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Why I Write
When I write, I draw on my experiences as a woman with a painful past, a rapturous wife and mother, a world traveler, and a spiritualist. For me, writing is an art form. Like an artist, the work becomes more than I imagined it would be. When I set out to write a story with a particular idea or character in mind, words I cannot claim as my own flow from a magical and mysterious place through me and onto paper. The work takes on a life of its own; it is living art. The process fascinates me, satiates me, and makes my life more meaningful.
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Dream With Me Dream With Me
The years of mirrored point of view,
In bigot pulpit’s pious pew,
Reverse the progress we have made --
Oppress our people; retrograde.
A cornerstone of our great land,
Equality or reprimand;
But hate and racism pervade,
Through southern pockets retrograde.
Last night I sat beside a friend,
Whose words to my ears did offend.
Between the silenced debts unpaid --
I gaped at discourse retrograde.
This year our nation saw The Dream
come true to boost our self-esteem
My friend’s smug attitude must fade
Release antique stance retrograde.
Emerge from direst straits ensured,
Let color-blindness lead the herd;
Look through the skin; don’t be afraid –
And preach ideals non-retrograde.
[Author's Note: This poem is a Kyrielle, a French form written in quatrains. In a Kyrielle, each quatrain contains a repeated line, phrase, or word as a refrain, in this case the word retrograde. Following the guidelines of the Kyrielle, the lines are octosyllabic and written in iambic tetrameter. Dream With Me uses the traditional Kyrielle rhyme scheme aabB, ccbB, ddbB, etc., with B containing the repeated word.]
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