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The Chickadees
Poems
Hongvan Nguyen
About the Book
It was divided into three main parts in which the first part is about author’s life in the United State, the second is about thoughts and philosophical ideas, and the third part is about author’s life back in her homeland, Vietnam. Each part contains poems that describe events, situations and emotions or feelings accompanied to each of the poem. They include daily life’s small events such as going to shop, to school and to church to big events such as life-changing experiences of living under the North Vietnam’s communist regime. Emotions range from happy feelings due to pleasant living conditions in the US to sad and upset or angry feelings due to the poorness and oppressions resulted in bad economic conditions due to the ruling dictatorship of the communists. Somewhere in between the two opposite part I and III is part II in which there is a change in thoughts and ideas because it concentrates on some philosophy-related ideas and conception-related ideas. In short, author wants to show activities in two different life’s settings, one in her native country, Vietnam, and the other in her new, secondary country, the US.
About the Author
Born in Saigon City, the Capital of Republic of South Vietnam before 1975; however, it was defeated and occupied by the North Vietnam’s communists in 1975 when the author was a ninth-grade student in public school. Having lived several years under the poor economic conditions and under the restricted ruling of the communist regime, she tried to get out of Vietnam, and finally in 1981, she was admitted into the United Stated through the humanitarian assistance of the United Nations’ political program ODP for family reunions and for refugee settlings. In 1985, Hongvan graduated from a two-year college with an AA degree in computer studies, and in 2006, a BA degree in English Literature major and a philosophy minor. Before publishing her own books, her poems were seen in the anthologies published by Noble House, International library of Poetry, Poetryfest Press and Famous Poets. Hongvan also has published another poetry book, Crossing Places, under her pseudonym Ernestine Cowalton .
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Under the Stone
Hongvan Nguyen
About the Book
It plays with external forms of Poetry since poems are usually divided into stanzas with certain groups of lines. It also concentrates on rhymes, different types of rhyme schemes. Other techniques such as figures of speech like metaphor and simile are also used in the poems of this book. For the voice of the poems, readers will find it is not always the author’s voice, especially in the lyrics or personas in which the speakers who expresses intense personal emotions are characters created by the author to tell different stories and may not share the values of the actual author.
About the Author
Born in Saigon City, the Capital of Republic of South Vietnam before 1975; however, it was defeated and occupied by the North Vietnam’s communists in 1975 when the author was a ninth-grade student in public school. Having lived several years under the poor economic conditions and under the restricted ruling of the communist regime, she tried to get out of Vietnam, and finally in 1981, she was admitted into the United Stated through the humanitarian assistance of the United Nations’ political program ODP for family reunions and for refugee settlings. In 1985, Hongvan graduated from a two-year college with an AA degree in computer studies, and in 2006, a BA degree in English Literature major and a philosophy minor. Before publishing her own books, her poems were seen in the anthologies published by Noble House, International library of Poetry, Poetry fest Press and Famous Poets.
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Poetic Love Letters & More
Donnie Jackson
About the Book
My name is Donnie Jackson, writer of Poetic Love Letters & More. I was born in Jamaica to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jackson. I’m the third of seven children, five sisters and one brother. I migrated to New Jersey, in the United States, in July 1974 where I still live with my wife and family. I started writing song lyrics in the early eighties, and I also wrote a couple of poems; “Life” and “It’s Not Funny”. But it wasn’t until around 2006 when I started writing more and more poems on a regular basis. I enjoy writing these poems. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
Poetic Love letters & More is a collection of poems that are likely to touch you in some way. They are based on life’s situations. They are taken from talking with friends, most of whom I met online. The poems display a lot of emotions which takes you from happy to sad, and all points between. They touches on issues such as gay marriages, teenage age pregnancy, love, heartache, heart break and more.
About the Author
My name is Donnie Jackson, writer of Poetic Love Letters & More. I was born in Jamaica to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jackson. I’m the third of seven children, five sisters and one brother. I migrated to New Jersey, in the United States, in July 1974 where I still live with my wife and family. I started writing song lyrics in the early eighties, and I also wrote a couple of poems; “Life” and “It’s Not Funny”. But it wasn’t until around 2006 when I started writing more and more poems on a regular basis. I enjoy writing these poems. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
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Poems from a Philosopher’s Point of View
Miracle Camacho
About the Author
The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a sense of new purpose. To see the world perhaps in a different light, to walk away and take away from the information given in this book so that they read something that they where able to relate to. The purpose of this book is to inform and awaken the readers imagination to make them laugh, cry, analyze, prioritize, and to get them to feel exited about what life sometimes has to offer them. In spite of the obvious struggles in life, sometimes there are those things that are truly worth sticking around for. So I hope that all the people that read this book are forever changed in a positive way.
