Sweetwater's blurb used by AD poet William F. DeVault for his CD cover Amomancer: nightblooming.
10/18/2007

Sage Sweetwater proudly announces the ecstatic emotion which she soars with such pride, for an excerpt blurb she wrote for fellow Authors Den peer and the Romantic Poet of the Internet, William F. DeVault and the Gods of Love. There is no other comparable, artistic feeling for a friend and peer who uses the thoughts of another professional literary artist and prints those thoughts on the inside of a CD cover for the whole world to share. Thank you, William. I love you and I wish you and the Gods of Love all the best.

"William's voice is a very key accessory to his poetry. William and the Gods of Love deserve every nugget of Gold on the City of Legends Avenue." [Sage Sweetwater]

taste - I literally fell to my knees and cried when I listened to this selection. I wanted to hold my woman close, and I know her eyes are not closed to my thoughts - and she is something like music - and she is open to me. Taste creates an emotion in me that is so very strong with the nectars and elixirs of being alive and in spiritual love. This is truly an erotic masterpiece. Listen to this - it will open up a place deep inside of you that has been locked up.

centaur - is crisp. For all seasons, come along for the ride. Sensuality evolves in the horizon. DeVault has my bowstrings on fire with this one. The centaur is my astrological sign, in recognition of the zodiacal constellation of Sagittarius. DeVault's voice rises in celestial pitch. I feel the presence of such spiritual, erotic sensuality here. Feral.

sleep - is hypnotic. A release of a golden ember of the story of love. A sensuous bedtime story. Hot dreams!

the warm wine - Full-bodied. Sacramental, naked sensuality. Full of love's bouquet in an erotic sip of DeVault's voice, which becomes quick with desire, and erotic in the name of the sensual magnum of the warm contents of wine.

rivers of resurrection - Satin meanders. The bass reverb echoes from the river banks of this sensuous minstrel. Candles lit and erotic tapestries hung. Fiery passion courses the rivers of resurrection. DeVault's voice performs such dramatic vocal qualities - the pace of his voice changes - and so does mine! Rivers of resurrection leaves me breathless to a dire pant!

burning in this chosen sphere - erotic metaphor. Blood and fire ignite! The music saturates me to the bone! This bed is an inferno. DeVault's voice quickens. Climax, I'm burning! I smell the tigress's pelt. This is hot!

slitoris - Hot! Way Hot! This is the ultimate beat and voice blending in a fusion of the highest form of erotic poetry. The echo is so very sensually transforming - this is real! I will take myself over and over again to slitoris, at midnight, and listen to it in candlelight in the dark hours following the shadows on the wall. It puts me in touch with my sensuous self and womanly parts.

cut me - Dripping in erotic sensuality, bled from a vampiric episode of lovemaking so very intense, it bleeds from the CD and penetrates the veins of the soul. The drums seduce the soul.

bright and deadly - A style that would have been an addition to the theme soundtrack to the popular TV series La Femme Nikita. Should be a TV soundtrack. This has a very penetrating potion of flesh.

32fps2 - warm earth-birthing music. DeVault's entrancing, sensual, manly, slow-motion voice delivers a pulsating performance which compliments my strobe light in accordance with Odin's beat. Dancefloor poetics of metaphysics.

horizon - DeVault's array of voice transforms the sensual sphere of seasons, dragons, and fires. Very mystical and trimmed in the horizon with gothic sensuality.

skyscraper ambition - Fantasies of seduction and construction. A colorful bedroom goddess comes alive -"warm oranges on a fresh bed."

the golden apples - blossom of the hunger of desire of immortality - The Tree of Life. Sweet or sour, immortality traded for a kiss. Delicious and juicy! Bliss.

mantichore - A sexual dance reverie downtown Los Angeles. Three wishes granted, DeVault gives us sensual lyrics, voice and garden.

I want the fire - He wants the fire before he dies. I want the fire before I die! DeVault wants to taste it between her thighs. I want to taste it between her thighs! He wants her to say his name. I want her to say my name! This selection drives me insane! DeVault's voice really pours it on in this! I want the fire is the most erotic spoken poetry selection I have ever heard! And it is my favorite in combination with taste. DeVault starts out with the first selection of taste and ends even more strongly with the last selection I want the fire!

