Mystic Dreaming new update

The illustrator finished illustrating my new poetry book, Mystic Dreaming, and it will most likely be out within the next few weeks. It's longer than my previous book, Sylvan Dreaming, and thus will cost $16 USD.


Once it is available, I will update this post with a link.

Mystic Dreaming (new poetry book) updates.

The illustrator has agreed to do some of the artwork, and has finished the first of the illustrations. Once the book is published (which will not be for quite a while), I'll link to where it is available and post 2-3 of the poems from it.

Progress: new poetry book

I have already written all the poems for the new poetry book I'm writing. I plan to call it Mystic Dreaming.

I plan to talk to the intended illustrator soon and see if he's willing to do the artwork. We shall see.

Update/notes

As of today (May 7, 2015), Sylvan Dreaming is #1 on the "Hot new reads" on Amazon in the category "Nature Poetry". Quite an accomplishment since the book has only been out a week! Though I doubt it will stay there very long.
But enough bragging.

Sylvan Dreaming is out on both Kindle and as a paperback book and available at Amazon right now (and in 5-7 more weeks, it should be available at bookstores and libraries), and now I'm working on a second book of poems, hesitantly titled Mystic Dreaming.

 I will update this blog with the progress on the new poetry book as it comes.

"Sylvan Dreaming" published

The  poetry book "Sylvan Dreaming", written by me, has been published and is now available on Amazon for $12.

Link to buy it:

 http://www.amazon.com/Sylvan-Dreaming-Sarah-E-Potter/dp/1508424861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430768945&sr=8-1&keywords=Sylvan+Dreaming

A few of the poems from "Sylvan Dreaming":

Wanderlust
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy
The warmth and safety of

Home and hearth,
But sometimes
When the rain falls

And all else is quiet
I dream of traveling
To places far beyond
The borders.
To other places, other worlds,
The worlds within my dreams.

 

Foal

(For a friend)

Little filly

Run like wind

Faster than the colts.

Shining golden

Dappled fur

Glows in the

Morning light.

Eyes of blue

And sky of blue

Leopard wants

To touch the sky.

Springing high

Above the ground,

Horse-child

Can you fly?

Flier

Soft silver moon,

Black velvet night,

Sky speckled with starlight.

She flies,

Her great wings spread-

Shining silver tinged with gold,

Her feathers sparkling, glinting

When moonlight touches them.

Scales glisten, shine

In starlight, moonlight.

The sound of pack-song far below-

She banks, dives.

Wolves move aside

From the stone where they gathered,

Continue their howls.

She lands,

Her mane glitters

Like dewdrops on spiderwebs.

Circling wolves’ howls

Strengthen her

Even as she rests

From her long journey.

Pups climb along her rough back,

Between her spikes.

The smallest, at her head

Chews her antler-tips

But she does not mind.

Sky-blue eyes glow,

She wraps her long shimmering tail

About her, feathers and spines lay flat.

Her leaf-like tail-tip covers up her face.

Curved, sharp claws now sheathed,

Paws curled beneath her body,

Great wings folded over her back,

She softly trills like a bird,

Calming the pups.

Scale and feather,

Claw and antler,

Talon wrapped pearl,

Silver blue eyes

All start to glow,

Making the wolves’ pelts shine

With the softness

Of moonglow.