About the Author
Although an unknown this writer tends to get her words across to what seems to be effortlessly. A complex humble simplistic women, who loves to tweak a person’s interest through her poetry. She writes because her mind is continuously busy, so she keeps herself grounded by writing songs, and poetry. Although an unknown and not sought out after as of yet, her work seems to be very promising. She describes her points of inspirations for her poetry as gigantic pieces of different puzzles all mixed up in her head therefore she has to unscramble them and put all the pieces that belong to each puzzle together. She has been known to have eight different pieces of poems and two or more songs at the same time in her head. So she has to put them all together until each piece to each puzzle fits. She draws out not only through her experience in life, but through other people’s experiences as well. She considers herself to be somewhat of a philosopher and she sees life a certain way and expects if not everyone then a considerate amount of people to at least buy into some of her philosophies.
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A Year of the Haiku
Journeying to Moonshadow
James Maxfield
About the Book
A Year of the Haiku features 365 new haiku poems by James Maxfield written as a year-long experiment of composing one haiku poem each day during the year 2013 using only the words provided by Haikubes-a set of sixty-three die pieces with five words on each piece. The book includes a detailed preface about the author’s process and experience writing this collection as well as a brief but scholarly introduction to haiku poetry suitable for the beginner or the experienced haiku poet.
About the Author
James Maxfield has been writing poetry since the late 1960s and has taught college English and composition, creative writing, and other English courses since 2003 in northeast Ohio. He is currently editing two other collections of his poetry as well as an insightful investigation on the union of poetic theory, metaphor, and mathematics.
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It Started With The Constitution
Lord Denmon
About the Book
If you take a trip through my mind This poetry you’re sure to soon find Of universal truth I must now remind The power of love and remaining kind If you now lend me your ear You may learn from voices I hear Live in love and face your fear Behold, The Lord, Judgment is here
About the Author
At the age of 18 I joined a fraternity Months later working with the company It was there I learned to kill At 21, turned priest, taught to heal In my poetry I will reveal Inner workings of how I feel.
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Pictures, Poems, and Prayers for the Soul
Charles McCollough
About the Book
This book is humorous autobiography, poetry and prayers of a man who struggled with dyslexia all of his life. He became a minister, social activist, theologian, and visual artist. He struggled with these different roles for years until he found a way to combine all of them in books and presentations using his own art. Without knowing why earning a doctorate was such a struggle for him until he finished his Ph.D., he was often lost. Finally, when he finished his PhD, he discovered that he had a peculiar way of learning, in which he could combine the gifts of verbal, academic theology, and visual imagination. The three main sections of this book illustrate that combination of story-telling, drawing, sculpting, poetry and prayers, and show how this malady of dyslexia became a blessing.
The book begins with a humorous version of McCollough’s early years dealing with his dyslexia when he did not know what it was or that it was holding him back. The second section contains his poetry illustrated with his drawings and sculptures. The third section is of prayers written when he was serving a parish, for use in church or private meditation. The epilogue is his account of testifying before Congress and a story of a feisty woman who showed a depressed church committee how to work for social justice and to witness to her faith. Deeply personal and broadly applicable, McCollough’s search for faith is a humorous and moving account that inspires and encourages other faith seekers.
About the Author
After graduating from the University of Texas with a B.A. and from Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University) with a B.D. and from Drew University with a Ph.D., he served a local church in Barrington, RI as the Teaching Minister. He then went on to serve on the national staff of the United Church of Christ as an adult educator. Later he became a policy advocate for the UCC in Washington, DC. All along he developed his skills as an artist. His books and presentations are illustrated with his drawings and sculpture. He and his spouse Carol, also an educator at Princeton University and Mercer County College, rebuilt an 1860 farm house and barn which houses his art studio and sculpture display. Together after their retirement they have taken their presentations combining art, theology, and marriage enrichment throughout the western world. They have three grown children, two grandchildren, two horses, four cows, and some chickens.
