Felipe Adan Lerma

List of My Author Pages

*** INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Happy 31st Anniversary Sheila

Home

Aging Gracefully into Mother’s Day – Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma (felipeadanlerma.com)
Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos Links and Commentary – # 1 (felipeadanlerma.com)
Aging Gracefully into 62, Part 2 – Returning to Work as a Senior (felipeadanlerma.com)
Captioned Photos # 3 – National Physical Fitness and Sports Month! (felipeadanlerma.com)
The Day I Wed My Kids’ Step-Mom … Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma (felipeadanlerma.com)

Tags: baby photo, dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, Family Poems, Felipe Adan Lerma, Love, love poetry, Poetry

Comments 15 Comments
Categories Arts Area, Bio Updates, dVersepoets, family poetry, Felipe Adan Lerma, Photo-Poem, photography, poetry

The Day I Wed My Kids’ Step-Mom … Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

30 Apr

Family Poems

“The Day I Wed My Kids’ Step-Mom”

Original Family Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

Pictured Left : Family Poems, available on Amazon Books & Barnes & Noble

Short original poems for mom, dad, brothers & sisters, and many others in an extended family.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

***

Author pages for all titles (fiction, poetry, and images) for each major online outlet also on the top right of each page:

Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Google Books, iTunes, Kobo, Smashwords.

***

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

The Day I Wed My Kids’ Step-Mom

Original Family Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

Categories : Family Poems * Love Poems * Occasions Poetry

Sheila at the Big Clock "Horloge du Musée d'Orsay"

Spending a Little Time with Sheila at the Big Clock
Notice the Tiny Toe-Step Dance Pose
“Horloge du Musée d’Orsay”

The Day I Wed My Kids’ Step-Mom

Down the seawall in Galveston

down Broadway Boulevard’s hundred year old oaks

before Ike torn them down -

down to the courthouse

with our three kids

- in tow -

two

were mine and your little one.

But they were all, so little, then, weren’t they…

even

with their own children now.

And we heard “Going to the

Chapel”

playing in our Chevy Chevette

grins spreading stars ‘cross our eyes as we sang it.

The soft Galveston air

warm

but not yet hot.

The parking was easy then too.

And we’d jumped into doing it, it seemed -

marrying, even

if nearly a year and a half after we’d first pretended not to

have noticed each other.

Well

there’s no denying it now.

I married you then, and I’d marry you now.

And maybe remember, again, it wasn’t just the words in the song -

it was the music in the car and our children in the back seat

and the wind in the windows and all the wishes

we’ve worked to make true.

Happy Anniversary

Sheila

dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, # 94, Hosted by Grace

I’ve linked my new poem to a great site for poets, dVersePoets.

OpenLinkNight provides an open prompt once a week for poets to post on any subject. A few suggestions, with an example in their posting, are spring, or a poem for National Poetry Month (April).

For spring, I do have an springtime Austin Texas photopoem with images of the Hike & Bike Trail.

But this poem, if you’ve had a chance to read it, is an anniversary poem to my wife, Sheila.

May 1st – Happy 32nd Anniversary to Sheila

Below are some nice memories of past posts where I could feature you, or you inspired me.

Muchas gracias, it’s been a journey that’s filled (over-flowed? ) my life.

Related Links

“Step Mom” – Mother’s Day Week of Original Poetry

Opening a View of Gratitude

Wild Music – Original Arts & Love Poetry

Partner Musicality .^.^.^^ Poetry from Yoga — ~~ — Making Our First Music Video

Babies, Relentlessness of the New

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

Adan

List of My Author Pages

*** INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Home

Aging Gracefully into Mother’s Day – Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma (felipeadanlerma.com)
Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos # 6 – Square René Vivian, St Severin Area (Day 6) (felipeadanlerma.com)
Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Fiction and Images, a New Series of Each (felipeadanlerma.com)
Aging Gracefully into 62, Part 1 – Back to Fitness (felipeadanlerma.com)

Tags: anniversary, dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, Family Poems, Felipe Adan Lerma, Love Poem, Moms, mother's day, occasions poetry, Poetry, Sheila Lerma, Step Mom

Comments 12 Comments
Categories Arts Area, Bio Updates, dVersepoets, family poetry, Felipe Adan Lerma, love poetry, occasions poetry, poetry

If Moms Were… – Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

9 Apr

Family Poems

If Mom’s Were – Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

Pictured Left : Family Poems, available on Amazon Books & Barnes & Noble

Short original poems for mom, dad, brothers & sisters, and many others in an extended family.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

***

Author pages for all titles (fiction, poetry, and images) for each major online outlet on the top right of each page:

Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Google Books, iTunes, Kobo, Smashwords

***

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

If Mom’s Were…

Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma

Category : Family Poems

If Mom’s Were…

If moms were rainbows

you would always be the

first and last colors shining.

If moms were angels

you’d be my highest guardian.

If moms were roses

you’d open cheerfully at daybreak

and guide me from the thorns of life.

If moms were dreams

you’d be my deepest sleep.

If moms were stars

you’d be my guiding light.

