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Armando Lara, Heba Shaher, Herbert Appleman, Anita Dwyer, Jerry Gidner, Joseph Anway, Kristin Faigh, Salaheldin Elmekki,<br />

Tekkan, Sandra Haynes, Richard Vernon, Mary Angeline Bell, Marilyn Wassmann, Karen J. Chisholm, Cheryl Batavia


Editor’s Note<br />

I know, I know. The fashion these days is to admit the<br />

smallness, the helplessness of humanity in the grand<br />

scheme of things. We are tiny petty, shortsighted beings<br />

that are hell-bent on self-destruction, and the cockroaches<br />

will outlive us all.<br />

Yes, I get it.<br />

But just for a second let us also remember the<br />

greatness our kind is capable of. Our capacity<br />

for kindness, our ability to imagine, and our<br />

capability of thinking and pondering on<br />

our existence.<br />

Best of all is how we are able to<br />

translate all of those musings into<br />

beautiful writing, condensing the<br />

enormity of human experience<br />

into poignant reflections in<br />

beautifully structured poems.<br />

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1ST ISSUE<br />

MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

Powerful, evocative words strung together, stirring a myriad of<br />

emotions, all wonderfully created by us humans, to be told and<br />

retold for so long as we are able to communicate. So maybe it’s<br />

not only cockroaches that will outlive us.<br />

We celebrate the ingenuity of human imagination in this little writing<br />

contest of ours, and here we are reminded and humbled by the<br />

sheer talent that our publishing house is able to foster.<br />

Read on, fellow human, and share in the joy, despair, and epiphanies<br />

that our poets detailed in their works.<br />

Publisher<br />

Bookside Press LLC<br />

Production Manager<br />

Dylan Moore<br />

Editor-in-Chief<br />

Sammi Hart<br />

Copy Editor<br />

Joe Divinegrace<br />

Layout Designer<br />

Nadine Geonson<br />

Managing Editor<br />

Jonathan Lim<br />

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Norma Ray<br />

by Armando Lara<br />

Grandpa<br />

by Jerry Gidner<br />

Where I’m From<br />

by Kristin Faigh<br />

Where I’m From<br />

by Zaki Al Ali<br />

The Maple Staple<br />

ONT<br />

6<br />

Promote What You Wrote<br />

14<br />

Out Of Home Advertising<br />

Take marketing to the next level<br />

with OOH!<br />

8<br />

Airplanes and Histories<br />

by Norman Currey<br />

21<br />

Literary Contest Finalists<br />

12 30<br />

Freedom’s Journey<br />

by Dennis A. McIntyre<br />

Contest Winner<br />

I Am A Trophy Hunt In The<br />

Sahara by Jill Neibuhr


It Suddenly Rained<br />

by Salaheldin E. Elmekki<br />

Questions<br />

by Anita Dwyer<br />

by Tekkan<br />

Lovely Hour<br />

by Herbert Appleman<br />

CONTEST FINALISTS<br />

ENTS<br />

32 44<br />

Honorable Mentions<br />

Sandra A. Haynes<br />

Karen J. Chisholm<br />

Mary Angeline Bell<br />

Cheryl Batavia<br />

Richard “Ritchie” Vernon<br />

Marilyn Wassmann<br />

48<br />

Escaping Our Fallen Nature<br />

by David Piper<br />

List of Published Books


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MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

GOD'S<br />

End-Time<br />

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LETTING SCRIPTURE SPEAK FOR ITSELF<br />

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William Edmondson, a native of Monroe, Michigan, accepted Christ as his Savior in the<br />

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in Grand Haven, Michigan. They have three children who are all followers of Jesus Christ.<br />

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AIRPLANE STORIES<br />

AND<br />

HISTORIES<br />

NORMAN CURREY<br />

A collection of tales that takes<br />

you through the sky, stories<br />

from history as man began to<br />

take flight.<br />

Paperback | $9.99<br />

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MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

AIRPLANE STORIES AND HISTORIES chronicles two hundred<br />

years of aviation highlights including the exploits of pioneers such<br />

as Sir George Cayley, the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post,<br />

Amelia Earheart, R. J. Mitchell, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Allan Loughead,<br />

Frank Whittle, and Kelly Johnson. Notable events and developments are<br />

discussed, first Atlantic flights, World War airplanes, jet engine development<br />

and post-war dedesigns. It concludes with a discussion of new designs...<br />

NORMAN CURREY was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1926. He<br />

