Poetry eBooks

"This is Semi-Important" is a series of prose writings, verse poetry, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and just notes on things the author feels are original, sometimes humorous, sometimes bordering on notions the majority of people he believes have, but do not recognize within themselves. This book is a... More...

Description '(C)Mented' is Peter Gigi's first publication of poetry and spoken art. This is book full of poetry that talks differently, for people who think differently. Linguistically and stylistically imaginative and challenging '(C)Mented' is a beautiful mix of the agony and the ecstasy of life.... More...

The greatest AmericansHave not been born yetThey are waiting quietlyFor their past to dieplease give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance... More...

The City is Toronto, his hometown: lovers of Toronto will recognize the place-names. He also has a Biblical motif ... "for here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." (Hebrews, XIII, 14) Largely of the era 1930-1960, these portraits reflect this transcendental theme together with ... More...

A song to you set in a poem or a poem put to a song Imagine a world of magic, Your world with magic. Simply a science misunderstood, Play in the spells, Dabble in the portions, Of the potions of life I could get lost in you, Dark child, Wandering in the snow, Drift away awhile with me, Day by day,... More...

Although we may come from different worlds, we have a lot in common. We hate the Sins of this World and strive to improve. We want to love, for this World is ruled by Love, unprejudiced by discipline, knowledge, adroit rhetoric and Hollywood ectoplasm. I encompass multitudes, as I too am Walt's ch... More...

Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief—or at least some literary comfort—from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and ... More...

120 'Schoolboyish" Petrarchan Sonnets is a collection composed in a rather basic manner that essentially consisted of starting with a first word and then 'merely running' with that same word. The aforementioned schoolboyish aspect of the entire collection should not at all detract from a sense that ... More...

120 Paragraphs may seem to jape at the question of what a valid paragraph really might be. As if stuck in a jazzy or surrealistic world of horsing around, each More...

140 Shorties II [More Verse Bits] may be something of an added insistence, or infliction, in the world. The collection's essential motif, which is of a quasi-form that includes evidently interlocking aspects in terms of titles that often blatantly rhyme with each other, might seem hopelessly ingrown... More...