One of my poems was selected for publishing on Poetry for Breakfast as the poem of the day, feeling very proud, especially as it revolves around EMS, one of my passions.
god is in session – by Michael D Emmerich
Enjoy the read 🙂
The Nexus
Poetry & Life – Online Magazine
Greetings to all my gentle readers and avid followers. For those of you who have a love for poetry, poems, creative writing and life, please visit my new on-line magazine I have created on Flipboard; the app can be downloaded on the iStore and Android, or you can follow it on-line by clicking on the link below:
I post links to interesting articles on writing and poetry – for example:
A Few Questions for Poetry – from the New York TimeDec 30, 2016
Also #micopoems from my favourite writers, book reviews and much more …. read, enjoy, add and comment. Poetry is life 🙂
My Top 10 Reads of 2016
I have had the privilege to plough through many books this past year. Here are my 10 favourite reads of 2016. They range from Poetry anthologies, novels, non-fiction and collected essays . They are in no particular order, and many of them are not new publications … it’s just my 10 favourite books that I have read this past year, some left a profound impression, some I will continue reading in 2017 and beyond, whilst others where just a good rollicking read and the last in the list was just for fun 🙂 . The links are to goodreads.
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The Complete Strain Trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, The Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy #1-3) by Guillermo del Toro
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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War by Sebastian Junger
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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew by Max Egremont
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Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh , Stanisław Barańczak
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Resident Alien by Rian Malan
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Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan by Ronald J. Glasser
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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
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A Taste of Tomorrow – The Dystopian Boxed Set (11 Book Collection)
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Outlaw Pete by Bruce Springsteen, Frank Caruso
The most thought provoking books in the list were War and Some Desperate Glory, the most enlightening was A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Painful reads were Resident Alien and Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds. I am still busy reading Map (and will continue with it for some time) so to with TS Elliot’s, Waste Land. There are some companion books that never leave my desk, I keep rereading those, but it would be unfair to add them to the list as they would be on the list every year 🙂
I would love to know what great books you have read this year, please share them, so we can expand our horizons with your reading pleasures. I look forward to sharing many more poems and creative writing articles in 2017 and hoping to have my anthology published in early 2017 … happy reading and writing for 2017. Much love and peace to all of the readers and followers of my journey.
Peace in our Time
peace in our time para bellum the edge of a precipice staring into the abyss what stares back hard times, hard rain grubby hands hold the sticks drummer boys beat the drum tapping out the march marching to a different beat call for peace, prepare for war closer to midnight solitary voice of a person claiming to be human rings out determined to end the war before it starts enough trouble for whose life time statesmen endeavouring manage, contain war others demand violence, war is justified the service of some greater good power, greed, economics you decide war and peace remain two sides of the same coin to some world without conflict remains unthinkable war must be mankind’s enemy generation to generation conscription and destruction blood, bullets, bombs time in pieces peace love compassion understanding values demanding a voice are we ready prepare for war fight for peace that elusive contradictory condition peace in our time make it real!
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
#micropoetry No. 8
Continuing the challenge to keep writing poems of 144 characters or less. Here are three more #micropoems. Poetry for twitter 🙂
1. fly to where just keep flyin’ chase the dark away keep burn brightly my darlin’ 2. what’s the secret to life eternal paranoia that’s how we do it 3. detached versus involved slow down the dehumanising find the balance if not doomed to repeat history
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
A Shooting Star
Dedicated to my gorgeous, patient, beautiful wife
saw your shooting star tonight shattering the black of the night cutting the dark apart flying across your amber palette burning bright for all to see let your light shine my darlin’ flying to where? that’s your mystique just keep flyin’ my darlin’ you shine best on the darkest of nights under the new moon burning brightly chasing my dark away my darlin’ that’s what you do best dragging me to the light that’s you my darlin’
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
An Unfinished Life
what’s worse than death an unfinished life with regrets life a life worth living dying leaving nothing unfinished only life worth living is one to live for dying to live we all yearn for completion yet it slips through our fingers like morning mist all that is certain is this moment the only life worth living is to be fully human creating a better world with intent and actions the elusive yet attainable unfinished life it’s worth it live it!
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
Courage Under Fire
an absence of fear the ability to suppress or maybe there are values of more import grace, valour, hope bear defeat never lose heart remain calm capture courage push on get up again and again consume whatever life throws your way let grace possess you remain calm, rational even under attack courage is grace under fire in spite of consequences you can only be a victim of yourself not others discipline your mind be tenacious, persevere hope always remains
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
Lovers Eyes
snapshots of the soul my eyes are with yours bearing the weight of lover's eyes blessed with the eyes of the beloved doorway to the lover’s heart through the looking glass where love resides my eyes too bright blind, beneath your gaze love is blind even with open eyes can't see beyond my lover shot point blank right between the eyes blinded by love
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
Lies & Truth
if at first you don’t succeed lie, lie and lie again said the politician all lies eventually become truth if truth be told lies become truth if told oft enough all lies eventually trump truth knowledge is more difficult to beat than faith repeat the lie often enough it can be crowned as politics or religion more the fool is the teller even he starts to believe that absurdity can be believed as always twixt and twain lies and damned lies becoming truth
© 2016 Michael D Emmerich
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