And if moms were money

you’d never be spent foolishly

but forever saved wisely in my heart.

dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, Mother’s Day, and “If Mom’s Were…”

dVersePoets

one of the advantages of posting to dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, and participating in their open call prompt for poetry, is being able to merge something i want to post, with a poem i need to post, and be part of the camaraderie with a great group of original and “very” diverse yet talented poets -

do check out their link below joseph hesch, tonight’s host, has some witty description of tending the poetry bar and ties it to one of his favorite emily dickinson poems

Mother’s Day

the biggest celebration after Christmas is fast approaching, and i’ve a few poems i’ve posted over the years i wanted to add to

recently i posted a new poem, “aging gracefully into mother’s day“, which is part of my family poems in general on my site (includes dad, babies, all those good relationships we’ve hopefully be able to enjoy)

the family poems series does include quite a few other mother’s day poems, including poems like “step mom” and “my mom is an angel“

“If Mom’s Were…”

written almost twenty years ago now, amazing!

this is one of my older favorite family poems, where i created a self prompt, before i knew there was such a thing as “a” prompt

i did many many poems in this style, saying what an idea or person “was” if they were something else

my wife sheila and i sold these little poems in art and mall shows all through the 90s, personalizing them on the spot, printing them out, and matting and backing them with mats and foam core i cut myself at home

all i asked of myself was to find an image that felt right to me emotionally, and see if i could phrase it in a nice way

i think that is part of what i like about dVersePoets, especially their open link night feature which circles round each week, a poet or artist can create what is dearest to his or her heart right then, in the style that suits, in the words that mean the most

mother’s day is just a month away now, and though it really exists all year round watching and celebrating its approach might mean a little more, especially to the mom

best wishes everyone!

Link

linked to dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, # 91

hosted by : joseph hesch

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

Adan

List of My Author Pages

*** INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Home

Aging Gracefully into Mother’s Day – Original Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma (felipeadanlerma.com)
Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Photos # 6 – Square René Vivian, St Severin Area (Day 6) (felipeadanlerma.com)
Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Fiction and Images, a New Series of Each (felipeadanlerma.com)

Tags: dVersePoets OpenLinkNight, Family Poems, Felipe Adan Lerma, Moms, mother's day, Poetry, Poetry for Mom

Comments 7 Comments
Categories Arts Area, Bio Updates, dVersepoets, family poetry, Felipe Adan Lerma, poetry

On Blog-cation, Returning Mid-January 2013 – Happy Holidays!

17 Dec

Box Sets – Poetry Fiction & Images

Cover Images, Press Releases, and Links to Retail Outlets - Yoga-Adan eBooks, Arts, Gently Infused with Yoga & Fitness™

“a beginner’s view : the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

**

This Post

Below is a copy of my permanent page “Box Sets” which is updated regularly. This posting is a holding page while I am on, as a fellow blogger called it, on Blog-cation.

My wife and I are transitioning from Vermont, back to Texas, via Paris.

Posts chronicling this transition include these three series :

Texas to Vermont

PhotoPoems – Vermont

PhotoPoems – Paris

Box Sets

The box sets include poetry, images, and fiction.

I hope you will consider these as gifts for yourself and others.

Free Books

Free ebooks, in all three categories, are listed by title with links to online availability locations.

Happy Holidays Everyone

***

Box Sets

***

Alphabetical Listing of Titles

A Love Story Series Box Set Vol 1 - Fiction

PhotoPoems – Book One, Seven Volumes

Poetry Collection Vol 1 Box Set – Poetry

***

A Love Story Series Box Set Vol 1 - Fiction – Available by Nov 1

Click for Larger Image

Amazon Books

Kobo

Click Image for Full Size

to page index

***

PhotoPoems – Book One, Seven Volumes - Images with Poems

Click for Larger Image

Amazon Books

Click Image for Full Size

to page index

***

Poetry Collection Vol 1 Box Set - Poetry

Click for Larger Image

Amazon Books

Kobo

Click Image for Full Size

to page index

***

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Tags: books, Box set, E-book, Family Fiction, Paris, Poetry, poetry collection, Texas, Vermont

Comments 6 Comments
Categories Arts Area, Bio Updates, Box Sets, Felipe Adan Lerma, Fiction, Paris, Photo-Poem, poetry, Texas to Vermont, Vermont

Texas to Vermont – Finishing Up, On to Paris, then Back to Texas

5 Nov

New – Box Sets page on this site.

Variety of original topics : Poetry, Fiction, and Images.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

Texas to Vermont - Finishing Up, On to Paris, then Back to Texas

***

the variations are our breathing into our words the nuances of our life

Assumptions

Little River Along Mountain Road in Stowe Area © Felipe Adan Lerma

in the almost year and a half my wife and i have been in vermont, being able to visit and be near her family, where she was born and grew up, all the way to graduating from the university of vermont, we have wavered between leaving immediately , staying longer, and leaving as planned, around this time, but not sure exactly to where we would go next

in that time, our assumptions of what we’ve wanted / needed / should do, have also changed and fluxed, morphed and grown, tweaked and clarified

we finally settled on going back to texas, at least for the holidays, then finally doing a life long dream plan of staying in paris for a month or more, and enjoying that fantasy on at least on a more leisurely level

with news that our youngest girl was expecting her first child, we flipped those plans to going to paris first, then texas, ready to greet the newest grandchild

at this time, that plan seems to be holding

below, then, is an update on my texas to vermont series of posts, possibly my last one, with a wrap-up and expectations regarding fitness and the arts

