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Here Comes the Sun: Travel Poetry                    Written by Katie Lewington

1/30/2018

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"The poetry of Katie Lewington has just only recently come to my attention, and her simple, observational, and honest poems pulled me right in. Her new chapbook "Here Comes the Sun" is filled with those things that I look for in poetry and writing in general, descriptions of people and places, travels, food, etc. The ordinary things that sensitive folks (and poets especially) find so endearing. I can't wait to read more of Lewington's work!" Nicholas Trandahl, author of Pulling Words.

Experience the thrill of summer, and travel with Katie Lewington through Europe, without needing to move from your seat. It was a summer of reinvention and discovery: from leaving home, to travelling Europe. In 2016 football, politics, and airports dominated the life of Katie Lewington. Thankfully you won't find any poems on Brexit in Katie Lewington's poetry collection Here comes the Sun. You will find one on the Euro's, and the unexpected delights found in Airport baggage queues. Some of the poems in Here comes the Sun make good use of brevity, while others, such as Wi-Fi, are written in a prose style of writing. Here comes the Sun uses simple language in the poems that were written whilst travelling in the summer of '16. The events in the poems mirror the places of their origins, such as in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, the market forecourt of Brugge, and the Brighton Pier.
There is contemplation among the hilarity as the seasons change, summer turns to winter, and the nights become colder, so grab a drink, and your shades, and read HERE COMES THE SUN: TRAVEL POETRY WRITTEN BY KATIE LEWINGTON.

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Gentlemen Prefer a Pulse: Poetry with a Hint of Lunacy    Author: Mike Steeden

1/15/2018

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Gentlemen Prefer a Pulse is Mike Steeden's first published collection of poetry and features over a hundred poems that are sometimes humorous, serious, satirical, surreal, thought provoking and brilliant! Mike says his inspiration is drawn from his self-proclaimed love of the fairer sex, his passion for 'people watching' (a trait born of his time as a private investigator), social justice and compassion. The net result is that his poems are in essence a cocktail of all these things...oh yes, the important thing! Mike always endeavours to ensure that within his body of work the gals always win out in the end!

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A poem from the book:

THE MAN IN THE BRETON SHIRT

All her life she had wanted legs. Proper legs with feet, ankles, calves, knees and thighs. Yet circumstance had afforded her nought but wheels, small wheels at that. Little wrought iron ones. Wheels that required constant care. Oiling and such like.

Notwithstanding her shortcomings, she got out and about best she could. That is, until the day the local authorities had something of a retro brainwave. They cobblestoned the market square. She lived in a house on market square. So now she prayed for tarmac, as well as feet, ankles, calves, knees and thighs.

Then one day, quite out of the blue the sailor arrived in town. Breton shirt, beer belly. He drank vast quantities of rum, farted constantly, belched with pride, with gusto.

They met in a smoke laden bar, she in a wheelchair (Her wizened auntie had taken her out for some fresh air. Why she chose to go to a bar no one ever knew). The sailor was singing a ribald sea shanty at the time to the accompaniment of an accordion. He amused her. She caught his eye. The accordionist noticed too. A deafening silence ensued. A galaxy of drunkards turned about face embarrassing her more than a little.

A harlot, hanging on to the sailor’s arm for dear life flinched at his rancid breath, yet still held fast. Such is the fate of a girl short of gilders (Perversely, she cast a jealous eye at the girl with no proper legs with feet, ankles, calves, knees and thighs). Regardless his ‘Popeye on spinach’ forearm thrashed the harlot to Kingdom come.

In an instant, the sailor sobered up. Whereas he should have stumbled he straightened himself, walked over to the girl, planted the mother of all kisses upon her virgin lips, clicked his fingers, bellowed skyward at the heavens, and miraculously the girl had legs with feet, ankles, calves, knees and thighs.

With great care and eyes shut tight the girl ran her hands over her new limbs. They felt ever so fine.
When she opened them again she found herself on a yacht on the wide-open sea in the company of a handsome young man in a Breton shirt. From his place at the helm he winked and blew her a kiss.
All was well in her world.

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The Shop That Sells Kisses: Poetry with a Hint of Magic     Author: Mike Steeden

1/15/2018

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Mike Steeden writes his poetry always with ‘a touch’ of something or other. Often that ‘touch’ is a surreal one, occasionally one of the lunacy of being, and with this tome he had added a hint of ‘magic’. He lives in England’s almost forgotten edge in terms of tourism, namely the south-eastern corner of the beautiful County of Kent, in the place nicknamed since the Battle of Britain in WW2, ‘Hellfire Corner’. He is passionate about the rights of the underprivileged; loathes to see abuse of the innocents home and abroad. His poetry reflects such passion.