Amomancer: nightblooming is the artistic highlight of this season, William. The contents match the cover - FANTASTIC! The music compliments the arrangements like nothing I've ever heard! A very classy literary product from the Romantic Poet of the Internet and the Gods of Love. William DeVault - you are an erudite orator. [Sage Sweetwater]

Aberjhani posts reviews of THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK: DANCING THROUGH THE WORD LABYRINTH. Sage Sweetwater reviews THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK: DANCING THROUGH THE WORD LABYRINTH CD and endorses AD friends Aberjhani, Nordette Adams, and Mark Rockeymoore. A trio of powerful voices of our Millenium! "will have a tremendous impact on emotions emphasized through spoken word poetry" (Sage Sweetwater)

http://www.aberjhani.com/work3.htm  

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS BY SAGE SWEETWATER GIVEN TO ABERJHANI, NORDETTE ADAMS, AND MARK ROCKEYMOORE:

To Sleep
by Mark Rockeymoore
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=7174&id=188031

An intelligible and expansive word portraiture. To me, this is one of those writes which is part jaguar, part human, metaphorical of dream and reality...I'm driving through barbed-wire and cosmic paradigm shift here as I read this, New-Age poetic hieroglyphs I see it as, so I am coining this term right here and right now, "New Age poetic hieroglyphs" (Sage Sweetwater). This poem, TO SLEEP transverses the broad summit of the literary plateau, which allows us, as your readers, to seek a better understanding for a better future, all things spiritual...this poem invents its own cosmology, Mark. (Sage Sweetwater)

perchance to dream.
by Mark Rockeymoore
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=7174&id=188322

This poet knows his existence and to marvel in it, ether, earth, and nether...perchance to dream manifests itself from hallucinatory psychedelic trippy African tie-die gray matter into a cosmic realm astral dance to a Zen temple-garden...my vision is to say that this mind-bender poem could convert the masses to Japanese Shinto...there is the Tibetan bowl ringing audible all throughout this literary opus...thus keeping alive and ministering to dreams in a synthesis of Shinto, Zen Buddhism, Tao sage, and folk religion...to wake the mind, to shock the students from the limits of conventional intelligence, Buddhism asks, "How do you get the goose out of the bottle?" Not by theoretical analysis or ideas, but by compassion it is that we are led to enlightenment...a silent "Ah!" Mark..."Ah!" (Sage Sweetwater)

The Poet-Angels Who Came to Dinner
by Aberjhani
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=25279&id=186397

A feast of poetic grain which withers not, Aberjhani. The narrative forms part of a drama which probably could be enacted following a poor harvest, or at the beginning of every seven-year cycle in order to ensure that the next cycle is prosperous, in response of the Goddess upon which the abundance of the fields depends...rain, dew, and storms, THE POET-ANGELS WHO CAME TO DINNER, this national poetry month 2007 agriculture prospers as does good will to man...(Sage Sweetwater)

Astonishing Tale of the Goddess and the Skylark: Part 4 of 4
by Aberjhani
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewShortStory.asp?AuthorID=25279&id=23001

Sweet music to our ears indeed when a poet of color, and any poet for that matter, can immortalize a tale with a moral to the very fragrant end where it started out as referencing dung, then flushed, and then swirled for a Grand AB'J finale as a fragrant petal in the ASTONISHING TALE OF THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK. This was a most valuable story in sections and everchanging events and this Skylark and Goddess energy is supernatural. Aberjhani gives some transcending boundaries that demands justice at every turn. And now for congratulating Aberjhani, the Skylark, Nordette, the Goddess, and Rahkyt as we all know is our beloved and very talented AD music man Mark Rockeymoore, well-done project and a clever marketing strategy told through ASTONISHING TALE OF THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK. You three are rare birds indeed and you have it going on! Each day is a delight to be in your company flight pattern. This trio has used their present moments for maximizing marketable creativety and if there's anyway I can help maximize the marketing of this CD further, I will do it. It's a delightful idea, Aberjhani, Nordette, and Mark. Freedom and Peace...(Sage Sweetwater)

The Poets Speaking Beauty
by Nordette Adams
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=21715&id=169428

THE POETS SPEAKING BEAUTY reflects a very-deeply troubled society in which we live and mirrors life's sordid current events where Nordette lances open culture in a precise, raw view layed out before us with dynamic words that bleed, feel, and scream for change. A poem like this should create closure to dirty deeds done dirt cheap and vigilante society. A call for poets to pen their words and perform them explicitly for the sake of healing the troubled world. The audio is powerful, so damn powerful in fact that Ms. Adams' voice can be heard from the heavenly acoustics of the church to the PA system of the corner gang. With current trends of ugliness, violence, and hatred accelerating, today is the day in which THE POETS SPEAKING BEAUTY should be considered the flagship of the nation's healing and look at our future with confidence for not only ourselves, but that future of our next generation...(Sage Sweetwater)

Why You Have Roaches
by Nordette Adams
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=21715&id=165550

This hits close to home, Nordette. Black, gay, the masses would just as soon see one fall out of favor. The last lines are a wonderful word illustration, making a point as offering to help someone out in the same situation and holding no grudges, finding something positive in an everyday situation. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to what happens to you...(Sage Sweetwater)

Sage Sweetwater Compiles Authors Den Member Reviews She's Placed
12/10/2007
From the desk of Sage Sweetwater, today, proudly announces she is compiling an exclusive list of reviews she has placed with upper tier authors on Authors Den. Sage Sweetwater's Reviews she has placed on behalf of Authors Den authors serve a dual purpose. These reviews are also a course of study for many different worldly subjects.

