by: Shirley Satterfield Let’s Be Somebody Too. 👑 Hi. I’m nobody in particular, But somebody too. How about you? Do you reach for a star? Do you walk very far To help a brother? Do you feed the strays? Are you someone’s loving mother? Then you sit on the corona of the sun. You are…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Smallest Creature of God 🐿 There’s a chorus of insects and birds Singing at me this morning, As a squirrel does a little whirly dance up a tree. Quickly, quickly he moves As the things of nature set me free. Free to rejoice. Free to give voice To the smallest creatures…
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium to communicate with your youngest daughter. And then with the earth shaking declaration by the child that “They are here,” your perceptions of life are…
by: Shirley Satterfield The War of Art I’m fighting the war of art. Pressing through the weary mind, The spent heart, The tired bones. I’m fighting through the war of art. Every morning, everyday is a brand new start. I’m pressing through the war of art. It puts a fire in my bones As lovely…
by: Shirley Satterfield Faded Glory Faded glory of a flower as it dies. Releases her colors to the sky. Fall comes and nips her in the bud. Family holding hands. Family giving hugs. Colors in the sky recreated by the dawn. Soon winter grays will come. Spring will bring the rebirth Of colors on the…
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III Ah, Agatha Christie, Her wildly popular murder mysteries have kept readers gleefully occupied on cold winter nights for decades. They kept me gleefully occupied for hours on end for decades with her eccentric, sometimes comical, fatally flawed characters and her logical, slightly ironic plot…
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type 12 copies of her first book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on a manual typewriter to send to each publisher because she could not…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Human Soul Magnificent! When I see a special needs adult, A homeless person, I get the urge to feed them. To look into their eyes And see them. To make them feel the significance Of a human soul magnificent. The human soul magnificent Is the scent of God’s own breathlessness. Who…
Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and a penchant for writing dark suspenseful fiction that has set him apart. Born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, to a working class family,…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Song of A Soul in Raptured Wonder I’m a Christian Transcendentalist poet. Can rhyme the words because I know it. I can beat it. I can flow it. I’m a Transcendentalist Christian poet. Man is good and nature is fine. No one can take away the shine Of a soul in…
Today’s prevailing wisdom in literary circles is that language is fluid and the rules of grammar can be bent, as long as the skilled author intuitively knows it works. And it was most likely the influence of the innovative poet e e cummings that led to this kind of thinking because he broke the rules…
The Iconic poem ‘The New Colossus” was one sonnet all American children had to read in school, at least those of us in the Baby Boom generation. And the words immortalized on a plaque hanging inside the the base of the Statue of Liberty are as follows: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,…
by: Shirley Satterfield A Personal Response to Shelley (England’s Anarchist Poet) 🤒 No, Percy, we cannot do without the State. But the Fate of the State is always up for debate. So, Vote. Keep our choppy boat afloat, The State is good to keep us in line, To direct the Barque of a Wayward Mankind,…
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England to a well heeled noble family and enjoyed a pleasant rural childhood. And although his father Timothy Shelley was a conservative member of the Whig party in Parliament, Percy himself grew up to be a politically radical writer and poet and a firebrand…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Omnipresent Home There is a sweet smell Residing in the rain, And the sound of music in the rain’s sweet refrain. A lonely bird stretches one wing To catch a droplet from his perch. Sometimes nature provides him With a real good church. Stained windows can’t contain God’s fragrance and His…
Tucked deep in the annals of classic American literature you will find a recorded sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that literally brought the Thirteen Colonies to it’s knees. This iconic sermon touched off a highly emotional and intense spiritual movement called the Great Awakening that is still legendary in America’s…
HIE Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid South Africa is a land rich in history and literature which can boast of up to eleven official languages, including English. And although the Black Africaan people were suppressed and their literature not published during the colonial period, they were still prolific in the oral tradition…
by: Shirley Satterfield Keep Me in a Starry Awe 🌟 The sky is big, and I am small, And the worlds will be here when I am gone, No longer gazing up from my front lawn. But You didn’t live And die for planets, Lord, So keep me safe in one accord With universe and…
by: Shirley Satterfield The Good Shepherd 🐑 The Good Shepherd corrals the sheep. Keeps them safe from ferocious teeth. “Makes them lie beside still waters.” Receives them into His inner quarters. “Good and mercy will follow my life.” Treats me like His precious wife. Will quell the fight, Will still the strife. Will guide by…
Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat No lengthy discussion of poetry in the English speaking world would be complete without recognizing a great poet of present day Barbados, Anthony Kellman. Kellman is a poet and singer/songwriter who was born on the island of Barbados on April 24, 1955. He is an innovative…
Writers are sometimes temperamental creatures, as artists go, and I was sometimes temperamental and a little over confident in my skills, since it takes a fairly strong ego to think that that you can write something that someone else is going to want to read what you have written. It takes a lot of nerve…