Are you afraid of spiders? How do you take your coffee? Do you remember how you felt on the last day of school or eating watermelon as a child? These Poems Need Homes- To Make A Long Story Longer is a compilation of whimsical rhyming poems about life's little idiosyncrasies that everyone can relate to. Some of these poems will transport you back to happy childhood memories, while others will make you appreciate adulthood- all while leading you to a surprise ending. Originally published weekly in the daily newspaper, The Ravalli Republic, this collection of poems spans the second year of the popular poetry column "These Poems Need Homes". As a bonus, six new, previously unpublished poems are included in this entertaining collection. Easy to read and appreciate, These Poems Need Homes- To Make A Long Story Longer, will have you grinning as you eagerly turn each page.

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Kaui Hart Hemmings, and Joan Baez to Nikki Giovanni, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.

Are you afraid of spiders? How do you take your coffee? Do you remember how you felt on the last day of school or eating watermelon as a child? These Poems Need Homes- To Make A Long Story Longer is a compilation of whimsical rhyming poems about lifes little idiosyncrasies that everyone can relate to. Some of these poems will transport you back to happy childhood memories, while others will make you appreciate adulthood- all while leading you to a surprise ending. Originally published weekly in the daily newspaper, The Ravalli Republic, this collection of poems spans the second year of the popular poetry column These Poems Need Homes. As a bonus, six new, previously unpublished poems are included in this entertaining collection. Easy to read and appreciate, These Poems Need Homes- To Make A Long Story Longer, will have you grinning as you eagerly turn each page.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.