Many professional authors have used Sage Sweetwater's reviews for their work for professional marketing of their work at other online venues showcasing writings of the authors to include also that of Authors Den authors. Please visit these authors.
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SAGE SWEETWATER'S REVIEWS OF AUTHORS DEN MEMBERS
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Author: Jude ForÉse
Poem: Detritus
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 11/08/05

Forensic entomology uses flies and other insects to determine how, where, and when you died. There is a specific pattern in the decomposition of your body.
One insect comes to feed on you soon after your death, then another comes when your body decomposes a little bit, and so on. By looking at which insects are feeding on your corpse, investigators pinpoint the time of your death by what developmental stage the insects are in.

When your flesh has been eaten and the insects are gone, your exoskeleton they leave behind reveals the season of your death. The investigators conclude that you have been dead about 279 hours, the maximum time it takes a pupa to reach this stage.

Detritus: material washed or worn off from a solid substance: mass of disintegrated material.

Newspaper article turns this all around. Headlines: JUDE FORESE FROZEN IN TIME: CRYOGENICS FUSES POETIC PHILOSOPHER TO RULE THE WORLD. MAN AND HIS BRAIN SOLID AND TRUE, PROPELS FOR A BETTER WORLD. END OF STORY!
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Author: Jude ForÉse
Poem: the Warrior and the Dreamer
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 7/24/06

Famous, End of the Trail artwork comes to mind here where the Indian is slumped on his horse with his lance, the warrior fighting 'til the end of the journey. The Dreamer asked the Warrior, "is this turkey gonna fly?" I say this poem is gonna fly long-term, as did sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who helped chisel the faces of four presidents on Mount Rushmore. The warrior uses pen and quill as well as dynamite and jackhammer, the warrior and the Dreamer, and our lead poet always with work in progress.
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Author: Jude ForÉse
Poem: Breaking Ground
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 12/7/05

The spiritual core of your existence. The realms of meanings and connections in your poetry lie beneath the tangible realities of the world, linking all things.

Breaking ground is analogous to the nine months you spent in your mother's womb, both being intelligent expressions of creation, freeing themselves of all addictions, except for the ritual smoke of Mayan copal incense or a puff of sacramental tobacco/herb.

As an island (man) unto yourself, your spiritual work is imbued with higher significance and every feature of your special world reflects as a teacher and mirrors the whole. Whatever it is that you are about to become, your work maintains cosmic balance in intelligent design with the primordial creator. Reading your work, Jude is the nine-layered universe of cosmology, and the Den is the nine-tiered temple where we all gather to hear your human thoughts and try to grasp your deep meanings.
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Author:Jude ForÉse
Poem: the Dreams and Windmills of Their Own Making
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 1/25/06

The drive of wisdom and earthly knowledge is irresistable to the person who loves. This is the person who loves sunsets, oceanviews, coyotes, picnics, companionship, creative dreams, and windmills which are guaranteed not to wreck in any storm. Such an overpowering instinct often is denied by the rational mind or transformed, sublimated into some other activity, such as art or religion, and expressed through a code of symbols. Those individuals who do not fathom an existence other than their own, ferociously attack and displace our images that are personally intense to us, why we damn well create them. That person's failure to indulge his or her own mind furnishings can cause anguish and misery and try to become the focus of the center of attention when they possess little to offer. These are ones with tiny minds with no intention of expanding. They, like the grass will soon wither, their dreams will burn in Hell and their windmills will pump mud. This deceitful poet who penned "Creative Drivel" is certainly not one of the limestone poets of my poem 'We Built This City.' Absolutely not! I would not want my Walls touched by his weak hands. Below is Jude's review of my poem 'We Built This City.' The windmill on my upcoming novel cover stands for my creative dream. It represents the height of my dreams and my goals were met for that particular novel. If I feel like spitting some creative spit off that 20-foot wooden tower, I will climb up with my strap-on shooter and spit good spit for the collective good of AD poets, the glue of creative spit that binds all of our poetic dreams together as ONE!

