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Welcome To Emerald Book Club
Welcome to Emerald Book Club! We are a community of book enthusiasts dedicated to exploring the world of literature together. Our club offers a space for readers of all genres to come together, share their love for books, and engage in meaningful discussions Who We...
Best Selling Spanish Books
Spanish literature offers a rich, diverse, and globally influential canon ranging from classical masterpieces like Cervantes' Don Quixote (often considered the first modern novel) to contemporary works. Key genres include magical realism, historical drama,...
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The Language
The Language by Robert Creeley Locate Ilove you some-where inteeth and eyes, bite it buttake care not to hurt, you want somuch so little. Words say everything.Ilove youagain,then what is emptiness for. Tofill, fill.I heard words and words fullof holes aching. Speech...
Coloring Outside The Lines
Coloring Outside The Lines by Stephen Wilson Our purple fingered teacher passedOut sheets that smelled of alcohol. Our kindergarten class was toldTo crayon in all train car barsOr else our tigers might escape.The choice of tiger stripes we madeWas any color that we...
Colors passing through us
Colors passing through us by Marge Piercy Purple as tulips in May, mauveinto lush velvet, purpleas the stain blackberries leaveon the lips, on the hands,the purple of ripe grapessunlit and warm as flesh.Every day I will give you a color,like a new flower in a bud...
If only life was a colouring book
If only life was a colouring book by John Edward Smallshaw ..and then we could colour in,madly fall fuller in and becausecolouring can be erasedwe can do it for days and daysand if the years pass me byI'll just colour me one more blue sky. Dot to dot's duller we only...
Colouring Book
Colouring book by Blind Aesthetic life is a colouring bookPeople are the crayonsExperiences are the variousShades of those crayonsLive life to the fullestDo it with your friends and familyFill in that colouring book And don't be afraid To go outside of the lines
Colouring Under The Light
Colouring Under The Light by Mitta I believe that my purpose is to colour you right;be artistic on you all night.Be bright under the dimmed light.Hold and squeeze your crayons tight.Just the two of us; no one else in sight;because my purpose is to colour you right.Me...
Word of The Day Obstinate
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so
The Human Seasons
The Human Seasons By John Keats Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man:He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span:He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honied cud of...
Poetry and Spoken Word: Where Words Come Alive
Poetry and Spoken Word: Where Words Come Alive At Emerald Book Club, poetry is more than written lines on a page — it is voice, rhythm, emotion, and connection. Our Poetry & Spoken Word series creates a space where language is felt as much as it is heard. This...
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31st December
31st December Poem by Gajanan Mishra Last day of the year,Today,31st December, dear,I hope you all on this very day,Stay and enjoy without fear.Live a life of human beingWith compassion, forgiveAnd forget all for any action.Live a life with nectar, my dear,And see,...
December 31st by Marina
December 31st by Marina Gipps Black glove at my neck- the end of the year.Those lovers were soldiers, bed spies,bombs of leg losing, the mind dropping in one blow.Masters of bullets, sacred sabotage, reasons whyI listened to the radio blaring the sweet songof someone...
December 31st
December 31st by Richard Hoffman All my undone actions wandernaked across the calendar, a band of skinny hunter-gatherers,blown snow scattered here and there, stumbling toward a futurefolded in the New Year I secure with a pushpin: January’s picturea painting from the...
An Interview
An Interview by John B. Tabb I sat with chill DecemberBeside the evening fire."And what do you remember,"I ventured to inquire,"Of seasons long forsaken?"He answered in amaze,"My age you have mistaken;I've lived but thirty days."
December by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
December by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Only the sea intoning,Only the wainscot-mouse,Only the wild wind moaningOver the lonely house.Darkest of all DecembersEver my life has known,Sitting here by the embers,Stunned and helpless, alone—Dreaming of two graves lyingOut in the...
December by Rebecca Hey
December by Rebecca Hey As human life begins and ends with woe,So doth the year with darkness and with storm.Mute is each sound, and vanish'd each fair formThat wont to cheer us; yet a sacred glow—A moral beauty,—to which Autumn's show,Or Spring's sweet blandishments,...
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