Shadows on the Carpet III

Now that Shadows II is done and should be available on Amazon as soon as I receive and ok the proof, I am working on the 3rd and last book of the trilogy - hitting rock bottom and the climb up. Tell me what you think of the cover.

book cover by AVR

Shadows on the Carpet I Available on Amazon!

Shadows on the Carpet I is now available on Amazon!!!  I just don't understand why they have tagged a book of relationship/social/political commentary poems as suitable for age range 1 - 17 and grade level 1 and up????

click here Shadows on the Carpet I

A Cry in the Wilderness - Exoteric Descent into Iniquity

Today I am sharing some social/political commentary - this poem is in the 'Visions' section of "Shadows on the Carpet".  A Cry in the Wilderness - pointing out what is going on.  Wake Up!  It is still not too late to turn things around.  Just saying....

For audio version with Chuck Berglund's soundscape click here

Exoteric Descent into Iniquity

Good manners and common sense

Are trashed as ineffective

photo art by AVR © 2013

Measures of controlled control

Replaced by political

Correctness masquerading

As concern or compassion

Inappropriate response

Touted as the ultimate

Non-empathic tool du jour

Un-emotive expression

Obtuse communication

Belie clandestine contempt

Synthetic salaciousness

Valid malapropisms

Conditioned complacency

Preclude imperceptible

Declining - descent into

Death of human decency

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006

Shadows on the Carpet - Section 2 - Visions

Section 2 of "Shadows on the Carpet" is titled 'Visions'.  With approximately 18 poems, this section will contain mostly social/political commentary poems.  The first poem in the section is 'Visions'.

Visions

Photo art by AVR to match poem

From dreams she

Awakens

Drenched in sweat

Truth, love and

Passion not

Sufficient

At daybreak

The hue is

Indigo

At midnight

The music

Trash metal

 

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2009

"Shadows on the Carpet" Section 1 - Shadows

1st section - Shadows

 
Shadows on the Carpet

 

Transient shades of gloom

Opaque clouds of black ink

From my past despair seep

Into my future to

Color the shape of my

Present as various

Carbon tints of drab pain

From my life flash on and

Off to form ominous 

Shadows on the carpet

Windows to the darkness

  

© Alice Vedral Rivera 4/30/12

The 1st section of "Shadows on the Carpet" is titled 'Shadows' and the above poem is the 1st poem in the book.  There will be 9 sections in all and over 100 poems.  I will be posting excerpts for you to comment on as I finalize the manuscript.

Current Project - Shadows on the Carpet

I am looking for funding to publish my new book of poetry titled, "Shadows on the Carpet".  It will be a compilation of my darker poems - dark shadows from my past expressed in varying poetic shades of gray where the past meets the future as memories in the present.

Because I have been told that the book needs to end on an 'up' note, it will be a progression from the darkness to the light with roughly 100 poems divided into 9 sections.

 

Less than 1% of my poems come out of the blue of left field. More than 99% of my poems are very personal to me even those that are inspired by outside influences such as a visual (painting, photo, nature, etc.), a word overheard, a scent, a taste or the feel of an object or event.  They stem from a seed deep inside me based on my continually changing perspective of some real experience in my life.  That stem then grows and morphs into a completed poem, colored by time, mellowing or sharpening into shapes that often surprise me. 

Many of my poems are abstract or written in the third person - mainly those that are rooted in extreme pain and darkness.  I need to step back and out of that pain and darkness to articulate it.  This makes it easier to then weave other elements into the poem (relationship/social/political under/over tones) sometimes intentionally but many times the message just shows up in the completed poem.  I suspect that the poems and songs of the exiled Czech poet and singer Karel Kryl had a tremendous influence on my writing in that respect.  Some of my family and friends now actively look for the layers in my poems as they read and re-read them.