Reviewed by robert Jude forese 12/19/2005

the city is the center of poetic adventure

the collective dawn of motion

the calm at the end of commotion

the wall that is invisible to dreamers
for they can see through its design
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Author: Carolyn G. McGovern-Bowen
Poem: Hail to Our Chief?
Review Given By Sage Sweetwater on 3/11/07

Of course, this (stupidity) is what really riles feminist scholars. The conflict goes beyond war, President Bush's snide and arrogant pleasure in the process. A thorny issue of understanding our history lingers in the recorded Christian history. The alchemy is evident in the work of Marija Gimbutas. In the mid-70s, Gimbutas began using pots and figurines to construct a tale of an Old European matriarchal partnership society that worshipped the Goddess and lived in peace until around 6000 years ago, when marauding Conans and their macho sky gods came thundering in from the east on their excellent horses. It is such disgust with civilization, that we must reach back into the Stone Age for the good life...we need to recover the Goddess from the dust of pre-history...
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Author: Carolyn G. McGovern-Bowen
Poem: Sidereal Mind
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 8/11/06

Cosmic! Ganymede had a convulsive period that lasted perhaps several hundred million years, to rework part of its surface. The mind, like Ganymede, broken into fragments and when we piece it of a mosaic, this is creative thinking. Ganymede is completely saturated with craters. That means its surface is very old. So is creative thinking. We should moon hop and think creatively, reach for the stars! What awesome things, stars, Galilean moons, and the creative mind!
Mosaic, Carolyn!
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Author: Carolyn G. McGovern-Bowen
Poem: He Lied To Me
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 9/10/2006

President Bush has used the state of power to commit genocide, destroying entire groups of people on the basis of their presumed race or ethnicity. This war, like the Holocaust, is an abberation of present time and will be in history. Is it possible that this president is using his hatred to gain control of society? Is he not using the machinery of the state to attempt to destroy groups that he hates, including his own? When you ask yourself these questions, think about the fact that Germany had the most educated citizens in the world, with more Ph.D's per square mile than any place on the face of the earth. Germany was also a world leader in the arts, the sciences, technology, and theology. President Bush has perpetrated and boasted the most colossal, damaging piece of social dirty work the world has ever known, standing next to Hitler. How many Negro Americans died to the hands of lynching mobs? How many more died in history and are dying now from unnecessary disease and lack of food or knowledge of nutrition? How many nationalities die from bringing about the collectivization of the land? Who is to blame for the starving millions while wheat molds in the fields of other parts? How did dirty government rise to such a high level?

Genocide is a crime under international law, another crime President Bush has committed--->

Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

Essential write with elements of the dirty work done, Carolyn...thanks for your degree of knowledge...
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Author: Kate Burnside
Poem: San Mistico or Monkey Man
Review Given By Sage Sweetwater on 11/03/06

Do you think though it has to do with reincarnation? I live in the Middle Ages and 18th Century more than in today. With those walls and structures in mind when I wrote We Built This City, I had the de ja vu thingie. I was referring to Machu Picchu bringing the limestone poets and sandstone novelists together in collective unconscious. I could actually hear the conversations and smell the sweat of those perspiring bronzed people, especially of our "lead poet." To build a poem as you and I from raw material is strenuous labor in an "impossible place to build a city" is sheer talent. One stairstep at a time, the fabled city of the Children of the Sun, the lost city of the Incas, a retreat for holy women of the Incas. And the flock of green parrots as raucous as you and I Kate!

"Air, vision, sound, attention;
colour, time, thought and speech:
all are swallowed in the deep throat
of your appearing –"

Absolutely breathtaking spin-off from my poem, We Built This City! Whatever it is, Kate, it is important stone/poet work....Thunder peals in the mountains around me--->parrots swirl in the skies, but the condors are gone. With sigh ... ah ... I bid you adieu, Kate. Take care of mum.
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Author: Kate Burnside
Poem: Proteas
Review By Sage Sweetwater on 12/21/05

This takes various shape/form through siren/mermaid/water sprite seducing man away from land and his horsetank momentarily, indulging in taking a dip with siren/mermaid/water sprite. Perhaps man's lost divinity/virginity lies in the tales of the mermaids, or in reviving the soul of the drowned man?
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Author:Aberjhani
Story: Astonishing Tale of the Goddess and the Skylark: Part 1 through 4
Review By Sage Sweetwater on 10/6/06, 10/7/06, 10/11/06, 10/19/06

Part 1: Created with a picture symbol, ASTONISHING TALE OF THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK is deliberate in the way of directing and guiding energy to those who give of themselves without being purely selfish to that of someone they wish to be accomplished because they know this person is worthy of every bit of recognition. I've met a few of these turds giving themselves a big brown swirlie. Living prosperously is living life as an art form. All it takes is the attention of getting the most out (elimination) in a loving, giving way and the turds who are about to take the sewer journey into the bowels of Hell are damn lucky that someone such as Lariliana reverses the turd's water quickly, she can pull his ass outta misery. Perhaps Lily Ann Cloud's softness became to be known as White Cloud...a wonderful tale, Aberjhani...

