Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Here's a shout-out to an extraordinary poet, one who - while not Pagan or Polytheist - is often driven to write about the Goddesses and the Gods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-AXh...
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My newest.
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The collection "To the Goddesses & the Gods: Poems" is now available. My big plan had been to publish it tonight between the Eclipse and the Full Moon. So I hit Lulu's "Confirm and Publish" tab, thinking it would take me to a page that contained, say, a "Confirm" button and then a "Publish" button. Instead it took me to "Congratulations!"
This book wanted to be born and then ride straight through the Eclipse.
www.lulu.com/shop/todd-jackson/to-the-goddesses-th…
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So many desperate people. So many right at the edge. We have to continue to be there for each other, to pull those of us back who wander too close to the cliff's edge.
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If anyone else is getting these Community posts, you deserve an exclusive sneak peek. The book "To the Goddesses and the Gods" now has an Invocation to the Muses. I'd never written to the Muses before. I wrote this this weekend.
Invocation
.
Musai,
this offering,
that with each line of the words, crushed-
rock dust is cracked and planed down hard upon the consonants,
whereas the fine dust, the lighter-than-air,
it flows throughout the vowels,
one slow smoke loop or two curls inside the hollow
of an o or an a
and then released, and away,
spark-trails drift diagonal across five staggered sun-beams,
and away...
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I didn't love myself on Valentine's Day so I'll do a little of that now. I've got this manuscript finished in Word and now loaded into the Draft2Digital system as a draft; happily, the errors seem minor readily correctable. That plus two pithy little passages and a bunch of pointed metadata left to do. I'm feeling pretty good about all this.
draft2digital.com/partners/
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Happy Valentine's Day!
I've got a 107 page document ready for its final combing before uploading to Draft2Digital, which I've decided to stick with. Stay Tuned.
Full confession: this video was in part my way of stalling, just a little longer, before finally popping the cork on the book "To the Goddesses and the Gods: Poems."
Here's to tonight, Valentine's Day. Love yourself. Because you, as the living self you are, deserve love. Me, I'll love myself better when this done. Here's to Friday night, with its Venus - Pluto conjunction.
.Io Aphrodite.
.Io Hades.
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It's quite a feeling when something you wrote scares you. Because inside, you also can't help being just a little impressed with yourself that you caused that reaction in yourself.
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I don't have an in-the-can theory about the right aesthetics for the 21st Century. But I see it as heightening the need for my poem to get and hold the reader's attention. As though the formal problem of 21st C poetry is to make the reader not move to another tab until the poem is read through to finish.
The first line of the second stanza (or tercet) has to sing out. That's where a reader might decide about your poem - or (gasp!) mine - "That looked nice. I'll get back to this" and then move on, even if only to the next page in your book.
No! We're poets. We're spellbinding.
I figure that the room in which my poem is being read will have a TV on, or music, maybe both. I want my poem to win. I want the reader to lose track of whatever is on TV and, if available, have to hit rewind.
21st Century poetry has to bite deeper.
OK back to this manuscript. I have some sort of mental block against finishing this, but I'm getting close for real. It's happening it's happening...
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Fine verse, sacred & profane.