Archive for the ‘poetry by Bruce Whealton’ Category

I should talk about an update to my blog also. I’ll do that in my next post.

The Angel of Death – Poetry by Jean Jones

I just published a pdf version of this collection with three recent additions by Jean Jones to his long running collection of poetry. Jean had asked me over a week ago to do this. Well, it’s finally available on Word Salad. You can find it by going here and then selecting it from the list. The heading to this paragraph has a link that goes right to the publication. It is in pdf format for printing or download. Perhaps there will be a second edition with more poems and maybe some kind of additional material.

A New Look for Word Salad

Perhaps we even need a new name for the site… not really. The site is named Word Salad. We have a quarterly poetry publication called Word Salad Poetry Magazine (we also have a quarterly of Haiku called Haiku Ramblings). You will also find a few back issues of Word Salad Poetry Magazine in our archives. Actually, we only have the poetry from the past issues available. Much of the rest of the content was duplicated with each edition. Word Salad as a website is larger now. We publish much more on the website. As noted in the above paragraph, we have numerous poetry collections available on the site.

In addition, I see this as becoming a community site with various resources. I have installed a wiki, similar to what you see on wikipedia.org. I called it Wordopedia for Word Salad’s wiki. We just articles to be written for this. I’ve installed “Community Builder” to make the site into a “Community” website. Users can enter a fuller profile and many more features will be available for interacting with others. More on this later.

I have tried to include many of the exciting features of today’s Social Web. As a web designer/developer professional working today, I have to take advantage of all these resources and it only seems natural to share what I am learning.
For social image file sharing (sharing pictures) I use flickr.com and use that to host images that are displayed on Word Salad. My home page, as it were, on flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucewhealton/ and my profile on flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/people/brucewhealton/.
For social bookmarking I use del.icio.us and my page on delicious is here: http://del.icio.us/brucewhealton

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This is exciting news. Well, part of this announcement isn’t so exciting – the fact that this is a farewell performance by Ana. Port City Poet (Wilmington, NC) Ana Ribeiro is doing her farewell performance at the Bottega in Wilmington, NC. Ana has been running the Port City Poet’s Blog for some time now, and she is leaving for a scholarship, overseas. You can read more about this event on Ana’s blog here: http://poets.blogs.starnewsonline.com/11634/my-farewell-performances-this-week/… It’s always exciting to witness a good poet sharing her original poetry. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to make it with various possible job conflicts but as it turned out, I am able to come. So, Ana, being the nice person that she is, suggested that I read with her that night, as co-featured poet, as it were. So, indeed that is the plan. Ana will read from 9:05-9:25pm, with a short break and then I, Bruce Whealton, will read from 9:35 – 9:55pm. It’s always exciting for me to get down there and be part of the poetry scene. It is where I started as a poet and nurtured my poetry, or nurtured my inner poet, as it were (I think I’ve used that phrase, as it were, to many times in one paragraph ).

The above event is a feature of Jean Jones Presents, an offering on the second Thursday of each month. There will be a poetry workshop as well. Further details are at the link above.

Ana will host another poetry reading at the Brown Coat in Wilmington as well.

Maybe some of my readers are in the Wilmington, NC area… if not, I’ll have to share videos when they become available online.

Should be fun!

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I’m not sure about the title for this one. I was reading this book called “TranceFormations” about the Hypnotic Patterning of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, produced by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, modeled after the skilled Milton Erickson – father of modern clinical hypnosis. They spoke of hypnotic patterning. This is about love and connection, also. Maybe the title should be “Hypnotic Realities,” instead.

Captivated

You are the river
that flows through me
like relaxation…
the place I go
for comfort…
the dream that inspires me
and reminds me
of those things I had forgotten
and everything
I see
hear
and feel
is some part
of you.
To be in your presence
is to be
in trance.

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Watching you…

I look at you
and record image
after image
etched in my memory -
hundreds of stop-action
still-frame images -
so many aspects
of you…
so many expressions…
So much of me
bears your name
and image -
looking at me
is to see
what you do to me.
If you could look
into my mind
you’d find yourself
reflected.

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I just discovered that four of my poems are in “The Horror Zine,” and which can be read at this link here. The poems are “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Becoming,” “Shelter,” and “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.” You can find the poems “Sensuous and Strong as the Serpent,” “Becoming,” and “Shelter,” also here in the collection, “Puncture Wounds” – a collection of poems about vampires and vampirism, by myself, Bruce Whealton and Scott Urban – available here. Some of these poems also appear in “Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine: Volume 2″ as well as “And Now the Nightmare Begins: The Horror Zine,” both available on amazon.com starting here.

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My poem “An Infinite Beach” appears in the zine, Wild Goose Poetry Review, the spring 2010 issue, which is here: http://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/an-infinite-beach/

At the request of the editor, Scott Owens, I submitted a commentary. I think that is a unique idea to publish author commentaries with the poems, and a unique request – I mean I don’t usually get asked for a commentary when I am published.
I included this commentary on the poem: “I wrote this poem thinking about the things that really matter and that endure. A sense of the infinite, or of joy and love is sometimes noticed in certain moments that stand out in your mind… those moments when you stop, forget about everything else and realize that this, right now, is all that matters, all that will endure. Often we get so distracted and driven by various impulses. So, I thought of a time when that was different for me. I wrote about love. The beach is also very inspirational for me, when I want to write.”

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Synchronicity

Like magic
a virtual world
of our creation
comes into being,
shared,
experienced
as only two like us
could imagine,
privately.
Your eyes
looking into mine…
you smile
and instantly
I feel it.

When we touch
we will enter into
touch completely…
I’ll come to you
shaking
craving the intoxication
of your lips
and then
calmed by the
synchronicity
of our naked touch
and of movement.

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I am happy to add one more credit to my publication history. The Houston Literary Review, published my poem, “I Wrote a Love Poem, Once,” in their April 2010 issue. The April edition of The Houston Literary Review is here: http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/Documents/april_2010_content.htm or the direct link to the poetry section is here: http://thehoustonliteraryreview.com/Documents/april_2010_poetry.pdf

I appreciate the recognition.

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I am pleased to share the news that Wild Goose Poetry Review just published my poem entitled “An Infinite Beach” in their May/Spring edition here. Scott Owens is the publisher of this online zine. We have published Scott on Word Salad Poetry Magazine. The poem appears on the site here: http://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/an-infinite-beach/
Thanks,
Scott

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Poem by Bruce Whealton entitled “The Whole Story” appears in the current edition of Greensilk Journal, which is on the web at: http://www.thegsj.com/Poetpg4sp2010.html.

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