[stylist] gifted poetsRe: stylist Digest, Vol 85, Issue 4

Wed May 4 20:29:08 UTC 2011

I truly admire those talented souls who can capture such powerful emotions 
within the parameters of a poem. Congratulations, Kerry and Jacqueline.
Amy Krout-Horn
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>   1. another Member has Poetry Published! Celebrate!
>      (Robert Leslie Newman)
>   2. Re: another Member has Poetry Published! Celebrate! (Brad Dunse')
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:42:46 -0500
> From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
> To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [stylist] another Member has Poetry Published! Celebrate!
> Message-ID: <034d01cc09ca$49732b30$dc598190$@cox.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> 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.
>
> ----
>
> Robert,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> make. Slowly I have found the techniques to get out presentable copy.
>
> I am severely auditorily deficient, but the voice on JAWS is totally clear
> to me, and so the creative progress goes on.
>
> I spent over twenty years teaching learning disabled students, and from
> them, I learned perseverance. By teaching one learns.
>
> Learning Braille, though I must use jumbo Braille, it inspired this poem.
>
>
>
> 2. Love Poem
> Jacqueline Williams
>
> 
> 1431
> W. 7th Place
>
>
> Mesa, AZ 85201
>
>
> 480-834-1782
>
>
>
>
>
> My Fingertips Braille You to Me
>
>
>
> My warm and sensing fingertips explore
>
> dots 1,3,4,5,6, the ?y? for you?
>
> trace tenderness awaiting what?s in store when warm and sensing fingertips
> explore.
>
> My fingertips urge you to want me more.
>
> That lovers love with fingertips is true.
>
> My warm and sensing fingertips explore
>
> dots 1,3,4,5,6, the ?y? for you.
>
>
>
> I will not feel badly if you cannot post this. The more communiqu?s I
> receive from you, the more I realize how very busy you must be in behalf 
> of
> all of us.
>
> I thank you very much for the opportunities you provide.
>
> Jacqueline Williams
>
> jackieleepoet at cox.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Robert Leslie Newman [mailto:newmanrl at cox.net]
>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:42 AM
>
> To: writers nfb
>
> Subject: Member has Poems published in Breath and Shadow
>
>
>
> Congratulations to Kerry Thompson! (Chris Kuell is the editor of this
> on-line magazine)
>
>
>
> 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):
>
>
>
> http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/spr11e.html  The Troubadour's Song
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
>
>
>
>
>
>>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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Beyond the close-set bars; till, through the dark, A lighted way falls 
> open
> to a harbor.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Till, from the dark, their love returns to dark, Unfearing, in the shadow 
> of
> a star.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> The Lady's Song
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> But what avails the anguish of a heart
>
> Before the blazing blindness of a star
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> So, safe within my harbor like a bird
>
> I'll nestle in the dark of my love-star
>
> Whose quenching fans my thirst for your sweet heart.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ----
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
>
> President, Omaha Chapter NFB
>
> President, NFB Writers' Division
>
> Division Website
>
> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>
> Chair, Newsletter Publication committee
>
> Personal Website-
>
> <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:35:18 -0500
> From: Brad Dunse' <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] another Member has Poetry Published! Celebrate!
> Message-ID: <130445493278985369 at t14.hostbaby.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
>
> 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.
>>
>>----
>>
>>Robert,
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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
>>
>>make. Slowly I have found the techniques to get out presentable copy.
>>
>>I am severely auditorily deficient, but the voice on JAWS is totally clear
>>to me, and so the creative progress goes on.
>>
>>I spent over twenty years teaching learning disabled students, and from
>>them, I learned perseverance. By teaching one learns.
>>
>>Learning Braille, though I must use jumbo Braille, it inspired this poem.
>>
>>
>>
>>2. Love Poem
>>Jacqueline Williams
>>
>> 
>> 1431
>>W. 7th Place
>>
>>
>>Mesa, AZ 85201
>>
>>
>>480-834-1782
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>My Fingertips Braille You to Me
>>
>>
>>
>>My warm and sensing fingertips explore
>>
>>dots 1,3,4,5,6, the ?y? for you?
>>
>>trace tenderness awaiting what?s in store when warm and sensing fingertips
>>explore.
>>
>>My fingertips urge you to want me more.
>>
>>That lovers love with fingertips is true.
>>
>>My warm and sensing fingertips explore
>>
>>dots 1,3,4,5,6, the ?y? for you.
>>
>>
>>
>>I will not feel badly if you cannot post this. The more communiqu?s I
>>receive from you, the more I realize how very busy you must be in behalf 
>>of
>>all of us.
>>
>>I thank you very much for the opportunities you provide.
>>
>>Jacqueline Williams
>>
>>jackieleepoet at cox.net
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>>From: Robert Leslie Newman [mailto:newmanrl at cox.net]
>>
>>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:42 AM
>>
>>To: writers nfb
>>
>>Subject: Member has Poems published in Breath and Shadow
>>
>>
>>
>>Congratulations to Kerry Thompson! (Chris Kuell is the editor of this
>>on-line magazine)
>>
>>
>>
>>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):
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/spr11e.html  The Troubadour's Song
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>Beyond the close-set bars; till, through the dark, A lighted way falls 
>>open
>>to a harbor.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Till, from the dark, their love returns to dark, Unfearing, in the shadow 
>>of
>>a star.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>The Lady's Song
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>But what avails the anguish of a heart
>>
>>Before the blazing blindness of a star
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>So, safe within my harbor like a bird
>>
>>I'll nestle in the dark of my love-star
>>
>>Whose quenching fans my thirst for your sweet heart.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>----
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Robert Leslie Newman
>>
>>President, Omaha Chapter NFB
>>
>>President, NFB Writers' Division
>>
>>Division Website
>>
>>  <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> 
>> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
>>
>>Chair, Newsletter Publication committee
>>
>>Personal Website-
>>
>>  <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Brad Dunse
>
> If you're fishing with your buddy and he says
> "Can you get me a hook"and you spill your tackle
> box while reaching for your writing bag... You
> might be a songwriter. --Anonymous
>
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