A book that touches everyone right where they are.
Cookie Arnold is a child at heart whose journey has been one filled with many battles. Cookie’s strength and adversity through a motorcycle accident and several surgeries is truly amazing, and inspiring, as is her poetry. Cookie's life journey is what led her to poetry. She says “It pushed me to find refuge in the creation of my imagination. When an ugly world surrounded me I drifted to places of beauty and color”.
Cookie's poem 'Ping', included in this book, won fourth place in the 2006 Poetry Contest at Soul Asylum Poetry and Publishing. She paints beautiful images, using fantasy to express her realities. Children will also find poems they enjoy. We are sure you will love to enter Cookie's oasis of poetry, she is sure to set your soul at ease….
Excerpt
Visited by the collector of souls
slowly relinquishing into his hold.
As pain ravaged each fiber I own
Fever spiked, inflaming every bone.
Exerpt from This I've Seen
ISBN 978-0978133887
Professional Reviews
Anthology
You will find some of Cookie's poems in the book Whispering Souls,,in fact you will find that Carole opens the doors to Whispering Souls so to speak being the first poet in the book, we loved her poems so much we thought what a beautiful way start
Ping
Cookie's poem 'Ping', included in this book, won fourth place in the
2006 Poetry Contest at Soul Asylum Poetry and Publishing. She paints
beautiful images, using fantasy to express her realities. Children will
also find poems they enjoy. We are sure you will love to enter
Cookie's oasis of poetry, she is sure to set your soul at ease….
Winner of third place 2007
A Baby Rattle Among The Reeds...by Cookie Arnold Won Third place for the year 2007. A touching piece born and brillant use of this metafore. For her son who on 3-8-2008 passed away from a heart attack in her home. Cookie gave CPR to her Son but God called him home.
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