4 Days Before Christmas: Poetry Books for Your Holiday TBR
This holiday season is the perfect time to take a break after working hard for multiple months. It is also a time that we can spend together with our loved ones and enjoy the festivities of the season. Imagine just sitting on your favorite couch and watching the children play in the snow, creating their cute versions of the snowman. For book lovers, one of the things that we enjoy doing this holiday is spending time reading our favorite books.
Check out our poetry books for a fresh read this season. These wonderfully written pieces will transport you to another magical world. Be inspired by these beautifully written poems, and you might find something to share with your loved ones this season.
Here is a list of poetry books that you can add to your TBR list. Grab a warm cup of hot chocolate and enjoy reading.
SEASONS AND SENSES is a collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years by Darlene Ewers. Her life experiences and reflections on various aspects of nature can be found in her poetry. Many of her thoughts are based on life experiences growing up on a family-owned Kansas farm with her two younger sisters and about how those events reaffirmed her Christian faith. This is her first work of poetry, although one of her poems was published in the form of a children’s book as THE SEA in 2009. It introduces children to their five senses by way of exploring the various aspects of the sea.
Miss Manhattan truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascading around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention. This unique collection cleverly displays the inherent resonance of life in the city, in a beautiful, joyful, and sometimes riotous, but always with a sense of life and creative force, not destruction or entropy. These poems live in the individual body, even as they describe an external and collective experience.
Darlene Ewers published her first book, THE SEA, a children’s poetry book, in 2009. However, her poem “Emotions” was published in 2000 in AMERICA AT THE MILLENIUM THE BEST POEMS AND POETS OF THE 20th CENTURY by The International Library of Poetry.
Darlene grew upon a dairy farm with two younger sisters in Wyandotte County, Kansas. They attended the same one-room country school their father and his siblings and their grandfather attended. The smallest number of children in attendance was fifteen and the largest group of children included twenty-one representing all eight grades. It was the last one-room school to be closed in the State of Kansas before it was moved from the bank overlooking Island Creek to its permanent resting place at the Agricultural Hall of Fame near Kansas City, Kansas.
Darlene has enjoyed reading since early childhood, reading a hundred books during her eighth grade year in grade school. Her favorite school day memory was listening to her teacher read the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books during inclement weather or before the end of the day. Darlene has compiled and published her poems in her second book entitled SEASONS AND SENSES Poetry & Other thoughts.
Mrs. Ewers is the mother of four grown sons. Brendon, Sheldon, Landon, and Jordon; she has four daughters-in law: Maria, Ellen, Jennifer, and Susan; and she enjoys her three granddaughters, two grandsons, and two great-granddaughters who range in age from thirty to five. She has been married to James for fifty-five years. They are blessed with a loving family which supports one another through every event of their lives.
Orange Fanta has no theme greater or less than life, as it’s given.
Charles Elin uses language in its most simplistic to present
the complexities of reaching beyond ourselves and questioning
where that is. He finds a place for humor and utter disbelief
in the politics of the day. These short poems just touch
a phenomenology of our everyday, in the words of common
banter, miscommunications and private thoughts.
This is a compilation of writings that span a period of over 40 years. Inspired by various happenings and experiences, both socially and personally, I wanted readers to reflect on their own experiences and feelings that have impacted their lives. From earlier writings to the present, there was a shift in my views and thinking because of the impact of my relationship with the Father, through Jesus the Christ, my Lord and Savior.