graduated as an aeronautical engineer in 1948 and was a stress engineer<br />

on the de Havilland Comet. He went to Canada and helped design the<br />

Jetliner and Arrow. He spent 30 years at Lockheed, working in the<br />

C-130 JetStar, C-5 and special projects. He is a Chartered Engineer<br />

and a Fellow of the Roya Aeronautical Society, and has lectured in<br />

the U.S. and abroad. He is also the author of Aircraft Landing Gear<br />

Design: Principles and Practices, AIAA1988.<br />

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MENTCHU-HOTEP<br />

AND THE<br />

SPIRIT OF THE<br />

MEDJAY<br />

MFUNDISHI JHUTYMS HASSAN SALIM<br />

This book is based upon real characters of the eleventh<br />

dynasty and specifically on a real ruler, Menchu-hotep,<br />

the founding and unifying king of ancient Kemet’s<br />

(Egypt) Eleventh Dynasty and Classical Age who ruled<br />

for fifty-four years. Because he is an obvious black<br />

African from the south, very little is written about him<br />

even when he is a giant in ancient history. As an African<br />

cultural custodian, I come to shine light here there is<br />

darkness. Amen-Ra.<br />

Paperback | $16.99 Hardback | $22.99<br />

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Mfundishi Jhutyms Ka n Heru Hassan Kamau Salim is a holistic Kultural custodian of traditional Afrikan<br />

Kulture and ancient Kemet. Mfundishi (pronounced M-foon-dee-shee) is an author, poet, playwright,<br />

Story-Teller, Professor of Afrikan Studies, Kemetologists, Kemet High Priest, Spiritual Guide, lecturer,<br />

motivational speaker and Grand master in the Mentchu Afrikan combat system of Kupigana Ngumi. He is a<br />

teacher and professor of Afrikan studies who specializes in the Nile Valley Kulture of North east Afrika and<br />

the Mdw Ntchr (Hieroglyphics), and has taught nationally in the United States of America, the Caribbean's,<br />

Europe and Africa, lecturing in over 150 Colleges and Universities.<br />

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The global financial Crisis of 2008 demonstrated the comprehensive failure of Economics and of the<br />

theory of economic management which has dominated Economics for more than 50 years. Their<br />

disastrous track-record shows that macroeconomists are no better<br />

than shamans - witchdoctors. This book explains the reasons for<br />

this failure.<br />

The book describes the fallacies in the dominant theory and<br />

identifies the guilty parties, whose uncritical belief in the theory<br />

led to the Crisis, and the few ‘wise virgins’ who foresaw it.<br />

The book questions the mistaken belief that Economics is a true<br />

science, comparing the negligible progress in Economics over many<br />

decades with the extraordinary advances in genuine scientific fields<br />

such as engineering, medicine, physics. The inherent indeterminacy<br />

of economic behavior means that, rather than scientists or engineers,<br />

economists should more accurately be regarded as novelists.<br />

Happily, there are now signs in the work of a few macroeconomists<br />

that the subject is returning to the socially-useful roots it should<br />

never have left.<br />

SHAMANOMICS<br />

A Short Guide to the Failure, Fallacies and Future<br />

of Macroeconomics<br />

Giles Conway-Gordon<br />

MACROECONOMISTS HAVE FAILED US<br />

Visit www.shamanomics.info for more details.<br />

“Economics was part of my Oxford degree. Even then I saw a serious conflict<br />

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investment management reinforced my disbelief in the validity and social value<br />

of macroeconomists.”<br />

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Giles Conway-Gordon, Author of Shamanomics<br />

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Freedom's<br />

Journey<br />

Dennis A. McIntyre<br />

A journey to light<br />

amidst the darkness. A<br />

story of vice to virtue.<br />

Paperback | $8.99<br />

Ebook | $2.99<br />

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MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

Freedom's Journey is Jake Wilson's continued<br />

saga. In Shackled Yet Free, Jake sought<br />

to replace the loss of a father with many<br />

things, including alcohol, drugs, and<br />

women. While in prison, he met a<br />

man who turned his life around.<br />

After his release, he had his share of<br />

setbacks, but he stayed true to this<br />

man's teaching and became the man,<br />

God wanted him to be. Jake is about<br />

to find more answers to more things<br />

that plagued him from the past. God<br />

would lead him on a journey that would<br />

stir an emotional cauldron.<br />

Dennis A. McIntyre is a native of Rochester, NY, and served as an electrical<br />

engineer and a technical writer for over 40 years before retiring. Since<br />

retirement, Dennis has focused his efforts on his personal writing,<br />

publishing his first book, an autobiographical work entitled Legacy of<br />

Love, in 2008. He published Shackled Yet Free in 2011 and Coffee Shop<br />

Ministries in 2021. Dennis currently resides in Dacula, GA. He enjoys using<br />

his gifts of encouraging and writing for the glory of God’s kingdom. His<br />

main goal for writing involves drawing people into closer relationships<br />

with the Lord and one another.<br />

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1ST ISSUE<br />

Poems of the Ignited Heart is a series of 54 sonnets that powerfully relate<br />

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Poems of the Ignited Heart &<br />

Illumination of the One<br />

Sonnets for Seekers Everywhere / from<br />

Trinity to Unity<br />

Consciousness to mental health. They each convey a powerful image given to the<br />

author at a deep core level that painted themselves upon the page in precise words.<br />

Taken together they present a dynamic portrait of the evolution of individuals and<br />

humanity. Illumination of the One, is a vital sequel to his first book, A Science of<br />