***

On to Paris

Sheila Taking Tourists’ Pictures in Paris, circa 2002

first, once we reach our new exit-from-vermont flight date, due to hurricane sandy, we’re off to paris as originally planned

i have to say though, our week-long delay here at the sun & ski inn has put us into what so far has been the best place to recover from the work we went through leaving our apartment (cleaning and packing etc, seems much tougher the older we get ) – the image above is the view from our sliding doors at the back of our unit

we’ve had secure for paris what promises to be a nice way to spend an extended time of about five weeks during the non-tourist season – more on that once we’re there

we’ll of course have pictures, and i’ll start a new photopoem series, much like the ones i have for vermont and the birds in galveston, something i look fwd to doing at least weekly

Sunset, Seine & Eiffel Tower, circa 2002 – © Felipe Adan Lerma

***

Back to Texas

Sheila by Hike & Bike Austin Texas ’05

before the christmas holidays we’ll be headed back to texas for a year or more, or good, who knows

it’ll have been the longest i’ve been away from my home state, and three years since we’ve lived in austin (with our 1 1/2 year stay in galveston)

burlington, many people who live here have told me, is the miniature northern version of austin, with its culture, energy, music, good eats, hills, and nearby water -

flip the longish summers in austin with the equal length longish winters in burlington, grace away the over one and a half million population difference, and yes, i’d have to agree, incredibly and often, pleasantly true

Under Lamar Street Bridge, 4th of July ’05 – © Felipe Adan Lerma

***

Photo Poems

it appears i’ll mostly be posting photopoems for the near term -

they combine the visual and written arts, and for me are fun things to do

besides numerous stand-alone photopoems, many written for prompts from dVersePoets, I currently have two series, though the latter, the bird series, are really photos with captions – they were my pre-runner to my current photopoem format

the other set, the vermont photopoem series, is a more fully developed idea of what i like to do for now – it lets me present an image (which i have fun choosing and working up) and a short verse (that i enjoy tying to what the image compels from me)

once in paris, i fully hope to start a new thread, the paris photopoems series

i do want to mention that, besides prompts from dVersePoets, the first impetus to think of combining my own image and verse in its current form, came from a photopoem by jomul, who has an interesting site i’d recommend browsing

***

Fitness Classes

Adan + 40 Lbs with Sheila on Bike Path, Austin Texas ’05 :
Did I Mention I Didn’t Get Fit (again) Until 2008?

i’d often wondered how i could better motivate my fellow seniors in the classes sheila and i teach, that they too could improve from what ever fitness level they were at, if they wished -

i should have had and shown them this picture maybe still will

and this post certainly can

i even was wearing my 100 club exercise t-shirt!! it’s hilarious!

and more so ’cause the way to fitness is NOT just exercise (attentive movement), NOT just diet (sensible eating), but breathing, consistency, persistence, habit – did i mention i had a good partner? yeah, that too

but to my senior classes here in vermont, those through the The Y, both the early morning aerobics jazzing line-dancing ladies, but also the chair based gonna do it afternoon seniors – my deepest sincerest thank you !!!

sheila and i will see what we see once we’re back in texas, fitness class teaching wise, but we’ll always miss these great folks

Adan by Little River, Stowe Vermont 2012
With My Hands Where My Belly Used to Go To

***

Last Word – Won’t Be Able to Respond to Comments for a Bit

i’m posting this the day before we leave our temporary lodging because i’ll likely not have internet to respond easily for 2-3 days, depending on where i can get wifi in paris

but i will get back to everyone, so take care, blessings

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

My First Interview! Poetry & Writing – With Neelthemuse

12 Aug

Click for Larger Image

***

Pictured, “Rosetta”

Second in the series “A Love Story”

First book, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story” – a love story, and a story about art. FREE at participating outlets.

Second book, “Rosetta” – a love story, and a story about recovery from total knee surgery.

Third book, “The Children” – a love story, and a story about generations.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

My First Interview! Poetry & Writing – With Neelthemuse

My Sincere Thanks

it is with great pleasure that i can point you to my first interview, courtesy of neelima of neelthemuse, who does an entire series of interviews of poets and writers

in her About page, neelima says,

I teach English and no matter what people say about poems, I see students listening when you read a poem.

this is very telling about the power of words

my sincere thanks for the opportunity to neelima, and i hope you’ll visit her site and take a look at her other interviews, plus her own personal poetry

***

namaste´ – con dios – god by with you

Currently Available Outlets for “The Old American Artist, a Love Story”

Amazon

My Books Page Listing with Updates

Smashwords

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

***

dVerse Poets Pub: Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing – Accelerating Into the Curve

9 Aug

***

Pictured, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story” – First of Series

A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story?

Now being priced at FREE at participating outlets. Please see link above.

Second in series, “Rosetta” available approx mid August.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Accelerating Into the Curve

dVerse Poets Pub Prompt : Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing -

hosted by Claudia Schoenfeld

claudia, traveling about europe (where she lives) happened on an impressionist exhibit and was inspired for the “meeting the bar” prompt featured this week

besides the absolutely stunning monet featured at the top of the page, which i believe i saw once, or a variation of it, in a converted museum-house in paris, she wrote this, which is thought was perfectly on :

But details weren’t their focus anyway, it was the mood of a moment, a feeling, fleeting, moving. Monet once said “For me a landscape does not exist in itself, it changes every moment in appearance, but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life.”

it hard enough doing approximate justice visually to the impressionist legacy, much less verbally with words, but to feel inspired to do one’s own “take” on our own personal moments, here and now in our own unique times, is justification enough i believe

if you can, stop by and see the full prompt, and even more enticing, the myriad poetic responses one can enjoy, as a reader a writer a painter a lover and simply curious

best wishes everyone!

