Spanish doubloons from a pirate's chest;
Poetry's currency is more than pound sterling,
more than pocket money or an Irish sixpence.
It's something fine and rare from the Royal Mint.
You are on the gold standard with Keats, Shelly
and Shakespeare, genuine coin of the imaginative
realm, so do try to get your poem into print!
Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
Love ya!
Jane