Consciousness, which focuses on Oneness as a living reality. This book includes a<br />

series of 6 visualization exercises, meant to be used in conjunction with the text,<br />

to promote an experience for the reader of this sacred insight.<br />

Hardback | $30.95 Paperback | $12.99<br />

Ebook | $3.99<br />

A Science of<br />

C onsciousness<br />

Pneumatology for a New Millennium<br />

What is Consciousness? What is the Holy Spirit? What if the ancient word<br />

St. Paul used for “spirit,” pneuma, were to be interpreted as equivalent to<br />

“consciousness” as we are striving to understand it today? What would be the<br />

effects and implications of this upon understanding of the self, the world, and<br />

the greater creation?<br />

A Science of Consciousness begins with the author asking the reader to accept<br />

as true for a moment a few basic, though perhaps un-thought-of premises. On<br />

that basis, the reader is invited to go on an imaginary journey into a world of<br />

new implications, possibilities, and powers coming from human creativity.<br />

Hardback | $37.95 Paperback | $19.99<br />

Ebook | $3.99<br />

Shiva C.A.D. Shankaran has been a dedicated practitioner and teacher of yoga and<br />

meditation for over 45 years. He completed his Master of Arts degree in Religious<br />

Education/Pastoral Counseling at Fordham University in 1984. Prior to that a BA in<br />

English Literature with an extensive background in Western and Vedic philosophy<br />

from various schools. He has worked in mental health in clinical settings and in spiritual<br />

counseling as a private practice for many years. He currently resides in Vermont.


MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

I FELL IN LOVE WITH<br />

EAST HARLEM<br />

OFIR SANCHEZ<br />

After reading I Fell in Love with East Harlem, readers<br />

should learn that for nearly 12,000 years before any<br />

European arrived in North America, the Manhattan<br />

tribe and Lenape tribe lived in the area that is New<br />

York City.<br />

Initially, the community was inhabited by poor<br />

German, Italian, and Eastern European Jewish<br />

immigrants. In the late 1800s, the neighborhood<br />

became known as Italian Harlem and became the<br />

first section of Manhattan to be called Little Italy. The<br />

Italian population remained strong until the 1980s.<br />

Today, however, the neighborhood is now called East<br />

Harlem and is predominantly Latino.<br />

Paperback | $15.00 Ebook | $2.99<br />

Ofir Sanchez was born and raised in Argelia Valle, Colombia. Her family’s<br />

decision to migrate to Miami was an eye opener for her. She gained a new<br />

perspective of the culture of her country in which gender and class roles are<br />

more pronounced. She decided to move from Miami to New York City, and<br />

she has been a New Yorker ever since.<br />

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1ST ISSUE<br />

Bonita<br />

Carl R. Brush<br />

Meet Bonita. Often reckless, often victimized,<br />

a deeply spiritual person who transforms<br />

herself from a rebellious adolescent into a prominent<br />

entrepreneur. When we meet her as a twelve-year-old<br />

in 1843, her future looks idyllic—a privileged life on<br />

a hacienda overlooking San Francisco Bay. But her<br />

penchant for eavesdropping and her feisty willfulness<br />

wreck everything. She learns that she’s not who she’s<br />

been told she was, and she strikes out on her own to<br />

discover the truth. Along the way, she becomes immersed<br />

in the swirl of historic events that surrounds her—the<br />

Mexican-American war, the gold rush, California drive<br />

for statehood. An intense romance both complicates<br />

and enhances quest. Her search and its discoveries<br />

create fresh challenges, challenges she meets with the<br />

originality and boldness that by that point we’ve come<br />

to expect of this extraordinary woman named Bonita.<br />

From writer Dan Barth, author of, among other fine works, The Day After Hank Williams’<br />

Birthday: Prose Pieces & Poems, This historical novel, set in Northern California in the 1840s, opens<br />

with the 12-year-old title character intent on learning how to rope a grizzly. The result is not at all<br />

what she expects. The thing she lassos turns out to be more like a whirlwind. From Sausalito to Yerba<br />

Buena, up and down the San Francisco Bay, north to Sonoma and south to Monterey, she gamely<br />

hangs on to her end of the rope. Like Bonita, readers of this Carl Brush novel are in for a wild ride.<br />

