THE TITLE: At the age of seventeen I discovered T.S. Eliot's poem "The Wasteland." The only part of the poem I could relate to was about "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante." Four of the tarot cards are invented by Eliot (Drowned Phoenician Sailor, Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks and the Lady of Situations). Having invented my own Drom Ek Romani cards as part of my heritage, I could appreciate his imaginary cards with their mystical names. My first poem explains each tarot card and the second one details the Drom Romani although I make no claim to be a "famous clairvoyante." The other...
THE TITLE: At the age of seventeen I discovered T.S. Eliot's poem "The Wasteland." The only part of the poem I could relate to was about "Madame Sosos...
What does kindness mean to you? Would you go out of your way to help another? Or has someone gone out of their way for you? We can change the world with these simple acts of kindness, by simply helping another person in their time of need. In this book you will find stories to enlighten, inspire, or move you, as you read about the spontaneous and planned acts of kindness bestowed upon others. All proceeds from this book will be donated to Rock the Cause. Rock the Cause is a Minnesota based charity that uses the power of music, community, and social media to create a new generation of...
What does kindness mean to you? Would you go out of your way to help another? Or has someone gone out of their way for you? We can change the world wi...
Six decades of life, etched into the space-time continuum, is a present from me to my family and friends. They are part of these memoirs but looking toward the future, perhaps my descendants will come across my words and have some insight into what Great-Great Gran was like in the past. The poetic memoirs include Romance, Family, War & Peace, Dogs/Birds/Herbs, Romani (Gypsy) assimilated culture, Music and the greatest decade ever: the 1960s to the 1970s.
Six decades of life, etched into the space-time continuum, is a present from me to my family and friends. They are part of these memoirs but looking t...
In a small row home, in 1956 South Philly, down in a dirt floor cellar, a drabarni grandmother picks up pieces of wood chips discarded on her husband's worktable. Using a carpenter's pencil she sketches a circle with spokes and hands it to her eight-year-old-granddaughter. "Ashok Chakra, Wheel of Origin," she says. "This is the first stop on your path. One day there will be twenty-two of them..." This book is one Romani's (Gypsy) grimoire, a family compendium about moving along our path in life with a minimum amount of stress. It is not meant to be a guide but it is a slice of life that I...
In a small row home, in 1956 South Philly, down in a dirt floor cellar, a drabarni grandmother picks up pieces of wood chips discarded on her husband'...
Poems are miniature novels, text books, historical records, recipe cards and any other genre one can imagine. The difference is--because poems are traditionally not more than a page or two-that they take a lot of thinking and connecting the dots by the reader. Metaphors, similes, confessions...not many of us have time to contemplate after reading a poem. Maybe because I'm "short" the saying "Good things come in small packages" intrigued me enough to read poetry and then write it. I like cataloging my poetry by subject. Each subject is a world in itself. The planets in our solar system are...
Poems are miniature novels, text books, historical records, recipe cards and any other genre one can imagine. The difference is--because poems are tra...
