Yes, my chapbook with poems that focus on my ancestors, mostly the women: aunts, grandmothers, great grandmothers, great aunts, is hot off the press from Finishing Line. Here is what I believe and why if you enjoy poetry, history, women's rights, are interested in immigration and inner peace or really loved your great Aunt Rose, you could find my chapbook a source of joyous remembrance, a reflection on family and life cycles. We all have ancestors, some we know and see often, some we know and never want to see (eva) and others we never knew who lived long ago in places we never visited. We are connected to them all via DNA, learned behaviours, culture, hopes and dreams.The poems in I Am the Flame are universal. They show what connection can mean. Perhaps after reading my poems you will write one of your own.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Hot Off the Press -I Am the Flame Poetry Chapbook Now on Amazon.com.
Yes, my chapbook with poems that focus on my ancestors, mostly the women: aunts, grandmothers, great grandmothers, great aunts, is hot off the press from Finishing Line. Here is what I believe and why if you enjoy poetry, history, women's rights, are interested in immigration and inner peace or really loved your great Aunt Rose, you could find my chapbook a source of joyous remembrance, a reflection on family and life cycles. We all have ancestors, some we know and see often, some we know and never want to see (eva) and others we never knew who lived long ago in places we never visited. We are connected to them all via DNA, learned behaviours, culture, hopes and dreams.The poems in I Am the Flame are universal. They show what connection can mean. Perhaps after reading my poems you will write one of your own.
Monday, December 10, 2012
12/10/12 Grand Mal: Dennis Mahagin's Poetry Collection on Amazon. "Hip, eclectic poetry for lovers of smart literature" Time to Expand Your Minds and Read Poetry
"This review is from: Grand Mal (Paperback)
It would be helpful to come to this book as a reader who has some knowledge about a lot of stuff--being a bit of a dilettante might, in this case, work for you--even still, there may be things you'll want to Google. (I, for example, had to look up the familiar-sounding name "Marcellus Wallace," and I found out--oh, yeah!--he's the gangster played by Ving Rhames in the movie Pulp Fiction.) Mahagin's pretty quick, he keeps you on your toes, and some of his zingers might get past you, but, after having read the whole book twice, and some parts of it more than that, I decided not "getting" all of it was OK. There's a line in the poem "Layers & Layers of Meaning": "Sometimes you don't have to know what someone is saying to understand everything."
Read the rest.
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Mal-Dennis-Mahagin/dp/1608640515Friday, November 2, 2012
Bug Poems- Fall is a beautiful time of year. Along with trees changing colors, the animals and insects are getting ready for winter. Elderbox bugs invaded my space in fall last year and stayed the winter
Boxelder, Elderbox Bug Poems
Elderbox bugs invaded my space last year. This year there are fewer. I feel bad for them. They are trying to keep warm, but hey, a person's gotta do what a person's gotta do. I don't smuch bugs or spray them. I remove them peacefully from my space. Call me Ghandi. These poems were written when I was considering changing my name to Clint Eastwood. I won't post a picture of these little suckers. They might think I like them and decide to stay around.
*I show them a pamphlet on insecticides
and the paper towel in my hand
Five elder box bugs are on the window
There is a blizzard on the other side
Their black red lined wings and long
thin muscle wasted legs crawl the glass
I don't understand what they are looking for
There is no heat
Why are you still here I ask them
as if they know English
I've been kind since fall
when they moved in with me
only taking out three of the multitudes
leaving the army of fast walking hibernators
alone watching them running from me
But today my warrior appears
This is my frozen kingdom
I tell them love doesn't live here anymore
hasta la vista baby
***
*The
Invasion
Elder box bugs have invaded my space
There are groups of them
on the bathroom ceiling
on the phone receiver
in the shower.
When I turn on the lights.
I am in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or
I am in the painting Edvard Munch’s
There are groups of them
on the bathroom ceiling
on the phone receiver
in the shower.
When I turn on the lights.
I am in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or
I am in the painting Edvard Munch’s
The
Scream
Black and red bug bodies with wings
stay stationary until I poke them
I am not a swatter or smacker
They flutter fly do their kamikaze thing
I jump up
I am a yellow belly cat in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or
I am in the painting Edvard Munch's
Black and red bug bodies with wings
stay stationary until I poke them
I am not a swatter or smacker
They flutter fly do their kamikaze thing
I jump up
I am a yellow belly cat in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or
I am in the painting Edvard Munch's
The
Scream
I call the maintenance men
They say Oh those bugs are everywhere
Don’t worry honey be happy
They don’t bite or damage wood
They are not dangerous
There is nothing we can do
When it gets cold they will die or
You can kill them big squish
I am in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or I am in the painting
Edvard Munch's
The Scream
I pray for the little flutterers to be gone
I hate flying and death
I want a real estate agent
to entice them to move
into a vacant condo streets away .
I call the maintenance men
They say Oh those bugs are everywhere
Don’t worry honey be happy
They don’t bite or damage wood
They are not dangerous
There is nothing we can do
When it gets cold they will die or
You can kill them big squish
I am in a movie about infestation
A.H.'s The Birds or I am in the painting
Edvard Munch's
The Scream
I pray for the little flutterers to be gone
I hate flying and death
I want a real estate agent
to entice them to move
into a vacant condo streets away .
Tippi Hedren has nothing on me
except bloody
beak bites
blonde hair
a good job
a convertible
I am in a A.H. movie The Birds or in the painting
except bloody
beak bites
blonde hair
a good job
a convertible
I am in a A.H. movie The Birds or in the painting
Edvard Munch's
The Scream
from the poetry chapbook THE WONDER OF IT ALL by Elizabeth P. Glixman
http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#the_wonder_of_it_all
* Poems copyrighted by E.P. Glixman. Permission must be requested for usage in a commercial or educational venue
**
http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2006/12/edvard-munch-scream-dance-of-life.html
***
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
The Scream
from the poetry chapbook THE WONDER OF IT ALL by Elizabeth P. Glixman
http://alt-current.com/pp/pp_item.html#the_wonder_of_it_all
* Poems copyrighted by E.P. Glixman. Permission must be requested for usage in a commercial or educational venue
**
http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2006/12/edvard-munch-scream-dance-of-life.html
***
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
Monday, October 22, 2012
With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women - A Collection of Poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge. Talented Poet- Intriguing Title
"Jane Rosenberg
LaForge's poems read like a catalogue of the curious. She creates not one but
many worlds with deft language , stark images and a wide, gaping eye. Nothing
is off limits as these poems tackle Putin, ankles, youth, teeth, Jagger, old
age, sisterhood and other delights and vagaries of the living and the dead.
Part mythology and fable, part prayer and dirge , part telescopic and up close
and personal, these magnificent poems resonate, throb, and fairly hum with the
the fascinating details of the way lives are lived. ~ Michelle Reale"
Read the rest
http://www.amazon.com/With-Apologies-Jagger-Other-Women/dp/0615677002
Monday, September 3, 2012
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