Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Living Life's Lessons: Poetic Instructions
    Living Life's Lessons: Poetic Instructions
    Living Life's Lessons: Poetic Instructions
    Ebook132 pages23 minutes

    Living Life's Lessons: Poetic Instructions

    By Thomas Antonacci

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Living life’s Lessons is about navigating life’s confusing aspects with creative thinking and maybe an unseen helping hand. These poems are meant to send an upbeat message to lift those struggling with their own quandaries in life. And to put a positive spin on things regardless. Enjoy the journey. Positive thinking will carry you far. Remember every obstacle is a stepping stone to higher places. Thomas Antonacci 2020
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 29, 2020
    ISBN9781796098839
    Living Life's Lessons: Poetic Instructions
    Author

    Thomas Antonacci

    Thomas Antonacci a 1983 graduate of Pope Co. Community High School In rural southern IL. He brings him a self- taught writing style. Pondering life’s moments of reflection and decision in an easy to follow upbeat poetic style. Question everything but don’t ever take life too seriously. It passes by very quickly. Our life and our world is a gift. Love it and enjoy it.

    Related to Living Life's Lessons

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      An Interview With Xueyan

      Jun 24, 2023

      An Interview With Xueyan
      5 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied

      May 17, 2018

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied
      5 min read

    • Article

      Summer: A Love Story

      Apr 20, 2021

      It is a squalid time. The body grows tired of being a body. Sweat. Always. A thin film of it on the skin. Do not say dewy. Do not say glisten. I dream of endless green. Of wet. Of rain hammering the Earth. Of buds sprouting. I want to insist on life

      2 min read

    • Article

      Mountain Time

      Jan 1, 2021

      In the air you don’t know who you are or where My own self feels it is in wind being born These are currents a man made one eighth of smokeless fire fears but chooses A path south from Anchorage to a Mountain House Ungovern the northern land to pass

      10 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The American linden sways nonplussed by the storm,a bounce here, a shimmy there, just shaking like musicleft over from the night’s end wafting into the avenues before sleep.I remember once walking down Clinton Street, and singingthat line returning,

      4 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo

      2 min read

    • Article

      A New Festive Tradition

      Nov 5, 2023

      A New Festive Tradition
      3 min read

    • Article

      Butcher Paper

      Feb 16, 2017

      Butcher Paper
      4 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      Four Poems
      7 min read

    • Article

      Seven Poems

      Sep 1, 2021

      The dancersIn a terribly brightLight blue gauzeRetained the mystery Skating on a lakeBlue and iceAn illusionary timeWhere poetry feels inevitable The terrific clownWho lies insideEvery blue dressDoes he see me Always a starAlways a rootHorrible auras

      2 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      Apr 29, 2022

      Email your poems to: (editorial@choicemag.co.uk) or post to Your Poetry, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX I see you all, sitting there in rows.Singing hymns, as your tears do flow. But please don’t cry, not for me.For

      2 min read

    • Article

      selections from YOU ARE HERE: POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD

      May 1, 2024

      As part of her signature project, You Are Here, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to observe and reflect on their place in the natural world. The volume was published by Milkweed Editions in April 2024. O

      5 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year

      Jan 3, 2019

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
      7 min read

    • Article

      Art Of Beauty

      Sep 30, 2021

      Art Of Beauty
      12 min read

    • Article

      Wonderful Things

      Sep 7, 2023

      SHORTLISTED IN WM’S TUTANKHAMUN POETRY COMPETITION WERE: Guy Carter, Petersfield, Hampshire; Christine Griffin, Hucclecote, Gloucester; Sarah Das Gupta, Mamuden, Essex; Tracey Kitchen, Daventry, Northamptonshire; Lesley Mason, Norwich, Norfolk; Julie

      5 min read

    • Article

      What Poetry Can Predict

      Oct 9, 2019

      What Poetry Can Predict
      4 min read

    • Article

      In The Spotlight:your Writing Dark Side

      Dec 7, 2023

      Spooky season evidently offered creative inspiration aplenty for the WM writers, who responded to the call for writing in November’s crime-themed issue on the theme of ‘Dark Side’ with our fullest mailbox yet. The poetry and prose sent in demonstrate

      4 min read

    • Article

      Beaming Bright

      Jul 3, 2019

      WHEN HE WAS 9, FILMMAKER Terence Davies went to the movies to see Doris Day in Young at Heart; “That’s when I first fell in love with her,” he says. It’s a love that would last a lifetime. When offered a chance to meet her later in life, however, he

      1 min read

    • Article

      Caerfai

      May 5, 2022

      Caerfai
      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      How slow is all of this dying? Across the county linea fossil in the making, off-road exhaling last lightin nightmud. A small cat in a steel trap. Pendulous sparrows preen. Holding on for the last bluedark nightwe ate fruited scabs off each other’s m

      4 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      for Rouge they do not knowthe joy they walk with their footprints a lessonof faith O faithful companion of lonelinessthe name we gave you was not a name but a cryand you stayedand now they come to hunt in the wildnot for meat not with the ritual for

      4 min read

    • Article

      Yours Poetry

      Aug 27, 2021

      Yours Poetry
      1 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2023

      And god created the waves and we the graves beneath, bodies madeparticulate by the force of water against water, water against rock, againsttime. I descend into the deep in a kind of prayer, listen to its centuries.Make me pay, will you, make me hurt

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Living Life's Lessons

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Living Life's Lessons - Thomas Antonacci

      Copyright © 2020 by .

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 04/28/2020

      Xlibris

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      808564

      I dedicate these

      verses to three

      special ladies

      Karin A.

      Christine K.

      Helen W.

      Contents

      One With The Moon

      The Onslaught

      Wind Whispers

      All Knowing Moon

      Gold Sparkles

      The Long Journey

      All Alone

      Treasured

      Never Forget

      Pleasant Morning Thoughts

      Time Running Out

      Shelter

      In Season

      Prince Unknown

      O free spirit

      The Last Tiny

      Slow the pace

      Advice from within

      The Kiss

      Decisions

      For Dad

      Together

      Poetic Beauty

      The Struggle

      Dreamland

      Expectations

      Closer to Heaven

      Hidden Beauty

      According to Poems

      The Duet

      Warrior Princess

      Love Without Saying

      By Example

      Guarded Soul

      Seasons Change

      Joyriding

      Afflicted

      Balance

      Solitude

      Look Higher

      Passing Through

      Life’s Funhouse

      Time to Roam

      Drift Away

      Tiny Helper

      Thinking out Loud

      Cherished One

      But A Poet

      Harmony

      The Oddity

      To Fruition

      Insignificance

      Fools Courage

      Reflection

      She Knows

      Turn the Page

      New beginnings

      Secret Place

      Making the Cut

      Poems of the Heart

      Angel Whispers

      Perfect Storm

      The Burden

      Knee Deep

      Coiled

      Comes a New Day

      Follow the Light

      Lead the Way

      Lady in the Mist

      Trust

      Autumn

      My Waking Thoughts

      Commitment

      Regression

      Destination Unknown

      Lost in a Dream

      Moments of Quiet

      Getting a Grip

      Her Presence

      The Living Pen

      Poetic Pursuit

      The Story

      The Creative Void

      For Her

      Make Space

      Tread Lightly

      The Awakening

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1