We remember the date
Forever etched in our mind
The sites and sounds
Images played on the T.V,
The loss and pain
As we saw
Lives go down
With those towers
When they crumbled
Like a house
Of cards.
We heard the tears
Of loved ones
Waiting to hear
And the pain of heroes
Risking it all
For a glimmer of hope.
We heard stories
Of men carrying the
Disabled to safety
And going back to save more.
And we saw men
Jump in desperation
Not wanting to be crushed
By the weight of 110 stories.
We watched as
A…
We put them
On a pedestal
Expecting them
Not to fall
But the wind shifts
And their imperfections show
And like a house of cards
They often fall.
We place them
In a box
Of impossible standards
After all
They are supposed to
Be role models
But the second they
Make a mistake
The slightest misstep
We turn on them
Like an enemy.
We criticize their
Every move
Quick to judge them
For what they eat,
Or do
Stripping away
Every privacy,
After all they
Signed up for this
Didn’t they?
But again and again
We’ve seen so many
Fade…
Glory in the Margins
Sunday Poems
by Nikki Grimes
Pub Date 28 Sep 2021
Paraclete Press, Iron Pen
Christian | Poetry | Religion & Spirituality
I am reviewing a copy of Glory in the Margins through Paraclete Press, Iron Pen and Netgalley:
If you study the scripture you learn Jesus spent a lot of time with people in the margins. As an African American, Nikki Grimes lives in the margins, and she can tell you that it’s a place most of us would rather not be. …
Yours Is the Night
by Amanda Dykes
Pub Date 03 Aug 2021
Bethany House, Bethany House Publishers
Christian | Historical Fiction | Romance
I am reviewing a copy of Yours Is the Night through Bethany House Publishers and Netgalley:
I am reviewing a copy of Yours Is the Night through Bethany House Publishers and Netgalley:
There are shadows in the trenches of the Great War. Platoon Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrived there with a shadowed past himself, but the reality of battles bring new wounds carving within him a longing for light, and a resolve to fight for it.
One night…
Alias Anna
A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
by Susan Hood; Greg Dawson
Pub Date 22 Mar 2022
HarperCollins Children’s Books, HarperCollins
Children’s Nonfiction | History | Poetry
I am reviewing a copy of Alias Anna through HarperCollins Children’s Books and Netgalley:
Written in free verse format Alias Anna is a powerful story about survival against all odds.
Alias Anna is the moving story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaus.
She would no longer be Zhanna she’d use an Alias…
These Toxic Things
A Thriller
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Pub Date 01 Sep 2021 |
Thomas & Mercer, Thomas & Mercer
General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers
I am reviewing a copy of These Toxic Things through Thomas &Mercer and Netgalley:
*Not meant for younger readers, but definitely an enjoyable suspenseful read.
The trinkets belonging to a dead woman soon become pieces to a terrifying puzzle.
Mickie Lambert creates digital scrapbooks for her clients, in order to ensure her clients souvenirs are never forgotten or lost. After her latest client Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an…
The Swallows’ Flight
by Hilary McKay
Pub Date 19 Oct 2021
Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, Margaret K. McElderry Books
Children’s Fiction
I am reviewing a copy of The Swallow’s Flight through Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, Margaret K. McElderry Books and Netgalley:
Ruby who is in England Ruby has no friends because of the speckled blotches on her face that kids say look like dirt. And Kate is sickly all the time, her older siblings each taking turns looking after her. When Ruby and Kate first meet it’s nearly disastrous, but it isn’t long before the two lonely girls…
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