#bookofpoems

[readersmagnet]

"SIMULTANEOUSLY" is a simple memento book of poems capturing the pivotal moments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight against racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the complexities of the 45th presidential administration that divided the United States as the year 2020 progressed. This book serves as a reminder that citizens hold the political power to shape history.

Dive into the compelling narratives and reflections that highlight resilience and unity in times of adversity. Visit https://www.christinamcgriff.com/ to learn more.

[journeyofrose]

No More Bad Love (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/366882881-no-more-bad-love?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=cftherose This poetry collection is for those who were sold lies and heartache, instead of love. Those who went through abuse instead being loved in returned. What was done for you was never your fault. There is never dark side for true love. No matter what you have been told. That is just a lie This poetry collection is some of my darkest poems. How love has gone wrong or is not even love but something falsely claimed as a love. They are not all only about bad romantic relationships but toxic friendships as well. Some poems are from either female or male point of view. Others are in genderless point of view simply using you. I leave it to the readers fill who that you is to them. These poems are what love is not. No more bad love means no more accepting these horrible and toxic relationships. Stop calling it love or dark side of true love. This about getting back own strength and finally leaving. Starting healing and rebuilding life and own self after everything. Not buying the lies that were sold as love. This is for the broken who survived the hell that was falsely called love. I would like to remind that abuse doesn't have a gender and anyone can be the victim of abuse regardless their gender or sexuality. Same as anyone can be abuser regardless their gender. If you or someone you know is in abusive relationship. There is lot of help available online nowadays please reach out and find safe way to exit dangerous relationship. You are not alone or only one who is going through this. WARNING: These poems are dark. And some contains heavy mature content like manipulation, DV, abusive relationships, even violence. That may not be suitable for some readers. Weekly updates on Monday's and Friday's. Cover design: C.F. Grönroos All rights reserved to C.F. Grönroos

[therealnostalgialover808]

I should've mentioned this before, but recently, I got two books of my own poetry published on Amazon (one of them on Kindle Unlimited) if anyone's interested in checking them out.

[ladydeath1342069]

Love and Hate

LOVE AND HATE, THEY GO SO WELL TOGETHER. LOVE IS LOVE LIFE AND RICHES WHILE HATE IS LIKE DEATH AND STARVATION. PEOPLE SAY THAT YOU CAN’T HATE SOMEONE SO MUCH THAT YOU LOVE THEM…. WELL, THEY ARE WRONG. IT’S HAPPENED TO ME AND YOU KNOW IT’S HAPPENED TO YOU AS WELL. LOVE AND HATE GO HAND IN HAND LIKE CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER OR BUTTER AND BREAD. HATE AND LOVE WERE BORN TOGETHER AT…

[arjundspahwa]

Releasing soon (It's the first draft of the cover). Do let me know your thoughts.

[gg-hiraya]

the labyrinth (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/dwrfdQG4Gcb journey to the depth of her soul

[kinyohq]

Shout to the homie @meliseeta for letting me clarify, I will sign the books you get from www.kinyo.org and shipping is $5. Of course if u get it somewhere else, then i'll sign it when i get to where you are. ------------ #book #booksale #books #poetrybooks #bookofpoems #poemsforsale https://www.instagram.com/p/B79eDD7nmXh/?igshid=ua0s1a7r7d50

[1lovwattpad]

𝖶𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗅𝗌 𝖼𝗈𝗅𝗅𝗂𝖽𝖾𝖽 (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/341746214-%F0%9D%96%B6%F0%9D%97%81%F0%9D%96%BE%F0%9D%97%87-%F0%9D%97%88%F0%9D%97%8E%F0%9D%97%8B-%F0%9D%97%8C%F0%9D%97%88%F0%9D%97%8E%F0%9D%97%85%F0%9D%97%8C-%F0%9D%96%BC%F0%9D%97%88%F0%9D%97%85%F0%9D%97%85%F0%9D%97%82%F0%9D%96%BD%F0%9D%96%BE%F0%9D%96%BD?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=1lovwattqad&wp_originator=zZ5QIw%2BMRAilx7il0xWk12YWRWg%2F1KPCAYFozSC%2FjC9EW4z8KhtJEZC0r5%2FZfOM%2FPc8SrpUBVRu5HMQ1tF7b8zOcG43SDZs339Z11jkmS5eCWfFKL%2Fe%2BR8dAIV1xRA2i WARNING! This is my first story. Grammer, plot, etc is messy so please beware of it! enjoy! - "the art of eye contact" - He couldn't get enough of her beauty. He fell in love with 𝐡𝐞𝐫 the first time he saw 𝐡𝐞𝐫 nobody would ever think that the cold man would fall in love with this sweet 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧. He knew that 𝐬𝐡𝐞 deserved everything and he wanted to be the one that gave 𝐡𝐞𝐫 everything - 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐚 She is a sweet, delightful girl. She's kind to everyone, Between her part-time job and family she didn't have time to date. Her past caused a lot of trauma that she couldn't overcome until she met 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐇𝐞 changed everything that nobody could change by her, she could have run away in fear but she didn't. She stayed and opened her big heart to this cold man - This story will be the definition of cliché, but that's okay we love that right?

