October 19th, 2016 by admin
Dear friends,
Thank you for all your comments on the 5 minute documentary that serves as my book trailer, too. It seems to have touched many of you!
We would really appreciate your help to get this film into the world. So, please consider posting this link https://vimeo.com/184929769 on your FaceBook...
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September 28th, 2016 by admin
Strings of Shining Silence
When shadows lengthen,
our breaths grow closer, and
bundled bodies huddle against
drizzle-slanting snow and rain.
To warmth we turn,
the nearness of a cello heartbeat;
strings of shining silence
fill my chest with crimson tones.
Each in-breath spins me into soundness
while...
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Posted in: Uncategorized, Forever Journal,
September 28th, 2016 by admin
Friends of Poetic Matrix Press. Here's a great way to support Raphael Block, one of our authors, in his 2nd book with us and receive an early copy of the finished book. Please show your support. Thanks John
Dear friends,
I would like you to join me in releasing my new book, Strings of...
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September 7th, 2016 by admin
Picked up somewhere on the net.
Truth is like poetry
and most people fucking hate poetry
...
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September 7th, 2016 by admin
A CUT ABOVE
Stems lay flat when
first cut for display
.
we can play like it
is not a big deal
or it will grow to
full size of the sun
.
we tend to put
emphasis where
.
we already want
it to be…
within
all this change
.
it doesn’t and
then it does
.
it’s Shiva god-
head transcending
stems lay flat when...
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Spiraling Forward
Let the dance of the sacred Spiral carry you on a journey through the cycles of Life.
Ashley Pinkerton
This is an invitation to support Ashley Pinkerton and Poetic Matrix Press in publishing her new book Spiraling Forward. Check out her Indiegogo campaign page, see what she...
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Morning
Reluctant night after a brooding duty, slowly retreating
The earth in gray, some dim shades still hovering
Dawn strides out leisurely to wake every farm
The sleepy sun, in liquid light, making the sand warm
Morning nymph rising from the ocean of pearls
Wearing magic mist mantle if the wind...
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June 14th, 2016 by admin
Use This Day
Use this day
For love, for friendship, for rage,
For justice, for hope,
For worship, if your gods are worthy of it.
Use it
To build, to create,
To bring meaning,
To fight the void and navigate the flux.
Don’t shirk, don’t slouch.
Use it.
It will never come again.
Earth
I love...
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June 8th, 2016 by admin
Here is our table at The Bay Area Bookfair in Berkeley this past weekend (June 4 & 5). The weather was beautiful and I met many good people. Grace Grafton, Gail & Charles Entrekin came by as did Devon and Catherine. It was a good 2 days.
Gail recently won first place in the...
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April 27th, 2016 by admin
Born
Some of this is make believe.
Or at least, it starts that way,
as a faraway dream,
a dream of all that we can be.
So it is inside every me.
Life ain’t always easy.
In fact, it’s often quite stinky
heartbreakingly.
Rhymes often fail at the line,
and the splendid sounds
often drift far out of bounds....
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