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Featured Poet: Peter Sprenkeler
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s the poetic analog to Anne Lamott's
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by Bird or Natalie Goldberg's
Writing Down the Bones, two classic works on how to forget that you
"can't write" and just start the pen moving. Susan Wooldridge is a swimming
instructor in the wide ocean of language, encouraging us to move ever farther
from the shore, dive deep, and dance on the waves.
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Peter Sprenkeler is a Senior Diesel Mechanic employed by a large transport
company in Melbourne Australia. He has been writing for many years, but only in
the last few years has he become serious about a literary career. He has
completed two books (each a 100 page anthology) titled "Love and War and Human
Emotion" (books 1&2). His third work: almost completed, is titled "The Current
Affairs of the World". He is seeking a publisher.
Peter writes on the moral, political, social and environmental injustices of the
world. To improve the state of the world.
POETRY…
(©Peter Sprenkeler)
Poetry is painting, wisdom, sculpture, words to fashion,
A crafting of phrases and thoughts and rhymes with passion.
About love and life and pain and beauty and all things pertaining,
About matters that lie within us, quietly and urgently straining.
To set them free - our deepest thoughts unleashed,
Tales to tell - to captivate - spirits reached.
To give a reader humour, comfort and delight,
To give solace, peace and warmth on a cold winter's night.
And yet to give disquiet and challenge, a differing view,
On matters most would regard as anything but new.
Such a rich mine of discovery, surprise and emotion,
Poetry truly is an endless, fathomless ocean.
Read it as though it were a tasty meal,
Devour it, savour it - search for its appeal.
Learn to value the passions and heartfelt emotion,
As you dive headlong into this abundant ocean.
Let your spirit swim and soar through amazing pages,
Of words, thoughts, hopes and dreams of folk down the ages.
There are so many enchanting tales upon this enlightening shelf,
Of life and love and passion and emotional mirrors of yourself.