Scribbles

Scribbles is a collection of poems written to express feelings that come with intense love, anger, betrayal, trauma, confusion, trust, and worry, and to help make sense of things. Its goal is to shine a light on some thoughts and feelings one may be having when experiencing the worry for a friend’s death, death of a lover, falling in love, or being betrayed, or being abused, trying to figure out one’s own mind, or feeling as though one has lost their mind. It is gritty and emotional, even lurid at times, but serves its purpose of letting out what cannot be contained.

Red Birds in a Tree

Red Birds in a Tree is a collection of poems written, over a span of many years, about a woman as she moves her way through life. It is about love, loss, sorrow, nature, beauty, aging, resilience, joy, family, and relationships. The broad range of topics in this thought-provoking collection will appeal to many readers.

Midnight

For a moment in time, I wished I could change the events that left me rootless and stuck. There were thoughts I hoped would make their way out of my mind but felt comfort in knowing they would stay there because it was the only thing that kept me from accepting and talking things out. I was safely tucked away in the recesses of my mind, my roots not yet ready to be grounded. I wanted to give up and kept searching for more in places where flowers couldn’t grow. Everywhere I set foot was filled with grief and reminders of the events of my childhood, my old roots. It took me ten years to understand love, anger, and hope. It took me ten years to learn how to grow new roots. Inside, you’ll find the vulnerability I wish I had years ago that allowed me to unveil the thoughts I had so carefully safeguarded. As you read, you’ll find me as I was: Navigating love, acceptance, trauma, and with a deep desire to live. With every gentle turn of a page, I hope that you feel as deeply as I did. The delicate stems of me encased inside are now yours to safeguard.

Lifetime Visions

Mac Fleming has been a photographer all his life. In his senior years, he broadened his range of self-expression from the concrete reality of photographs to the realm of critical thoughts and feelings expressed in poetry. In this book, he uses poetry to trace his maturing ideas and feelings from youthful years in Oregon and middle years in the Midwest to senior years on the coast of California. Along this journey, he occasionally adds a touch of the concrete through related color photos. Weaving years of experience with youthful turns of phrase, Lifetime Visions is an exploration of a life well-lived, spanning over a century.

Latent Heat - A Year's Worth

Pure transparency. What can be more interesting? A candid depiction of an engineer, seaman, manic depressant, and writer/poet, named David Fredette. An engineering degree and a Coast Guard issued Marine Engineering License made him a seaman. As a seaman, David took the “con” as a Marine Engineering Officer, standing watch, and performing maintenance, aboard various ships, at sea. Over time, Fredette performed well, but eventually succumbed to a nervous breakdown, which led to a lot of recovery time, where he took to writing one poem per week, for one year. Thus, Latent Heat – A Year's Worth was published.

Just Laugh

Just Laugh is a collection of poems and prose that were inspired by loneliness, acceptance, love, and faith. Often, when we find ourselves feeling alienated by the world, solace can be found in sharing our experiences with others, and Just Laugh is my tribute to those who seek to know themselves better throughout the journey of life.

I'd Rather Be Me

Lily Dawn is a young girl who hopes to be anyone other than herself. Her story starts when she decides to talk to the animals on the farm to see how their lives compare to hers. What she discovers is a valuable lesson about being true to oneself.

Ana's Hymns

Ana’s Hymns welcomes you to joy. A celebration of love. May these words provoke you to dream, to love one another. Dear readers, this book will take you on a journey of the mind to inspire the magic within your heart and life.

Zion and Me

‘Zion’ is an imaginary place of peace, happiness, and victory. It has been my life’s ambition and pursuit. It has been a dream. An unattainable dream. Since Adam bit the poison apple in the Garden of Eden, mankind has been under a curse – to work at the sweat of his brow for his bread. This causes all of humanity to moan in existential pain. We long for meaning and for love.

Originally, ‘Zion’ was the hill in Jerusalem upon which Solomon built his temple. Zion since then, has come to mean the holy city. Zion is the party, should there ever be one after the defeat of evil in the apocalypse. To me, it is something to hope for, to strive for. However, as life’s problems obstruct the attainment of such a state, we begin to sink into complacency and misery. There’s poverty, heartbreak, and people who want to put you in a cage. After all that - you die.

