Ordinary Substance is a journey of transfiguration. One soul as it wanders through birth, love, life, heartache, death and... More > rebirth. The journey of love and loss from one woman's perspective as she experiences the many faces of paradox and spiritualism. It is an exploration of poetry via Taoism and metaphysics to return again to the source of being. Zayra's poetry naturally seems to lead the reader back to what is important, back into the heart of love. < Less

The pomegranate, as a symbol and for its color, has historical meaning for women both in mythology and literature. Zayra's... More > literary poetic collection, Color Me Pomegranate, travels through the many layers of mythical women turned into real women living these myths out in every day life. On the pages of this collection, we encounter Aphrodite, Medusa, Meda, Persphone, Athena, Inanna, Ishtar, Gaia, Sophia, Durga, Kali, Mary, The Black Madonna, Eve,Anne Sexton, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Kiki de Montpamasse, Lee Miller, Berthe Morisot, Joan of Arc and the Scarlet Woman in all vessels, in every woman's body. It is the fall and resurrection of all women within the mystical experiences, which are often times as full of suffering, as they are gritty, and soft on the emotional path toward the alchemy of self discovery, self acceptance and self love for the spiritual evolution and content of the feminine. The book ends in the rise of all women through the Goddess in a transfiguration: "I am SHE." < Less

Leaving You Unpainted is the story of love shared through poetry in an unpretentious and unadorned style, yet it is... More > profoundly provocative with its visual sensual feast of beauty, art and love in its myriad of expressions. It is both haunting with sorrow and lyrical with divinity. Once you begin, you will be addicted to the end. It is a must read for those obsessive passionate souls and art lovers who understand that mystery is as much a part of love, as the obvious. < Less

Leaving You Unpainted is the story of love shared through poetry in an unpretentious and unadorned style, yet it is... More > profoundly provocative with its visual sensual feast of beauty, art and love in its myriad of expressions. It is both haunting with sorrow and lyrical with divinity. Once you begin, you will be addicted to the end. It is a must read for those obsessive passionate souls and art lovers who understand that mystery is as much a part of love, as the obvious. < Less

Ordinary Substance is a journey of transfiguration. One soul as it wanders through birth, love, life, heartache, death and... More > rebirth. The journey of love and loss from one woman's perspective as she experiences the many faces of paradox and spiritualism. It is an exploration of poetry via Taoism and metaphysics to return again to the source of being. Zayra's poetry naturally seems to lead the reader back to what is important, back into the heart of love. < Less

Leaving You Unpainted is the story of love shared through poetry in an unpretentious and unadorned style, yet it is... More > profoundly provocative with its visual sensual feast of beauty, art and love in its myriad of expressions. It is both haunting with sorrow and lyrical with divinity. Once you begin, you will be addicted to the end. It is a must read for those obsessive passionate souls and art lovers who understand that mystery is as much a part of love, as the obvious. < Less

Ordinary Substance is a journey of transfiguration. One soul as it wanders through birth, love, life, heartache, death and... More > rebirth. The journey of love and loss from one woman's perspective as she experiences the many faces of paradox and spiritualism. It is an exploration of poetry via Taoism and metaphysics to return again to the source of being. Zayra's poetry naturally seems to lead the reader back to what is important, back into the heart of love. < Less

The pomegranate, as a symbol and for its color, has historical meaning for women both in mythology and literature. Zayra's... More > literary poetic collection, Color Me Pomegranate, travels through the many layers of mythical women turned into real women living these myths out in every day life. On the pages of this collection, we encounter Aphrodite, Medusa, Meda, Persphone, Athena, Inanna, Ishtar, Gaia, Sophia, Durga, Kali, Mary, The Black Madonna, Eve,Anne Sexton, Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Kiki de Montpamasse, Lee Miller, Berthe Morisot, Joan of Arc and the Scarlet Woman in all vessels, in every woman's body. It is the fall and resurrection of all women within the mystical experiences, which are often times as full of suffering, as they are gritty, and soft on the emotional path toward the alchemy of self discovery, self acceptance and self love for the spiritual evolution and content of the feminine. The book ends in the rise of all women through the Goddess in a transfiguration: "I am SHE." < Less

Zayra Yves is a modern-day mystic whose writings are evocative, innovative, and empathetic. She is a passion-filled force... More > embracing both her human desires as well as the divine essence. Empty as Nirvana has been compiled from both new material and previously published poems that have been included in magazines, journals, audio recordings, radio broadcasts, and other print publications. These poems reveal the human suffering that cries from the abyss, the erotic body of light, the undeniable presence of the muse, the great hope for a more expansive state of compassion, and the rapture of total abandonment to love. < Less