Children of Tomorrow

Sharing one of my social commentary poems from Shadows on the Carpet I

Photo AVR  © 2014

CHILDREN OF TOMORROW

From you - our future

From you - we borrow

You are the children

Of all our sorrow

Children of tomorrow

In the aftermath of today

What will you do?

What will you say?

Children of tomorrow

Ours in every way

What are your horrors?

What price will you pay?

Children of tomorrow

Living with our legacy

Can you survive?

Can you stay free?

From you - our future

From you - we borrow

You are the children

Of all our sorrow

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 6/16/06

Shadows on the Carpet II - Fallen, Contaminated, Torment

I have finally been hard at work on Shadows on the Carpet II.  The manuscript is put together, formatted and just needs some tweaking.  I had to totally redo Shadows on the Carpet I to fix the missing or incorrect page number issue and that took me some time to do.  However, in doing so, I was able to resolve some of the formatting issues I struggled with and SCII was a lot easier to format.  Sharing the final cover for SCII.

Photo Art 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

Shadows on the Carpet I

I have finally finished the cover for "Shadows on the Carpet I".  I was not able to work on it while I was in Nevada visiting my grandchildren because neither my son's nor my daughter-in-law's computer worked.  I just submitted it for approval.  I pray that I will be able to get copies of the book in time for the Tamale Hut Cafe Reading Series where I will be the featured reader for May.  If not, I will just read from "The T. Collection" and I still have a few of  "Dearest and Most Precious: A Love Journal" left.  I would like to include "Shadows on the Carpet I" if I could.  That way, I will have something for my readers' varied tastes.

Shadows on the Carpet I

With all the company from the Czech Republic coming and going, I have not had much time to work on getting the book ready for publication.  But I am making some slow progress. 

Sharing the revised front cover for the 1st book of the Shadows on the Carpet Trilogy.  I have finished making the manuscript adjustments and am now being challenged getting the book cover to look the way I want it to.

Working hard on "Shadows on the Carpet Part I"

After getting through the holidays and then the snow and more snow and deep freeze, I have been busy working on preparing "Shadows on the Carpet I" for publication. I decided to split Shadows on the Carpet into 3 books (each book with 3 sections and containing about 35 poems). Part I - Shadows, Visions and Luna-cy is almost ready.  Formatting is still the biggest challenge for me.  I finally have a revised front book cover for part 1. Neither software nor hardware were cooperative and every thing took me longer than I expected due in part to some 'operator error' and program incompatibility.  I still need to come up with something for the back cover and finish formatting the manuscript to fit the template and be aesthetically pleasing to my eye. 

This 1st part will contain the most direct and overt social/political commentary poems with some relationship under tones - a descent into the abyss so to speak. The 2nd part will be falling deeper into the pit and part 3 will be hitting rock bottom and the climb back up and out.  Two and three will contain more overt relationship poems with social/political undertones. 

Sharing the revised front cover with you today.  Comments welcome!

Available Now - The T. Collection

The T. Collection: A Retrospective s now available on Amazon (including in Europe)!!!  As promised, the link to my cousin, Ciba's demo version of  "I Think of You" - my lyrics from the back cover of the book with his music. 

I Think of You audio

Buy the book here

Actual book cover

T. Collection approved for printing

Finished adjusting the cover and uploaded the tweaked interior and cover for approval.  Approved for printing!  Now to proof read it online again and order a proof copy to see if the formatting needs to be adjusted more.
 

Progress Update - T. Collection

The T. Collection is getting close to being ready for publication.  The formatting was a challenge, but not as bad as I thought it would be.  I just need to do one more thing and add the info to the interior of the book.  I have designed a book cover that I am happy with and finally decided to only put lyrics inspired by T. on the back cover.  My cousin,Ciba, wrote the music and recorded a demo version of it.  I will share it when the book actually comes out.

Sharing the book cover - what do you think?  I am trying to keep it simple.

The cover background color should be white - I don't know why it scanned in as a grayed beige.  The paper it is on is white with dark purple lettering. Things that make you go hmmmmm.....

English/Czech - My City/ Moje město

Another poem about my favorite city - Prague.  This one was written last year and I finally am happy with my translation into Czech.  I hope you enjoy it.  Snad se Vám bude líbit i v češtině.

My City

Walking her streets

photo by AVR

I feel that Prague

Is my city

An outsider

I know her well

In her grandeur

I am grounded

In her beauty

I’m exalted

I am at peace

For I am home

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 9/19/12 cz

Moje město

Chodíc ulicemi

cítím že Praha

je moje město

Žijíc mimo

znám ji dobře

Z jejího majestátu

jsem jako k zemi přibitá

Z její nádhery

jako k nebi v znesená

Cítím klid

jsem doma

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 9/19/12 cz