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Poems for the Heart & Soul
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Brenda G. Stanley
Published: May 24 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Poems for the Heart & Soul is a deeply moving collection that celebrates love in all its forms-romantic love, family love, friendship, community, and the sacred love that sustains the human spirit. Brenda G. Stanley writes with tenderness, honesty, and spiritual insight, offering poems that speak to the heart's deepest longings and the soul's quiet truths.
Rooted in lived experience, this collection honors the legacy of mothers and fathers, the strength of Black love, the beauty of friendship, and the resilience that carries us through life's storms. In poems such as I Want a Forever Love, When Somebody Loves You, and Unmovable Love, readers are invited into the warmth of devotion and the joy of being truly seen. In When a Black Man Loves, Stanley uplifts the power, dignity, and generational strength of Black men and the communities they anchor.
The book also offers heartfelt tributes to family-mothers who shaped us, fathers who steadied us, siblings who walked beside us, and grandmothers whose love stretches to the moon and back. These poems honor the people who build us, bless us, and believe in us.
In the section on resilience and survival, Stanley writes with courage and vulnerability about identity, healing, and faith. Pieces like I Am Still Me and Celebrating You, Celebrating Life remind readers that even after loss, illness, or heartbreak, the human spirit can rise again-stronger, wiser, and whole.
Whether celebrating joy or acknowledging pain, these poems offer comfort, hope, and connection. They remind us to love boldly, forgive freely, cherish our people, and kiss the living while we can.
Poems for the Heart & Soul is a companion for anyone who has loved deeply, lost deeply, hoped fiercely, or prayed their way through nights. It is a book to return to again and again-whenever you need words that heal, uplift, and speak life.
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