creative writing
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2nd Annual #Poetry Contest Reminder: Enter Today!! (No Entry Fee. No Hidden Fees.)
Don’t forget about this year’s contest. Submissions are being accepted NOW. Don’t wait until the last minute. Enter now for your chance to win a $50 Amazon gift-card, publication in an online magazine designed specifically for this contest, publication to this blog and across my social media, exposure to the platforms of our judges and… Continue reading
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Book Promo, New Cover and SALE Alert! – ‘I am Soul’ by Yecheilyah
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: It’s been a long time. I miss you guys! But I will be returning real soon. Until then, I have news. I am Soul is my latest collection of poetry and it released at the end of December but to be honest, I was never too… Continue reading
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Confession and Cover Reveal
Many of you know that I have pushed my two bigger projects back but I’ve been low-key working on another one and yesterday, I revealed the news to my email list. I have wanted to publish many of the poems featured on this blog (by featured I am referring to my own poems) in a… Continue reading
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New Beginnings
What happens when the words are carried on the backs of angels and thread themselves like strings from your heart to the edge of your fingertips like consciousness translated into poetry a spiritual essence poured out only to be confined and restricted to the page that binds them what happens when newness fills you to… Continue reading
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Today is Good
That amazing future and glorious tomorrow. Always enticing us to move time forward so that we may rush what is now for a moment much more beautiful than this. A tomorrow much more gorgeous and radiant than the present. The present. What of this? What of now? What of our quest for some rare and… Continue reading
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The Right Poem
When the right poem is born it is all feeling. Taste and touch and nourishment. All heart and aching and lifting. Poetry is a revolution with a profound sense of strength. When the right poem arrives I notice it instantly. It is all moving like earthquakes so powerful that it breaks down mental barriers and… Continue reading
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We Feel
We think and we feel and leak emotion in black ink in hopes to build bridges of commonality with others. Those who aren’t afraid to feel. To admit that last night had us hungover in our own feelings and that we sought to heal on paper. So, we sat there. Knee deep in tears from… Continue reading
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