Showing posts with label genre: poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genre: poetry. Show all posts

Friday, 11 December 2015

Birthday Bargains! 50-100% OFF eBooks


Birthday Bargains! 50-100% OFF eBooks

It's my birthday :)

Coincidentally it's also my darling twin, Tasha's birthday too, shocking I know ;), and we have decided to celebrate by giving back to our readers and having a
1 day sale on our eBooks.

Most of our 99c books are FREE today and our other books are all 50% off.

The links will take you to Smashwords where you can use the code below each book at the checkout stage and it will give you the listed discount. Smashwords has formats for all eBook readers.


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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

My Fav Poem - The Listeners - Walter De La Mare

This is a random post, because I just followed a blog called, The Moonlit Door and the name struck a chord with me and the second line of my most favourite poem ever, The Listeners, by Walter De La Mare. I first read this in 2nd Form English at school and its atmosphere hooked me from the very first line.

I find it a haunting poem and I see in my mind a crumbling, castellated house surrounded by tall, overbearing branches. That atmosphere inspired the tower on the Blackwood Estate in The Haward Mysteries.

My favourite line is the second to last: And how the silence surged softly backward, it just shows how much can be evoked by so few words. OO, it gives me goosebumps :).


Anyway, I've included the poem here, care of Poetry Online. I hope you love it too.


The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

New Book of Christmas Poems

A little something to get you in the Christmas Spirit!
Christmas Poems by Sophie Duncan Title:
Author(s):Sophie Duncan
Date Pub: 5th Decemeber 2011
Length: Poetry (6 poems)
Genre: Christmas Poems, Christmas, All Ages
Buying Options:
Amazon UK£0.86Kindle
Amazon US$0.99
Amazon DEEUR 0.99
Amazon FREUR 0.99
Amazon ITEUR 0.99
Amazon ESEUR 0.99
Smashwords$0.99ePub, PDF, mobi(Kindle), rtf, ltf(Sony), Palm Doc, Plain txt
ISBN 978-1-908333-10-0, 978-1-908333-11-7
Description: Meet the battered old Christmas Fairy, or listen to a child's prayer on Christmas Eve; sympathise with a harried shopper, or think a while on the meaning of Christmas. The 6 poems in this book were written to be read aloud as the last lesson at a Christmas Day service in a little, English church. They can be enjoyed by anyone from 8 to 80.
You do not need an eReader to view this publication; there are Kindle aps available for most devices as well as formats for other eReaders, devices and PC. Please see FAQ item 11 for more info.

Excerpt: Baby Boy

Baby boy, what are you?
A king, they say?
What king lies on a bed of straw
When silk, or the finest cotton
Should cradle a royal head?

Baby boy, what are you?
A Lord, they say?
What Lord breathes stink of ass and ox
Should only perfumes of jasmine
And sweet musk suffice?

Baby boy, what are you?
Saviour, they say?
Saviour in a humble stable,
Born beneath a holy star
A child and yet a king?

Lord of Light, Peace and Joy,
You are a Saviour,
Saviour of the World.
You are a lord,
O Lord of Love.
You are a king,
King of my heart.
If you read and enjoy this title, please consider reviewing it at Smashwords or Amazon. Thank you.