Found Poetry

Good things never happen in November—at least not for the Reynolds women. It was the month they lost their patriarch. And the month when fourteen-year-old Trinity went missing during a tropical storm. So Hope Reynolds isn’t surprised when it becomes the month she walks in on her boyfriend kissing another woman. Or when she receives a panicked call from her mother about a mistake that could cost the family their treasured beach house.

This is not a love story. This is the aftermath. The reckoning. The quiet rebuilding of a woman who finally chose herself. If I Don’t Come Back, Tell Them I Found Myself is a collection of raw, intimate poems about heartbreak, healing, and the unsteady beauty of becoming whole again. Written for the ones who gave too much, stayed too long, or forgot themselves in the name of love, these pages hold space for the grief, the growth, and the grit it takes to rise. With every verse, you'll find reminders that softness is not weakness, survival is sacred, and healing isn't always gentle—but ...

Before you find yourself—you’ll have to wander through the stories that shaped you. In the fourth volume of The Creative Works of Mr. Joe, Joseph Santiago invites you into a space where memory, myth, and imagination blur—where genre bends, and the self reveals itself in unexpected ways. Told through a kaleidoscope of flash fiction, short stories, and lyrical essays, these works explore the invisible threads that shape our lives: the fears we silence, the joy we nearly miss, and the rituals we invent to stay human. With a voice both vulnerable and sharp, Santiago weaves sci-fi ...

Lost and Found is an empowering poetry collection that explores the profound journey from darkness to light. Divided into two parts, this book explores themes of pain, pride and sin in Lost. In Found, you learn the joy of redeeming love, the peace of growing in faith and the glory of sanctification. This uplifting book brings you a powerful and positive message: when all feels lost, it’s not. God loves you and has a purpose for your life. Choose Lost and Found and start your inward journey toward love, hope, faith and happiness.

I Found My Voice: Book of Poems, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown, is an ode to me. Yes! Finally! An ode to me! And-why-not? Drummond-Brown’s emotional poems are creatively written in varied and/or unruled meter. The librettos are meant to be to be read from the depths of one’s soul, sAng-ed from a broken heart, singing sad songs sung with passion through another’s mouth, hummed with heartfelt pleas and poignantly moaned from within like nobody’s B.I. business. Drummond-Brown’s voice is loud, proud and clear addressing subject matters relating to closed topics. You best not tell ...

“A moving and revealing story of a troubled country’s past.”- Kirkus Review After fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a doctor working at a prestigious hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dr. Mehdi Mostamand believed he had it all. But then, on one cold, snowy day in 1965, he saw an image that changed his life forever: a picture of a twelve-year-old blind boy in the newspaper rekindled old memories and reminded him of why he chose to become a doctor in the first place. Driven by his desire to help ailing children in remote Afghan villages, Dr. Mostamand gave up his comfortable job ...

Book four of Vergil's Aeneid follows the tragic love and death of Dido, Queen of Carthage—an unfortunate casualty in Aeneas' fated quest to find a new home for the Trojans and become a founder of the Romans. This audiobook is narrated in Latin according to the Calabrese Classical Reconstruction, with careful attention to historical features such as phonemic vowel quantities, geminated consonants, and nasalized final m.

After years of soul searching, both author Renee’ Drummond-Brown (USA), and Nancy Ndeke (Kenya, Nairobi), connect to their lost lineage to identify with their culture’s complex roots, historical backgrounds, and finally come to terms with confronting their own fears of forgiveness. Because slavery was anything but a figment of imagination, both author Drummond-Brown and Ndeke use their literary voice poetically from across the globe to face those fears. Stepping out on faith by accepting the things they cannot change and having the wisdom to know the difference, the authors welcome the ...

Found. Still lost. is an empowering collection of poetry and images exploring the depths of trauma and inviting us all to heal through the validation of our innermost feelings. One of the best ways to combat the effects of trauma is to remind ourselves that our emotions are the mind’s healthy ways of coping with extraordinary events. This is what we find in the pages of “Found. Still lost.” Brother and sister duo, Ashley Walkowiak & John Nester, invite us to be present with the discomfort of loss, violation, and daily struggles of the human condition. Trauma can leave us juggling ...

First published in 2007, Souvankham Thammavongsa's remarkable second collection was acclaimed for its originality and cemented her reputation as a poet with a rare, astonishing gift.

🌟 AMORATA: The Love Songs of Lysia of Laodicea 🌟 Discover the long-lost poetry collection that captivated Regency hearts—including the proud Mr. Darcy himself. Recently rediscovered and beautifully translated, these timeless verses from ancient Greece speak directly to modern hearts about the eternal struggle between love and pride. When a mysterious volume appears in a Meryton bookshop, its passionate declarations and witty observations on love capture the attention of the town's most discerning readers. Written by Lysia of Laodicea, a Greek poetess who dared to challenge social ...

A little boy and girl find a seed, and decide to keep it safe. They play with it but it doesn't grow. What must they do to make it grow, and what will happen when it flowers and dies? The second in a collection which encourage children to relate to the natural world. Each title has a short and rhythmic text perfect to learn by heart and recite as a poem. Rob Ramsden teaches graphic illustration and animation in East Anglia to pupils from 5 years old to university level, and has exhibited his illustration and animation nationally and internationally.

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy’s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy’s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and the myth of multiculturalism in post-9/11 America.

These are Poems from Exile by Balint Bodroghy. The first was written as an 18-year-old youth when becoming what is now known somewhat pejoratively as an economic migrant, after escaping from Hungary to Austria, and subsequently emigrating to Canada. The last poems in this batch were written in Vancouver in 1958, when he was a 27-year-old "young man". The next batch was all written in England, in English—still in exile, but no longer homeless. The final batch, contemporaneous poems, all in English—no longer in exile and no longer homeless.

Between Lost and Found and Infinite is a collection of 60 poems divided into three parts. Lost explores the futility of unhappy endings. Found injects hope into despair, rising with beautiful promise. Infinite lingers on the wonders of life and reflects on the sweetness of the universe. With themes of memory, grief, self-discovery, relationships, and longing, this is a compilation to savor and cherish.

It's raining outside and Petey is bored. There is nothing to do. A noise escapes from his closet. What is it?

"What Polly Found in her Stocking" is a delightful Christmas poem that tells what a girl of the late 1800s might have gotten from Santa - if she were very good.

Have you ever found something on the ground and wondered how it got there? Heather loves to use her imagination! One morning, on her way to the park, Heather finds a feather on the ground. She creates a CRAZY story to go along with the feather. As she continues her walk, Heather finds other objects, and creates more, even CRAZIER stories to go along with them!

Twelve-year-old Nyla's dad died when she was four, or that's what she's been told. So when Grandma Farida insists she saw him in the local supermarket, Nyla wonders if Grandma is simply "time travelling" again - the phrase she uses when Grandma forgets. But Grandma is Nyla's best friend and when she asks Nyla to find her dad and bring him home, Nyla decides to make a brand new promise to her Grandma: to find him. As Nyla turns detective and sets out on a journey through her family's past, she also hopes that uncovering important stories will help her understand who she is.