Ambrosia: A Poetry Anthology

*Delight in the nectar of the gods. Feed your mind with Ambrosia*

Whispers to the gods are like honey from a poet's lips. When several poets raise their voices together, it's a sacred feast of memories and dreams. Poetry is divine food for the soul, full of emotional and celestial feeling. Join us in our longing, our pain and passion, heartache, logic and insanity, fear, faith, confusion, hope, unity, solitude, daily life, political strife, and more.

From the creative minds of Eric Keizer, A.L. Mabry, Sam DeLoach, Alyssa Trivett, Mello Sakia, Stacy Overby, Phillip Matthew Roberts, Veronica Falletta and Stephanie Ayers.

The Poets of this project have partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and all royalties will be donated to this charity.

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Table of Contents

Dedication
Eric Keizer
Travis and Trevor
Columbia
Sundials
Watching Neighbors Move Out
The Gift
Cutter
Over
Fiona BakedApple
Grandfather
Mermaid
L. Cohen’s Romance
Doris Fenton
270 Miles
Acrimony
7th Street Dragons

A.L Mabry
Broken Angel
Celestial
Free in a Day
Inner Well
Rain Through Me
Scarred Arms of time
Seen
She’s Like the Wind
Sunrise
Crushing
Sweet Butterfly Girl
The Survivor
We Are Not Lost
Temple of Hate
Golden Glue




Alyssa Trivett
Morning, Lack of Coffee
1:37PM
Perfecting Loneliness
Open Mic
Keyboard
Room
Dinner For One
The Error
For A Friend
Cake
Walking
Blank Canvas
Department of Motor Vehicles
Wisconsin Dells Outdoor Picnic
Where We Part

Mello Sakia
Are We Living
Black Cinderella...
Green beanie
Helplessly helpful
Morning
The pacifists loner

Phillip Mathew Roberts
Knowledge abandoned at a curb
Quoting the mute
How one bisexual distracted himself
Buttressing cynicism in latter-day Sinope
Queer antemortem associations
Reminders for the imaginary child
An appendices of unused lines
A few faulty steps
A lullaby for the slightly morbid
Ozymandias' twin stood
Spontaneous responses regarding jury duty
Leftover allusions
O and Ah synoptically revised
Interior monologue
An ensemble piece set postmortem
Sam DeLoach
A Letter Too Late
Beyond the Reach of Time
Cranked
Foresaken
Hungry for Success
In Time You’ll Forget
On the Edge of Reason
Searching for More Than Ambiguity
Tears
Elastic is Time, Time is Elastic
The Taste of Transience
Two Into the Sunset
What’s New(s))
The Seeds I’ve Sown
Feeding Fireflies

Stacy Overby
As I Wander
Boys
Divine
Emotion
Inner Demons
Exorcism
Fear
In Between
Inside
Lessons
On a Walk
Perspicacious
Quiet
Share
Tenacity

Stephanie Ayers
I Am Woman
The Zoo
My Quiet Place
SPRING INTO MY WORLD
When Beauty Falls
Of Fairies and Fireflies
The Secret
Adren’s Song
The Gathering Place
Like Alice: A Jabberwocky Challenge
The Race
Shattered Dreams
Inside Me, There's You
Once in a Lifetime
Jesus Hear My Prayer
You
When Tears Will Fall
Always & Forever
Ode to A Mother
Zombies with a New Name

Veronica Falletta
Pinballs
The Game
The Falling
Nothing Like Death
Why
Please
Hostage Dream
His Smile Does Not Help
March
Divinity
There Was that Day by the River
The Sadness Lies
Cage
The Poet
A Starlit Warning
Ciccone’s

Thank You
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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all those who feel too deeply. We understand your struggle. The good, the bad, and the ugly. This project was a labor of love between the poets involved and the Our Write Side team. Now we aim to take that love and put it to good use. The royalties from Ambrosia will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This is a cause that all of us at OWS feel strongly about and we are honored to be able to contribute to their efforts and programs.




Eric Keizer

Eric Keizer lives in Northern Illinois with his wife of eighteen years, and his dog, Edith. He earned his B.A. in English from Drake University, and his M.A Ed. and teaching license from Aurora University in 2013.
A lifelong prankster, he enjoys sharing a good, deep belly laugh and telling tall tales. He avidly reads the Classics, but counts Anne Rice as a guilty pleasure. His first book of poetry, Urban Mythology, released in April to resounding applause.
Besides writing poetry, he has written seven children’s books, is working on a psychological thriller about a serial killer, and is feverishly trying to finish a “coming of age” story set in 1980s Chicago.





Travis and Trevor
First came Travis,
And I missed
Hisfirstsmilehisfirstwordhisfirststep.
And sometimes,
I’d come home from work and scold him
And later,
on those nights,
Suzanne and I would
Quietly giggle at that time
He dropped the f-bomb out of the blue,
In church.
I bought him a plaster bust of Beethoven,
And called him Schroeder,
And he’d talk with the bust while he practiced Greensleeves
and fall asleep,
With our beagle close beside him.
I wondered if he’d resent me,
For the tough decisions and time apart,
When he was older and on his own,
And I was growing feeble and tired,
And was suddenly,
On my own.
Then came Trevor,
And I was there for
Hisfirsttouchdownhisfirstgirlfriendhisfirstcar.
And sometimes,
I’d look up from the want ads
And later,
on those nights,
I’d look at Suzanne’s picture
Quietly cry for missing her,
And shout an f-bomb, or two,
At heaven.
I bought him an autographed football,
And called him Sweetness,
And he’d talk about the college recruiters who came to see him practice,
And fall asleep,
With our beagle close beside him.
I wondered if he’d visit me
For we’d spent so much time apart,
Now that I’m older and on my own,
And have grown feeble and tired,
& have become,
All alone.