Accelerating Into the Curve

when i was twelve

pressing my bike

round and down

the curve from

my house

felt the pebbles

nudge the back

tire

but i held on

barely

when i was twenty

gunning the gas

little by little

feeling the

four

wheels under me spin-

turning the corners

felt the shift of the weight

of the car

pulling out from under

but i held on

slowly

when i was nearly thirty

my young son beside

inside

the great american scream

machine

the

roller coaster bursting

a dip a rise and a turn

back down

the mountain of

track

we both held on

dearly

and now having past

sixty

reaching the

time

when i can settle and do

what i’d like

ha ha

feel myself

leaning a shoulder into the

wind

glancing back at what went by

squeezing my time

into stop-watch

stop-action

moments

my life

my heart my hands

smiling

accelerating into the last curve

fully

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 51, When I Left the Past in Another Life (yoga-adan.com)
Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic writing (dversepoets.com)
dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, One Year Anniversary Week, Monet’s Garden in Giverny (yoga-adan.com)
Poetics – A French Twist For Quatorze Juillet, Walking in Paris (yoga-adan.com)
dVersePoets Pub – OpenLinkNight Week 47 : “Venus in Transit Across the Sun” (yoga-adan.com)
I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 6 (yoga-adan.com)
The Indie Spotlight : “The Old American Artist, a Love Story”
dVersepoets dVerse Poetics–Sculpting a Poem, “The Shape of Gratitude”

Tags: Accelerating, dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Impressionism, Poetry

Comments 20 Comments
Categories Arts Area, dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, inspirational poetry, poetry, Seniors

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 55, “Volleyball Dink” – Happy 2012 Olympics!

31 Jul

Click for Listings

***

Pictured, “101 Sports Poems”

Baseball, dance, yoga, bicycling, football, volleyball, and much more!

Poetry in sports! Available in paperback and ebook.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Volleyball Dink

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 55

hosted by Hedgewitch (joy ann jones)

who “did have to wash the adjective confetti out of the beer steins” from the last open link night so you can tell, it gets fairly festive around there

she offers some interesting information on, (she guesses) her fourth or fifth reading of “lord of the rings” – i found it very interesting!

and ends with this take from her readings,

“In the end, that’s why we’re drawn to write, I think, to chronicle, in our own ways, the adventures and tales of our lives and worlds that matter, so they won’t be forgotten, and like the characters in them, it really isn’t something we choose–it’s just the job we know we must do, and we can’t turn back if we want to do it right.”

the selection of readings from participating poets is always interesting, and one doesn’t need to have submitted to enjoy and/or comment on the works offered on each poet’s site

hope you get a chance to check it out

meanwhile, i offer a rare rhyming poem from the mid 90s, part of a collection of seven volleyball poems in my ebook “101 sports poems“

just saw a great duo team match last night with my wife as the olympics in london slosh on (as per the media)

made us both feel so good, i had to post something fun

i hope you enjoy!

Volleyball Dink

Twas the last play

of the game when all

the players’ feet were

tired and lame.

The ball rose over the net

high and free letting

everyone get set.

One last kill was all

that was needed but

the coach’s last words

the other team should’ve heeded:

“Support the weak link.

Watch the diggers.

Watch the setters

and watch for the dink.”

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Tags: Dink, dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Olympics, Poetry, Volleyball

Comments 16 Comments
Categories Arts Area, dVersepoets, Fitness, Humor, poetry, sports poetry, Yoga-Adan

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, One Year Anniversary Week, Monet’s Garden in Giverny

17 Jul

***

Pictured, “Arts Poems, Dance Yoga Music Art Writing & More” -

Over one hundred original arts related poems.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Monet’s Garden in Giverny

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, One Year Anniversary Week

i have been fortunate to have found and been able to participate in several communities of artists, in austin via Austin Visual Arts Association and Creative Arts Society, in galveston via Galveston Arts League, and online, via dVersePoets

AVAA has been while, while GAL dates way back, and the latter, dVersePoets is almost still a baby, though past crawling and getting into some pretty good bursts of runs

this week marks the one year anniversary of the latter, co-founded by brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

brian is a dad and husband and is based here in the u.s., while claude is a mom and a wife and based in europe -

an interesting engaging combo

they have a full week of goodies planned, take a look, see if you’d like to participate or just enjoy seeing what this varied and talented group of poets and writers has to offer

my own contribution today, to one of their rotating prompts, like a poem i wrote recently, celebrating bastille day (and who of us can resist celebrating freedom ) is sparked by the creative air of france

like the earlier poem focussing on paris, these are based on some wonderful enduring memories from a trip my wife and i took over a decade ago

monet’s garden in giverny, it seems, is like a shrine to artists -

a lifetime dedicated to finding truth and beauty -

and creating it….

