by: Shirley Satterfield The Black Sand Beach 🏝 🔥 I was at a black sand beach, At the very shoreline Where liquid fire lapped my feet. But God rescued me. He rescued me. The amber sea gaped open To swallow my limbs and torso, For the bowels of...

by: Shirley Satterfield Low Self Esteem🫂 (It’s Mental Health Awarenss Month) What is low self esteem but the flip side of pride? What is pride but the flip side of low self esteem? This means a shattered ego in a family full of rods; It’s...

by: Shirley Satterfield Social Anxiety Oh my, I feel like a grasshopper in a field full of praying-mantis, Statuesque, tall insects towering over me in their eerie magnificence. I feel thusly insignificant always and Today. Why oh why did they lead me so astray?

It always helps an author in his or her quest to market books to earn credentials and win accolades since reputation and creditability for a writer is important And the Pulitzer :Prize for American writers is about top of...

by: Shirley Satterfield Poetry’s Key 🔑 The Lord has marked me for life, somehow, For first He baptized me Into the wrath of man, And then into His amazing love, And then He sent a wolf, And then He sent a dove. He filled me full...

Rudyard Kipling: The Empire's Anglo-Indian Writer Indian born, British citizen Rudyard Kipling was an imperialist leaning writer which makes him controversial in our own post colonial times, but he was a wildly popular writer in his own time, For he...

by: Shirley Satterfield Glow Trees 🌳 Glow trees standing tall in all their green glory Have such a compelling his and her story. Standing stoically against the setting sun, They will be black soon, A silhouette against a rising moon. But whatever color they turn Their...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Porcelain Painted sky Behold the porcelain painted sky. I’m not to shy to cry for the porcelain painted sky. Tears of joy flowing down For the earth’s painted porcelain crown. Just behold for awhile, and stick around, For the porcelain painted sky, It’s...

There are two main factors in the making of a good book; plot (which has already been dealt with in this column) and characterization. Characterization can be defined as the development of a character's personality traits, their motives, their...

by: Shirley Satterfield My Day by Day Future 🙏 You are my only hope, Oh Lord, for my day by day future. Help me to walk in my integrity. And help me to come into the fullness of the born-again experience. Life is short, and...

by: Shirley Satterfield I stand helpless In the shadow of my shadow self, Oh, Lord. Save me to the quick of me, And make me resilient in the storm Like a hardy dandelion, Its lion-head peeking gingerly through the ground Not afraid of Satan’s voice, That sky-thundering scary...

We are in the season of Easter when we turn our minds to the rebirth of Spring and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And both of these compelling themes can be found commonly is Western literature...

by: Shirley Satterfield Overflow 💦 I am a receptical of reception. Pour out your blessing on me, Oh Lord, For like Father Jacob, I will not let You go until you hear me. And give me a magnanimous ministry of souls. Make the overflow of Your...

by: Shirley Satterfield Beyond Afar 💫 ✨ God is God And He stretches beyond An expanding universe. And I am made In His unlimited, limitless image. He is the God Of the everlasting Sundance, The God of all abundance. You can’t put Him in no box. He towers above...

We all love our stories; don't we? But each story, whether it be in a novel, an epic poem, a play or a film, has one thing in common and that is a plot. Webster defines a plot in...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Chevron of Freedom 🌟 🕊 🕊 🕊 (A Dream) An image grand formed in my mind’s eye. A flock of snow white birds Was flying in the sky. Each one was the other’s equal. Each one was the same size. They formed...