Love takes
on many forms and faces and evokes multifaceted feelings,
actions, and reactions in its beholder. People are always
asking the age-old philosophical question: What is Love? It
is that undefinable, elusive abstraction of connection between
beings which captures the human heart with the power both
to break and to heal with its abstruse ways. Rarely have the
many aspects of love been so similarly captured, imprisoned
as in a living vessel from which we invoke, create, and become
art as within the pages of this book, Michael L. Ciavarella's
second publication. From love for family and friends to love
for honor and life to love for Spirit and God to infatuation
and the captivating romantic love shared between lovers, his
conglomeration captures love in a unique diversity which few
collections of poetry have contained, evoked, or expressed.
And, like his talent, the tenderness of his truest, deepest
heart and soul shines through in every line like the moon
glowing over the mysteriously unpredictable, ever-roiling
and yet static ocean of love. Will the timeless questions
about love ever be answered? We may never understand it or
express it fully, but rarely has that expression been so varicolored
and beautiful as in the poetic lines penned by Michael L.
Ciavarella in the form of Quatrains Of Our Love.
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The Long Yellow Afternoon
Michael L. Ciavarella
108 Pages/Perfect Bound
$12.95
In our short, uncertain, sometimes dark, sometimes luminary
time here, life is a great adventure, not in learning to encourage,
but in bringing encouragement to the world innately from within
the soul and being able to see with eyes that perceive magic
in and weave magic from the pain, loss, love, experience,
and the mundane.
Michael L. Ciavarella's poetic artistry is easy to read yet
deeply insightful, gleaning truths from the annals of the
everyday. He finds humor in the hurting and light in the darkness.
It causes the reader to see one's own face in the mirror,
reflected back a little more colorfully and perceptively than
before, with the relatable visions his imagination conjures
and observes through the encouraging, ever-uplifted eyes poring
over this landscape of existence we think we know and seeing
as he sees the bright, teaching adventure his spirit endearingly
terms The Long Yellow Afternoon.
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Panhandle P.I.
M.C. Bechum
160 Pages/Perfect Bound
$12.95
Panhandle P.I. chronicles two life-altering cases in the
career of private investigator Pete Masters.
In Forgotten Devotion, the empathic detective is compelled
to sort through the dirty laundry of Burnadett Florida's
most respected family. Throughout the course of trying to
uncover Mary Larson's killer, Masters finds himself struggling
to understand how people who appear to have everything could
be so lacking concerning the most basic of human needs.
Childish Ways reveals the secrets of a seemingly ordinary
middle-class family on the verge of attaining everything
they've ever wanted, until the loss of their five-year old
son forces them to take a profound look at what really matters.
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Simple Poetry A to Z
Janice Sue Andrews
192 Pages/Perfect Bound
$14.50
"Mouth, you speak before I think
And often turn my face deep pink."
This is a sample of the rhymes
and free verse in this book
that won't leave you asking:
What was that poem about?
Was I supposed to understand that?
I am a wife, mother, grandmother
and your next door neighbor.
This collection is about me.
This collection is about you.
Read and enjoy.
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The Journey From Hell
Deborah Davis
56 Pages/Perfect Bound
$11.95
I started this project as a self help therapy. I had so much
anger inside. I felt betrayed, abused, misused and unsure
of the decisions I had made for my children and for me. I
thank God for knowing something about him and never letting
me forget "that I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me" Phil 4:13. Knowing that he (God) loved
me and that he was and always would be there for me made me
appreciate him more with each passing day. This story is written
to give hope and to encourage each person who is experiencing
this type of drama. Your outcome may not be like mine but
remember that God is real and if you seek him for direction
he will guide you and he will have the victory. Be encouraged,
don't question his plan, for "the revelation awaits the
appointed time" Habakkuk 2:3 I am not for battered men
or women staying in any abusive situation. This is not a message
for anyone to jeopardize their life. It is to reiterate that
"God is real" Walk in your God given purpose and
live free from despair, worry and oppression.
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Illumination Without Light
Christopher Aaron
108 Pages/Perfect Bound
$12.95
This is a book of dark poetry - a chance, if you will, to
walk through the nighttime.
You see, there's something entrancing about the darkness;
about the way the shadows seem to hide what we call the
real world and yet, as they shroud our sight, they open
up a whole new world to explore. A world where a crystalline
drop of the most vibrant crimson hangs from the tip of a
rose's thorn. Where the cry of a tortured soul shatters
windows but don't waken the person sleeping in the next
room. Where two lovers dance in mute elegance in a moonlit
garden, perfumed by soft, ebon blooms.
Pain, love, despair and beauty all. And the fullness of
these emotions linger just beyond the light, waiting in
shadow.
So let the daytime end and the last sun ray fade away but
remember before you enter this world of night…
Poetry of Hope
For Our Times
Colleen Marie Bianchi
108 Pages/Perfect Bound
$14.95
Poetry of Hope For Our Times is an expression of one woman's
hope for the world. Like a prayer offered in silence, this
work speaks from the heart of author Colleen Marie Bianchi
on issues affecting our life, our times, and our planet.
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Petals of a Flower
Patricia McHenry
96 Pages/Perfect Bound
$11.95
This book of poetry has been compiled from uprising emotions
during an emotional time. Our children's generation might
say that we have given up. I say we paved the way. Young men
and women who were born in the 50's and entered their adulthood
during the late 60's and early 70's didn't know how to communicate
their feelings to their parents. So we protested. Most had
loving homes - the Ozzie and Harriet neighborhood - those
who didn't, looked in other directions, sought alternatives
or reached for the 3 bedroom 2 car garage pie in the sky.
This book is in sections of decades from
the late 60's to now 2004. The overall message I keep hearing
is for Humanity. If we can teach love, show love, be love,
to all things, for all things, in all things then truly "Ye
are Gods."
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Shadowbox
Megan Komorowski
88 Pages/Perfect Bound
$12.00
[genesis] my world's glittered infrared miniature stars falling
off my brows and below my fragile soul bursting from my eye.
the laugh lines on my orbits wrinkle and my lips draw anchor
from my cheekbones when i close off reality. and the walls
sparkle behind my face, porcelain with no name; dreams echo
unconscious(-ly) into me. i think i prefer my atmosphere.
the temperature's like dynamite but there's neon constellations
to figure out. my world's not glitz and glamour but it's compressing
its teeth to my lips and i couldn't ever deny such sensuality.
it's three a.m. in my time zone open to me like a yawn as
i delve into my origin my name my ink my genesis.
On the Edge of Decency is a compilation of diary, autobiographical
tidbits, news events and current issues, some story telling,
ranting and raving, sarcasm, humor, and of course poetry.
We live in edgy times with Lots of edgy people. Read about
them all in Rick LaFerla's On the Edge of Decency.
How do I sum up thoughts and inspiration? I try to give thanks
with praise and dedication. I write what I think, I write
what I see. I write of how it was and how it could be. I try
to make you see my deep imagination. I hope you will read
on with a curious fascination. So abandon your thoughts, read
and you'll find, you've stepped out of your world and into
mine.
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