i hope you enjoy

Monet’s Garden in Giverny

can’t say it was

not what i expected

and

i can’t say

it was

the light april rain

though

was a relief

from the texas heat

we’d left behind

the grounds laid out

to bloom maximum florals

best for each month

and even each part

of a month

yes

impressive -

and

the pond with the japanese

bridge

oh yes

almost told me

what this french artist

had found he could express

from his heart -

but

converted

into things for tourists

were

his workshop and home

with vanished eyes

still glancing

at people

who

visited -

my wife

and a few dozen others

and it felt like

some of those whispering looks

noticed

who was noticing them

and nodded

- to me -

oui monsieur oui

but

i heard them in pictures

so i asked them in same, saying

the gardens bloom out in layers with rows

criss-crossed by paths

and

the pond is ringed by flourishes

assorted arrangements

leaves feathered spikey all interwoven

colors and textures

all seen

from the room to room walls of windows peering

like eyeglasses cataracts removed

on the garden

and pond and seine

just beyond

and

i saw

monet’s garden

stretched as far as my heart wished it to…

oui monsieur oui

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Poetics – A French Twist For Quatorze Juillet, Walking in Paris (yoga-adan.com)
I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 3 (yoga-adan.com)
The Indie Spotlight : “The Old American Artist, a Love Story”
A Giverny Garden in Queens (nytimes.com)
N.Y. exhibition evokes Claude Monet’s flower garden (ctv.ca)

Tags: dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Giverny, Monet, Monet's Garden, Poetry

Comments 16 Comments
Categories Arts Area, arts poetry, dVersepoets, poetry, Yoga-Adan

Poetics – A French Twist For Quatorze Juillet, Walking in Paris

14 Jul

***

Pictured, “Arts Poems, Dance Yoga Music Art Writing & More” -

Over one hundred original arts related poems.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Walking in Paris

dVerse Poets Pub : A French Twist For Quatorze Juillet

hosted by K, aka ManicDDaily, also a/k/a Karin Gustafson

from and of the french is all around us!

today’s prompt celebrates exploring what french is for us in our own lives on today, Bastille Day

as ms K puts it,

“the three watchwords of the French revolutionaries celebrated today–Liberté, Fraternité and Egalité (Freedom, Brotherhood/Sisterhood, and Equality). These are also, to some degree, watchwords here at dVerse….”

this is a fun prompt, with lots of examples of things french, especially poetry, including the sound of french in poetry -

and having visited paris once, just over a decade ago, it nice to feel the memories still move…

i hope you enjoy this small poem, oui?

Walking in Paris

the

lady, a native

parisian (was obvious)

smiled, amused, i was pointing

taking photos of planters in windows

so much everyday for her

yet

so many flowers

and

eagerness for color

and light

for us

night

lights on the streets

in the shops and along the

branches of trees lining the walks

mirrored

the planters, flowers for

day

shinings at night

the

same city

warm

in scents of caresses

heartbeats, touched with new love

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 1 (yoga-adan.com)
Photo-Poem : “Magic at Art Hop 2011″ Burlington Vermont
dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry, How I Write Poetry (yoga-adan.com)

Tags: Bastille Day, dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Karin Gustafson, Paris, Poetics, Poetry

Comments 14 Comments
Categories Arts Area, dVersepoets, Paris, places poetry, poetry, Yoga-Adan

dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry, How I Write Poetry

12 Jul

Click for Listings

***

Pictured, “101 Sports Poems”

Baseball, dance, yoga, bicycling, football, volleyball, and much more!

Poetry in sports!

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

How I Write

dVerse Poets Pub : Ars Poetica – Poems about Poetry

hosted by Gay Reiser Cannon

dVersePoets is continuing to celebrate a year of poets getting together and sharing their work in a supportive environment, thanks to co-founders brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

recently i posted a series of writings and samples about my fiction writing, now i have the opportunity to write a small poem about writing poetry!

this “forms” prompt, from gay reiser cannon, is focused on asking what is poetry, beginning by saying :

Most scholars agree that poetry is linked to our most primitive past, and came into existence in an expression of emotions usually accompanied by rhythms (percussion, drums, singing, chanting,) and music. Therefore it enjoys the station of one of man’s oldest and basic arts.

she then presents an interesting look at poetry in term of “content,” “form,” and “effect” and includes a short piece from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

i had written my poem below before reading that portion, but am glad to follow in his invaluable sensed poet’s tradition of the elements

it’s amazing the varied range of discussion in the prompts from dVersePoets, i hope you get to go by there and check it out

How I Write Poetry

i’m an air sign that

catches fire

sparklers and bursting

then

doused with rain

sprinkles and gushers

carried,

bleeding pigments,

into the earth

sandy and rocky and fertile

but i

started as air

and

inevitably rise in wisps

from the tendrils of plants

as pollens of oxygen

wrapping myself

forgivingly

into

cyclones and breezes

into

air

once more

it’s how

brush myself into

rainbows

even

get to wonder and smile about….

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 3 (yoga-adan.com)
The Indie Spotlight : “101 Sports Poems”
dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 52, Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery (yoga-adan.com)

Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, air sign, dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Poetry

Comments 20 Comments
Categories Arts Area, Astrology, dVersepoets, inspirational poetry, poetry, Yoga-Adan

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 52, Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

10 Jul

***

Pictured : “2 Stories, a Poem, & a Sampler (fiction)” and “The Old American Artist, a Love Story.”