Part 2: The last paragraph is prosperity law number 5: There is a price for everything and we always pay.

What we continue to receive from the universe, it is also true that there is no free lunch. There is tax that comes with it. We pay for everything we receive. Power hungry individuals are rich in ego, but broke in family and friendships because of their greed. Be careful of what you ask for, you might get it. The price may be too high. When one realizes the cost of their selfish choices, one identifies with the price they have to pay. One has to ask themselves if they truly want their selfish goals enough to pay the tax, and pay they will---loss of family, friends, loss of time, peace of mind, the cancerous effect it has on the insides, paying for it the most in the gut. Material gain does not benefit this person with an attitude of 'grab all you can while the grabbing is good,'no matter who gets hurt. I have a feeling the addictive thrill of increasing power in this character's life won't be mismanaged very long. looking forward to the next part, Aberjhani...

Part 3: Roscoe belittled, abandoned, ignored, and brutalized his family. Sage Sweetwater thinks his success came before his self-image was ready for it. From the get-go first part, Roscoe had a fear of failure, paralyzed from working in the dung profession. In this part 3, Roscoe had a fear of success. Fear of success is a barrier to the development of prosperity consciousness when it keeps one from developing their full potential. These people separate themselves from the successful. Those who dare to risk and achieve are painfully reminded what they are not doing. To avoid this pain, they condemn with envy and jealousy. It separates them from others. We reap what we sow. Whatever we put into our minds comes out in our lives. Roscoe put an overabundance of chemical substances and sexual pleasure in his body and mind and he got exactly out of it what he rightfully deserved, death, doesn't bother me, the world is less one more vile citizen. Six feet under, now Roscoe's family has a chance to contribute something positive to society, they are rid of the mismanagement of his wasted life he pissed and dunged away. Perhaps with the dung broadcast, the daisies will grow abundantly around his gravesite to remind one unselfishly that family comes first. The moral here in part 3 is to define the parameters around which you are willing to be successful, sustaining family values, love, and respect, and most important, have love and a positive self-image for yourself. The "Chief" Willie Mae, your mother, Aberjhani, smiles down from heaven on this day, nodding her head in acceptance of her poet boy...

Part 4: Sweet music to our ears indeed when a poet of color, and any poet for that matter, can immortalize a tale with a moral to the very fragrant end where it started out as referencing dung, then flushed, and then swirled for a Grand AB'J finale as a fragrant petal in the ASTONISHING TALE OF THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK. This was a most valuable story in sections and everchanging events and this Skylark and Goddess energy is supernatural. Aberjhani gives some transcending boundaries that demands justice at every turn. And now for congratulating Aberjhani, the Skylark, Nordette, the Goddess, and Rahkyt as we all know is our beloved and very talented AD music man Mark Rockeymoore, well-done project and a clever marketing strategy told through ASTONISHING TALE OF THE GODDESS AND THE SKYLARK. You three are rare birds indeed and you have it going on! Each day is a delight to be in your company flight pattern. This trio has used their present moments for maximizing marketable creativety and if there's anyway I can help maximize the marketing of this CD further, I will do it. It's a delightful idea, Aberjhani, Nordette, and Mark. Freedom and Peace...

Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
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Author: Robin Ouzman-Hislop
Poem: Quarantine
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 12/09/07

To be segregated from one another I suppose can have its benefits and rewards. It is the reason why we are quarantined that is disturbing to me...I describe it like this, a passage in my novel THE BUCKSKIN SKIRT OAR TRAVELER. I am perhaps making a remedy from nature to Quarantine nature until it can safely be put back into place respectfully...this is actually referring to the West Nile virus bird flu and this poem reminds us of the mean-spirited and contagious, poisoned condition and religious war destruction also of that of the humankind that are imprisoned due to spite, hatred, demanding religious obedience, jealousy, and overall prejudice. Here is the metaphor in my excerpt:

"The royal female bird is chock-full of confidence--not overconfident, but the kind of confidence that blinds the predator with looming disaster--that of the West Nile virus and all other curses laid down to alter their environment, contributing to their early extinction.

