offered, introducing life-changing lessons about family, faith, relationships, and purpose. It's a triumph over tragedy story as a subplot introducing the perils of human trafficking thickens. This story reveals practical applications to family life and friendships that run in stark contrast to a fatherless pop culture.

El amor algunas veces es tan complicado como impredecible. Pero al final lo que más valoramos son los detalles más simples, los más bonitos, los que llegan sin avisar. Y a la hora de escribir sobre sentimientos, no hay nada más limpio que hacerlo desde el corazón. Y eso hace Defreds en "Casi sin querer".

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home—in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.

Cassie lived her life by faith every day. She knew God was in control and had reasons for everything. So, when an old high school friend, Michah Daniels, showed up at her bakery, Abundant Blessings, she knew there was a reason God brought him there.

Un uomo scrive lettere al suo amore. E appunti, riflessioni, scoperte. Lei ballerina, lui poeta, condividono un destino, entrambi conoscono la ricerca del ritmo, l'equilibrio nel gesto, la tensione verso la libertà e l'arte come ubbidienza. Un libro composto quasi in trance, un viaggio nella bellezza che incontra pensieri di coreografi, storie tra danza e poesia, riflessioni di filosofi, visioni. Un libro mai scritto prima d'ora sulla danza e la poesia: due arti da sempre sorelle. Ritmo e parole. Aver corpo, in un'epoca che ha fatto del corpo un segno di molti disagi.

விடியாமல் போகும் இரவைப் பற்றி நான் யோசித்துக் கொண்டு இருக்கிறேன். மரணம் என்பது அவனுக்கான உலகம் அழிவதைத் தவிர வேறில்‍லை. பிறந்ததிலிருந்து நாம் உடலுக்குத்தான் அதி முக்கியத்துவம் கொடுக்கிறோம்.

La maledizione del fico raccontata nei Vangeli di Marco e di Matteo è, insieme all'uccisione dei porci, uno dei rari miracoli che si risolvono con effetti negativi. Ma se la morte dei porci precipitati da un crepaccio libera un indemoniato, la maledizione del fico non porta alcun vantaggio. Gesù è a Betania, si sveglia affamato e si mette a cercare i frutti tra le foglie di un fico rigoglioso. Non trovandone, lo condanna alla sterilità eterna. Al di là dell'apparente insensatezza, che significato teologico dobbiamo dare a questa maledizione? Che mistero nasconde?

Ephesians 6 tells us that we are fighting against spiritual forces in heavenly realms. It also says to put on the whole armor of God in order to defeat these forces. Most Christians don’t like to talk about demons and unclean spirits, let alone admit they may actually have a few inside of them. The problem is that if we don’t face this truth, we will never walk in the freedom Christ died to give us. Isn’t that just sad?

Raised as a Catholic in rural Vermont, I was infused with an awareness of sin and penitence, but also absolution and forgiveness. My late teenage encounter with Dostoevsky’s Legend of the Grand Inquisitor shattered my youthful allegiance to Catholic dogma, but it’s one thing to walk away from Catholic doctrine and quite another to lose the weight of its beauty, fear, and guilt.

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors.

Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying—from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other—O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.

Queridoa oyente: no quiero revelarte las sorpresas que te aguardan en esta novela. Sólo te diré que aquí encontrarás la travesía de un hombre sencillo en la búsqueda de las respuestas de la vida, en la que, sin pretenderlos, encontrará su fórmula para la felicidad. Una novela conmovedora que te llevará del llanto a la risa. La travesía de quien busca las respuestas de la vida y hallará lo que nunca pensó que tendría a su alcance. Simeón es un mecánico convencido de que le falta algo a su vida.

The poems inside are a mixed bag. These poems include thoughts we all have had, at times, and you might find yourself saying, Hey, you know, I did think of that. You may have had thoughts as in: Happy, Friends, The Future, and Why Am I Here? But probably not with Conversation with an Alien.

Twelve-year-old David Snod's life is nothing but problems: He can't stop stuttering. He gets bullied constantly. His little sister, Sophia, acts like she's his protector. His teenage brother, Chris, torments him, calling him "Nose". Worst of all, David doesn't have enough money to buy the popular SkyJam basketball shoes.

En las circunstancias más inesperadas, Heather vive un encuentro que cambiará el rumbo de su vida. Aunque ella no lo sepa, a otras mujeres ya les ha pasado lo mismo. Un hombre muy singular le descubrirá todas las cosas que se ha empeñado en mantener a oscuras en un rincón de su memoria, arrojando sobre ella la luz de la ternura.

These poems are warm little bites of everyday life, a friendly companion through the everyday wilderness. There's something for almost anyone, from grief and confusion, to love and joy. Above all, these pieces are simple and honest, meant to entertain, reassure, and keep you company....

El alma en el Tintero es una recopilación de la obra poética del escritor cubano Noel Romero. Atesora poemas de amor y otros que han brotado de la inspiración del autor. Dentro de la diversidad de temas se destacan, además del amor, la motivación personal, el mejoramiento humano, la amistad y las relaciones humanas.

Every one of us regardless of our background will experience some form of brokenness in our lives. We may pass through this phase of life either at the early stages, middle stages, or the later part of our lives. Brokenness is a subject everyone can relate to in his life time, it is part of life.

A New Life is written as a fantasy with heart. It portrays the author's love of God, nature, and family. It is my hope that you, the listener, will be transported to a simpler time and place. You may even see a bit of yourself in the characters of the story, but they are actually fashioned after my own family. After suffering a great loss, the characters in the story have to leave the home they love and everything familiar as they begin a new life, in a new place.

Enmeshed within these poems are violent and purposeful contradictions of hate and love, exuberance and apprehension, of wrangling and conflict. “A Clash to Analyze” reveals the disorder and confusion in the current political scene, and “Good as Advertised” propels the listener to a oneness of betterment in order to help oneself, as well as assisting others!