My Top 5 Poetry Books!

Anna Rose
May 3, 2020
3 min read

1. Empty Bottles Full Of Stories (written by Robert M. Drake and r.h Sin)

Do you ever feel like your feelings are yours only? That they are too abnormal to be anyone else’s? Then this book will prove you wrong! Empty bottles full of stories is a poetry book with hundreds of poems from both the writers' but also other poets’ works. It is structured with themes such as our choices, why we make them, and why we always will. It doesn’t stop you from hiding it to others, it simply stops you from lying to yourself.

“Know,

that the world is hard,

that people are soft,

and all of us

are terribly looking for ways not to shatter.”

- r.h. Sin

2. The Poetry Pharmacy (written by William Sieghart)

Never seen a therapist? No need, with this book your emotions and troubles will float through words, the waves of these poems will grab your problems and the tide will bring them far away. The anatomy of The Poetry Pharmacy is based upon common human issues, their causes, consequences, and poems to surpass them. Any day which doesn’t feel right, grab your book and open up to the brilliant words it has to offer.

“We are made beautiful and glorious not by the ways in which we differ from the rest of the biosphere, but by our place, perhaps unique in the universe, in this community of living things.”

- William Sieghart

3. Maya Angelou's Complete Poetry (written by Maya Angelou)

Need some confidence? Maya Angelou’s works are perfect for you. With her utter wiseness, Maya Angelou’s poetry will give you a rare understanding of our society. The reason her works hold such importance in American literature is that Maya Angelou’s poems are written with such open-mindedness, but still manage to comment upon behaviors with a scarce maturity. Maya Angelou’s poems will open your visions upon our society.

“The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still”

- Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird"

4. Lunch Poems (written by Frank O'Hara)

This poetry book will make your day. Lunch Poems is full of middle-length poems containing very descriptive verses. The depth of Frank O’Hara's words in Lunch Poems surpasses most poetic works found in the ’60s, which is when the book was first published. The title of the book expresses the effects it should have on you, the poems were made to be read from time to time, and thanks to their shortness they can be read at any time, for example at lunch!

“Leaf! you are so big!

How can you change your

color, then just fall!

As if there were no

such thing as integrity!”

- Frank O'Hara

5. Miracle Fair (written by Wislawa Szymborska)

Feeling nostalgic, confused, or even frustrated this book will make it all go away. The poems will make you concentrate and think about the very deep points it evokes. The strong relationship Szymborska manages to create with her readers through words is precise and subtle. Wislawa Szymborska is considered one of the best female poets of the 20th century, reading this will distinguish your literary understandings.

“The Three Oddest Words

When I pronounce the word Future,

the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,

I destroy it.

When I pronounce the word nothing,

I make something no nonbeing can hold.”

―Wislawa Szymborska

Get your own copie(s):

1. Empty Bottles Full Of Stories - www.amazon.com

2. The Poetry Pharmacy - www.amazon.com

3. Maya Angelou's Complete Poetry - www.amazon.com