"The royal female bird is the mascot to the Loireag, the water sprites who are helpful to women and weavers. The sylphs use a fogger to sanitize the air when it is all settled. Then the spirits of the Ancient Order of Druidesses begin repairing the damaged tree cavities where the *FalconettiBrisu have been nesting. They put in artificial plastic cavities camouflaged to fit into the forest, and they put in Plaster of Paris imitation nest to protect the birds' nest from the predators, removing bird eggs to be put in an incubator, then returning the fledglings to the original nests when it is all settled."

*The FalconettiBrisu are predator birds that do not exist yet but only in the land of the fays. They will pull out humans' fingernails and gouge their eyes. They are falcon mastered by they Fachan, the horrible monster who tortures everyone unfortunate enough to meet him."

Sage,
Poetry Life & Times Cover Interview December 2007 Issue with Sage Sweetwater & Finnur Bjarki
http://www.poetrylifeandtimes.com/current.html
PL&T Editor Robin Ouzman-Hislop
Co-Editor Amparo Arrospide
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Author: Robin Ouzman-Hislop
Poem: The Poet's Curse
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 3/07/06

The greatest discrepancy between modern poets and Gaia's early planetary terms is the very high cost that poets have to pay to rise ink on new papyrus and change our poetic environment back to a balanced co-existence. The power of the word has faded, and lost connection, detached from the natural world. Today's music penned by poison poets do not acknowledge that Gaia is a self-regulating, living organism, which reacts to threats posed to her in such a way as to maximize her chances for survival. Gaia Returns in that living things and the environment evolve together in a complementary way. The balance between atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen maintains conditions in which life thrives, including the life of the poet who is under the charge of Gaia who in eternal return has both benevolent and harsh aspects, making the world and the poet comfortable for those who follow the rules of nature, but punishing transgressors ruthlessly. So, in essence, The Poet's Curse, the Earth does not belong to the poet, the poet belongs to Earth...the poet did not weave the web of life, the poet is merely a strand it it. Whatever the poet does to the web, the poet does to themself. Nice holistic poem, Robin. Expansion of our minds ride the winds of the butterfly, free and elusive.
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Author: Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor
Poem: Sacred Grove
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 3/7/07

Sacred Grove is one of the most fertile poems I have ever read, Elizabeth. In essence, this is a story of Gaia in all of her grandness, a realm of grandeur, to free her offspring, an analogy of the workings of the planet earth and beyond, ascending to zenith, upward to the heavens. Gaia leaps into a new state of balance here. This poem ensures your vitality and earth's vitality in a pristine Light. What a spiritual treadmill true test of time you have passed, healthy, wise, and profoundly uplifting...Blessed Be.

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Author: Nicky Goodman
Poem: White Birds
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 8/4/07

If we can only remember one thing about this poem - it is that we stand on life's terrace daily, sometimes bowing our heads to the droppings on the fragmented interlocking brickettes, coming to terms with it all. We have to face some of the toughest questions. Those answers always come in the birds' habitat, wherever the birds live, we have to live there in our hearts and minds. There is no better place to live than out on an olive branch limb - peace - and sometimes a solo spirit practicing temporary oneness lets us appreciate a mate - such a balance of chorus, Nicky...White Birds is the purity of emotions - cathartic poetry...be well. Blessed Be.
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Author: Nicky Goodman
Poem: A Disturbance of Shen
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 3/03/07

Reads like a reincarnation of a soul which to an extreme needs to regenerate and shapeshift into another form for catharsis...A Disturbance of Shen also has an environmental message...cut open, it is a raw, surgical view, a personal and global wound, tainted, screaming in agony from salt in the wound. Healthy Spirit lives in a blue, throat chakra...to analyze this poem is cathartic within itself, Nicky...to edit, to change its form would be to change the intention...this poem stands the way it is written...
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Author: Nicky Goodman
Poem: to the warm charcoals of the soil
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 9/28/06

The battle scars of what I call an apocalyptic poem, Nicky. The ceasless dance between life and death...to the warm charcoals of the soil is the revival efforts to an annihilated world and the people natural disasters and war has buried...Aztec myth of the Five Suns (Worlds), the second sun ended when its presiding deity, Quetzacoatl, was carried off by a hurricane. The present fifth, Sun arose after the fourth was annihilated by a flood and the people turned into fish. Years ago, I would have said this to be a futuristic view of the poet, but it is so much of what is going on in present day, you gave the poem life with the hydrangeas...great revival imagery...
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Author: E T Waldron
Poem: Anguish of Temptation
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 8/31/07

Medieval religion was seasoned with prurience - carried over into this modern-day - neither picture is very faithful in the Anguish of Tempation - the views of medieval churchmen on the sexual act - well no one ever asserted the act was intrinsically sinful - on the other hand - all were agreed that some evil was present in every sex act since the Fall. Those hard-core Christians who think the sex act, carnal desire is morally evil with wicked impulses - I recommend watching the movie Elmer Gantry which Anguish of Temptation outlines in your poem, Eileen, what the results of "all choices have a price to pay."

