Poetry

This is a Poetry Feast not for the timid or the weak to eat!

#WaterINJUSTICE is a beautiful poetry book which expresses outrage, truth, and strategy about the Flint water crises. Detroit, MI has experienced emergency management policy which provides no checks and balances for injustices regarding gentrification and water rights. Water is a human right and this book expresses why.

A collection of poetry that encaptures love in all aspects. Self-love, love towards your partner, and love towards a friend. It reveals the pain that comes from loving another and even trying to love yourself.

A Killer’s Nightmare, A Deadman’s Dream spans from 1985 to 2015, many of these ‘scribblings’ written in my later years. Each writing varies in style, topic, and pentameter. And each word - a subtle brushstroke upon a darkened canvas with few strokes of hope and promise, sublimating upon spiritual, philosophical and psychological elements. Part One: Nightmares and Dreams, is a collection of thoughts, ideas, poems and songs scribbled upon paper, myself the only audience. Many of the writings were never meant to be read by others, their syntax cryptic and disguised. Only 70 writings were selected for this section. Part Two: The Other Side, shifts direction away from the emotionally f ...

"Batshit Love" delves into an ailment which afflicts us all at one time or another, and seeks to salve the reader's wounds with humor, scathing wit, and the cauterizing agony of truth. Our Cheapskate Chapbooks Series is a slimline collection of edited favorites in a lightweight, unchallenging format specially designed for today's aliterate intellectual. You have more important things to spend your money on than improving the mind and spirit, and we here at the White Devil Press know it. They're cheap enough to abuse, yet booky enough to make for fun reading! Buy a bunch and pass them out at church or at the next drug gang meet-up! Now there's no more excuse for not pretending to read! ...

R. Ummi Modeste's Because I Knew, is a heartfelt collection of verse reflecting the many aspects of woman's life: from being tutored in the fine art of being a woman by her mother, to becoming a mother herself. Modeste also lays bare her emotions when writing about immigration, identity and loss.

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Eric has allowed God to shape and enrich his character through a quickened spirit-man and the life-altering tool of incarceration. Eric was incarcerated for 15 years for a crime he maintains he is innocent of; yet, Eric refused to become bitter and chose to become better by allowing God to reveal the purpose for which he was created—allowing God to impact the lives of others through him. In this poignant, creatively expressed, inspirational, poetic masterpiece, Eric shares with the world secret thoughts, feelings and views that opens the blinds and allows others to experience the brightness that shines through the window of his soul. With that being said, he invites you to accompan ...

Click To Add Title is a collection of 23 poems and 3 photos wrapped up into 38 pages of a 6x9 book. This is my first published work and all poetry and photography are my own. Enjoy!