Focus on the positive

vfurrmstheblogger

I sit here this Saturday morning looking at this blank screen trying to figure out what to blog this time. There are so many things going on right now that I can’t see the sun for the storms. So I’ll try to focus on the good. I’m a few steps closer to getting this book published. I’m a part of a small community of poets on Twitter that you all may have heard of called @realisticpoetry.com. Yesterday one of the administrators, PreKaya Gilky, featured my poem Love Is on their site http://www.realisticpoetry.com. I was so excited! They asked us to write about what love means to us. I posted the poem on my previous blog “What is Love”.

Every few days the Twitter page and website put a picture up and asks the poets in the community to write a short poem about what they see. They also have poetry contests that you can enter for a small fee. Each contest is on a different subject. The one I entered first was on the subject of the pain of love. The second was on addiction. Below are a few “write a short poem about what you see” poems I posted on @realisticpoetry.com.

I do see the light peeping through the crevasses but the emptiness of the darkness consumes me. I’m lost in my loneliness and destroyed in my despair. Unable to see anything but the rundown halls of my life, walking through darkness till the sunlight appears.

(These photos are the property of @realisticpoetry.com. I do not own any rights to these photos)

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I was born in Tucson, Arizona, the baby of six children. I remember sounding out and spelling big words before the second grade. Words have always fascinated me. I began writing poetry as a child. I have very few accolades but nevertheless, I am proud of my writing and of them. I had one published poem when I was eight years old in the Phoenix Gazette, one published in 2003 in a poetry theology and I won a trophy and Poetry.com's (LuLu's now) 2005 Poet of the year. I have composed 100s of pieces of poetry growing up, most of which were lost. The poetry I am compiling now was written in my adult life. I write as a way to free my mind and attempt to stir emotion and thought in others. Although I am devoting all my time now to writing now, I'm an orthopedic nurse (LPN) by trade, the owner of a small crochet business and I aspire to be a makeup artist. I began this site as a launch to my upcoming books My Poetic Life (memoirs of love) and Fibromyalgia: Behind the Walls of Silence but it has taken on a life of its own. I hope those who come across my page will enjoy reading everything I speak on in my blogs and poetry. My hope is to reach the hearts of readers to inspire, shed light, advise, and spread love. #poetry #mypoeticlifebook #mypoeticlife(the book) #lifeofapoet #provokingthought #poems #bookofpoetry #bookofpoems

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