Frank Carlson Library

If I were to go back, cross the threshold of time and caress the soul that was mine. It would not make the journey easier, it would not take away the sorrow and pain, it would not remove the struggle from within. There is a time to let go of all the thoughts, that crept in from the shadows and the doubt. A moment to reflect on what was, with the strength to hold on.

If you are in love, you need to read this book. If you wanna know how to treat your beloved one, Or how to be treated by your beloved one, you need to read this book. If you broke up and wanna move on easily, you need to read this book. If you want your beloved one feel more loved, you need to read this book.

This is an unapologetic love about loving someone no matter the circumstances or the consequences. Love isn't defined by others because your love is yours to give. There will be heartbreak, loss, and this very scary sensation of falling, but the sheer force of love makes it all worth it. This book contains 101 poems and prose about choosing to live and love freely to the utmost. This book contains some explicit language.

"Du bout du cœur" explore les réflexions de Clémence Adam sur des thèmes tels que la vie, la mort, l'amour, ainsi que d'autres sujets variés. L'auteure partage ses pensées avec une grande sincérité, exprimant ainsi son désir de communiquer sa vision du monde aux autres. Trois poèmes sont spécialement dédiés aux personnes qui comptent le plus à ses yeux : ses parents, sa sœur, et l'écrivaine qui a nourri sa passion pour la lecture et...

"The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split-terribly, wholly-by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spaces, of that world? What else but to interrogate the very fundamental principles themselves, all the knowns previously relied on: light, religion, physical matter, time? Often borrowing voices and perspectives...

In the first chapter of her debut poetry book, Dion Anja explores the turbulence of pandemic through experimenting as well as integrating metaphors and classical elements to mirror the dark side of human nature that is both ever-changing and fixed. Her poems include various themes like anxiety, death, insecurities, and isolation but she also offers a soothing magical realm with fairies and cats. The content of some poems can be sensitive or triggering...

Heartdrop is a chapbook of poems offered to the Beloved. BetweenBetween her eyes and the palpitating moonis my firmament of desireI watch poems hanging on pink branches, like wind chimesresounding her beautyto the naked earth - half truth, half fantasyYet everything meets in her gaze:flowers open their petals to the sunand the oceans evaporate back into the skyA strange type of alchemy where everythingfinds anything, everything except my throbbing...

Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries book series, "Poetry & Prose and More" offers a heartfelt collection of expressive writing by 18 women as they journey through different struggles including loss, mental illness, and more. Sharing our stories through different hardships touches the hearts of both reader and writer. It is comforting to know someone else understands the shoes we walk in, and the struggles we face along the way. Our written words...

Too many people are feeling lost and disillusioned. Cindy believes that, despite the hate and cruelty that surrounds her, beauty can be found if we look for it. In this collection of poems, she shares her belief that a smile or a bit of understanding can change the world. One act of kindness, one smile, brightens everything it touches.

Crossing the Water is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath that was prepared for publication by Ted Hughes. These poems were written at the same time as those that appear in Ariel. Crossing the Water continues to push the envelope between dark and light, between our deep passions and desires that are often in tension with our duty to family and society. Water becomes a metaphor for the surface veneer that many of us carry, but Plath...