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Mattie Stepanek is wise about love. Love for his family, friends, country, and faith imbues these poems with a heartfelt nature that is rare and inspiring. Of course, Mattie also knows about sadness and loss. He struggles with a rare form of muscular dystrophy that claimed the lives of his three siblings. But despite living a life that many would never choose, Mattie is a joyful kid who never lacks for someone and something to love.

During the darkness of forever night. Someone enters through the blight. Left behind are kindred men. In Hell's kitchen or Heaven's den. Walk with pride down a lonely street. Never mind whom you might meet. For at the end the grave will call. Not for one, but for us all. Kendrick Sims June 2025

Are you looking to strengthen your relationship with God? Do you find yourself untangling the threads of what it is you really believe? Are you longing for a deeper connection to your spiritual side? Bunmi Laditan has been in your shoes. In the midst of her darkest days, Bunmi began writing down her deepest fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations with God in the form of letters. The result of Bunmi's soul-searching journey is Dear God, a collection of funny, heartbreaking, and deeply insightful prayers that put words to the emotions we all feel.

Esse livro é uma homenagem à poesia e a tudo o que ela é capaz de proporcionar. Com mais de 30 de seus emocionantes poemas, alguns deles inéditos, Bráulio Bessa nos conta um pouco das histórias do menino de Alto Santo, no interior do Ceará, que se tornou poeta e ativista cultural. Desde o primeiro encontro com a obra de Patativa do Assaré, aos 14 anos, até a fama na televisão, ele mostra como a poesia transformou sua vida. O livro traz ainda depoimentos de fãs de todos os cantos do Brasil.

What is blurred vision? Is it merely a physical condition, or does it extend to matters of the heart? For Judy Kirby, author of a poignant collection of poems and writings spanning a decade, these questions have defined her life's journey. At the age of 20, Judy's path turned unexpectedly when she was diagnosed with Stargardt's Macular Degeneration. This condition gradually robbed her of the ability to see faces and navigate the world as she once did. The promising future ahead of her, including a college degree in computer programming and accounting, suddenly seemed uncertain

Digging deep within ourselves can be daunting and divine. Some of us need to find ourselves again, and it doesn't happen by accident. Authentic existence requires vulnerability and accountability. It takes courage to reconnect with our innermost knowing.

In these two poems, Iqbal discusses the fall of the Muslim ummah, probes into its causes, shows his bereavement and offers a solution along with a message of hope. In the first poem, Iqbal complaints to God about the deplorable condition of the Muslim world and society and prays for divine help. In the second poem, which he wrote a few years later, he relays a response to the complaints on behalf of God. In elaborating the causes of the rise and fall of the Muslim ummah, Iqbal hoped that Muslims would use them as a springboard for reviving their former status of prestige and glory. Iqbal's ...

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur'an, 27:16, where Sulayman and Dāwūd are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds.

Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.

The Five Quintets is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity—people and movements—in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century. Celebrated Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail structures his Quintets to echo the Comedy. Where Dante had a tripartite structure, O’Siadhail has a five-part structure, with each quintet devoted to a discipline—the arts; economics; politics; science; and philosophy and theology.

In this small but powerful book, Author, Larry Warner, poetically explores the history and present realities of racism. His poems arise from his personal journey of as well as historical and contemporary events. He fixes his gaze on the country, the church, the politicians, the police, holding up a mirror—inviting the reader on their own personal journey of exploration around the racial realities grounded in the past but bleeding into the present. About the Author Larry Warner is the author of five books and his poems have appeared in A Year in Ink, San Diego Poetry Annual, Thieving ...

In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.

After author Marla Taviano wrote unbelieve, a book of poems chronicling her faith deconstruction, her plan was to move on from white evangelical Christianity to bigger, lovelier, more all-embracing thoughts. But she couldn’t do it. Why? Because she was still jaded—and knew there was work left to do.

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori:Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda...

She didn’t protect her daughter, yet she saved her life. Find out how in her poem, I Forgive You, and how author Heather Omara Reese overcame sexual trauma and life-changing adversity through the healing power of art and her faith.

Este poemario intenta acercarnos a una visión antropológica de la persona humana, el soldado de la fe que enfrenta al combate por la vida y en la vida, ante un Dios que sale al encuentro de su criatura reflexionando, exaltando y haciendo síntesis de conceptos y valores que interpelan la sociedad actual del hombre sus contradicciones e imperfecciones, en una lucha interminable por la libertad como ley natural en medio de una diversidad y una realidad a veces adversa. Los últimos héroes son aquellos que no han entregado sus sueños sin posponer la felicidad, contra las ideologías que ...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. Originally published in 1667 in ten books and later revised to twelve, here Anthony Quayle reads book 1 and book 4.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 223 This book examines the influence of members of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall on T. S. Eliot’s poetics, cultural criticism and his search for identity. It focusses particularly on Eliot’s friendship with Br George Every SSM, and the correspondence between them that led to a deep intellectual and spiritual relationship. The author builds his study on his own conversations and correspondence with Every, the archive of Society of the Sacred Mission papers in the Borthwick Institute in York, and the collection of papers and other material left to...

Beauty for Ashes: Life Lessons in Verse is a redemptive journey told in three parts; the pain of trauma, the struggle to heal, and the beauty of overcoming. With more than 50 captivating poems, you’re sure to find several that will inspire you to push past your pain and seek healing for yourself. Written with raw emotion and told with a biblical slant, these are poems about real-life women who found the courage to keep going. Get lost with them in their ashes, struggle with them through their in-between, and come out on the other side of their beauty.

As I walked around on this gorgeous day, I reflected on my life and then prayed, “Father God, thank you for being You. Thank you too for the many blessings.... I would try to count them, but they are countless. Thank you for being holy.... All good things in life reflect you.” At that moment I realized.... You and I, we were made to praise his name. You and I, we were made to love and be loved.