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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.-Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and thought has found words--Robert Frost

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance--Carl Sandburg

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry--John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you--Joseph Joubert

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. ~Dylan Thomas

joybragi84
Aug 31, 20223 min read

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: IT'S HERE!


Today is the official publication day of my latest book of poetry. Yay! Please help me celebrate this day by taking a look at my book on one of the online bookstores whose website links I will post below. I hope the links will take you directly to my book. Please let me know if they do not.

Anyhow, people ask me what my book is about. I would suggest reading the back cover of the book to find out precisely, but let me give you a summary.

This book is all poems except for the foreword and the pretty extensive endnotes. The poems in this book are simple, and they are deep. They are plainspoken and satirical. The are conversational and lyrical. They are blunt, and they are musical. They are natural, and they are magical. They are all either about the empty spaces in our hearts and souls that we long to fill or about the lack of connection we feel with a higher power whether through our own designs or the lack of any design. The poems tell us how we fill those empty spaces sometimes with things we do not need in our hearts and souls, and they sometimes suggest how we can reconnect with something greater than us.

I challenge all readers to read every poem and read the endnotes when necessary and then tell me if they found nothing that was entertaining or enjoyable. I would like to know what to write that would be enjoyable and entertaining. I think there is something in this book of poetry for everyone even if you have never enjoyed reading poetry. You might not like all of it, but I think everybody will like some of it. It simply contains too much variety. Maybe, I am wrong. If I am, let me know in my blog.

Folks, I write to be read, and I want to know what you think about what I write. Contact me about the book. I want to sign the copies that you purchase. I may write a little ditty for you in your copy. I want to visit with you and talk about what you thought in person, electronically, or even on the phone. If you get groups together who want to talk, let me know, and I will come visit. We can have readings or question/answer sessions. If distance or scheduling is an issue, maybe we can Zoom or something. I long to hear from you, my readers, my people, my folks. Again, contact me through this blog.

Speaking of wishes and longings, I have a request to ask of you. If you visit Amazon to look at my book at this URL: (click or copy and paste into your browser) https://www.amazon.com/Atheists-and-Empty-Spaces/dp/1649797494/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1661979854&sr=1-1

, please, please, please, follow me as an author on my author's page. The button to follow me is right below the picture of the book. Even if you do not want to buy the book follow me. There, you will always be connected to my blog.

My book is also for sale at the following websites:





Even if you are not the slightest bit interested in buying or looking at my book, I would be tickled to hear a "Happy Publication Day!" from anyone that this reaches either in Facebook or on this blog.


Thank you all so very, very much and ENJOY!



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I find that I cannot exist without Poetry--without eternal poetry--half the day will not do--the whole of it--I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan.-John Keats

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value.-T. S. Eliot

A man may praise and praise, but no one recollects but that which pleases.-George Gordon, Lord Byron

The great beauty of poetry is that it makes everything in every place interesting.-John Keats

Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery.-S. T. Coleridge

The purpose of rhythm, it has always seemed to me, is to prolong the moment of contemplation, the moment when we are both asleep and awake, which is the one moment of creation.-W. B. Yeats

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