Art for book covers is a different kind of creative…

For the first part of this interview with jazz-poet Toussaint St. Negritude, please see the previous CTI Creative Conversations blog.…

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT Lyrics by Don McClean

Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

Starry, starry night.

Paint your palette blue and grey,

Look out on a summer's day,

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Shadows on the hills,

Sketch the trees and the daffodils,

Catch the breeze and the winter chills,

In colors on the snowy linen land.



Now I understand what you tried to say to…

The poem "A Blue Rose for the Sergeant" was written in commemoration of the life and death of my late husband George Franklin Patton. You can see him in the above photo in the middle with our friend Levi Jordan.

The seed that grew this rose

formed long ago.…

My name is Vanda and I am glad to join everyone here at Creative Thinkers International. I hope that during the time I am a member I am able to share many positive and inspiring ideas with other members and those in the world community open to sharing such life-enhancing ideas.

Vanda

From: THE WISDOM OF W.E.B. DUBOIS

The Book of Dead Names Sonnet Trilogy by Sara Russell, 29/4/07

Introduction

Burning pages

Blood-red sky

Rage of angels

Days gone by

The Chosen one, with eyes of searing flames

Is opening the book of Living Names....

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The turning pages tell of lives gone by,

Furled by the one whose eyes are blinding flames;

Hot ashes flutter to the blood-red sky,

Like burning souls…

cicles in time

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time,time into circles

circles,circles in time

time moving in constant circles

circles within circles

oceans of time

circling in an ocean of constant thought

expanding minds

expanding minds throughout the universe

many minds

one thought

one thought changing the history of time

one thought changing the cycle of time

one thought changing the futer circle…

In honor of the presentation of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature to author Doris Lessing, the following are a selection of quotes from her various writings:…

Despite the trials of this earthly world

and the continued foolishness of men,

God wants His Principles completely unfurled –

For He loves His Children, while hating sin.



His anger is not turned away

and yet His Hand is outstretched still.

Our Salvation awaits its appointed day

with the meshing of our spirits to His Will.



As long as we continue to breathe,

there’s Hope for us to loving cleave;

He’s promised that His Spirit…

Out from the darkness,

having a lifestyle that’s plain to see,

I’m standing fully in the Light

of God’s transparency.



I have no hidden agendas,

nor malicious motives;

my heavenly light is set upon a hill,

shining as a diminutive votive.



I’m a human jar of clay,

desiring true spiritual brokenness;

for God’s vessels draw men to Him,

via the sparkling of His Holiness.



For the nakedness of Life

is my personal choice;

as an…

LAMIA (sonnet trilogy)

Copyright Sara L. Russell, 22nd September 2004

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Within fathomless chambers of your dreams,

Past glittering remains of lost desire,

Like fallen empires borne on lava streams,

Therein I fly, soaring on wings of…