My Mistakes and You

She grew up with a desire for her words to be read, unconcerned about whether others could relate to what she had to say.

She yearned to pour out her soul, even if it meant her cup would overflow.

She sought acceptance despite her flaws and mistakes.

Her words were written in the hope that others would understand the reasons behind her tears, which gave birth to rivers and lakes.

This book is for those who do understand.

Here is My Mistake and You.

Mustard Earring

In Mustard Earring, emotions and logic intertwine as the book delves into the themes of personal values, inner struggles, anxieties, and unfortunate circumstances. While the narrative primarily takes place in the past, it also sheds light on hidden truths and realities, making for a sensitive and thought-provoking read. The book explores the search for happiness and comfort in a world filled with injustice and unaccountable actions. Through the author’s perspective, readers will gain insight into the objects of desire that shape our lives and the way we perceive the world around us.

Mistakes Like This

Mistakes Like This is a book of poetry that strongly emphasizes the harshest and most confusing of truths. This book focuses specifically on the realization and appreciation for one’s own worth and the importance of recognizing an unstable relationship or a toxic friendship and coping with the loss of the ones we hold most dear.

This book covers personal experiences that people of all ages can enjoy and learn from. Each poem within this book has a specific meaning and storyline that readers can insert themselves into to really get a full feeling of what each poem has to offer. With lots of sharp turns and plot twists, this book succeeds at making its readers interested and wanting more.

Mirror of Time

Thomas Roop has been fortunate enough to travel widely through his life, learning from a wide variety of cultures, traditions, and religions. These encounters inculcated and developed a love for humankind. While travelling through Denmark, he encountered and fell in love with the work of the 19^th century poet, novelist, and playwright Hans Christian Anderson. The literature of T. S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, and others are all evident influences on Roop’s own work. All of these encounters inspired him to share his own ideas, reflections, and insights in this anthology of poetry.

Memories in Technicolor

Poetry is the most expressive of the various forms of the written language. It allows one to describe events, experiences, people and emotions in an imaginative manner. The poems in this anthology illustrate the writer’s belief that the natural world and the emotions of the individual are interconnected. That the rhythm and imagination within the mind of the individual is inherent within the forces, the beauty of the physical world. The author believes that poetry, expressed in simplistic words can lift the heart, cause old romances to live again and transpose oneself into the natural world as a participant, not just an observer.

Me and You - You and I

Madison Dorsay loves to put on paper the ongoing thoughts, conversations, sights and sentiments that surround us every day. In particular, Madison is drawn into the meanderings of wandering spirits and their intertwined relationships in an eternal love of life and each other, interrupted by the occasional interlude. The poems collected here reflect collective thoughts and considerations made during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact they had on love, togetherness and the realization that we are never alone.

Me

Choices: Free will or destiny what do you think changes the outcome?

A descendent of Nova Scotian parents of mixed heritage Afro-Canadian, First Nations and Irish. Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised by a single mother in the neighborhood of Cote des Neiges (also known as Uptown), the second youngest of six siblings.

Follow her from a child on a young girl’s journey through molestation to a woman dealing with addiction and abuse. A single mother of two raising her children in a rough neighborhood, struggling to provide and keep them safe, where crime, violence and police harassment are an everyday occurrence. Delve into the mystery and uncover the secrets. Meet her friends, magical relationships forged for a lifetime.

Join Melanie on the roller coaster ride of life see the choices: love what you do, or do what you love? Different paths, detours, or dead ends.

Free will or destiny, see where it will take her.

Magic Wings

Magic Wings is a pocketful of poems; a whimsical and poetic portrayal of children, angels, fairies and all magical things.

The poems were written over a 30-year period while the author was living in a remote cabin and hiking the San Gabriel Mountains of California. The beauty of the forests, streams, and waterfalls inspired thoughts that grew into this book.

Accompanying the poems are 100-year-old postcards, reflecting the heartbeat and essence of each poem. 

Magic Behind the Heart

Magic Behind the Heart is a book for yoga instructors to inspire students and deepen the class experience—on the mat—by reciting at the start, middle, or end of sessions. This, A Yoga & Meditation Companion, is also for yoga practitioners to guide themselves and expand the at-home practice by incorporating after pranayama yogic breathing techniques and easing into meditation.

 This book of poetry teaches the philosophy of:

o Building lasting worth by embracing moments of healing.

o Developing unwavering empowerment by quieting demand of ego.

o Uncovering perpetual joy by establishing a relationship with self.

o Illuminating higher purpose by suspending mistrust of the unknown.

o Channeling ultimate creativity by holding proper principles.

o Receiving infinite abundance by clinging to correct response.

Experience the sacred shift of opening the heart by embodying the intrinsic energy field of these 92 haiku—off the mat.

Love, Life, and Heartache

Love, Life, and Heartache is a collection of poetry that starts from an early adulthood when hearts were wild and emotions ran high. It continues through many years of broken hearts and deep loss. It tells of a journey through trials and tribulations to suffering with depression, and self-harm. The author's hope is that this book may help others find a way to cope with the roller-coaster ride of life and how to overcome it. It tells of a person who has suffered great loss, who has been badly hurt, and who, after finally, learning how to love herself, has learned how to love others with a full heart. 

Love Under Fire

“Love Under Fire is dedicated to the women who have inspired me and whom I have known and loved and in a few cases loved too much. Their number is many, and I thank all in memory of their timeless appreciation and remembrance – the cornerstones of immortality for all.

Their combined life stories have emboldened the world and enriched the uniqueness of all our individual lives, journeys, and endeavors.”

The Way of the World…

What Loss

My heart is strong enough

to give…

But not strong enough

To give away.

Love Poems from the Heart

The story of my love was written in the form of poetry. My wife passed away on June 8, 2019. The many love poems were written for people who lost their loved ones, young lovers, and most of all it's a journey for dreamers. When you read my poems of love, you will be looking into the essence of my life.