Paperback | $16.99<br />

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MAPLESTAPLE MAGAZINE<br />

Bonita’s Quest<br />

SEQUEL TO BONITA (1)<br />

Carl R. Brush<br />

It is 1855 in San Francisco when Bonita’s Quest<br />

begins. From page one we find ourselves in<br />

the midst of Bonita Kelly’s fight to clear her<br />

parents’ names and claim her rightful place at<br />

her daughter’s side. The fight carries her from<br />

San Francisco to New Orleans and back again. An<br />

intriguing love triangle adds a delicious spiciness<br />

to the whole affair. You will find yourself in the<br />

company of an extraordinary woman and will<br />

have an exciting time getting to know her as you<br />

sail the tempestuous seas of this romantic and<br />

suspenseful tale.<br />

Paperback | $14.99 Ebook | $7.99<br />

Carl Brush has been writing since he could write, which is quite a long time now. He<br />

is the author of six historical novels, five of which are set in Northern California, plus<br />

one (The Yellow Rose) which takes place in the Texas Revolution of 1836. Carl lives<br />

with his wife in Oakland, California, where he enjoys the blessings of nearby children<br />

and grandchildren.<br />

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1ST ISSUE<br />

LAST APRIL, we announced our first ever<br />

Maple Staple <strong>Magazine</strong> Literary contest and<br />

we gathered entries from across the globe.<br />

We set guidelines and made sure that each<br />

entry followed it.<br />

The submissions we received were all<br />

amazing but there were a few that rose above<br />

and beyond the others.<br />

As they say, many were called but a few<br />

are chosen.<br />

Here are our finalists:<br />

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Norma Rae<br />

Armando Lara<br />

“Get with it you Bitch”<br />

With poor Norma Rae grimacing<br />

As the long gun’s front sight<br />

Dug deep into her ribs<br />

She somewhat understood<br />

She was making her own bed<br />

But never not one of this type<br />

That would be her final resting place<br />

Prodded from behind with a rifle’s barrel<br />

Norma Rae slowly dug her grave<br />

The moon her only light<br />

As she slowly moved the dirt<br />

“Norma Rae you, Cunt<br />

Hurry up God dam it<br />

You fucked with us all along<br />

Now you’re going to pay the<br />

price, you dirty old whore”<br />

She was all of 47<br />

And he was right<br />

Her life just a “bitch”<br />

Never ever worth a plug nickel<br />

A living hell<br />

From the very beginning up to now<br />

Raised in a shit hole trailer<br />

Not far from Highway 44<br />

Her daddy a fall-down drunk<br />

Beat her mom at least once a day<br />

Not for any real reason<br />

Just because hated himself<br />

Only went to school til 7 years old<br />

Cause daddy farmed her out to<br />

others to do their chores<br />

Never allowed to keep a cent<br />

He kept it all for his smelly beer<br />

No one in the local school<br />

Never cared if she attended to learn<br />

Her daddy Garfield<br />

convinced the teachers<br />

Norma Rae just plain too stupid<br />

to remember a word<br />

The barrel poked her in the head<br />

Cutting a gash above her ear<br />

Hurt as hell<br />

Now awaiting a bullet to relieve the pain<br />

She welcomed the end<br />

Knowing life’s nightmare would<br />

finally come to an end<br />

She thought about how she got here<br />

The plan for her and those two killers<br />

to the fleece the old man for all he had<br />

But those two guys, Horace and Shortie<br />

Wanted every last cent the ol’ man had<br />

Didn’t want to share any with her<br />

Just like her old man Garfield did to her<br />

So little by little squirreling<br />

away her just share<br />

Didn’t think these two would<br />

find where she had her stash<br />

But she was too careless<br />

They discovered the hiding place<br />

Off to the Zuni Indian reservation<br />

Where it was to come to her end<br />

No one would find her there<br />

In that desolate place<br />

“Deep enough Norma Rae<br />

Lay down in that hole<br />

Say your prayers if you want<br />

Won’t make any difference anyhow”<br />

She lays down for one last time<br />

But sees a shooting star for<br />

the first time ever<br />

Muses if it’s a sign of better things to come<br />

And maybe an end this shithole ride<br />

The 30-30 rifle shot scatters the cows<br />

But the noise isn’t heard by anyone else<br />

Norma Rae finally ends her terrible life<br />

Horace and Shortie wonder at the<br />

broad curious smile on her face<br />

This true story goes on for much longer<br />

But to be saved for another writing<br />

At least poor Norma Rae<br />

Had a final respite from<br />

all she had suffered<br />

Written by Armando Lara, December 3, 2018, based on real life events in the fall of 1980 when<br />

I as an FBI agent investigated her murder on the New Mexico Zuni Indian reservation<br />

Some would say a career in the FBI and private investigation rough and grim. They<br />

wouldn’t be wrong. But instead of numbing him to violence, Armando Lara’s<br />

more than five decades in the field, covering cases like aircraft hijackings and<br />

kidnappings, gives us a unique insight into crime investigation. “Norma Rae”<br />

poignantly humanizes one of those cases instead of leaving the victim as yet<br />

another nameless statistic.<br />

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Alzheimer<br />

Zaki Al Ali<br />

When my grandfather<br />

suffered Alzheimer’s<br />

He used to call us all<br />

by the name of a woman<br />

That we don’t know who she is<br />

It wasn’t you, grandmother<br />

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The poet Zakariya Abdul-Ali Muhail, better known as Zaki Al-Ali, was born in the<br />

southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah in the region of Al-Sedinawiya. He completed his<br />

elementary and secondary education there before earning his degree from the<br />

Persian Department of the Military Institute of Languages.<br />

He has always loved poetry books since his southern upbringing led him to<br />

portray its culture, history, and momentous occurrences. He also likes swimming<br />

and fishing.<br />

His grandpa, who had Alzheimer’s illness before passing away, served as the<br />

inspiration for the poem.


