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The peaks and valleys of the heart ...

12/29/2018

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As Helen Keller, author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped once said, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

In this vein, much of what I do when writing poetry is intangible.  This was especially true when I wrote my Airship poem, and I got to spend several wonderful days sailing aboard an ethereal vessel.

Fortunately, I have access to online Role Playing Games, such as Guns of Icarus, and have read all twelve novels of Emily Thompson’s descriptive Steampunk adventure series, titled Clockwork Twist.

However, immersive novels and RPG’s merely hint at the look, feel, aroma, temperature, and the overall ambiance of sailing aboard an airship.  Something else is needed to fill in these essential details.

Once my heart and my mind were fully absorbed in this project the airship itself took over.  It taught me what I needed to know and how to express those sensations. It evolved into a poetic experience.

While Helen Keller learned to explore, interpret, and make use of the physical world around her, the poet must learn the inverse; how to tap into the world within as if it were, in every sense, tangible.

Now, as my airship glides soundlessly off into an exquisite sunset, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year!!!  See you next time ...







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Such is life, sometimes ...

12/21/2018

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“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” John Lennon.  Such was the case recently when a favorite Steampunk convention ended up being cancelled for financial reasons.

In lieu of our usual convention table for the October event, my daughter and I were recently invited to set up an author table during the Alterna Steam Crawl at Outsider Comics in Seattle, Washington.

My talented daughter, Emily Thompson, author of the Clockwork Twist adventure series, sets an impressive Steampunk setting for our books at these book signing events.  And we’ve been busy.

Recently, we were invited to set up our table inside a cozy window space in the Abbracci Coffee Bar in Long Beach, Washington.  The gracious owner, Ricky Holmes, is an avid supporter of artists and authors.

​In the near future, Ricky will be displaying and selling our books in his cafe.  If you happen to venture to Long Beach Washington, stopping in at this wonderful establishment would not be amiss.

Needless to say, we’ve had a lovely but busy time of traveling and book signings lately, and I’ve decided to keep this post on the short side so as to attend to other needs, and to enjoy the holidays.

I wish you a very Happy Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!


Until next time ...



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Of dreams, goals, and deadlines ...

12/7/2018

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Napoleon Hill, motivational author of Think And Grow Rich, has said that, "A dream is a goal with a deadline."  I ruminated on this for quite a while, but it felt somewhat inverted, and I happily let it go.

Then I came upon, Harvey MacKay, a businessman who gives career and inspirational advice in his syndicated column said, “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

Thank you, Mr MacKay.  I can wrap my head around that.  There is a sense of the poetic in this latter phrase, which more easily lends itself to meandering round and round among my other thoughts.

That one of my own lines might do as much in the reader’s mind is more of a wish than a goal for me.  As many a song writer can attest, one never knows which lyrics will resonate best to a listener.

As a poet, I don’t have set goals in mind.  Sure, sometimes I begin a piece with an idea and strong inclinations of how it will progress, until I find it going off on a much better trajectory, and I follow it.

I know of writers who plan out their plots to the nth degree, diagramming and controlling  their work all the way to the end of the story, but poetry, my poetry, has to breathe more freely than that.

I rather enjoy fluid dialogues with my muse, and the surprising journeys that we take together; surprising to me, at any rate.  The murmurings of my poet mind will simply not abide the leash of a deadline.


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    About the author:

    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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