Mike is a self-confessed ‘people watcher,’ hence his coffee quaffing hobby sat outside any fine café watching the day go by. His most favoured cafés are generally those across the Channel in France where he spends a good deal of time. Also, he is partial to a drop of fine red wine and smelly ripe French cheeses!

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EXCERPT
One of the poems within the book;

ECHOES FEND FOR THEMSELVES AFTER MIDNIGHT

Interlaced tongues sweetest tortures, and for you a crown of hawthorn
Come mornings lame duck situation, at first light a passion stillborn
Your carriage awaits full of treasures, a catalogue of what was before
Love letters returned back to sender, your key on the hook by the door
You split with a satchel of shared dreams, and a trunk full of burning desire
In your wake left a parcel of memories, and finger band of barbed wire
Those bared paintings of you in the grand hall, the place where all sinners got wed
Now hang on the walls of a bedroom, where all our spare tears once were shed
Words aimed below the belt and pulled punches, a ripped bodice, a craving that devours
Then the affirmation of stained sheets, hungover from the afterglow hours
You travelled back to the place where you came from, climbed dizzy heights just to be
Once more with your come-hither lover, and the times you say were carefree
In the white room where virgin bride’s makeup, paradise only a scissor cut away
Yet for you just a bouquet of snowflakes, that would melt lest you forgot to pray
Remember when I gave you the emerald, you said just, ‘thank you, see you around’
Then you laid claim to my heart, to my hunger, left me for dead instead of spellbound
Echoes fend for themselves after midnight, come back to deafen at the first light of day
You leave behind the one you tormented, to stand by him who you would betray




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Ambrosia: A Poetry Anthology

9/28/2017

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*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.

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Circle of Emotions                                     Authoress Hurricane

1/16/2015

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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CHEATED ON? LOST SOMEONE DEAR TO YOU? HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED BY A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER? LOVE RUNS DEEP, BETRAYAL CUTS THE HEART, PAIN, AND HURT WILL SEND ONE ON AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER.
AUTHORESS HURRICANE'S
INTRIGUING POEMS IN CIRCLE OF EMOTIONS WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS WITH CHILLS, MAYBE SHED A FEW TEARS, AS THE LOVE IN YOUR HEART REALIZE THE PASSION IN HER WRITING!

OPEN YOUR MIND, RELAX YOUR BODY, AND ALLOW THE WORDS TO TAKE CONTROL! ALLOW THEM TO TAKE CONTROL! ALLOW THEM TO SCCUMB YOUR SOUL AND BECOME APART OF THE CIRCLE OF EMOTIONS.

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Affectionately 360                                      Author: KS Oliver

10/31/2014

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From the Author: "There is nothing like being in love but what happens when the person you love and trust betrays you"

From Amazon: "Friends and family helped shape the concept of Affectionately 360: A reflection of confidants. It is the ink that details the rhymes of reason behind the mystery of love. Consider it: Who knows where love will eventually lead those willing to bet against the odds? When was the last time you flirted with love's infinite possibilities? Have you ever been a fool in love? Our relationships are the scales that weigh life's most defining moments. Through these pages your emotions are invited to travel the ups and downs of love at its best even when it feels like the worse. It is the purest example of the mightiest emotion. Remember to always trust God and walk by faith with no GPS. Follow his path blindfolded and allow yourself to embrace the love destined for you. Welcome to the journey of Affectionately 360."

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Revenge of the Orgasm                           Author: Greatest Poet Alive

10/23/2014

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Revenge of the Orgasm is an erotic autobiography written in poetic form that brings all the sizzle and spice of erotica but with a gentleman's eloquence. These epic poems will take you on a journey of intimacy and lust that you will not rush to return from.

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Still Standing                                               Author: KS Oliver

10/23/2014

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From the Author: "It is my Rhyme and Reason of being diagnosed with Lupus at the age of 25 after giving birth to my second child. I almost died but I refused to let Lupus take over so I fought back."

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Poetry That Speaks for Itself                Author: M.S The Secret

10/13/2014

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 "Poetry That Speaks For Itself" is a mind blowing rollercoaster ride! The author M.S The Secret talks about the life we live, love ,joy and pain, and our spiritual walk with the God of our understanding. The author taps into the emotional skeletons we hide. Be prepared to unmask your feelings and fears! Pick up a copy today and "Let the journey begin". This is one of 2014 best kept secrets! 

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An Angel Chained: A Collection of Poems                                                                Author: T. Michael Pender

10/11/2014

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This collection of poems runs the gamut of human emotions -- from anger to love, from sorrow to hope -- in the life of one man.

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