Grandpa Lewis<br />

Jerry Gidner<br />

His pipe smelled like pine woods,<br />

and lumber camps,<br />

and horse teams that fell through the ice.<br />

The bowl, worn and warm,<br />

was comfort and mystery,<br />

created by and cradled in<br />

calloused palms.<br />

The smoke it birthed was a wisp of fog,<br />

the damp smell of yesterday,<br />

that clung to a carpet of moss.<br />

His beard was as sharp as<br />

the pine needles<br />

littering the backyard.<br />

He shaved with a cup<br />

and a brush<br />

and a scrape<br />

over the back-room sink.<br />

Blue walls the only color.<br />

His fringe of white hair<br />

was the scratch of low-slung bushes<br />

where we picked huckleberries<br />

one eye alert for bees,<br />

the other for bears.<br />

The lazy sun of a northern sky<br />

taunting us through the pines.<br />

His eyes were the still of winter.<br />

Frozen lakes.<br />

Gellid, unfathomable.<br />

A flash of fish in the shadows<br />

revealing possibilities of<br />

ancient mysteries,<br />

but little else.<br />

His voice was an echo.<br />

A jangle of history,<br />

A tangle of centuries,<br />

A mangle of cultures.<br />

Memories of worlds long gone,<br />

remembered in vague bits and colored shards.<br />

His spirit was his rocking chair,<br />

green seat and arched wood and rhythmic creaks.<br />

It’s sighs measure the time needed<br />

for a universe to unwind<br />

for a lifetime to unfold<br />

for a heart to beat.<br />

A world away, it sings me to sleep<br />

Jerry Gidner, of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa<br />

Indians, never truly knew his maternal grandfather, who<br />

was already old when Jerry was just a boy. His poem,<br />

“Grandpa,” paints a portrait not only of his enigmatic<br />

forebear but also of America in bygone days, shaped by<br />

the hands of hardworking laborers.<br />

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Where I’m From<br />

Kristin A. Faigh<br />

I come from green lake water<br />

and blue skies inviting me<br />

to explore their depths in many ways.<br />

I come from a great body of fresh<br />

water and pounding waves<br />

bidding me to climb dunes of great<br />

height to witness their beauty,<br />

or to bodysurf in rolling thunder.<br />

I am from hope and fantasy of "if<br />

only, then all will be well,"<br />

and it is, for I exist.<br />

I am from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese<br />

(now with garlic, rosemary, and salt),<br />

and a blue birdhouse shot into<br />

by my mother, to kill a rat.<br />

I am from ANANSI TELLS A TALE<br />

and BEHIND THE BACK<br />

OF THE MOUNTAIN, where<br />

"For little Kristin Aardema,<br />

who tells stories to me..."<br />

are extant worldwide.<br />

I am from powHerful women<br />

giving birth in watercolor,<br />

long legs dancing into literary<br />

history, songs of praise and joy<br />

bursting forth in passionate reams of life.<br />

I am from medicine practiced<br />

in great hope of relief<br />

from sadness, angst, desire,<br />

longing, and coping.<br />

I come by miles swum past limits set<br />

by borders of fear and control.<br />

West Michigan's conservatism pulls<br />

at my driven search for truth,<br />

trying to slow me down in<br />

midst of breaking free--<br />

and it all seems a matter of<br />

my breaking free.<br />

I come by a deep hole dug through<br />

rebellion against well-meant guidance,<br />

to launch in flight to great<br />

suffering, pulling my Self back<br />

to starting point by waiting red<br />

thread, even when I didn't know<br />

that's what it was.<br />

I come from writing and typing<br />

furiously to explore life's dynamics.<br />

I am poetic expression through life, itself.<br />

I come from restless desire to<br />

know and experience,<br />

yet to avoid suffering, sometimes<br />

to my soul's detriment.<br />

I come from heart's longing to Be,<br />

to help others Be, to Be filled<br />

with Creation's Joy of Belonging!<br />

I am from this place of Joy,<br />

moving within and through<br />

musty old thought forms trying<br />

desperately to dictate<br />

the way I live my life, to hold<br />

me back, away from Joy, yet<br />

I also come from a place where<br />

these musty-old-thought-forms<br />

are falling away little by little as I<br />

Become more conscious of them.<br />

I come from Source, who is Love,<br />

leaping away from the clutches<br />

of patriarchy to discover and Be<br />

the powHerful woman I am.<br />

I breathe through acrylics, hold my<br />

breath through watercolors,<br />

bless my Self through anointing of<br />

canvasses on which I Self-express<br />

the layers and layers of life<br />

lived and living, to live.<br />

I am the one searching through<br />

trap doors of comfort,<br />

even when any comfort seems hard<br />

won, and peeking over thresholds<br />

because entry may bring suffering<br />

before it brings safety. Yes, true.<br />

I come from safety’s desire to avoid<br />

rejection, and personality’s habit<br />

to cogitate before deciding whether<br />

said rejection was called for or not.<br />

I come from Christ, universal Light<br />

