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Angel of Better Days to Come

Rockets of blind faith

sputter and crackle dead dreams––

like time bleeding stars.

Through soft painted moans

a man watches his life drown

in waves of glass bones.

Celestial winds

blow chilled screams for love’s…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 20, 2012 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

The Winged Heart of Valentine's Brilliant Desires

May the winged heart

of Valentine’s brilliant desires

spin…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on February 14, 2011 at 1:41am — 2 Comments

Angel of Earth Days and Seasons

A soft dream of green

colors starlit intentions

with sincerity.

In your hands winter

is a book with cloud pages

that snow pearls of love.

Your flight shines classic––

composed of symphonic nights

and honey-hued days.

Inside your laughter

spring’s kiss animates the beat

of summer’s warm song.

In your hair oceans

leap with sky-blue abandon

and… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — 7 Comments

A Glowing Circle of Winged Dreams (Part 2 of "The River of Winged Dreams")

Each roll and wave of the river

Flashes a new song and a new color.…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on October 23, 2010 at 4:59pm — No Comments

The Special Magic of an Exceptional Book Cover

Artist Gustave Blache III signs first-edition copies of I Made My Boy Out of Poetry,

which featured his original cover art.…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 21, 2010 at 11:37pm — No Comments

Savannah State Continues Fine Art Series with Phil Starks' "Gaia Earth Goddess" Exhibit

Wise Woman sculpture by Phil Starks. (photo by Gwendolyn Brooks)

The ancient stories told through the work of Savannah, Georgia, artist Phil Starks unfolded in a very modern setting with the opening of his Gaia Earth… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on October 26, 2009 at 4:09pm — No Comments

The Unique Genius of Gullah Artist Allen Fireall

Artist Allen Fireall at Friedman's Fine Art. (photo by Sandra Mudge from the Georgia Guardian)

When considering that an artist for the past twenty years has been producing and selling more than 100 original paintings per year, it becomes difficult to think of the individual as one of the South’s best kept brilliant secrets. Yet, despite the fact that he was selected one of the “top five collectible artists in the… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on September 11, 2009 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

The Poetic Synergy of Shared Creativity

"Broughton Street a.k.a. BeBop Street" by 2009 King-Tisdell Fine Arts Award winner Luther E. Vann (from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love).

For the past almost two decades, I have found myself frequently inspired by the work of artist Luther E. Vann, so much so that essays and poetry derived from meditations on his metaphysical paintings and sculpture eventually helped produce the book… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Book Business Wisdom Discovered "Outside the Box"

"A Widow Remembers" artwork from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, by Luther E. Vann.

One very useful interpretation of the phrase “think outside the box” is this: remain open to good business advice from unexpected sources. Appropriately enough, I did not gain that bit of insight while reading the latest text on business strategies offered by Mellody… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 2, 2009 at 5:18pm — 1 Comment

Field Notes from the 2009 Book Festival Trenches (Part 3 of 3)

As a landscape coffee table gift book, ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love makes a formidable display by itself for a literary festival event. But given the fact that my co-creator for the title, Luther E. Vann, and I were sharing space with a number of outstanding exhibitors like representatives from The Book Lady Bookstore and Cherokee Publishing,… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 9, 2009 at 3:38pm — 1 Comment

A Naked Woman with Skin of Thorns and Ice

"Humanities 1" artwork by Matt Manley

“Gently, she shows them

what she is wearing. Pearls of Pain and the fine-spun

Veils of Patience.”

--Rilke (Duino Elegies No. 10)

A naked woman with skin of thorns and ice crawled,

without tears, through the midnight city of her soul.

On one dark corner she saw the beautiful daughter

whose… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on February 12, 2009 at 5:19pm — 1 Comment

ELEMENTAL Makes Savannah Book Festival Debut

The creators of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, will join more than 40 more critically acclaimed authors for the second annual Savannah Book Festival on Telfair Square in Historic Downtown Savannah, Georgia (USA) for three days from February 6-8, 2009.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, a book featuring more than 60 color reproductions of art by internationally acclaimed artist Luther E. Vann,… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on January 24, 2009 at 6:26pm — No Comments

Authors and Books to Watch in 2009

Cartoon of Aberjhani courtesy of cartoonist Mark Streeter

It’s not uncommon for people who possess certain passions to develop exceptional instincts in regard to the objects of those passions. In my case, being a certified bookaholic who has managed major bookstores like Waldenbooks and Books A Million, reviews books all over the Internet (including for Amazon’s Vine Program), and writes in different genres, I have… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 29, 2008 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments

More Favorite CTI Quotes

Courtesy of Karl Blog Screensavers on Fickr

I have to admit that I’m actually having more fun going through the different blogs and picking out favorite quotes than I did reading them the first time around. Guess that’s one major bonus of this particular celebration. And yes, I admit I do love it when I surprise myself that way :- )

So here’s part 2 of… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on September 10, 2008 at 12:51pm — No Comments

A Few of My Favorite CTI Quotes

Anais Nin note card from Quinn Creative Shop Online

Quote Appreciation Day here at CTI is supposed to start tomorrow on the 10th but I figure it's midnight somewhere by now :-) so I'm getting started because I’m going to be posting quotes from different members blogs and comments in at least three parts. I can honestly say that I have enjoyed… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on September 9, 2008 at 5:13pm — 2 Comments

Days to Remember in September

2005 model for Freedom Tower, the replacement for the World Trade Center, night view from the Hudson River. (Courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP)

Before the hours of insanity and annihilation that changed world history on September 11, 2001, the month of September was noted by members of my family primarily as the birth month for at least a half dozen individuals. It remained, of course, their month after…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on September 3, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Vincent and Theo: Brotherly Love of the Intense Kind

I have one favorite scene in the film VINCENT AND THEO, the late Robert Altman’s highly acclaimed masterwork on the life of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. It is a short brutal scene in the first half of the movie when Van Gogh’s model and mistress is leaving him: she slaps him witless, and then kisses him hard on the mouth before storming out of the apartment. That double action of pained frustration and loving adoration seems a sad…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on July 24, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

In the Company of Banksy, Proust, and It Looks Like Me

(Urban wall art by the brilliant and elusive British artist known as Banksy)

One of my favorite thirty-second pastimes is to click on major websites for books and find out which titles customers are purchasing in addition to a specific book of my own. I was particularly curious about what the results might be in regard to ELEMENTAL The… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on July 12, 2008 at 4:34pm — 2 Comments

Home and the Wanderer (Part 2 of 2)

From The American Poet Who Went Home Again

In my life as a poet, change meant employing my pen to acknowledge the deaths and lives of people I had loved for as long as I could remember but who suddenly were gone. I noticed for the first time how closely the word… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on July 3, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

The News Reporter Unplugged

Savannah Morning News reporter Joel Weickgenant provided readers with an in-depth look at the ongoing saga of ELEMENTAL in his story on the project, published both offline and on the Internet. However, true to the changing nature of journalism as impacted by…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on January 13, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

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