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January 8, 2015
COUNTRY ROADS ARE LIKE NO OTHER no. 1
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January 7, 2015
Fenc’d no. 3
[#intellectualbondage]
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Seasonal Blues
#lovemyhood
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January 4, 2015
Subsistentia
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Seek through the Darkness
Poetic Passion & Fearlessness from the lovely and loving Megi of HapyyNest in America…
Originally posted on :
Seek through the fear of darkness with eyes wildly open
And the light of passion shall seize you.
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January 3, 2015
The Poem of Me
The poem of me from yesterday
Is not that which I am today
In many ways they may resemble
But don’t be fooled by what I say
Look closely at what you hear
Listen with more than just an ear
The poem of me from yesterday
Is not that which I am today
You think that you may know me
By the words I rhyme and sing
You think that you may know me
But of me you know not a thing
The poem of me I once sang for you
Then may have had lyrics true
But with each new day the words decay
And of that me from then — I bade adieu
❅ ❅ ❅ ❅
POEMS FROM THE RIVER
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Take Me To Church #3
Who Art In Heaven?
☠☠☠☠
Hercules Gone Mad – Part One
Rebels for Love
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The Lowdown for the Showdown…
Well, I wouldn’t actually call my review for the IABS&R Volume 2 selection a showdown, but lowdown and IABS&R just doesn’t have the same ring to it as does lowdown and showdown…
Can you dig?
However, since I’m still a long way off from finishing the selection, which, by way of reminder, is The Wild Horses of Hiroshima by Paul Xylinides (see sidebar), a lot can happen by the time I finish it so…you never know. The review just may as well end up as a showdown.
But I wouldn’t bet on it. In fact, I strongly recommend you visit Paul’s site and check out some of things he’s got going on there. Quite interesting… As a way of introduction to his work, I strong recommend this.
And, however again, even though I am still a long way off from finishing the book, I am going to boldly announce that my review for it will be published next week at 8:00PM (EST) Friday, January 9, 2015.
Nothing like a hard and fast drop dead date (Don’t get alarmed…in the military, that’s how deadlines are referred to) to bring one to focus, if you know what I mean.
As far as the way forward for the IABS&R… Well, seeing how I am keen on putting together a short story collection, as well as many other projects I have lined up for the year (and as discussed in the latest Newsletter Love issue (which is further discussed below)), we’re going to do something a bit different for the IABS&R Volume 3. Seeing how so many of you email me requests for me to review your books, if you have a book – that is not an Erotica or Romance novel – that is well written and with a compelling story, mail me a copy of your print edition – ebooks will not be considered – and if I find one that compels me to read it even during all the other things I have going on, then I will declare it the selection for Volume 3. I’ll send out a formal announcement soon to detail it all a bit more, but consider this the kick off and go ahead and mail me your book, if you’re so inclined. My snail mail mailing address can be found at the Contact page.
So…that’s the lowdown on that.
Let’s see…what else is going on around here?
Oh yeah…the subscription rate to our Newsletter Love has picked up dramatically lately. Thank you very much to all of you who subscribe and willingly invest even more of yourself into this little thing we got going here. I am humbled by your support. I sent out a new edition… yesterday? …day before? sheesh, time just scoots right along so fast that I can’t even keep up with it anymore. Anyway, whenever it was doesn’t really matter because you can check it out at the Archives page if you’re interested (see sidebar). In it, along with my typical jibbering and a jabbering, and even more of my exasperated musings about time and its inexhaustible pace, you’ll find a little insight into my drawing/photo graphic design process. But the most important thing you’ll find in the issue, in my view, is a profile of OneBigPoet’s poem The Diner, which hails from the RELATING TO HUMANS Race Issues feature. It’s a pretty powerful piece, it is. I’m not sure when the next issue will be released but I already have something literary and interactive ideas in mind for it so you just might want to join our little salon-like space to see what’s what.
Okay…so that’s that. What else we got?
Oh yeah…speaking of the RELATING TO HUMANS feature, have you checked out what’s going on there lately? Wow, there are some mighty fine bodies of work up there. The place is booming. Once again, thank you all for investing some of yourself here. Like, Write On! And also a big thank you to all of you who have taken the time to check it out and offer up your feedback and a “Like” or two here and there. Most awesome. So keep on submitting your work and I’ll do my best to profile the best of it here and in the newsletter. We should be having a profile of one of the submissions on the blog soon, as well as a guest post by the artist involved. I’m pretty excited about it to tell you the truth… Well, everything I’ve said so far in this post has been the truth…honest.
So much cool stuff going on here…and so much more to come. Once again, thank you for your amazing support. And for the last time this year – Happy New Year! – 2015 is going to be fantastically fabulous! And that truly is the truth!
And that, my friends, is a wrap to this lowdown of a showdown.
Wait a minute…
Is it lowdown or down low?
I always get those two confused…
Wink, wink
Filed under: Reviews Tagged: authors, book reviews, books, fiction, IABS&R Volume 2, Indie Authors, newsletters, novels, open submissions, Paul Xylinides, race issues, Relating to Humans, The Wild Horses of Hiroshima, writing
January 2, 2015
Purgatorio
☠☠☠☠
Hercules Gone Mad – Part One
Rebels for Love
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Filed under: Photography Tagged: amusement parks, ascend, descend, dystopia, ferris wheels, graphic art, graphic design, National Marina, purgatory, redemption, seaside, spirituality, wheels, writing