and Joy whom I am living into.<br />

I am of Jesus whose teachings in<br />

Scripture have never changed<br />

yet have and are changing me.<br />

I am a woman of “the Cloth” whether<br />

it is clothing, a blanket for warmth,<br />

or a blanket of care.<br />

I come by trial and error at first in<br />

marriage and raising precious sons,<br />

and now blanketed by Love in marriage<br />

and the raising of incredible twin sons.<br />

I am Grand and have grands who fill<br />

my heart with joy in our connection,<br />

and sadness at our geographic distance.<br />

I am a new creation, daily being recreated<br />

as tabula rasa of Love’s image and weight.<br />

I am a risk taker and a red rose blooming<br />

in honor of the sacred feminine.<br />

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Who are we and where do we come from? Many have pondered this question,<br />

but few have come to a conclusion as humorous, insightful, and uplifting as<br />

Rev. Kristin A. Faigh in her poem, “Where I’m From.” Mixing the quotidian<br />

with the existential, this poem conveys the unique stylings of this pastor/<br />

poet from Missourian.


IT SUDDENLY RAINED<br />

Salaheldin E. Elmekki<br />

Dense Clouds covered city's horizon<br />

While its shower battered the crust of earth<br />

Then heavy rain engulfed the whole place<br />

Birds flew away taking shelter in their nests<br />

Passers-by rushed seeking refuge in nearby retreats<br />

And the vendors gathered things to move away<br />

Carrying along their heavy weights<br />

And the neighbourhood trees<br />

Enduring the long waiting and the long suffering<br />

felt happy and enjoyed the fall of rain<br />

and stretched branches & leaves<br />

hoping to get a fresh sweet sip that may<br />

quench thirst and instil with life their dying veins.<br />

City and its outskirts witnessed an euphoria as<br />

A condition of vigour and vitality prevailed<br />

So I said, "Congratulations, the elixir of life<br />

Has touched the crust of earth<br />

And in the wake of the rain and the<br />

good prospects that emerged,<br />

I harboured thoughts and hopes<br />

That the rain may eventually wash away the<br />

entire dirt that tarnish the face of earth,<br />

clean human hearts from their deep stains<br />

And cure all the ills of the human soul<br />

The fall of rain and the sudden change it brings to the landscape is prime inspiration<br />

for any poem. In the hands of Salaheldin Elmekki, it is an especially introspective<br />

moment. His bilingual background lends “It Suddenly Rained” a particularly musical<br />

element; the poem, written in English, carries the distinct lyricism of his native Arabic.<br />

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Away To See<br />

The Stars<br />

Joseph Anway<br />

Away! Away! Ere the break of day,<br />

I must away, I cannot stay,<br />

To go and see, past canopy,<br />

A world beyond mantle gray,<br />

The cloak that drapes over all,<br />

And past the earth and its pall,<br />

To seek stars<br />

beyond the sky,<br />

To cross seas heavenward high,<br />

To journey across the waste,<br />

Away! Away! I must haste!<br />

To seek light amidst the night,<br />

To find stars, such gifts to sight,<br />

Jewels high, beyond man’s might,<br />

Shining light to grace my eyes,<br />

Crowning gems beyond the skies,<br />

Look! See! To the stars I go!<br />

Rock, tree, leave the earth below!<br />

To seek rocks the size of earth,<br />

To add joy and also mirth,<br />

And tree beyond all trees of wood,<br />

That tree that since<br />

all time has stood,<br />

Great Yggdrasil, with<br />

stars as leaves,<br />

Away! Away! I must leave!<br />

To seek rock and<br />

tree, to see! To see!<br />

To go and see, past canopy.<br />

Universe beyond the gray,<br />

Away! Away! Still away!<br />

Come! Let‘s see what lies,<br />

Beyond earth, beyond skies.<br />

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Questions?<br />

Anita Dwyer<br />

Don’t you wonder why your reflection doesn’t stay<br />

In the mirror after you walk away?<br />

That children who go out, always come back<br />

After play?<br />

That a laugh, a melodious sound, doesn’t continue<br />

Around and around?<br />

That leaden grey clouds in the sky don’t fall down?<br />

That the weight we lose when it falls off, can’t be<br />

Found?<br />

Your shadow follows you all around yet when the sun<br />

goes down, you can’t find it on the ground?<br />

While a small bird under a pound can take wing<br />

And a jumbo jet is a huge thing, yet both can fly<br />

So why can’t I?<br />

There are many wonders that have no answers or<br />

So it seems<br />

Until someone reasons these thoughts because of<br />

Smart genes.<br />

At 96 years old, Anita Dwyer has definitely seen a lot of life,<br />

and what a life she has seen. She has successfully curated<br />

a fine gallery of experiences: poetry, stage acting, painting,<br />

motherhood, even joining the Ms America pageant, and<br />

more. Her joie de vivre perfectly shines through in her poem,<br />

“Questions.”<br />

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Let these words resemble migrating birds<br />

