First published in 1901, “Four Leaf Clover” is a collection of beautiful poetry by Ella Higginson. Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862 – 1940) was an prominent American author famous for her award-winning poetry, fiction, and essays set in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. She produced two collections of short stories, six books of poetry, a travel book, a novel, more than a hundred short stories, over three hundred poems, and many essays. Other notable works by this author include:...
Relatively unknown in his own lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins is the now accredited as the author of some of the finest and most complex poems in the English language. As a Victorian poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, Hopkins pioneered a revolutionary form of meter he termed “sprung rhythm” in his first major work, “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” This poem, like most of Hopkins’ work, reflects both his belief in the doctrine that human beings were created to praise God as well as...
an inkstorm summoned under live oak we dreamed is a drenching and rich collection of poems and pieces from a traveler, a musician, a writer who has delved into the misty and precarious task of splaying out the ecstasy & agony, the delight & acquittal, the searchingness & redemption of life, love, heartbreak, grief, combustion, and reflection.
The poems in this book explore philosophical, social, political issues even scientific matters surrounding humanity today with a distinct perspective. In this turbulent and uncertain time, a poem can be a panacea for a peaceful and kind living.
When you are in the midst of toxicity you are in a cloud of haze. My rock bottom nearly killed me. To this day if I told you what I experienced you would say it was a horror sci-fi movie. I was externally attacked. Everything that was done to me was done in the dark and hidden. I survived because at the core of me I knew who I was and what I stand for …which is peace, love, acceptance, freedom. There was no quick fix, this was a daily conscious effort on my part. My Poetic thoughts are about my...
This collection of poems, 'The Ivy Entangles', attempts to share with the reader some of the inner thoughts, the sentiments and perhaps at times a certain perspective or opinion of some events, people and places that have been significant to me during my life to date. Dermot Gill simply accepts raw reality as it is and presents it in such a charming way.