[nehabatool-blog]

This is from my first ever poetry collection ‘Splashes of Hues’ available on Amazon and Waterstones. Order your copy now 💖

[cassidylovesbooks]

Sick days call for finishing amazing books! #book #books #booklr #bookstagram #bookworm #bookdragon #bookofpoems #bookphotography #bookhoarder #bookish #bookobsessed #bookaholic #read #reads #reading #finishedreading #readingtime📖 #readinglist #rupikaur #poetry https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZ6ikUHwJ1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zel3on6x5ulw

[journeyofrose]

Just Love Letters (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/366824471-just-love-letters?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=cftherose This poetry collection is for those believing love even after everything. Still believing even after love has burned before. Even when love has been lost. And believing love will never die. Believe love is all powerful and beautiful. These are poems about love how wonderful it is. Poems about loving someone About all those feelings when one is falling in love. Poems all of the good things that love actually is. And should be. My other poetry collection No More Bad Love is everything that love is not. Love Letters poetry collection is about everything love is and should be. These are happy poems about love. Still believing love after whatever has happened to before. Not letting past stop finding a love again. This collection is to celebrate love with all of the many forms it comes. Cover design: C.F. Grönroos Weekly updates on Wednesday's All rights reserved to C.F. Grönroos

[whenwillyou-lern]

Poems (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/Zm5qc9IijR literally, poems. Poems were written by me and and my friend.

[ladydeath1342069]

Time and Time Again

TIME AND TIME AGAIN I HAVE BEEN IN THE  RANGES OF THE FIERY BURNS OF FRIENDS THAT NO LONGER CARE THAT I CARE ABOUT THEM. TIME AND TIME AGAIN I HAVE BEEN BURNED BY THE ONES CLOSEST TO ME. TIME AND TIME AGAIN I WILL FOREVER BE THE SAME TIME AND TIME AGAIN I WILL ALWAYS BE TREATED AS THE ONE PERSON THAT IS ALWAYS THE NICEST AND THEN GETS A BOMBSHELL DROPPED ON HER LIKE…

[nrk-k]

NRK-K’s Poetry Collection on Wattpad

[twatd]

6,000 Years of Murder - What Does It All Mean?

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written around 12,500 words breaking down the first half of issue #36 and providing some historical context for its whirlwind tour through human history, but I’ve stuck largely to just that - historical context. So far, I’ve done very little interpretation of what this deluge of information means for the issue, the characters or the series as a whole.

In the meantime, some of the other members of WicDiv’s excellent fandom have weighed in with theories and analysis, breaking down patterns or approaching the issue from different angles (as always, we here at TWATD encourage you to follow blogs like @pomegranate-salad, @myfirstsearchengine, @damnationisdelightful, @bookofpoems etc and to track the various WicDiv hashtags, provided you don’t mind spoilers). So having come to the end of my historical trek, what can I offer?

Before I answer that, I first want to offer a caveat: my knowledge of history is largely self-taught and pieced together from Wikipedia articles and various other sources of dubious repute. I am in no way a scholar in this area, and it would be remiss of me not to mention that the biases of both how Western academia approaches history and my own personal tastes have informed what facts got included and what didn’t in my coverage.

I have tried to blend “Big Event and Important Men”-style history with a look at things like social, economic and even environmental approaches, but I have no idea how successful I’ve been. It’s also worth noting that, as always, women tend to get the short shrift in history, and as such, there’s little sense in my posts of what life was like for them in any given period. The assumption is generally: much worse than men.

All of that said, let’s return to what conclusions we can find at the end of all this research and waffle. At the beginning of my writing, I thought I’d stumbled across a solid pattern, with Persephone fighting back closely linked to major leaps forward in human civilisation (Uruk as the first major city, the construction of the Great Pyramids, the reign of Hammurabi) but visits to places like Wrangel Island quickly undermined that hypothesis.

