This book is my response to those who’ve told me “you need to publish. “ Publishers, as good businessmen, publish what sells. I have no illusions about what I do. However the internet now provides a multiplicity of ways to self-publish without financial risk.
I sign my stuff as ”karen” in order to avoid calling attention to myself since most of my poems were first printed in the church newsletter. When I started to write in 2003 as an outlet for extreme duress, my style was free verse and verbose. As I continued, I tried to produce what “I heard” in my mind: just key words really. My conceptualization of my work is a glass ball that can be held in one’s hand and turned to and fro for examination: clear, smooth, and perfect. I don’t often achieve that. Most of the poems in this book are far more wordy. That is because they are about things I knew as a child and have the sing songy rhyming quality of the poetry I loved as a little girl. According to research I..
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karen Joined: May-24-2015 |
I am a 54 year old married woman, the mother of three sons and the delighted mother-in-law of a daughter-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law to be. I have been a registered nurse for 33 years and think, breathe, and sleep nursing. I started writing in 2003 as an outlet for extreme stress. I "hear" what I write. When I am too busy, I cannot "hear" and cannot "write". I have great joy in my work and hope it has brought joy to others.
