Poetry is one of the great avenues in expressing our emotions, feelings and everything we go through. In this book, you'll get a glimpse of the author’s past as he shares his experiences on life, family, love and the heartbreak of divorce. Poems, Tears and Heartache is a good release for people who have gone through loss of love. This may bring out the hidden memories you’d locked away but will definitely help you feel better—because you are not alone.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

From acclaimed musician Alicia Keys, author of the memoir More Myself, comes a revealing songbook of collected poems and lyrics that document her growth as a person, a woman, and an artist. “All my life, I’ve written these words with no thought or intention of sharing them. Not even with my confidants. These are my most delicate thoughts. The ones that I wrote down just so I could understand what in the world these things I was thinking meant...” When she burst onto the music scene with her multi-million bestselling, Grammy® Award-winning first album, Songs in A Minor, Alicia Keys became a superstar. Two decades later, her career has expanded into producing, acting, and passionate activism—winning her worldwide acclaim, numerous awards, and a spot on Time’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People.” Though Alicia has been very vocal through her career, there were always “delicate thoughts” that she never before imagined she’d share with anyone else—until now. In Tears for Water, Alicia Keys opens the journals and notebooks that she has kept throughout her life and reveals her heart to her fans in return for all the love they have shown to her and her music. Hello morning now I see you cause I am awake What was once so sweet and secure has turned out to be fake Girl, you can’t be scared gotta stand up tall and let ’em see what shines in you Push aside the part lying in your heart like the ocean is deep, dark and blue —from Golden Child

Poetry has been my lifelong hobby and passion. I hope you find these words encouraging and uplifting. And I hope that you find inspiration in something that you find in this book. I hope that these words help you move forward in life and maybe find some meaning.

My poems are about a lot of things I have experienced. There are different types of poems. Almost all of them are from the heart. The way I have felt about certain things and the life that I have lived. About the way I have felt about certain things during my life. I hope that my poems will help somebody and touch them. My poems mean so much to me, and hopefully, they will mean something to someone else. The poems that I write come straight from the heart. Its just the way I feel about a lot of things.

Voted one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by readers on Goodreads! Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer takes a magical approach to self-care with her new collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering and feminist retelling, Mateer transforms the mythology of the goddess into 224 pages of modern poetry and full-color artwork. Broken into sections alternating between the perspective of The Poet and Aphrodite herself, the work within tackles the timeless topic of love--romantic, platonic, and self-love. The collection addresses issues like heartbreak, sexuality, womanhood, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore, speaking your truths, and rewriting your origin story. If you let her, by the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility of your own healing. "If you were only made to be beautiful, we wouldn't have put you down here in the dirt."Perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace, Nikita Gill, Rupi Kaur, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rick Riordan, and Madeline Miller; or anyone interested in Greek myths, tarot, and Instagram poetry. This is the first book in the Myth & Magick series, which also includes Artemis Made Me Do It and Persephone Made Me Do It.

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

"Beautiful Heartbreak" is a seamlessly weaved story of Depression, PTSD, and Anorexia, depicted through a collection of poems. Perry Kay opens a little crack in the world of those who battle their minds every day. From the depths of pain and despair beautiful art was born, hence the title "Beautiful Heartbreak". Through every step in her recovery and personal journey, Perry writes poetry. Her goal with this book is to spread more Mental Health awareness and to normalize and expose the dark and ugly side of Mental Illness. The media will only show you so much, the skinny girl who nibbles on celery and. the pretty girl who cries mascara tears. Beautiful Heartbreak however, will give you more. It will give you the truth. So, grab a box of tissues or glass of wine and get ready to cry, scream, get angry, feel raw fear and pain, through the author's writing.

To write poetry is to bear listening to the weight of heightened emotion in words. Poetry speaks through language. And the “various-ness” of human experience and reality is articulated through tropes or paradigms that proceed beyond the ordinary. Otherwise it can never be called poetry, It will not achieve the status of Art ... This third collection of poems (Heartbreak: Poems) penned by Felino S. Garcia Jr. invites its readers to the various forms of heartbreak that are manifestation and consequences of the dark side of human existence from the domain of the personal and domestic towards the political collective. And yet the poems found here in all honesty reveal through a “studied ambiguity” the understated fierceness of emotions --- sadness, anger, fear, bewilderment, pathos, longing, suffering and all the other psychosocial and affective predicament that since time immemorial have indeed defined and laid bare the “perfect imperfections” of our troubled humanity. In short what this poetry collection can achieve, in the long run, is to assure us a feeling of redemption after reading through the poems. Each heartbreak is like a wound that leaves a hole in the soul. Each becomes an opening, a portal like a door or a window through which the salvific light comes in. Indeed, this whole verse-letting is a triumph marked by no less than an insight replete with redemptive luminescence.