First collection of award winning poetry by Melanie Simms (first edition); poems have been featured in over 120 newspapers, magazines and ezines nationally and internationally. Edited by Gary Young.
Little God
My son doesn't know
His own strength;
Shadows flicker across the room,
Ducks, rabbits
And wolves.
He has made them
With his hands
And watches them dance
Across the moonlit wall.
He laughs as he creates
Creature after creature
My little god.
Professional Reviews
Michael Glaser
This collection of poems speak to the many emanations of the Muse as Melanie Simms' has experienced them. As a whole, they capture the various lights and shadows that compromise the complex and always mysterious timbres of her life--- the dissonant sorrows and the rainbow dream. Waking the Muse is an ode to the constant hope of the morning sun.
Robert Sward
Melanie Simms' moving poems, the best, are well observed, telling, timely and truly speak from the heart.
Gary Young
Deeply rooted in the Romantic tradition, her poetry is by turns humorous, mocking, serious and heart wrenching.
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
