Songs To A Midnight Sky: Fireflies

Monday, February 07, 2005

Fireflies

This poem is on a graphic with music, so click on the thumbnail to see it on my site.

Posted by Pris at 10:16 PM

1 comment:

Kerry said...: Beautiful!; 1:21 PM

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Pris: South Florida, United States; I didn't start out as a poet. I wanted to be a novelist. I also wanted to sail the Intracoastal Waterway through the Chesapeake Bay to the Vineyard one more time. On September 23, 1990, I woke up with a severe case of what was later to be diagnosed as ME/CFS (known by the demeaning name of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).Finally, this year, 2011, the name was officially changed to ME/CFS. Hooray! As a former Clinical Psychologist, losing my old life was no fun! See the About Me page on my website to learn more about life before.
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Shadows Trail Them Home, another collaboration with Scott Owens, was released by Clemson University Press in December, 2012.

Ron Moran, author of The Jane Poems and Waiting, and Professor Emeritus at Clemson, says of the book: "Shadows Trail Them Home is an excellent and compelling novel in poetry, an important contribution to the cultural canon of American life, presented in an engaging but disturbing context. It needs to be read by a wide audience, not only those who have faced abuses as children, as the two main characters have, but also by a reading public that treasures poetry that fuses superior writing with major social issues."
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