The Rollercoaster of life is book of poems that were written from different thoughts that crossed my mind. All the poems were written from different experiences in my life, some good, some bad, and some spiritual. Life can go up and down like a rollercoaster, but you have to keep faith in God to keep moving forward and to never give up, and that is the main thing I want people to get from this book.

Violence, pain, anger, frustration, resistance, faith, love, and determination! The poems in this book are inspired by my experiences growing up as a first-generation Salvadoran-American, bisexual girl in a working-class, diverse ahood known as atha mission,a located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. This book is a collection of poems I wrote when I was in high school, while I attended SFSU and as I dealt with the realities of poverty, gangs, racism, sexism, and homophobia. There is also some poetry I wrote as I completed graduate school in San Diego. These poems chronicle my roller-coaster emotions and thoughts as I struggled to find meaning and purpose in my life. They reflect diverse poetic styles I experimented with over those ten years of my life, as I transitioned from a teenager into a young adult.

My poems are inspired by true feelings and emotions as well as what I see in others. I began writing in my early teens to escape reality. I had lost the passion of writing somewhere down the road. I then began to write to pass the time while being sick. Now it has become so much more. The path of writing is on a conscious growth of healing. I hope I can help by inspiring others.

A collection of poems written by Maria O'Hare, which were written during some of her most traumatic life experiences, and during periods of severe mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, Maria was sectioned in a psychiatric hospital nine times equating to nearly two years of her life, for reasons from severe depression, severe mania, post traumatic stress disorder and psychotic episodes. Throughout this decade of her life she suffered more tradgedy than most people will experience in their whole life time. This book is devided into three parts, each based upon an emotional state of mind, so this book will take you on an emotional journey from the darkest and most painful states of mind that any human being can experience, through to an obscure and different world from our own, that is only experienced during psycosis, and finally to a heart felt and much desered emotionally charged positive recovery. The poems in this book cover all aspects of life from pain, suffering and grief, to love, life and recovery. This book starts with a brief autobiography of the authors shockingly traumatic rollercoaster of a life, so you will be able to engage completly in the heartfelt and brutly authentic emotions that these poems convey. The author has a blog and a youtube channel which you can access for free to acompany this beautiful collection of poems. She also has created a website in which individuals share their own personal experiences of mental illness in an aim to promote the breakdown of the stigma which is still unfortunately surrounding mental illness. You can find the author on Twitter @PixieWings8 where she has a continually increasing fan base of followers which currently stands at around 25,000. This is a must read collection of poems that really illustrates the workings and emotions of someone suffering with multiple mental illnesses from real life experience, including bipolar disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

How do I go about in describing these poems I have written? Simply they are at times the rantings of my tortured mind and at times the expression of hope from a soul which continues to believe in Hope! It is my sincere prayer that as you read them,that you may also delve into your own frailties and choose to continue with this journey we call Life!

Poetry. Women's Studies. Poet Moira Egan finally turned fifty, and her poetic journey has gotten ever sweatier and sexier. In her latest collection, HOT FLASH SONNETS, she explores the sultry joys and humorous indignities of becoming a woman of a certain age.

John's life started at the beginning of World War Two, when he was evacuated from London as a baby, to various homes in the South of England. Some were very good homes but others were a nightmare.

The meaning of life and emotion as described in the most poetic words to make a person think twice.

Feelings That Echoed' is all about the feelings that the poetress went through after an unfortunate demise of her grandfather in law. It carries all of the true feelings from the incidents and her life and intend to make an impact on the reader with a strong connect. There includes write ups about some special people and incidents close to her heart that she hasnt been able to speak up completely to anyone directly but plans to share it with the world instead so that they can relate it to themselves and find that courage to live a dignified life with utmost passion, courage and happiness. This book brings blooms for all those yet in search of themselves and their dreams, chasing them and the people they love all close to their hearts. And at the same time it brings back memories back for the others they might have had in their respective lives till date. This book tends to bring and share immense love, hope and life with the readers.