WORDGLOW
"Scream, bleed, sizzle your words onto a page & snip out the parts people skip. Hone it down to REAL." -Jo VonBargen
This book is a variety of prose and poems taken from a large body of work done over thirty years time. Several themes run through these writings about human spirit, not the least of which is love, albeit failed love. The importance of these writings is to illuminate the power of love, even when it is love spent without return or love bestowed beyond all prudence. That power manifests as strength, resilience, wisdom and a strong determination to overcome. As such, unconditional love is its own reward in a world where, sadly, millions of women are subjected to being used and abused because their naïveté and kindness is mistaken for weakness...or perhaps because cultural, religious or familial ties require that they endure it. Some of these poems and essays exist to shine a hard light on these unfortunate and dreadful circumstances, if only to light a candle in the shadowy places where truth often hides. The hope is that there is enough beauty, contemplation and #inyourface rant scattered throughout so that the reader's experience isn't rife with gloom, depression and scattered entrails!
"The first time
I saw your poetry it struck me as the work I had sought in a barren
desert. It is spontaneous and impure like oil from the ground and flares
from the Sun. I recognise your spiritual search here and your finding
of that echo without walls. I cannot capture in words the transcendence
of your work..." "Cold cautious beads ....how delicious. You are poet.
Time and moons will orbit and you will have been the poet, launching
fixed moments into untouchable infinity. This is beautiful." --Oscar Sparrow, British poet
"The
reason I didn't write this is because in a thousand days or a thousand
years I would have never been able to write it more beautifully or leave
such an impression. It proves that great stories are written by the
soul of a poet." --Caleb Pirtle US author
"Scream, bleed, sizzle your words onto a page & snip out the parts people skip. Hone it down to REAL." -Jo VonBargen
This book is a variety of prose and poems taken from a large body of work done over thirty years time. Several themes run through these writings about human spirit, not the least of which is love, albeit failed love. The importance of these writings is to illuminate the power of love, even when it is love spent without return or love bestowed beyond all prudence. That power manifests as strength, resilience, wisdom and a strong determination to overcome. As such, unconditional love is its own reward in a world where, sadly, millions of women are subjected to being used and abused because their naïveté and kindness is mistaken for weakness...or perhaps because cultural, religious or familial ties require that they endure it. Some of these poems and essays exist to shine a hard light on these unfortunate and dreadful circumstances, if only to light a candle in the shadowy places where truth often hides. The hope is that there is enough beauty, contemplation and #inyourface rant scattered throughout so that the reader's experience isn't rife with gloom, depression and scattered entrails!
"The first time
I saw your poetry it struck me as the work I had sought in a barren
desert. It is spontaneous and impure like oil from the ground and flares
from the Sun. I recognise your spiritual search here and your finding
of that echo without walls. I cannot capture in words the transcendence
of your work..." "Cold cautious beads ....how delicious. You are poet.
Time and moons will orbit and you will have been the poet, launching
fixed moments into untouchable infinity. This is beautiful." --Oscar Sparrow, British poet
"The
reason I didn't write this is because in a thousand days or a thousand
years I would have never been able to write it more beautifully or leave
such an impression. It proves that great stories are written by the
soul of a poet." --Caleb Pirtle US author
