[PDF] Tender Poems For Tough Times eBook

Author : Ken Lievers
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1039108873

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We all go through tough times. Feelings and emotions run high, thoughts and questions overwhelm us, and we can’t see past the present moment. But the followers of Jesus Christ can work through these tough times differently than the world around them. Tender Poems for Tough Times is a collection of Christian poetry written over a twenty-five-year period. The poems can provide a portrayal of current reality, a phrase that resonates, or a key verse of Scripture that touches readers in a tender way and fixes their gaze on their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and His presence and promises. Organized alphabetically, topics range from aging to hopelessness to sin, and the poems are written in a variety of formats. A relevant and inspiring offering, Tender Poems for Tough Times will be a blessing and encouragement to Christians everywhere.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807069035

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Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

Author : Ken Lievers
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1038308992

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The Christian pathway is a personal one and a pilgrim’s journey. Those who are committed to Jesus Christ will develop a set of values, face challenges in their choices, and eventually develop Christlikeness in their character. These poems are for followers of Jesus Christ who love Him as Saviour and Lord, who want to live a life that pleases Him, and are facing challenges counter to the flow of current society. The poems can be used as a devotional and a source of meditation to encourage faithful following of our Lord. This collection, written over a twenty-five-year period, offers the honest reflection of one follower's angst, turmoil, devotion, and hope as he travelled on his journey. Count Your Blessings is the third in the Poems for the Pilgrim Pathway series.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1608685306

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In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers’ concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden’s incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural and collective malaise. Ten Poems for Difficult Times is the perfect gift for oneself or for anyone in need of solace and inspiration. Ten Poems for Difficult Times “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass “The Quarrel” by Conrad Aiken “Cutting Loose” by William Stafford “Rain Light” by W. S. Merwin “How the Light Comes” by Jan Richardson “Now You Know the Worst” by Wendell Berry “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert “It’s This Way” by Nazim Hikmet “Annunciation” by Marie Howe

Author : George Oppen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811218054

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"George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work." "Editor Michael Davidson has written an introduction to the poet's life and work and supplies generous notes that give readers a deeper understanding of the background of the individual books and references in the poems. Essayist Eliot Weinberger provides a personal remembrance of the poet in his preface, "Oppen Then." This new, revised paperback edition also includes an extraordinary CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry books. Culled from obscure, rarely heard recordings of Oppen when he was in New York, San Francisco, and London at different times in his life, the CD adds a unique dimension to the lifework of one of America's finest poets."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kim Rosen
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1401926762

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Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen’s book, the answer is a re­sounding "Yes!" Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, freedom, and insight. Whether you are a lover of poetry or have yet to discover its power, Rosen offers a new way to experience a poem. She encourages you to feel the poem as you might an affirmation or sacred text, which can align every level of your being. In an uncertain world, Saved by a Poem is an emphatic call to cultivate the ever-renewable resources of the heart. Through poetry, the unspeakable can be spoken, the unendurable endured, and the miraculous shared. Weaving teaching, story, verse, and memoir, Rosen guides you to find a poem that speaks to you so you can take it into your life and become a voice for its wisdom in the world. Inspirational audio download included! Featuring the voices of well-known authors reading a favorite poem and discussing its personal significance: Joan Borysenko, Andrew Harvey, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, Grace Yi-Nan Howe, Robert Holden, Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Lesser, Thomas Moore, Christiane Northrup, Cheryl Richardson, Kim Rosen, and Geneen Roth.

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9390287820

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A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Author : Nick Flynn
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555979327

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New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb electrocution, no—the boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did I did. —from "Fire" The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is Nick Flynn's first new poetry collection in nearly a decade. What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gathering sonic force. It's as if all the noise that fills our days were a storm, yet at the center is a quiet place, but to get there you must first pass through the storm, with eyes wide open, singing. Each poem becomes a hallucinatory, shifting experience, through jump cut, lyric persuasion, and deadpan utterance. This is an emotional, resilient response to some of the essential issues of our day by one of America's riskiest and most innovative writers.