The Phantom Dog and Horse
2008-04-11 22:27:01
Below is a short story that does not appear in my book Hidden Secrets of “Many, But One”( A true book of ghosts, haunting, paranormal contacts and encoded messages of 9-11 written and copyrighted before 9-11) . It is true and one of the truly milder paranormal events that took place in my childhood. Please [...]
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, Horse
BookSurge - Who Owns “PACIFIC AVENUE” all the way to “BOARDWALK”?
2008-04-13 11:55:57
By Sandra Jones Cropsey
More years ago than I care
to consider, I wrote to Celestine Sibley, a long-time columnist for
The Atlanta Journal & Constitution, “There must be an easier
way to persecute one’s self in life than by writing.” I even went
so far as to suggest the need for the formation of “Writer’s Anonymous”
for those of [...]
Impasse’
2008-04-15 12:10:53
(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 [...]
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The Valkyries for free!
2008-04-16 09:45:11
Dear readers,
You can now browse the full edition of The Valkyries (courtesy of Harper Collins).
Therefore, you can read the first pages (or the full edition).
Love, Paulo
E’er and Evermore …
2008-04-18 10:46:11
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 [...]
I Was Reborn
2008-04-18 10:45:44
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 [...]
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Our Children
2008-04-17 21:46:47
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 [...]
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A ku for you
2008-04-17 21:46:01
appreciation
you read my verses and smile
blossoms from within
Orchid
2008-04-17 15:12:28
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 [...]
“The act of writing – the reader” by Paulo Coelho
2008-04-17 09:45:58
“There are two types of writers: those who make you think and those who make you dream” says Brian Aldiss, who made me dream for such a long time with his science-fiction books. Thinking about his sentence and my work, I decided to write some columns on the subject. In principle I believe [...]
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, Paulo
, Coelho
DREAM LOVER
2008-04-17 09:43:57
DREAM LOVER BY MARSHA HUBBARD NORTON
PROLOGUE
As Michele’s body arches [...]
A Poem’s Freedom
2008-04-19 10:16:14
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 [...]
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Escape
2008-04-20 09:45:29
Baring wisdom whispers,
Unvalued time,
A place often too far to reach,
As if happiness were a crime.
When told to do what’s said,
My heart slows it’s pace,
It feels divorced and miles away,
I’m dejected in this place.
A feeling thrust upon me,
It’s anger thaws my mind,
Words that echo more than kin,
And a little less than kind.
Branches wonder north,
And ceilings stunt [...]
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Quote from Book Two; Amber Shadows and the Crystal Locket
2008-04-24 00:58:07
Chapter One
(Illustration)
Alluring Danger
M
onday morning every cauldron alarm clock in the Shadows
’ household flashed twelve o’clock. The storm brewing since midnight whipped branches viciously against rooftops and power lines, sending several garbage cans rolling around yards and down the streets.
Several feet away, on the [...]
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, Amber
, Crystal
Chicago Tribunes’ Printers Row Festival
2008-04-23 16:55:23
USA Illinois SCBWI Chapter has contracted to host a space at the 2008 Printer’s Row Book Festival
on Saturday, June 7th and Sunday, June 8th. Wendy Willett, author and illustrator will be there for (2) one hour spots to meet, greet, sell, and sign her five-star rated book Amber Shadows and the Missing Wands, [...]
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Attic Stairwell
2008-04-22 15:57:04
Shrouded in paranormal mist
Are strange, mysterious vortices –
Portals to branch universes
Where rapt interdimensional
Denizens raise chills on napes of
Dreamers’ pale, unsuspecting necks;
Where breathless awareness bristles
In silent, prayerful pleas offered
Of devoured skepticism;
Where moonless, dark shadows obscure
Peripherally-detected,
Indistinct, yet certain movement;
Where eerie, indiscernible
Conversations of by-gone times
Float away on waves of chilled air;
Where dog’s nervous growls fall upon
Invisible energy of
Ghostly, [...]
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The Painting in the Maple Frame
2008-04-24 12:44:02
I am the awareness behind the
Lovely painting in the maple frame.
I look out at the insanity
You call “living” from my perfectly
Blended world waiting for you to look
At me - really look, so you may see.
Yet, you all clatter along lost in
Your grave depravity failing to
Notice that I offer a glimpse of
Beauty [...]
