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The language of poetry takes us outside of our small selves and calls us to look at ourselves and the world with open eyes, teaches David Whyte. Whether you are a lifelong poetry lover or new to its insights and pleasures, Clear Mind, Wild Heart is an inspiring guide to answering that call.

Out of My Mind by Miki Conn is a collection of poems spanning 50 years of writing and observing everyday life. Conn's poetic debut, Out of My Mind is autobiographical and divided into five sections: Kitchen Wisdom, Love Found and Lost, People Watching, Death's Front Steps and True Religion. Each section reflects on the beauty, challenges, emotions and spirituality of everyday life. Miki is an artist, poet, storyteller, community organizer, grandmother and Priest of Oshun in the Yoruba Religious tradition, who expresses her life experiences through her creativity.

In the depths of human experience, where shadows loom and light flickers, lies the terrain of the soul. This collection of poems is a journey through that landscape, a navigation of the complexities of love, the ache of loss, and the darkness that can both consume and transform us. The poems that follow are fragments of a life lived, moments captured and rendered into verse. They are the echoes of whispers in the night, the cries of a heart both broken and remade. Love, in all its forms, is a recurring theme – its beauty, its brutality, its capacity to both heal and harm.

A small collection of dark poetry.

Why Hearts Remember is a poetic journey through the raw, beautiful, and often unbearable ways the human heart loves and survives. From the first spark of infatuation to the ashes of loss, each poem captures the echoes of connection that refuse to fade.

Mind-Deep (Ex Machina) is a poem based around the popular Sci-Fi film Ex Machina released in 2015. This poem was written on Saturday 25th November 2017 while watching the film on UK tv. What an experience, and thus inspired.

In Parallel You, Claude Phipps invites listeners into a universe of poetic possibility-where fate bends, realities shift, and life is seen through the lens of dreams. Spanning 30 years of lyrical exploration, these poems speak to the soul of young dreamers and seekers of meaning.

Journey vicariously through a writer's life, in this unique volume of autobiographical poems. Experience the excitement surrounding her greatest triumphs. Suffer through incredible miseries and heart aches. Explore unbelievably profound romances. Watch her writing style develop, from that of a simple, carefree 13-year-old, into the introspective thoughts of a young woman whom has faced an inordinate number of trials. You will smile, laugh, wonder, ponder, and even cry. If you love complex, meaningful poetry, then this is the audiobook for you.

To listen to my books is a creative exposé of who I am. Having lived a unique, "one-of-a-kind" individual, now an aging man who adores writing.

Dive into the ethereal landscapes of the human spirit with William Gomes's transformative collection, "Melodies of the Mind: Poetic Explorations of Inner Worlds." Within the boundless realms of thought and emotion, this anthology of poetry invites listeners on a profound journey through the innermost corridors of the self. Here, amidst the flourishing gardens of insight and the tumultuous seas of sentiment, the essence of the human experience is echoed in the reverberating symphony of the soul.

With the changing seasons comes this poetry audiobook all about the constant shifts in life. From love to love lost, the excitement of new relationships, along with relationships falling by the wayside and the pain of misfortune, these poems cover a wide variety of life experiences.

In this deeply honest and often hilarious collection, anxiety isn’t a villain to conquer—it’s a character we get to know, laugh with, and eventually walk beside. With 180 original rhyming poems, this book invites you into a journey of breath, bravery, and beautifully imperfect healing. Some poems will make you laugh out loud. Some will sit quietly beside you in your most anxious moments. All are written to remind you: You are not broken. You are becoming.

Not being able to read and write was very hard in the 1950s. The educational system did not know about dyslexia. So, they saw Ellen Hawkins as a lazy, defiant child who didn’t want to put in the time and effort to learn. They never saw all the hours she put into memorizing all the words before spelling tests. She would write them, over and over again, until she was able to feel how to spell them.

The third installment of Tserna Raizel's poetry and short story series explores themes of global unrest, allegorical fantasy and personal growth in a new light. Following a writing hiatus, Tserna is back to challenge our perspectives and her own.

Spiritually enlightening poems and prose without falling into religious stereotypes. All at once uplifting, inspirational and thought provoking. Dean Fraser offers his brightest blessings to his readers and the desire to open the heart chakras of the world to turn away from the matrix to embrace truly living!

3 of my favorite poems written in the past year that will stimulate thought and perspective to how this may apply to living the most beautiful and happiest life we can.

Struggling with mental health issues can be lonely. The world, to the sufferer, is not bright and vibrant, but rather dark and bleak. We long to see the beauty, but it is difficult to navigate the caverns of depression. The light is always seen, but is just out of reach.

The Rhymes in My Mind is Samantha Turner’s latest hugely personal and beautifully observational collection of poetry. Twenty poems paint verbal pictures of human emotions from love and fear, faith and longing, to nostalgia for her native North England and her love of nature and the changing world around her. Written with the sensitive word-brush of a master verbal watercolorist, her poems are paintings for the mind.

I experienced a loving father and mother that taught us hard work, family unity, and faithfulness to God was the foundation of living life as taught in the Bible. It was these life enhancing experiences that shaped my mental and spiritual inner being. It is my sincere hope that as you read these poems you might enter into my world through the power of words, from pen and paper, that will fill your heart and mind and allow you to share in the joys of what the Lord has shown me.

Pondering ideas. Exploring new pathways. Choosing to think "outside of the box". Delving deep within to transcend to a higher level of consciousness.