Zion and Me is divided into three parts. ‘Haphazard Lines’ is mostly Biblical as I had recently converted to Christianity, and includes some speculation on the divine. ‘This Lovely Day’ is more secular and reflects again on life’s melancholia among other lessons to be learned. Finally, ‘Love Poems’ is self-explanatory and concerns various concepts related to love like longing and sadness. Zion and Me is an attempt to explain the ambiguity that goes with the necessity of discovering life’s secrets and to gain insight and wisdom.

You in Me

You in Me chronicles my journey of healing, learning, and growth from the small Caribbean Island of Dominica to Canada and recognizes the many misunderstandings encountered along the way. Such misunderstandings could keep us perpetually stuck in limiting beliefs and prohibit our progression to a more productive and enjoyable life.

When a change of course in life is desired in order to accommodate a more successful integration in a fast-developing society, it is imperative that these misunderstandings be faced with probing questions as to why they occur and our participation and contributing factors in causing them.

Our participation may sometimes be mainly unconscious, making the cause difficult to detect. The effect of and on behavior is a good indicator that something is amiss and may need some mode of adjustment.

We all share that commonality in unconscious behavior, and the poetry You in Me speaks to the reconciliation of relationships with oneself, others and more importantly, the spirit, which gives fervor and strength to drive the unknown to awareness. When brought to the light of day, misunderstandings may be examined for deeper reasons and meanings, and by the grace of the ever-present spirit, we may be renewed and replenished. A conscious effort is required to bring about these restorations, and You in Me addresses some of these reconciliations. Therefore, with passion, creativity, and sensitivity, I invite you to join me on this engaging adventure of self-discovery and evolution, which sheds some light on a hopeful and brilliant tomorrow.

Lorraine J. Dorival

Yes! Life It Is

This book of poems is all about love, in all its flavors. Love for the sweetheart, love for spouse, love for parents, love for siblings, love for friends, love for God, love for nature, love for country and above all, love for life.

The poems of Bhupati Das depict various visuals of life and carry soft notes of love-waves. His stark simplicity, fluidity in tone and felicity with words come out vividly in these poems.

After a long journey of mythically exploring the love and beauty of life, Bhupati has reached a point where his writings reveal a profound understanding of life and human relationships. They reflect everything from the way a waterfall breaks up on the rocks to the sensation of drawing one’s hand through a cluster of damp marigolds.

Love has always been a blessing to him, even at the moment when it extinguishes its flame. Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems in this collection once again make people
think that the innermost beauty of poetry is to be found not only in its imagery but also in its syntax and rhythms.

His poetry is written in a language of excitement. The heightened pitch adds to the individual quality of that excitement. The poems in Yes! Life It Is also deal with his reflection on love, spirituality and openness to hope which readers can instantly trust and identify with.
Bhupati writes his poems in small case only and without using full stop, comma or semi-colon so as not to break the flow.

Writers, Like Hats

Writers, Like Hats begins with an ode and ends with a philosophical message from one of my students; in between is a variety of genres for enjoyment and meditation. Three sections explore the natural world, the world outside, and the world inside. In the appendix, readers find instructions for writing riddles, sonnets, and celebrations of self, as well as samples from students. I invite you to enjoy the music and magic of poetry that lifts us to new heights in Writers, Like Hats.

“Trish Frech’s untrammeled poetic style opens to the reader her deep attachments to Nature, her concerns for the world and its people, and her insights into her own Life. But it is more than that: many readers will savor the vivid images, carefully turned phrases, and playfulness of her poetry. Teachers of poetry, moreover, will find not only rich material to share with students but in the Appendix four ready to use methods (with student samples) for creating poetry itself. Frech’s insights into her on life’s arc and into momentous questions of our times are offset and [made pleasurable] by her simplicity of phrase, colorful wording, and frequent evocation of Nature.”

Review of the final manuscript from Gordon B. Donaldson, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine.