Month: October 2013

Why I Write, What I Write. Poem. Ruan Mills Burke.

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My writings are varied, my thoughts fuel the fire
My mind takes them captive before they expire
An inner dimension, newborn in the breeze
Dictates to my fingers in moments like these
My muse is a tyrant, a dragon, a fiend
At unlikely moments more thoughts have convened
I cannot detain them, they must have their way
Pushing and shoving to hijack my day
Dancing a tango, seducing my mind
Forming the words that my voice cannot find
Rushing and tumbling over the page
Whirling and twirling, coming of age
Splicing, enticing, leading astray
Dreaming up ways to enrich the affray
Sounding and pounding, building with glee
‘Til finally, a brand new creation is free
It’s because all of this that I write what I write
I don’t have a choice when new notions take flight
I am merely a vessel, a means for my muse
Thus providing a stage for its artistic views.


©RuanMillsBurke2010


 


Born in the south of England, Ruan is an avid reader and writing has always been a part of her life. She says, “The challenge of sculpting the English language into works of art is always exciting because it is such a diverse and perverse material that I can never really tell what shape each piece will take”.


 


Ruan now lives in western France, drawing inspiration from her three wonderful dogs, the surrounding wealth of art and music, and the beauty of the vast French countryside


 


Ruan has had her work published in seventeen anthologies to date and has been a guest speaker, reading her own work, on both UK Southern Counties Radio and Radio Caburn.

She has won several poetry competitions and been recognised by the Arvon Literary Foundation UK.


 


Her work was featured in the top 100 Poets 2001 for the Arvon Literary Foundation and the top 100 discovered poets of 2012. Much of her work has also been recognised on-line via websites such as Authorsden, Poem Hunter and Poetry.com.


 


 


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Press Release. The Poetic Bond 111. 2013-1
		

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THE POETIC BOND III, ISBN 978-1492384199, published  5.October 2013


 


Poetry of the MOMENT, from across the PLANET, poetry of our WORLD


 


Poetry that documents the Contemporary Zeitgeist


 


Poetry that explores, illuminates and examines the Human Condition


 


POETRY THAT BONDS US


 


Poetry from 


 


Brazil, Canada, China, Eire, France, Grenada, India, Israel, 


 


Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, UK, US,


 


 


Thirty-seven poets from 13 countries were selected through a submission process in which there were no restrictions on form, style, length of subject; instead the choices made were on the basis of emergent themes and congruency in the pool of work; a snapshot of the poetry of new media NOW, seeking to capture the zeitgeist of the moment.


 


 


“Poetry, both reveals and shares our humanity”


 


(Trevor Maynard, editor The Poetic Bond Series)


 


 


Editors’ Notes


 


1. FOR A PDF PRESS COPY OF THE POETIC BOND III, contact Trevor Maynard at poetry@trevormaynard.com on 0 44 7966 079968 or by snail mail at Willowdown Books, 105 Crockford Park Road, Addletone, Surrey, UK, KT 15 2LP


 


2. Trevor Maynard, UK based poet and writer, manager of Poetry, Review and Discuss Group, a major poetry group on LinkedIn. His new poetry collection is KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (was published November 27 2012). He is also the author of several plays. Further information at http://www.trevormaynard.com/


 


4. The Poets of The POETIC BOND III (2013) are; Christine Anderes (US), Graham Bates (New Zealand), Rebecca Behar (France), Mark Beechill (UK), Nikki Bennett (UK), Rosalind Brenner (US), BJ Brown (US), Ian Colville (UK), Clark Cook (Canada), William DiBenedetto (US), Sam Doctors (US), Belinda Dupret (UK), Sumita Dutta (India), Gilbert A. Frank (US), Nina Floreteng (Sweden), Louise Francois (Grenada), GK Grieve (Europe), Seamus Harrington (Eire), Scott Hastie (UK), James Higgins (US), Robin Ouzman Hislop (UK), Diane Jardel (UK), Mark L. Levinson (Israel), Carey Link (US), Trevor Maynard (UK), Mermie (France), Simon Miller (UK), Linda Mills (US), Marli Merker Moreira (Brazil), Christine Pearson (US), RH Peat (US), Bonnie Roberts (US), Niek Satijn (Netherlands), Sharla Lee Shults (US), Peter Alan Soron (UK), Charles Thielman (US), Cigeng Zhang (China).


 


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A Cage Biosphere. A Poem  by Jim Dunlap.
		

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                                                           Jim Dunlap  Author                                         


 

 

 




 Nebulous writhings, pure emotion,


 blot a madcap ledger, writ


 like the last, inchoate notion


 of a dark, unhealthy fit.


 Extant some bold lammergeier,


 serpentwise, yet dragon fell,


 destroying life’s pure, flaring fire


 across untrammeled leagues of hell.


 Colors shooting blinding schism


 lighten dark, unfettered dreams.


 Sunlight, filtered by a prism,


 outlines evanescent schemes.


 Thus from behind these prison bars,


     the savant yearns to claim the stars.




 


Jim Dunlap’s poetry has been published extensively in print and online in the United States, England, France, India, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand. His work has appeared in over 90 publications, including Potpourri, Candelabrum, Mobius, Poems Niedernasse, and the Paris/Atlantic. He was the co-editor of Sonnetto Poesia and is currently a Content Admin for Poetry Life & Times. www.facebook.com/PoetryLifeTimes  He is also the chief proofreader for the On Viewless Wings Anthologies, published out of Queensland, Australia. In the past, he was a resident poet on Poetry Life & Times and the newsletter editor for seven years with the Des Moines Area Writers’ Network.


You may find him here:


http://www.thehypertexts.com/Jim%20Dunlap%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm


Here: http://www.whoislog.info/profile/jim-dunlap-poet.html


Homepage: http://mindfulofpoetry.homestead.com/index.html

 Here: http://www.pw.org/content/jim_dunlap_1


Here: http://www.artvilla.com/plt/currentoct06.html


Here: http://allpoetry.com/contest/2602767-Poems-for-Jim-Dunlap–


Here: http://classicalpoets.org/fairy-dust-anarchy-and-other-poetry-by-jim-dunlap/


Here: http://classicalpoets.org/fairy-dust-anarchy-and-other-poetry-by-jim-dunlap/


Here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/109492


Here: http://allpoetry.com/column/9188321-Book-Review-The-Spirit-of-Christmas-in-Poetry-by-Jim-Dunlap-by-WandaLeaBrayton


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The Mohican.Poem.Norman Ball
		

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NORMAN BALL (BA Political Science/Econ, Washington & Lee University; MBA, George Washington University) is a well-travelled Scots-American businessman, author and poet whose essays have appeared in Counterpunch, The Western Muslim and elsewhere. His new book “Between River and Rock: How I Resolved Television in Six Easy Payments” is available here. Two essay collections, “How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable?” and “The Frantic Force” are spoken of here and here. His recent collection of poetry “Serpentrope” is published from White Violet Press. He can be reached at returntoone@hotmail.com.


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Except Seven None Return from Caer Sidhi.Poem. Ian Irvine(Hobson)
		

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We are never quite done


 with the gloomy castle


 it shadows all our domestic hours


  from birth through the sapling years


 and on.


 


 It stands on a steep embankment


 surrounded by a thick, dark forest


 and from its battlements


      unlucky souls observe in the distance


 a glass-green ocean


 a starry firmament.


 


 Below, in the icy castle grounds, 


      huddle mournful souls


 freezing and forgotten by all


      but their closest kin—


 a melancholy place


 but nothing eternal to it.


 


 The sun that rises elsewhere


       will not penetrate this structure


 hidden as it is, under northern mists, 


 wizard spells and optical illusions 


 of light and dark.


  


Though the city is your new mistress


        you may encounter this castle


 in dreams


 animated by an almost human moon,


 the eerie chatter of small  


 flitting things—not exactly bats—


 and damp torches burning tentatively


 on, towering ramparts.  


 


 And you may encounter stone griffins 


  or other frozen phantasmagoria ,


  and ponder why it is 


 that you always approach Her


  in the dark 


 with frost stinging your skin


 and the air painful to breathe.


 


 And there’s never any wind 


 it’s always so still and ponderous— 


 like a painting:


 an ocean of souls (anticipating fire)


 ominous clouds (dull and lifeless)


 and


 the muddled heavens


 so vast, so domed, so utterly silent. 


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Ian Irvine Photo


Ian Irvine is an Australian-based poet/lyricist, fiction writer and non-fiction writer. His work has featured in many Australian and international publications, including Fire (UK) ‘Anthology of 20th Century and Contemporary Poets,’ (2008) which contained the work of poets from over 60 nations.His work has also appeared in a number of Australian national poetry anthologies, and he is the author of three books and co-editor of many more (including Scintillae 2012, an anthology of work by over 50 Victorian and international writers and poets). He currently teaches writing and literature at Bendigo TAFE and Victoria University (Melbourne) and lives with fellow writer Sue King-Smith and their children on a 5 acre block near Bendigo, Australia.

 

Links related to his work are as follows:



 

http://authorsden.com/ianirvine

 

http://www.scribd.com/IanHobson

 

 

 


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