An Anthology of two fiction stories and a love poem, from 1981, plus a four chapter sampler from my first new fiction in over thirty years, “The Old American Artist, a Love Story.” – FREE at participating outlets.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 52

hosted by Tashtoo

dVersePoets is finishing up a year of poets getting together and sharing their work in a supportive environment, thanks to co-founds brian miller and claudia schoenfeld

tonight, tashtoo is guest hosting, saying,

“We are community! Comment and share, read and read again. This is what OpenLinkNight is all about.”

and next monday kicks off a full week of one year celebrations!

i’ve had the pleasure of the opportunity of sharing some of my work, and am pleased to contribute to this week’s open link night prompt, i hope you enjoy

Sheila’s Cane, After Surgery

some things

like ice crystals in winter

and sweat droplets

in summer

are

ubiquitous

it turns out that

sheila’s cane is also

a naturally occurring object

one

i spot and come across

sitting down by my laptop

the cane hung perfectly on the

spacings of her chair

beside my bed, on

a small rack for

knick knacks

and

clothes still needing drying -

between the

cushions of our small sofa aka

love seat

and even in

the kitchen, handle

curved to slide between

slats of the small pantry i built

when we first moved to vermont

our

beverage-station nut can stuffed can’t

do without

got-on-sale at K-Mart

pine unit

now

officially the kitchen cane

holder

could be worse

i realize

my belt loops could prove

awfully handy

for a cane

in need

but judging by the daily-increasing

clump-stump

sound

of her foot and cane speed

room to room down the hall around the

corners negotiations

i’ll play it safe and just call it for what it is -

sheila’s (and mine) candy cane

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

a non-profit org, they have this definition :

Tags: dVersepoets, Felipe Adan Lerma, free verse poetry, Poetry, using a cane

Comments 13 Comments
Categories Arts Area, dVersepoets, Fitness, inspirational poetry, love poetry, poetry, Yoga-Adan

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 1

4 Jul

***

Pictured : “2 Stories, a Poem, & a Sampler (fiction)” and “The Old American Artist, a Love Story.”

plus…

A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story?

We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever after” part? What are the details, what might the process be, achieving and living that post-crisis life?

This arc, from boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl, morphs, in this first of three books, in the trilogy Triptych, into that fuller story of life, and love.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Note: Not sure what happened, but this post disappeared from my site, so I am reposting. It was originally posted on July 02, 2012. Thanks ya’ll.

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance?

***

It’s Been Awhile

Sheila’s Knee Replacement

goodness it’s been awhile since i’ve posted to my blog, shame on me, but only a little bit

many know i’ve been helping my wife with her recovery from full knee replacement surgery

my blog motto includes the phrase, “it’s a process…” and if anything, it applies just as much if not more to rebuilding a major weight-bearing mobile joint such as the knee!

but the process is continuing, and sheila is making remarkable, if painful, progress -

more of her challenge comes from pulling back enough to get enough recovery so she can continue without getting so tired and pained…

but as anyone who’s gotten back in shape or done a physical recovery like sheila is doing, determining when to push and when to rest, is a tricky twangy jittery kind of line that changes each day and more often each part of the day

so all in all, huge recognition to her for her very determined work and progress

Teaching

in addition, i’ve been fortunate enough to be called to sub for quite a few other senior classes with the Y plus my two regular seniors classes

teaching up to 3x my normal load of classes i’ve gotten the opportunity to meet new people and practice my own frequent suggestion that it’s best to warm up slowly and fully

i’ve gotten good opportunities to demo over-load fatigue, and how to ease into a routine so that, by a third of the way through, the muscles and movement are much smoother and enjoyable

eBooks

lastly, in-between, in moments, i’ve continued to create ebooks from my previous material -

plus create new material, including my first fiction in over thirty years!

this week i will post more on that latter development

***

Romance Writer? Me?!?!

Genres

first, i should address the title of this post, “I’m WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance?”

what brought that up to begin with is, in searching for which possible genres to categorize my new fiction work (novellas) with at online booksellers, i came across discussions of what qualifies as a “romance” – at least in terms of being a genre

those discussions led me to the association Romance Writers of America, located in my hometown of houston, texas

Romance Writers of America

Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending.

i thought over my past and current work, and except for places-specific and occupation-specific poetry, almost all my stories and much of my poetry, fit that description

poetry examples include “heart beats” written nearly 20 years ago and posted at the beginning of my blogging early last year, to “racing in exile on father’s day” written just a couple of weeks ago

do these poems have a central love story? yes, i think so

do these poems have an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending? ditto

and in storage, in houston of all places are several novels i wrote in the late 70s and early 80s, all somewhat or totally to do with a love interest relationship, though i’d have to re-read them to see if they had “an optimistic ending”

New Work & Old, “2 Stories, a Poem, & a Sampler (fiction)” – FREE at Participating Outlets

now i’ve come full circle back to those early fiction roots, compiling a new ebook, “2 shorts, a poem, & a sampler (fiction)” that shows two short stories, one of which i would very much consider a romance

my poetry example, in the same book above, is also a romance i believe, though i certainly didn’t think of it as such “way back then”

and included in the new ebook is a four chapter sampling from my new novella, which itself is the first of three novels of a series entitled, Triptych

***

First New Fiction in Over 30 Years!

“The Old American Artist, a Love Story”

New Novella, Cross Genre? Romance and Art

thus my newest fiction in quite awhile, “the old american artist, a love story” qualifies, i believe, at the very least, as a dual- or cross-genre romance

the short portion of my product description for this new work reads :

Short Blurb

A romance and an artist’s story, how could it not be a love story?

