Poetry from the Garden of My Heart by Phyllis Anne Dootoff What inspires most poets and lyricists to write the most beautiful masterpieces of their times? Inspiration can come from anywhere, but the most powerful comes only from within; it is the most potent emotion only the heart inside us can give. In Poetry from the Garden of My Heart, Phyllis Dootoff delves into the various facets of the most glorified theme in the world of poetry: love. Through her poems such as "As Only a Rose Can Give," "Memorizing You," and "Heart Full of Empty Love," Phyllis shares love in different forms and the different emotions felt by someone whose heart loves truly. About the Author Born in Delano, California, Phyllis A. Dootoff started writing poetry as a teenager. Several poems she wrote back in high school were entered in poetry writing competitions; some were even published. She is a single mother who raised two sons, now both married with children. Currently living in Orange County, she works for a construction company and also enjoys sewing and designing clothes and gowns.

One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Poetry Garden- perfectly imperfect A journey through the artgallery of my poets mind. Comedy and drama, heaven and hell, experience the beauty of the almost forgotten art of poetry. Every flower which you'll pick up on your journey through this poetry garden, will tell you another intriguing story. Between sanity and insanity, between good and evil, enjoy this unique garden with all of its special flowers.

The renowned Nahna James has written a five-series poetry collection titled My Favourite Poems: Poetry From The Pen Of A Nigerian Teenager. This is his debut collection of poetry and prose. It contains poems and essays on topics such as ; Nigeria, love, real feelings, sexuality, grief, nudism, bisexuality, loss, melancholy, loneliness, healing, marginalisation, self-love, unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that develops when we make an effort to understand ourselves. Many readers have referred to his writing as "life changing," "healing," and "part of their every day ritual." This book is a lovely reminder of the celebration of hope, an encounter with grace, a mending of the heart, a healing of scars, and a hymn of liberation, that one can always choose to transform themselves. It's just up to you to make a decision.

Just A Touch Of Poetry Eda Sarıtaş ISBN: 978-625-7718-12-7 Kitabın tüm geliri İnovasyon İçin Eğitim Vakfı’na bağışlanmaktadır. Elde edilen gelir ile entelektüel seviyesi yüksek gençlerin eğitimi ve start-up’ları desteklenmektedir. Ayrıca eşitlik ve kapsayıcılık gözetilmektedir.

In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his poetry has been presented in modern critical editions, a group of his works has been overlooked by modern philologists and literary scholars alike. The selected corpus--conventionally designated as Miscellaneous Poems--consists of texts on various themes and in a wide range of genres, ranging from cycles of religious and secular epigrams to riddles, ethopoiiai, and works of a self-referential and essayistic nature. This book includes the first critical edition and study of these poems, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. Their study contributes to a more nuanced picture of Prodromos' intellectual profile, expanding his image as the 'poet laureate' of the Komnenian court and providing entirely new insights into his activity in the different settings of Constantinopolitan intellectual life. The book also sheds new light on the complex relationship between patronage and other aspects of literary activity and the circulation of the same text in different performative contexts.

With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy calls her future into question.

This book of poetry spans two decades of my life and my heart. This book is not just a book of poetry. Rather, it is a book of insights about life that gleaned personally over two decades. More than the entertainment value the poems may provide, I share with you something much deeper. To assist you, I have tried to categorize the themes in chapters and provide explanatory endnotes and cross-references. My first poem, “RUNNING,” was written in 2002 during a time of turmoil in my life. I was looking for an answer as to why my life seemed to be going downhill. “RUNNING,” therefore, was written with a negative bias toward myself. The poems that followed were largely based on experiences that, in one way or another, also touched my heart. I call poetry ‘The Music of My Heart” because, in them, my heart speaks, singing a fanciful or heavy song, or something in between. I write in a style I call “freelance.” They may rhyme or they may not rhyme, or they might be a mixture of both. Almost all poems are metaphors. Almost all bear a message that is usually expressed in the last verse. I often personify “inanimate” objects. When I begin a poem, I have no idea, whatever, of what a poem is about to express. I just let my heart speak. I never plan a poem: a word or phrase randomly pops into my mind, I sit down, and I let my heart say what it tells me it has to say. Only at the end do I know what I have just written and give it a title. The first half of the book contains the lighter poems, and the second half contains heavier moods and themes. The transition occurs in PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. The poems are sectioned according to theme, but there is considerable overlap. I have provided explanatory endnotes, especially for the poems of PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND which may have esoteric references (e.g., “DEVIL’S TABLE,” “THE DEVIL’S PRICE”). If, however, you, the reader, derive a personal insight/benefit from any given poem, I suggest you refrain from reading the endnote. Doing so could change the benefit you derive. I emphasize that this is your book to derive whatever you might. I purposely left UNIVERSE, the most important chapter, to the end, as UNIVERSE expresses the denouement of my life.