Sinclair Lewis, a religious sort of Nostradamus Jesus storyteller of who would predict Christian fraud which ultimately made headlines in the 1980s-90s with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Ministry.

Then, in 1927, it sounded like a far-fetched Bible drama. Sinclair Lewis, a religious sort of Nostradamus Jesus storyteller of who would predict Christian fraud which ultimately made headlines in the 1980s-90s with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Ministry and stands behind the pulpit today in rampant abuse of Christianity. Religious fraud is everywhere...

Gantry's story portrays an obnoxious, womanizing college athlete who realizes the power and prestige that being a preacher can bring, he pursues his "religious" ambitions, which bring downfall and even death to important people around him. He continues to womanize and is often exposed as a fraud, but he is never fully discredited, although he frequently has a complete downfall. He emerges triumphantly and is never wholly discredited to reach greater heights of social status. The novel ends as the Reverend Gantry prays for the USA to be a moral nation all the while lustfully admiring the legs of a new choir singer.

Elmer Gantry is a novel which represents the religion of America in evangelistic circles and Godly attitudes of the 1920s.

On publication in 1927, Elmer Gantry created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities and denounced from pulpits across the USA. One cleric suggested that Lewis should be imprisoned for five years, and there were also threats of physical violence against the author. (Well, Sage Sweetwater knows very well it goes with the territory when there is controversy involved...but a controversial author will always prevail because of TRUTH) The famous evangelist Billy Sunday called Lewis "Satan’s cohort."

Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley Channels Season of the Doe through channeling inspirations of Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist.
11/23/2009

Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist letting loose the Google Robot, endorses Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley.

Season of the Doe
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=268087&AuthorID=68762

"Potent and multifaceted embodiments of the female kind...Season of the Doe has shapeshifting overtones with pungent olfactory, the musk scent of a female deer in estrus.

Many aspects of Nature arrive on the scene here, as seen emanating from the same Divine force (Polytheism) and the Goddess's presence in Nature leads to its deification, and to the principle of taking only what is essential from the earth, and replacing it in some form (Pantheism). Also making its presence is Animism, objects as well as plants and animals perceived to possess universal life energy, binding together everything in the cosmic whole. I like the Goddess idea of Pantheism in particular because it leads to a fresh way of honoring the female body. This whole piece, in its entirety, is allegorical for female sexuality through the rut of animal magnetism portrayed through the doe.

The agricultural principle here is strategically applied, tried and true , both earthly and the celestial drama of the season. This is cast forth as a mating ritual reserved for an initiate, an individual, dead, her past life and the soul has returned to its Source. The whole piece consists of revelation that life does not end, but ceasingly transforms itself through nature and female essence as well as the sexual goddess which embodies this process.

Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley's Season of the Doe reads as Neo-Paganism, teetering on the edge of lesbianism. Season of the Doe marks territory with intentional habitat where the rutting action is. The photograph bent my mind, as I saw pheasants flying in a group out of the cornfield. The Raven is mysteriously a reincarnation which is paramount to storytelling in this masterpiece, as anyone who knows anything about the raven, knows it is a bird of magic and past lives...[Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist]

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 "I've taken time to contemplate the intrinsic beauty of nature even more so when that beauty is a metaphor on the color scale of human growth and evolving love and free will...in this poetry of Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley, is an enlightening secret that the ancient flower people who took this route could not be unearthed, as they were tied to the land. They would say that no one wants to dig a lot of unneccesary holes in the ground, as bucolic pastureland feeds a woman's soul. Always, Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley's timeless poetry is the most logical spot to plant yourself for a literary harvest. A blessing of a bounty, literary and horticulturally cultivated"... [Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist]

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"What keeps Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley's poetry here, is form and color on poetic canvas delving into the higher end of the thought process, her array of subjects, flowery, watery, and nature's fabric screen of timeless decorative tones"... [Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist]

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"Proof of the season that has none of life's masks...what you see is what you get...important pieces of evidence which portray Romantic Poetess Victoria L. McColley as nature's gift to her fans, considering perhaps even beyond, ethereal, her beautiful words and photographic artistry, a compliment to her highly individual invention"... [Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist]

Sage Sweetwater reviews Jake George's 'Grandfather's Song' 6/21/2006

Jake George is a true Native American storyteller.  Traditionally, storytelling is one of the most cherished means of instruction for Native Americans throughout this continent, past and present.