We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the “lived happily ever after” part? What are the details, what might the process be, achieving and living that post-crisis life?

This arc, from boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl, morphs, in this first of three books, in the trilogy Triptych, into that fuller story of life, and love.

there’s much more of course, to the story, thus the “cross” or “dual” romance notation

new posts coming this week will detail this further, including with samples

***

This Week

beginning with today’s post, i will be uploading a small posting each day (or so), beginning with a bit more about the anthology book, “2 shorts, a poem, & a sampler (fiction)” -

then i’ll proceed by posting one of the four sample chapters each day, as a post, with short commentary, with more information about the novella and it’s planned arc as part of a trilogy

so with that, i wish all of us, myself and my wife included all the best

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

***

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 2

3 Jul

***

Pictured : “2 Stories, a Poem, & a Sampler (fiction)” and “The Old American Artist, a Love Story.”

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

I’m a WHAT Kind of Writer! Romance? – Part 2

Romance Writer? Me?!?! – Part Two

Definition

yesterday i wrote an overview of why it turns out that a lot of poetry and fiction from way back to now, might qualify as romance writing

Romance Writers of America a non-profit org, has this definition :

Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending.

i’m still convinced that a lot of writing is romance, or love-relationship, orientated

My Non-Romance Work

i do have though, pieces that, being snippets, though “emotionally-satisfying” for me do not end with an “optimistic ending” – mainly because they are a “moment” in experience, and not what i would consider a “story”

a good example is a poem i am posting to dVersePoets, for their OpenLinkNight prompt series

that will get posted late today when their “pub” opens for open poetry submissions

once i have it posted i’ll place a link to that prompt here -

and a link to my poem here

Story

so it seems that, for me, having a story in my work, enables me to give a fuller view of what i’m trying to express, and that usually has the ending that qualifies the piece as “romantic”

a good example of a recent poem that i think fits then, is “venus in transit across the sun“

the strong sense of connection between my wife and i that i try to express about her recent operation, and our anticipated joined effort for her recovery, for me, fits the definition of a romance

it may be that there are other elements some people may consider for a work to be a romance, but for my purposes, i feel comfortable including many of my poems with my fiction in that category, and am equally ok with simply calling them “romantic”

but more than anything, again for me, my work is simply one person’s representation of life

and that’s something i believe we can all do, we all have stories

“2 Stories, a Poem, & a Sampler (fiction)”

this little ebook, with the exception of my childhood story, “Witches,” all feature work about relationships, all end with i feel is a satisfying and optimistic ending, even my poem “when it ended”

the ending resolution of finding comfort with another is critical to the work, and i believe, universally optimistic

i am trying to get more outlets to feature it as FREE, but the avenues for placing it at no charge is very limited; as of this writing, on smashwords has accepted it for a free listing, though it is available for 99¢ on amazon

all updates on availability are posted on my Books page listing for this title

i hope you get to have a copy and see what seems to me an interesting journey in fiction and poetry from 1981 to now, thanks so much

***

Tomorrow

the first chapter (most are very short) of my new novella, “the old american artist, a love story,” is my targeted post for tomorrow

i hope everyone is gearing up for a great safe fourth of july!

thanks ya’ll

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

***

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 51, When I Left the Past in Another Life

28 Jun

Click for Listing

***

Pictured, “Everyday Gratitude Vol 1″ – Free at participating outlets.

Small gratitudes found in the day to day living of daily life.

***

“the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

When I Left the Past in Another Life

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 51

hosted by claudia schoenfeld

truth is, since i wrote this “from scratch” i’m not even sure what it means, though i’ve gotten plenty of ideas that have played “it’s me” with my thoughts

which points out several things about creativity :

one can begin with or without a pre-determined goal or idea

one can “find” what is useful and engaging enough for one to create by the act of creativity itself

one can create work that provides continuing further insight into one’s own life; i especially have some paintings that work that work for me

it is useful to have “open” prompts from a welcoming non-harsh environment, like dVersePoets, to help one feel ok about trying something, even if just as an experiment

creativity seems to be a subtle fragile thread in us that persists with the power of steel

it is an enigma and pervasive in our lives

it can also be a lot fun

best wishes

When I Left the Past in Another Life

finding words, or pictures, to say something we don’t know what

we want said, is too tough for me today

so i have to start by starting

gold tones

fall seasons passed by

a shoe on a rug

left alone

it’s no

wonder

i don’t know how i’m getting

where i’m going

has

anyone seen my shoe?

it walked away without me

i tell everyone

who’ll listen

but

even i

suspect

it was me who walked away

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

My Ad – But It’s For Free Stuff

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Kind Words of Constructive Reviews are HUGELY Appreciated

Click Image for Listings

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Articles : Category “Creativity” on Yoga-Adan
dVersePoets Pub – Stream of Consciousness Prompt : “Weather Neighbors” (yoga-adan.com)
dVersePoets Prompt – Re-Joycing in Poetics (and Exile) : “Racing in Exile on Father’s Day” (yoga-adan.com)
“Fun in the Fun House” – Original Contemplative Poetry (yoga-adan.com)
The Indie Spotlight : “Photography Plus” (yoga-adan.com)
Header # 8 – Spring Header 2012 (Photography) (yoga-adan.com)