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, Maple
, Frame
“Winds of Freedom”
2008-04-26 11:20:11
Blowing through soft winds I breathe
Desire for freedom in the air,
Passionate whispers of the needs
For acceptance, for hope and care.
How to this dream can we succumb,
Within a world too full of hate,
Where greed and power overcome
And fears and prejudice berate?
But tight to my faith I do hold.
Whispers will grow to voices bold.
The winds will grow [...]
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, Freedom
Infinite Universe….
2008-04-25 13:19:17
Infinite Universe
….
Demands of the day have halted to a hush,
all is quiet now, the hour is late.
Time to think, to clear out the mind,
a chance to make sense of all on the plate.
Take a walk outside, feel the sand at my [...]
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Safe Keeping
2008-04-28 10:11:13
With infant child at her breast
She softly whispers a lullaby -
The room clothed in
Darkness, save for a
Single bar of moonlight
That spills through the
Window.
The hope of the future is
Momentarily held within
Protective arms –
In this gift
Of a child -
Who has declared
His love unconditionally
A Reflection On Politics
2008-04-28 10:10:55
“Mirror mirror upon the wall
Who is the fairest one of all?”
*************************************
“Once again I will say to you
That I view “fair” as beauty true .
To judge “fair” as a moral task
Should reflect through votes not a glass.”
Karen Nivens
Puppies Delight….
2008-04-26 22:46:24
Puppies Delight…..
Sweet little puppy only hours old,
shaking and twitching, are you cold.
Wrapped in a towel, your fur to dry,
you wiggle and squeak but you do not cry.Eyes closed tight, your tongue of pink,
brothers and sisters coming in a wink.
Better move over make room for another,
guess who is getting tired, not you, your mother.
How many birthdays [...]
No title
2008-04-29 12:53:47
Once
Upon
A time had
So long ago,
Misty eyes awoke
To see fairies dancing
Spryly in the morning’s dew,
Whilst unicorns nibbled [...]
Just Like Him
2008-04-30 15:48:27
A moving stroke,
It whispers there on the page,
I wonder.
Someone spoke a rhyme,
Once.
A rhyme delivered from her lips.
It moved him,
It moved his brush,
It moved his heart and slurred it across the page.
The page.
An empty sheet, once like him.
Colours dull and darkening,
Once like him, hardened.
And now they stand among the rest.
Among the rest.
Ordinary.
Once a power, moving through,
Is [...]
Somewhere in “Om”
2008-04-30 10:37:25
“Source”, “Sentience”, “Energy”, “Wisdom”,
“Knowing”, “Compassion”, “Empathy”, “Love”
“Authenticity”, “Destiny”, “Faith” . . .
At what point will we reach all that can
Be said - a tipping point beyond which
We transcend words and rise up into
Something higher, deeper and wider
In that space behind and between words -
A connected knowing leading to
And resulting from a yearning toward
Continuity of [...]
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TRULY SHOCKING photo
2008-05-01 10:02:16
I have recently been working toward my certification as a Paranormal Investigator and have been studying how to analyze suspected paranormal photographs. The study got me to remembering and thinking about probably the most incredible paranormal photo I have ever seen.
When I was around the [...]
Sugar - High
2008-05-02 13:05:07
Hello fellow writers,
before I tease you with my newest poem (spring is definitely in the air) I would like to remind you; Mother’s Day is only two short weeks away and if you are scrambling to find the right gift for mom, here is an idea:
An autographed copy of a wonderful, award winning romantic suspense.
Below [...]
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Circle of love….
2008-05-02 09:51:15
Circle of love……
Allow me to tell of a woman I know,
spreading love and joy always anew.
A good family she came, then she grew,
her very own family, from a circle of two.A [...]
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“Age of Entitlement and Expectation” - Introduction
2008-05-05 16:10:39
“Age of Entitlement and Expectation”
-The Introduction
-
Authors: Karen and Robert Palumbo
I would like to say a few words about this “Age of Entitlement and Expectation”. Does anyone really know what it even means in today’s world? Exactly what it is? It has occurred to me that we are all surrounded with it every waking moment of [...]
We Are
2008-05-04 20:27:09
We are the eternally expanding
Terrain of an unfathomable expedition.
We are a universe within a Universe;
A world within a World;
A mind within a Mind;
A heart within a Heart;
A dream within a Dream.
We are one created within One –
One being one through an illusion of “other.”
We are spirit exploring Spirit –
Self of many selves.
[...]
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