Furthermore, how exactly do you quantify when a leap forward becomes worthy of a “fight back” moment? If my research has proved anything, it’s that all progress happens in fits and starts, with plenty of steps backward along the way. Pinpointing true tipping points is incredibly hard.

But that line of thought, looking at how the Recurrences figured into the overall progress of humanity and the civilisations that they visited, led me to question one of the central assumptions of the series. We’re told fairly early on that the Pantheon acts to inspire humanity, sparking innovation and inspiring great cultural works. But looking back at the societies that each Recurrence has interacted with, I’m not so sure about that.

Shortly after the Pantheon’s visit to 1922 America, the Great Depression hit and within 20 years, America was back fighting in another World War. After the 1830s European Recurrence, France suffered through many more years of chaotic leadership and the continent as a whole was beset with wars until 1871. Travelling back further, we can find cultures hit with invasion, disease, environmental disaster and overall decline after a Recurrence visits, all the way back to Mesopotamia in 3770BC.

The interactions that we witness between Ananke and Persephone don’t seem to have any impact on whether or not a Recurrence leads to prosperity or downfall for a given culture, but the number of ‘bad Recurrences’ definitely increases as we travel forward in time, suggesting that either the Pantheon are getting worse at their job, or the increase in historical evidence makes it easier to spot these failures.

Once again, this hypothesis depends on how you view any given part of history. Was 1473BC, when the Pantheon was active in the Northern Indus Valley, a success? The Indus Valley Civilisation has collapsed, returning the area to a more tribal cultural model after hundreds of years of progress, but this time also sees the emergence of the Vedic texts that will form the foundation of Hinduism. 1738AD was followed by a successful revolution by the American colonists, but that also resulted in a major blow to the British Empire and spelled further devastation to the native cultures who had lived and thrived there for thousands of years.

Despite (or perhaps because of) the wealth of information dumped on us in this issue, it’s hard to nail down any concrete answers. Is Ananke being honest when she says the Pantheon is there to inspire humanity? Are Recurrences where there has been a noticeable decline afterwards ones where her ritual failed, or The Great Darkness succeeded in its nebulous agenda? How does Persephone figure into all of this?

There’s also a cynical interpretation that we can take, one popularised by The Third Man and Tilda Swinton in Constantine – humanity requires conflict to spur it onto greatness. Unhappiness, uncertainty and upheaval breeds innovation and creativity, we’re told. You can hear this hypothesis every time someone tells a comedian they must be happy that Donald Trump is in office, or asks “Would Van Gogh have been a great artist if he’d been treated for his crippling mental health issues?”

You can probably tell from my tone here what I think of this argument, and while I can’t see it being one the team behind The Wicked + The Divine agrees with either, I can imagine it being one that Ananke ascribes to. Sacrifice seems to be a running theme in the series, and the idea that the Pantheon is responsible for disruptive chaos in the hope that it spurs a leap forward in culture – I can see that having some legs. One thing is for certain - wherever the Pantheon appears, change - for better or for worse - was almost guaranteed to happen.

I could jabber on about the new perspective this project has given me on everything from the Middle East to Brexit, but I’ve already passed the 1,000 word mark and I’m sure you’re sick of long reads by now. I’ll leave you with this hope - that 6,000 Years of Murder has given you a sense of the scope of human history, and helped you enjoy this book from a slightly different angle.

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[thefeministbibliothecary]

Haiku: This Other World by Richard Wright has been on my tbr for awhile now and I'm glad to have gotten around to it finally. In the last two years of his life, Wright became engrossed in haiku and wrote thousands of them during that time. He also compiled a manuscript of these haiku, with 817 selected. Those 817 haiku were finally published in the 90s in this volume, which featured an introduction by his daughter that was incredibly informative about his life, and a thorough afterword to explore the history and culture of haiku as well as the style and form of it, and Wright's own history with the form. All of these extra details were illuminating and I'm glad I got to read them. Many of the 817 haiku were stunning works of art. Some of them weren't to my taste or felt like filler. As a whole though, this a book that is worth reading. You get history and literature lessons alongside some top notch poetry. Recommended! #books #bookrecommendations #bookreview #reading #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrycollection #bookofpoems #haiku #blackhistory #booksofinstagram #booksofinsta #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cde4YJOAchi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=