'Grandfather's Song' is versed in ancient knowledge and Jake George has given us a gift on behalf of all Native Americans.  He does his Lenape heritage proud and it speaks on the pages of 'Grandfather's Song.'

My question, after reading 'Grandfather's Song' is "how can we give back to Mother Earth to repay the damages done her?"  (There has come a time when ancient Native ideas are ready to be acted upon...now is that time...Sage Sweetwater)

'Grandfather's Song' is the beginning of a journey of recovery and a powerful voice from Jake George from the native homeland.

Well done, Jake!  It is an honor to be in your company.  I wish you much success and the passing on of your natural storytelling to future generations for the winds of renewal.

http://www.authorsden.com/jakegeorge
 

 Sage Sweetwater Reviews Jake George's 'A New Dawn.'
4/24/2007

Jake George has written a phenomenal account of a Native American adventure. 'A New Dawn' is rich in spiritual energy

'A New Dawn' - Jake George defines what Native American culture is. It is not the same today as it was a thousand years ago - even a hundred years ago - where in Native American life, justice is served for an evil.

The saga continues from Jake George's book, 'Grandfather's Song'.

Using authentic Native words, 'A New Dawn', Jake George forges a successful alliance between the Above World and the Old World. Jake gives his Native voice to his People.

Character development is very strong. The relationship between Running Woman and Crying Woman holds a very special place in my own heart. Custom is true to the instructions given; how to survive in harsh climates, a sense of community, herbal medicine and doctoring and authentic Native tools of survival.

Jake incorporates a spellbinding transformation, a guise of human to animal and back to human shapeshifting through the characters Elder Fawn and Elk Caller.

Jake George has written a phenomenal account of a Native American adventure. 'A New Dawn' is rich in spiritual energy which reflects old-world Native values and survival ties with the land to restore peace to a troubled world.

'A New Dawn' makes its way into modern-day Indian communities to emerge a new generation to sustain cultural identity and respect for being Native American.

The name on this book, 'A New Dawn' in the absolute highest spiritual sense, is an educational gift on behalf of all Native American tribes.

Sage Sweetwater Reviews Jerry Bolton's fairy:! A Cautionary Tale

A powerhouse of a write, Jerry Bolton! If I may, a quote from fairy!: A Cautionary Tale---"The moral conscience of the nation is what has caused everything to happen." I plan to read this book again ten years from now. This book gives us a very real look into our future and it is there! And so is the screenplay! I wish you the best Mr. Bolton. And I wish fairy!: A Cautionary Tale to find its slot in modern-day movie-making. This book needs submitted to the Hollywood Book Festival immediately. Deadline is this month! It is a contender! Congratulations on a bold masterpiece, Jerry! Thank you for sending me a copy.

I was honored to place a professional review for Jerry Bolton on amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/
1411635523/sr=8-1/qid=1151530363/ref=sr_1_1/102-9350086-3412148?ie=UTF

Sage Sweetwater Reviews Chrissy McVay's 'Souls of the North Wind
May 30, 2006

'Souls of the North Wind is rich with Canadian tundra imagery. McVay has done a magnificent job in articulating Inuit customs, beliefs, and sacred observances in this story. McVay's characters are worth studying as examples of the primitive state that civilized societies have emerged from. Souls of the North Wind makes a profound impression. McVay uses words of lasting import and as I read the story, I ask myself what advantage our society possesses over that of more primitive cultures, and I find, the more I read about the Ihalmiut customs in Souls of the North Wind, that we have no right to look down upon them. McVay enters a world with a vast body of Inuit legends and customs that lend beauty and significance to all facets of life. Souls of the North Wind is the carved tusk storage box of customs that preserve Inuit tribal heritage. Chrissy McVay is an excellent interpreter who through Souls of the North Wind has helped convey the richness of the Inuit culture to us. Souls of the North Wind greatly increases the value of the Inuit culture. Congratulations Souls of the North Wind for winning the silver (second place) in ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award in the juvenile fiction category! Well-deserving!


Sage Sweetwater Writes Blurb For Joyce White's Upcoming Book of Poetry 11/12/2009

Joyce White queries Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist Sage Sweetwater to write a blurb and lend the Firebrand's name for another soon-to-be-released Joyce White title.

Joyce White sent me her poetry to review and asked if I would consider writing her blurb, stating that she would like to have my name on the back of her upcoming poetry book. I am happy to honor Joyce's request, and so here is what I have to say. Be looking for Joyce White's book of poetry soon.

"Feminist godly mythology...Sensuous, of love, of women and addictive, competitive drama...Angel-bearing wings, Joyce White's poetry flies above life's fault line..."[Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity Firebrand Lesbian Novelist].