The Book of Blue is a modern-day love story in poetry, written in a time of great light and great darkness, a story of the heart, the song of love. The book of poetry was inspired by the Muse and the "blue dove" painting by Pablo Picasso, as if the refrain was channeled through Picasso and in collaboration with the poet. "Blue, you are the dove" weaves through the entire work, encapsulating each verse as if the poem is a chant, a love song to Blue, telling his story and the story of the love affair with the poet. The book of poetry, a prayer of worship and peace, has a hidden dialectic of...

A work of quiet genius. The Angel is poetry, a love affair dialectic that holds perfect peace inside the background of a haunted postapocalypse city, the decaying infrastructure and gray stone saved by images of angels, sunlight, forest, rain, and sky. The series of poems takes the reader on the journey of the Oracle, a dialogue of the sacred and the profane. Inspired by the muse, the archangel Gabriel and the angel statue The Eye by David Altmejd, the book includes a photo installation of the statue by Victor Tangermann, the photographs riveting, the statue an artistic marvel. The poet is in...

A Poetry Contest and Submission Call for an Anthology, The Children of Orpheus. In ancient Greek mythos, Orpheus is a mystical figure, an Oracle, a prophet, musician and Poet. His music is magical, giving him the gift of enchantment. His wife Eurydice is attacked by a satyr, falls into a pit of snakes and is fatally bitten on her heel. Orpheus discovers her dead body, and overcome by grief plays the lyre and sings so that everyone, all the gods and nymphs weep. He travels to the underworld and plays and sings for Hades and Persephone, so moved they allow Eurydice to return to the upper world...