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In Clear Mind, Wild Heart, you will join this acclaimed poet and teacher to engage with the poetic imagination as your companion and guide for the difficult terrain we are all traversing. Poetry, teaches Whyte, offers immediate and powerful tools unique from any other tradition. It can help us to see beyond the fragile surfaces of our lives, open us to the universal cycles and patterns that shape our lives, and awaken our conversation with what has been called the Untouchable, the Numinous, or the Eternal.

Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016). The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word "stanza" is rooted in the word "room."

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with Salome in 1891. His society comedies produced enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’.

Poems of environmental advocacy, human observation and life contemplation written for the climate of today's world. The intention is to utilize the amazing form of expression that is poetry in order to spread environmental awareness, encourage love and human connection, promote community, and inspire introspective assessment of ourselves in relation to each other and the natural world. May the words spark gratitude for this unified experience we all share on this incredible planet.

Wilde's first collection of verse, published in 1881, contains many poems which had already been published individually. Among the 61 poems can be found four major works, "The Garden of Eros", "The Burden of Itys", "Charmides", and "Humanitad". Although the initial critical reaction was not particularly enthusiastic, Wilde's poetry aroused enough attention for him to become the object of ridicule in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Patience, in which he is characterized as the "fleshly poet", Reginald Bunthorne.

The Irish are known the world over as friendly and engaging talkers with a word here and a few words there to each and every soul they meet. Their poets dazzle with talent and verse that few other nations dare compete with. What follows demonstrates why.

The dreaming spires of Oxford may be one of the great educational establishments of the Centuries. But it is also a place where the Nation’s young learn much more. Within its walls, courtyards and cloisters these 10 Poets mused and illuminated on the beauty of poetry with eager yet tender words.

Oscar Wilde (Dublín, 16 de octubre de 1854 - París, 30 de noviembre de 1900) fue un escritor, poeta y dramaturgo británico-irlandés. Oscar Wilde está considerado como uno de los dramaturgos más destacados del Londres victoriano tardío; además, fue una celebridad de la época debido a su puntilloso y gran ingenio. Su reputación se vio arruinada trasser condenado a dos años de trabajos forzados en un famoso juicio en el que fue acusado de indecencia grave por una comisión inquisitoria de actos homosexuales.

When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp descriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts generational trauma and the potential loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.

Ein Sommer in Rom, 231 Jahre und acht Monate nach Goethe. Mit seiner Ehrlichkeit, seinem Blick für das Wesentliche und tiefer Romantik hat sich Atticus auf seinem Instagram-Account @atticuspoetry in die Herzen hunderttausender von Menschen geschrieben, er gilt als einer der bekanntesten Instagram-Poeten. In eindringlichen Worten hält er sowohl die kleinen als auch die allergrößten Augenblicke des Lebens fest: den ersten flüchtigen Blick einer neuen Liebe in Paris, Nacktbaden in einer lauen Sommernacht, während einer nächtlichen Autofahrt laut einen Song im Radio mitsingen.

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that the professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose; a lizard, a butterfly and a daisy laugh at the student for doing so. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.

"Poems in Prose" is the collection of six prose poems by Oscar Wilde published in 1894, including, in order: "The Artist," "The Doer of Good," "The Disciple," "The Master," "The House of Judgment" and "The Teacher of Wisdom."

The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums, whether it's her first baby or her fifth. 'I read every single poem and wished that I'd had this book when I was pregnant, and feeding a baby, and watching her grow.' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games A collection of honest, fierce...

From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different. In this...

A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. Stories by famous writers including Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

"Wir waren ein halbes Dutzend Reiter, nämlich Mister Neal, mein Freund, ich und drei Neger. Unsere Aufgabe bestand darin, die Tiere dem Hause zuzutreiben, wo die für den Markt bestimmten mit dem Lasso eingefangen und sofort nach Brazoria abgeführt werden sollten. Ich ritt meinen Mustang. Wir hatten uns der ersten Herde, die aus etwa fünfzig bis sechzig Stück bestand, auf eine Viertelmeile genähert." Charles Sealsfield, ein Pseudonym von Karl Postl, war ein mährischer Schriftsteller und wurde 1793 in Poppitz bei Znaim geboren. Sealsfield stammte aus einer bäuerlichen Familie.

First published in 1913, more than a decade after the author's death, Charmides and Other Poems is a collection including the long narrative poem "Charmides" (1881), and a number of shorter poems, and sonnets, many written when Wilde was at the height of his powers as an author.

Our quoted authority is not the people in white coats but those with a quill, a heart and a soul that can take these feelings of love and loss and with the ink of words put to verse feelings and emotions that can be re-lived and shared by all. As they venture through depression, war, slavery to heartache and the loss of loved ones our eyes may mist and tears gently fall at what collectively we have done, have experienced, have witnessed and lost.

En 1891, Oscar Wilde aide un jeune étudiant d'Oxford, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), fils du Marquis De Queensberry et entame une relation avec lui. Le père, membre de la chambre des Lords, a besoin de voir son nom réapparaître dans les journaux avec un rôle entièrement nouveau : Celui du père affectueux défenseur de la pureté et de la moralité, protégeant son fils des assauts de l'artiste pervers et dépravé. La loi anglaise, à cette époque, ne badinant pas avec l'homosexualité, il est condamné à deux ans de travaux forcés.

Testament artistique d'Oscar Wilde, "La ballade de la geôle de Reading" est un poème réquisitoire contre la peine de mort et les horreurs de la vie carcérale. Mais c'est surtout une ode à la compassion et à l'humanité. En décrivant les derniers jours d'un condamné à mort, Wilde nous fait toucher l'essence de notre humanité, Il fixe la "petite tente de ciel bleu", la paix possible qui suit même les plus grandes tourmentes ; il aborde les grands mystères de la vie : l'amour, la mort et la rédemption.