[stylist] another Member has Poetry Published! Celebrate!

Tue May 3 20:35:18 UTC 2011

More digital confeti sprinkled about the list, to Jacqueline  this time. :)

Brad

On 5/3/2011  02:42 PM Robert Leslie Newman said...
>Here is the text of the message, followed by the poetry. (I like the message
>and I actually --- not being a poetry-head --- I got the feel of the poem.
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>Robert,
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>I thoroughly enjoyed Carry Thompson's two love poems that you attached. You
>may have a "Tiger by the Tail" by starting to send out member's recently
>published poems and articles.
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>Because you have started this, I will cut and paste my last published poem
>to this and hope that the format comes out the same as it was published.
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>Although this was submitted two years ago to the NFB Writer's contest, I
>resubmitted it to the AZ State Poetry Society Annual Contest in 2010. It
>appeared in the Sandcutters, the quarterly of the AZ State Poetry Society,
>Volume 44, Issue 4, 2010 Contest Winners.
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>As a word of encouragement to all blind poets, I lost my sight, retaining
>very little, and at age 76 I had to start learning how to use a screen
>reader, without enough vision to use Magic or other enlarging programs.
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>Since then I have had about seven poems published. A very supportive group
>of poetry Critiquers has trained me in the kind of errors I most frequently
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>make. Slowly I have found the techniques to get out presentable copy.
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>I am severely auditorily deficient, but the voice on JAWS is totally clear
>to me, and so the creative progress goes on.
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>I spent over twenty years teaching learning disabled students, and from
>them, I learned perseverance. By teaching one learns.
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>Learning Braille, though I must use jumbo Braille, it inspired this poem.
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>2. Love Poem
>Jacqueline Williams
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>                                                                         1431
>W. 7th Place
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>Mesa, AZ 85201
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>480-834-1782
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>My Fingertips Braille You to Me
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>My warm and sensing fingertips explore
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>dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you—
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>trace tenderness awaiting what’s in store when warm and sensing fingertips
>explore.
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>My fingertips urge you to want me more.
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>That lovers love with fingertips is true.
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>My warm and sensing fingertips explore
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>dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you.
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>I will not feel badly if you cannot post this. The more communiqués I
>receive from you, the more I realize how very busy you must be in behalf of
>all of us.
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>I thank you very much for the opportunities you provide.
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>Jacqueline Williams
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>jackieleepoet at cox.net
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>-----Original Message-----
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>From: Robert Leslie Newman [mailto:newmanrl at cox.net]
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>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:42 AM
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>To: writers nfb
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>Subject: Member has Poems published in Breath and Shadow
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>Congratulations to Kerry Thompson! (Chris Kuell is the editor of this
>on-line magazine)
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>The online journal Breath and Shadow has published two of Kerry's poems in
>the Spring 2011 issue. Here is the direct link to her poems (And I have
>pasted them into the lower half of this message):
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>http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/spr11e.html  The Troubadour's Song
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>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
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> >From the South the Summer brings a star That sings within my soul, blithe as
>a bird, Lifting the light of her loveliness through the dark That lay
>unknown and heavy on my heart; Until her smile awoke the driving thirst To
>find a haven in her love's deep harbor.
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>Unpolluted and boundless is that harbor, Where burns the crystal fountain of
>a star, At whose flowing love I'll slake the thirst Of one long pent in
>sorrow, like a bird With beating, bloodied wings that bursts its heart And,
>with its failing sight, sees only dark
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>Beyond the close-set bars; till, through the dark, A lighted way falls open
>to a harbor.
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>And then he sees, the light beats from a heart, Whose gentle love-pulse
>beacons like a star To which, unerring, constant as a bird He flies, till in
>the light, he drowns his thirst.
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>Ever drowning, never sated is that thirst For love's sweet flowing light
>that turns the dark Into a vaulted rainbow, where a bird Sings, calm and
>joyful, come at last to harbor, Warm and sweet as kisses of a star That fall
>as soft as sea-foam on the heart.
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>And what long sorrow could defend a heart From the gentle importuning of
>such thirst, By drinking deep, that can renew a star Reclaim it, soul and
>body, from the dark And bring both star and gazer to safe harbor - There to
>nestle softly as a bird
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>That's found her mate. Then happy sings that bird, For having, though two
>bodies, but one heart, Since each in other finds a tranquil harbor And
>endless drink to slake their starless thirst.
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>Till, from the dark, their love returns to dark, Unfearing, in the shadow of
>a star.
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>And so, my star, come to, and be, my harbor With heart enclosed and closing
>from the dark, And drink, sweet bird, to quench my aching thirst.
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>The Lady's Song
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>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
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>My timid, restless soul sings in the dark The while it seeks a sure,
>protecting harbor Where drinking deep at fountains of a star At last it will
>relieve its deepest thirst And close its wings within the sheltering heart
>That guides and guards it homeward like a bird.
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>Traversing pathless night, sure as a bird, Undaunted by the markless,
>changeless dark, My soul holds true and singing toward that heart Whose
>lode-song guides it safe into the harbor, Clear and deep, the end of all our
>thirst, At last to taste the pulse beat of a star.
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>For long my soul has sought that blazing star, Tremulous and certain as a
>bird That follows, swift, the call of love's long thirst Until at last it
>soars above the dark And there, beyond despair or hope, it finds its harbor
>To rest forever safe in one true heart.
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>But what avails the anguish of a heart
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>Before the blazing blindness of a star
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>For such a light can guide it to no harbor But dazzle it, bewilder like a
>bird Who seeking for its mate, lost in the dark, Can find no song to slake
>its soul's long thirst
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>Until, despairing, driven by long thirst, It plunges back upon its bleeding
>heart And groping, listless, aimless in the dark Finds in its hand a living,
>throbbing star And flutters tremulous as if a bird, Long tossed by storms,
>should find a sunlit harbor
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>And riding gentle waves safe in the harbor Should find them sweet to slake
>an unthought thirst With love that, singing, soars up like a bird To welcome
>from long exile home a heart That, following love's instinct, found the star
>That evermore would shield it from the dark.
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>So, safe within my harbor like a bird
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>I'll nestle in the dark of my love-star
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>Whose quenching fans my thirst for your sweet heart.
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>Kerry Elizabeth Thompson is a writer and amateur web designer. She has been
>legally blind and physically disabled since a medical accident in 1970, when
>she was six. Largely home schooled, she briefly attended a secondary school
>for blind girls while living in England in the early '80s. She holds a B.A.
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>in English Literature from the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee,
>Massachusetts and an M.A. in Medieval Literature from the University of
>Connecticut.
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>A longtime member of the National Federation of the Blind Writers Division,
>Miss Thompson has had poetry, fiction and nonfiction published in the
>Division's magazine, Slate and Style, as well as in other small press
>periodicals and anthologies. Her interests include Catholic Theology and
>Hagiography (the lives of the saints), Space Science and songwriting. She
>writes on a Windows XP system using Word 2000 and Window-eyes 7. She lives
>in Springfield, Massachusetts with her family, which includes nine rescued
>cats.
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>Robert Leslie Newman
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>President, Omaha Chapter NFB
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>President, NFB Writers' Division
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>Division Website
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>  <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
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>Chair, Newsletter Publication committee
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>Personal Website-
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>  <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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