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I AM MUSIC
My Journey With Dimash Kudaibergen The Best Singer In The World
Pamela McGee Wilkinson
About the Book
So I am the author of this book and as you can see from the cover my name is Pamela McGee Wilkinson. I’m just an average retired woman in her “important years” who has rediscovered her writing skills and put them to use in this book and the other one strategically placed on this cover for the selfish reason that if you like this book maybe you’ll appreciate the other, especially if you have young children or grandchildren. It was written 20 years ago in January 2001 and I’m releasing it now. I guess I’ve been busy. Now, to the matter at hand. This book was a joy to write, create and compile for the sole purpose of shining a light on the subject, Mr. Dimash Kudaibergen of Kazakhstan, who is clearly the greatest singer the earth has to offer. I’m calling my book, a Fanbook, because that’s what it is. A book from a fan about the celebrity of which she is a fan. We are all fans of someone(s) and we tend to follow their talent or work or words etc. In my case with Dimash, I am following all three. He is a 26-year-old man who encompasses a heart and soul way beyond his years. If we were to engage in a maturity contest, he would probably win.
This book speaks not only of my journey with him but it echoes the journeys of millions of fans or Dears of his and we are proud to claim a certain obsession. His music is a distraction of the unearthly kind. A rarity. A gem. Like finding that needle in a haystack that is almost impossible to find and when you do find it, you celebrate it and hold it up to the light and marvel at its existence. His serious Dears do it daily. Hold him up to the light and often try to share him with others. That’s what I’m doing here. My poems and other writings were always coming from a place of appreciation for his hard work over the years to perfect his vocal instrument and share it with the world and equally my appreciation for his humility and very generous heart.
Most all of the readers of this book are his Dears and share the same sentiments about this young man as I do and he has united us in such a way that he still is puzzled by it but completely pleased too. Thank you Dimash for that happy little accident.
About the Author
Pamela’s introduction into writing began in high school when the English class was challenged to write a biography about a member of their class. Class members were asked to call them up and interview them over the phone and collect interesting details about their childhood, hobbies, etc. A week after the biographies were turned in, the teacher announced that she was impressed with many of the biographies but one stood out as the best example of capturing the personality of her subject and also utilizing her apparent natural skills as an interviewer. Her teacher informed her she should consider using her writing skills in the future. As the years followed, Pamela would find many opportunities to use her writing skills namely; poetry, skits, newsletters, roadshows and writing new lyrics for existing music for plays and talent shows. She also interviewed interesting people in her Memphis, Tennessee community that were published in local newspapers. She currently lives in the St. George, Utah area. She is the widow of Kenneth M. Wilkinson, mother of three and grandmother of seven. She is also the author of the book “The Princess of Cyres Hill
“The author will be donating in memory of her late husband, a percentage of the royalties from the sale of this book to the Alzheimer’s Association, Utah Chapter, Draper, Utah.””
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My Therapy Journal
Micah Mason
About the Book
It all started when an innocent little Brownie walked to a neighbor’s house to sell Girl Scout calendars. It seemed like an overdone, slobbery kiss as Micah Mason left, but at age seven, she wasn’t really sure. That moment instigated four years of hiding or being caught and molested, and a chronic state of hypervigilance. As the events led Micah into therapy, a counselor suggested she journal as homework.
In a collection of raw, unfiltered poems penned in a therapy journal over several decades, Micah invites others to witness her heartbreaking journey through childhood trauma and therapy into adulthood as she faced life-altering abuse, witnessed its affects on her life, and eventually learned healthy coping skills and self-awareness. Her poems illustrate the ups and downs of life while healing, trust issues with those who failed her, and the power of her faith as it carried her through the most challenging of times.
My Therapy Journal shares a moving compilation of poems that convey the myriad of emotions that accompanied one woman’s journey through childhood trauma, broken trust issues, and eventual healing.
About the Author
I am a nurse with a heart for healing. I have writing stories since I was in middle school. I am a crafter of many types: sewing, knitting, crocheting, quilting, painting, drawing, and more.
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Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love Volume 6
Estera Nanassy
The poems from volume #6 were widely praised by me with great pleasure, presenting my favorite poems and art specifically for volume #6 which is published under GotoPublish.
“”Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love“” Volume #6 includes the collection of 30 impressionistic pictures, 150 Lyrical poems in English and 150 similar Lyrical Poems in Romanian from poem #763 to #933.
Author and Artist ESTERA NANASSY.
About the Author
Estera Nanassy was born in Bucharest, Romania. On March 5, 1981, she permanently settled in Portland, Oregon together with her husband Zoltan and their son Oliver Zoltan Nanassy. They worked hard to rebuild their life in their new country USA. Raising and later on, helping their son to graduate from Reed College in Portland Oregon, University of Washington Graduate School and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Harvard University.
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