poetry
No poem immured within
Author’s intentions can thrive.
Release inclined resistance;
Yield to individual
Interpretation; cut loose
Tightly-bound preconceptions
To liberate and expand
Scope beyond expectation.
Embrace all transformation
Born of vastly diverse views
To bring a composition
To life within its own world
Where it can morph according
To whims found in ambiance
Of one perceiver’s exhale
And yet another’s inhale.
In its freedom, a poem
Truly discovers itself.
Infinite perspectives […]
Artist, writer and environmental educator, Gianetta Ellis is the creator of stewARTship studios where she "incorporates art to stewardship" by using the fine arts as a means for students to build enduring connections to self and nature. Ellis is the author of Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads, which advances a unique approach to ecopsychology by demonstrating how ecologic tenets can guide us in our effort to live the highest expression of an authentic life.
Resolving to avoid every
Fine-spun nuance of human
Pretense; I spoke with the winds
Today and asked if the miracle I
Had discovered IN YOU - such torrid
Brush strokes dividing the light and the
Dreary - might remain the hot ember
Now burning brightly IN ME
Extending its
Warmth and light as
Aliment and inspiration;
Wisdom encouraged me to
Avoid the vast discolorations of
Thoughtless indiscretion and
Hinted […]
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist whose art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to an amalgam of Jul . . .
As I lie below the cross lighted bright
As I was thinking what a beautiful night
I felt a touch of the Lord upon my soul
And from my body my spirit did flow
My spirit rose to the right and 15 feet into the air
I felt the Lord’s […]
Vietnam era Navy Vet, Graduated from Concordia University-1973, Moorhead, MN. Have four books published. Working on two more. I have recently retired and love it! Too bad I couldn't do it at age 18! I love to write!
Fleeting moments in time
The days speed by so fast,
The babes we cradled once
Seem so far in the past.
Our children so vibrant
With toys and games galore,
Endless days of playing
But now there’s something more.
The need to help others,
To be responsible,
Expanding their boundaries,
Growing knowledgeable.
Incredible insights
To solve the world’s woes,
So simple the answers
That these young persons know.
Our children’s growing […]
My hometown is still my hometown, Charlotte, NC. I have been in accounting for over twenty five years. Writing is one of my creative outlets. My daughter has been the major influence in my writing. She's my hero!
"Our children's growing minds, They look through caring eyes, I have hope for the world, In them the future lies." This is the last stanza of my poem "Our Children" which was one of my first creative endeavours. I am now a first-time children's book author.
"Benjamin P. Blizzard: Welcome to Christmastown"
appreciation
you read my verses and smile
blossoms from within
Rebecca Lerwill was born and raised in Germany. She moved to the United States in 1995. Her debut novel 'Relocating Mia', a romantic suspense, recieved honors as a finalist in the USA Book News, Best Book Awards in 2007.
Rebecca resides close to the Wasatch Mountains in Utah and balances her time between writing and her horses.
Her current work can be followed on her website
www.rebeccalerwill.com
Only she is aware of its particular significance in her life as she carefully
Reaches out to hold it between her two hands. The intense beauty forever
Captures her attention and never fails to captivate
Her heart. With hesitant fingers, she caresses it gently, marveling at its
Intricate petals, surprisingly strong to the touch, for at […]
Dawn Wilson was born in Connecticut, but now resides in Milan Italy with her two daughters, where she teaches English as a foreign language.
She has written several short stories and poems which have been published online and in print. She enjoys utilizing the power of brevity in her writing.
Her first novel, Autumn Leaves, made it's debut in October of last year and she is currently working on her second novel, due out some time later this year.
(A satiric analogy about literary egoism)
“I have groped across this muddle long enough!
It has become quite onerous, and there are far too
Many aspirants digging wells in salt mines looking
For diamonds - wannabes slobbering with hilarity
After discovering that “screw you too” is a rhyme.”
“Didn’t mommy ever tell you that you were boring
And pedantic
And arrogant
And conceited
And condescending […]
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist whose art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to an amalgam of Jul . . .
Spontaneous, deliberate
Expression of the Source-Essence
Concurrently manifesting
In all beings – all dimensions;
Eternally evolving and
Transforming in an absolute
Exploration of Omni-One.
© 2008
“Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”
~ Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Artist, writer and environmental educator, Gianetta Ellis is the creator of stewARTship studios where she "incorporates art to stewardship" by using the fine arts as a means for students to build enduring connections to self and nature. Ellis is the author of Stewards of Spirit: Awakening in the Light of Rachel's Ballads, which advances a unique approach to ecopsychology by demonstrating how ecologic tenets can guide us in our effort to live the highest expression of an authentic life.
L o n e s o m e
is
the click of the lock
on a door as it closes
in your face
then the chain slides home
is
the sliver of light
silence swallows
laughter leaving you out
all night whispers
is
dark torturing dusk
before moving in for the kill
raising gooseflesh
as it follows you to work
and back not seeing not
feeling not
but for shadows that stalk
as your […]
Writing Bug bit when I was 8. Little prize at 12, that was IT. Now, if I just had time to actually put the words swirling in my head on paper. But life is what it is. Laziness and reverberations from a chaotic childhood combined with pressures having to do with gender and class and time slipped past. I messed up, okay? Add normal distractions like marriage, parenthood, returns to school, juggling jobs. . .. . you get the picture. Got a bag of excuses, take all you like. . ~{P}~ By 1986. . .{contin'd at www.authorsden.com/phyllisjeangreen; thanks.}
BREATHLESS
In that moment between heartbeats,
When life hesitates, and hoping becomes
An illusion of fulfillment, you appeared as
A lucent mist smiling with extended hands.
Lamenting though, as I was, an epigonic misfit,
Confused, striving, briefly, in so many words,
To shift the eminence of illusory judgment
Across eons of possibilities - you took the time
To transilluminate those things hidden in me,
Those […]
Richard Lloyd Cederberg is an award winning poet; nominated in 2007 for the Pushcart Prize. Richard is also a novelist, photographer, and digital artist whose art, prose, essay's, and poetic work have been published in numerous anthologies, e-zines, and compendiums; including Taborri Press, Poetry Life and Times, India's Taj Majal Review, and the Mississippi Crow Magazine. Richard is the creator of the popular 'Monumental Journey' series. His literary work received CST's 2006 Best New Adventure, Mystery, Historical Fiction literary award. Richard's novels have been likened to an amalgam of Jul . . .