It’s the flocks that reliably appear<br />

Returning in spring and bringing their cheer<br />

Let the mind absorb these transient words<br />

Playful and buoyant like jubilant birds<br />

Like the indigo buntings and killdeer<br />

Like robins and swallows they reappear<br />

Let these words be a net to catch bluebirds<br />

Remember— this is a vanishing world<br />

The pattern outlasts each living being<br />

Each singular heartbeat will disappear<br />

While the galaxies continue to whirl<br />

Year after year the birds will be singing<br />

It’s fragility that makes life so dear.<br />

Individuals<br />

inevitably vanish<br />

while the patterns of<br />

things gradually shift —<br />

even rocks disintegrate.<br />

— Tekkan<br />

This sonnet creates a lush tapestry of fauna gallivanting<br />

across a cosmic field, as it contemplates the nature of human<br />

consciousness. Tekkan successfully merges English form with<br />

Buddhist sensibilities in this untitled poem.<br />

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Illustration and calligraphy by Dee Appleman<br />

Herb Appleman is no stranger to the written word. This fellow of the Yale<br />

School of Drama is a playwright, lyricist, author, documentary writer<br />

and producer. His mastery of the language is wonderfully encapsulated<br />

in “To Debbie and Loren,” with its almost haiku-like brevity masking<br />

greater depths of emotion.<br />

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I Am A Trophy<br />

Hunt In The Sahara<br />

I am a trophy hunt in the Sahara,<br />

a depiction of the spoils of love<br />

I picked up the smell late at night.<br />

Snacks and grumbles and odds and ends<br />

infiltrating the desert air<br />

I weaved to and fro from the hunter.<br />

He caught my eye and stayed on my trail.<br />

I can smell him all day before the catch too.<br />

I run until I can’t run anymore.<br />

I was acquainted with my own filth,<br />

not his and now it’s over.<br />

He doesn’t know anything about me<br />

but I can tell he’s as dirty as me.<br />

My speed has run down to<br />

the pace of the desert,<br />

Once lush and green and now sand, open space<br />

I’ll be his full belly tomorrow,<br />

I’ll be the meaningless statue upon his wall.<br />

Inedible pieces of me<br />

Scattered on the desert floor<br />

To rot<br />

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Romance is many things, but oftentimes<br />

