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All The Lonely People: Poems From Around The World: Reena Prasad Sharjah.

This week, I am featuring one of our wonderful Indian poets: Reena Prasad Sharjah who contributed to our anthology: All The Lonely People. You can link to her here on … Continue reading

April 20, 2013 · 29 Comments

All The Lonely People: Poems From Around The World.

Each week, I will feature a poem from one of our contributing authors to our recent All The Lonely People Anthology. To date, our anthology has received almost 2, 500 views, … Continue reading

April 14, 2013 · 22 Comments

CraftPerson’s Corner with Steve Corn.

Steve Corn is an exceptional poet who has agreed to do a regular Craftsperson’s Corner for Plum Tree Books. This feature will focus on how to construct a great poem. … Continue reading

April 12, 2013 · 13 Comments

For World Poetry Day! A Humble Contribution…

  you ask me if I will mind you leaving? I will not mind… that you erase the sun blot out the stars pull down the moon. and take my … Continue reading

March 21, 2013 · 6 Comments

A Child’s Sin By Niamh Clune

I was that child standing in the corner with a chalky duster wrapped about my thin, white, offensive shoulders. The nun decided I had come to school “naked” clothed as … Continue reading

March 14, 2013 · 15 Comments

Tumble Into Blue by Niamh Clune

would that I were sure-footed, not stumble, fall for you, be exposed on craggy precipice, tumble into blue. would the wind might carry me, to distant, silky shore hold my … Continue reading

March 12, 2013 · 11 Comments

Plum Tree Books Features: DiAnne Ebejer & Susie Bertie

It is my very great pleasure to feature two of my favourite poets: DiAnne Ebejer and Susie Bertie. DiAnne’s style is dry, to-the-point, clear and so very deeply human. Susie is … Continue reading

February 14, 2013 · 21 Comments

Myths Are Parables!

Inspired by a blog by The Secret Keeper on the importance of story in our lives, I thought I would add something of my own, expressed here though a poem … Continue reading

February 10, 2013 · 13 Comments

Longing

let’s go to the ends of our yearning let’s free it from the banal live passionately daringly, beautifully. lest we never live at all let’s walk through the fires of … Continue reading

February 4, 2013 · 17 Comments

Shelter Girl

Reblogged from poetry and then some…: Falling into the “and then some” category of this blog it never hurts to put this out there as a stark reminder or a … Continue reading

January 28, 2013 · 6 Comments

Friends

Reblogged from poetry and then some…: It seems in looking back I may have seen you there even as a child, Somehow knowing the need, like the road, would be … Continue reading

January 25, 2013 · 6 Comments

Love, the miracle with wings.

                Love, the miracle with wings; lifts a tired spirit high; fills an empty heart run dry, of hope, or faith, and magicking … Continue reading

January 22, 2013 · 19 Comments
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