people overlook the fact that romance<br />

can also be savage and wild. Jill Niehbur<br />

looks long and hard at the violence of<br />

such intimacy in her winning poem, “I am<br />

a trophy hunt in the Sahara.” Inspired from<br />

a dead-end relationship she once had, her<br />

poem explores the helplessness one feels<br />

when one falls prey to romance.<br />

Jill Niehbur looks long and hard at the<br />

violence of such intimacy in her winning<br />

poem, “I am a trophy hunt in the Sahara.”<br />

Jill Niebuhr<br />

Inspired from a dead-end relationship<br />

she once had, her poem explores the<br />

helplessness one feels when one falls prey<br />

to romance.<br />

Literary contest Winner<br />

Meet Jill Niebuhr, a truly empowered woman<br />

who has a multitude of talents. From singing,<br />

writing and blogging, this woman is truly a<br />

Jill of all trades. It is unbelievable what this woman can<br />

do. She has a passion for dance and a love for animals.<br />

In high school, she choreographed routines for her<br />

cheerleading team. She has an album under the name,<br />

Angel Warrior, which is also the name of her Patreon.<br />

She also holds a degree in Political Science.<br />

She dabbled in writing and authored a book entitled<br />

Crush; a collection of poetry she wrote around 10 years<br />

old to 36. She says that poetry gave her a safe space to<br />

express herself and develop a sense of identity. Writing<br />

gave her refuge while living a rather tumultuous life.<br />

Romance is many things, but oftentimes people<br />

overlook the fact that romance can also be savage and<br />

wild. Jill Niehbur looks long and hard at the violence of<br />

such intimacy in her winning poem, “I am a trophy hunt<br />

in the Sahara.” Inspired from a dead-end relationship she<br />

once had, her poem explores the helplessness one feels<br />

when one falls prey to romance.<br />

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Diamonds in the Snow<br />

Sandra A. Haynes<br />

The snow reflects no sparkles on a cloudy, sunless day,<br />

When dark and driven clouds commence to keep the sun at bay.<br />

It’s only when the clouds move on when chastened by the wind,<br />

The sun can play upon the snow, its magic to begin.<br />

Each crystal then will catch the light reflected on the snow,<br />

While causing it to twinkle like no other thing below.<br />

The heart is like the driven snow without the truth of God,<br />

It takes the heavenly sunshine to give the heart a nod.<br />

And when the heart receives the light, the character will shine,<br />

Reflecting like the sunlit snow, God’s attitude divine.<br />

Then like the sparkles on the snow, which twinkle in our sight,<br />

The joy that is reflected there will shed its glowing light.<br />

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Letting Go of Things<br />

Karen J. Chisholm<br />

Precious one, here, hold My hand<br />

So you’ll let go and give away.<br />

You’ll not need where I have planned<br />

Old, used things where I hold sway.<br />

No regrets will follow close,<br />

No reminders of your sin.<br />

Nothing vying, needing most<br />

Will be able to break in.<br />

When I call you, you will come.<br />

Nothing in your hand you’ll bring.<br />

Here in Glory with the Son<br />

You will walk with Christ your King.<br />

All the must-do’s dissipated<br />

Nothing left to worry you<br />

Only Love anticipated<br />

Jesus lives and you will too.<br />

Let your children have your stuff,<br />

They will do what they will do.<br />

You have had it long enough,<br />

Will let it go for Heaven’s view.<br />

So remember your last days<br />

Needn’t mar your memories<br />

For God is meeting you always,<br />

Each day, new ways he sets you free.<br />

There are friends you think you’ll miss.<br />

They don’t call now anyway.<br />

Soon you’ll see them through the mist<br />

When arrive in Heaven’s bright day.<br />

Keep your eyes on Jesus now,<br />

He’s the One you’ve come to know.<br />

Cleaning out, He’ll show you how.<br />

You’ll find happiness letting go… of things.<br />

All your family will be there,<br />

Your special friend will be there too.<br />

There in My Glory you will share<br />

The new life I have made for you.<br />

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Don’t Be Late<br />

Mary Angeline Bell<br />

Time goes at its own speed; no fast forward.<br />

Nor is there any rewind; past is done.<br />

You don’t come at the hour I thought I heard.<br />

I’ll work a task until the goal is won.<br />

I love the time with you, but always wait.<br />

For you to touch my life, and we know joy.<br />

But still I want to reach and cross the gate.<br />

Where deeds are done; regret does not annoy.<br />

Disruptions come, but I can’t relive time<br />

Spent to unravel stubborn puzzling knots.<br />

I can go forward, only forward at the chime.<br />

Of plan and purpose of advancing thoughts.<br />

Sun and stars bring work, play, and rest to date.<br />

Be there to meet them. Please just don’t be late.<br />

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Just the<br />

Two of Us<br />

Cheryl Batavia<br />

One day we made the winding, steep descent,<br />

enchanted by the waterfall’s sweet song.<br />

In pools below, we swam to hearts’ content,<br />

the two of us together all day long.<br />

One day we climbed up to the mountaintop,<br />

where winter winds had dwarfed the ancient trees,<br />

and we lay dreaming on a sun-warmed rock,<br />

our skin caressed by every summer breeze.<br />

One day we strolled among the ferns so green,<br />

a fragrant carpet on the forest floor.<br />

Below us stretched a peaceful valley scene.<br />

We vowed our love would last forevermore.<br />

Oh, those were golden days I spent with you,<br />

enjoying nature’s wonders, just we two!<br />

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Lord Over the Storm<br />

Richard "Ritchie" Vernon<br />

When darkness breaks through like a raging storm,<br />

the shadow of God's light will keep me safe and warm.<br />

And though I see darkly through a hazy clouded veil,<br />

I know of this one who will never ever fail!<br />

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The Need To Read<br />

Marilyn B. Wassmann<br />

More and more people do not take time to READ.<br />

They have their televisions, their IPADS, their computers which feed<br />

their need for knowledge, products, entertainment, and friends.<br />

Besides the happiness of their free time rarely depends<br />

upon turning the pages of a nearby book,<br />

or opening their KINDLES to explore, discover, and look<br />

at the collection of words that describe colorful, amazing tales!<br />

They should recognize that reading is a pursuit that rarely fails<br />

to open our eyes, to expand our thoughts, and to challenge our minds!<br />

Refusing to spend some time reading totally blinds<br />

each and every one of us to the experiences that have been captured in lines.<br />

Some writers report the news, some fantasize, some choose to malign.<br />

With a pen or a pad, every individual strives to describe events as they occur,<br />

scenes from the past, feelings they have felt, even foods they prefer.<br />

On the Internet or the television, the ideas of writers may shine, but eventually<br />

fade from our view.<br />

But books remain on our shelves, they are there, waiting patiently for you.<br />

Books do take up space, they can become dusty with time, and their contents<br />

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But nothing compares with the joy that we feel when we begin to turn a page!<br />

READING is just so good to do!<br />

Recognize the ways it will benefit You!<br />

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AIRPLANE STORIES<br />

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HISTORIES<br />

NORMAN CURREY<br />

The Amazing World of<br />

Aeronautics from an Aircraft<br />

Engineer’s Perspective.<br />

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