Tags: Creativity, dVersepoets, free verse poetry, Poetry

Comments 10 Comments
Categories Arts Area, dVersepoets, inspirational poetry, poetry, Yoga-Adan

The Indie Spotlight : “Photography Plus”

19 Jun

Click for Listings

***

Pictured, “Photography Plus, a Beginners View” -

Beginners photography with samples of photopoems, photography poetry, and essays on the use of photography to illustrate article ideas. Please see Press Release for additional information.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

my intro photo ebook for beginners, which is what i still consider myself, is “Photography Plus, a Beginners View” being featured by “The Indie Spotlight” whose motto is :

The Indie Spotlight – Where the Independent Author Shines

The Indie Spotlight

what the indie spotlight offers, is a chance to have one’s independent self-published work more widely presented, especially to the growing number of people with ereaders, such as the kindle and nook, plus tablets from apple, kobo, and with android systems (among others)

Photography Plus, a Beginners View a variety of in-depth questions are presented to help the reader know the writer and the work presented a bit better

the questions actually have helped me formulate for myself reasons for, among many things, why i chose this project for an ebook and what i hope people will take away from my work

the indie spotlight on my ebook also features links to my site for more in-depth material on my imagery, plus one of my photography poems from the book

indie spotlight’s submission page provides a downloadable questionnaire, and that can be submitted to one of the founders, gregory bernard banks, a published writer and graphic artist

if you are an “indie” writer, i’d highly recommend this opportunity; it is free, easy, makes one think about one’s work a little more broadly, and is of course potentially good pr

the questions are fairly comprehensive, but easy to follow, and my previous submissions were presented in a way that showed my work to very nice light

also ample opportunity is afforded the author / artist for listing related links of interest

Update Submission Process Changes

recently, the indie spotlight suffered a server crash, and was stalled in presenting their spotlights, but evidently only for a short bit, as they seem to be in full running again

greg, one of the co-founders of the indie spotlight, appears to be accepting submissions easily again

quite a variety of indie work is featured by The Indie Spotlight, and i’ve come across work i wouldn’t normally have heard of or known about, i hope you’ll check it out

New Work In Progress

my newest image work, “PhotoPoems Book One, Seven Volumes,” a large compilation of published and unpublished image and verse work, should be available this month, and hopefully i will be able to present this work also

thanks so much,

sincerely,

adan

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

***

The Indie Spotlight : “Nurses Doctors & Medical Health Specialists”

27 May

Click for Listing

***

Pictured, “Nurses Doctors & Medical Health Specialties” -

Dozens of original poems for nurses of many area, doctors, and support specialists. Please see Press Release for additional information.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

my collection of nursing + poems “Nurse Doctors & Medical Health Specialists” is being featured by “the indie spotlight” whose motto is :

The Indie Spotlight – Where the Independent Author Shines

The Indie Spotlight

Click for Listing

a variety of in-depth questions were presented to help the reader know the writer and the work presented a bit better

medical needs, and cures, are a huge growing business, and enterprise, especially with the graying of america (including me ) -

a wide variety of nursing fields, and related health occupations, are included, in the ebook itself

the indie spotlight on my ebook also features several poetry examples from the book, “Home Health Nurse” – “Nursing” – and “Medical Unit Coordinator”

indie spotlight’s submission page provides a downloadable questionnaire, and that can be submitted to one of the founders, gregory bernard banks, a published writer and graphic artist

if you are an “indie” writer, i’d highly recommend this opportunity; it is free, easy, makes one think about one’s work a little more broadly, and is of course potentially good pr

the questions are fairly comprehensive, but easy to follow, and my previous submissions, one for “poems for lovers loving & being loved“, another for “101 sports poems“, and one for “10 sports lessons i can smile at now” were presented in a way that showed my work to very nice light

as with my other featured books, i think it’s fair to say, the questions helped me clarify, to myself, and my readers, some whys and whats about my creative process, particularly in regard to the style and type of poetry book featured

Update Submission Process Changes

recently, the indie spotlight suffered a server crash, and was stalled in presenting their spotlights, but evidently only for a short bit, as they seem to be in full running again

greg, one of the co-founders of the indie spotlight, appears to be accepting submissions easily again

i’ve come across work that, because of the in-depth presentation, i probably would not only not known about, but not known to care about

***

it’s a fitting time, that the indie spotlight on my nursing poetry book is on memorial day, as the care we receive in the service is vital to the whole success of the mission of protecting our country and constitution

dVersePoets, as part of their series of poetry prompts each week, is hosting a memorial day poem prompt, included in the prompt is a moving poem from walt whitman -

this is a supportive talented group, i hope you’ll consider giving them a visit, either to post a poem, or read some of many varied offerings

thanks so much, i hope you also get to stop by at indie spotlight

sincerely,

adan

namaste – con dios – god be with you

***

Each Vol 1 of These Four Series FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

***

dVersepoets Open Link Night Week 39 : ArtPhotoPoem “All-Weather Friends”

10 Apr

***

Pictured, “Arts Poems, Dance Yoga Music Art Writing & More” -

In-progress. Over one hundred original arts related poems. Please check my eBooks page for availability.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

***

“all-weather friends” – an artphotopoem

dVerse Poets Pub : Open Link Night, Week 39

hosted by Joseph Hesch

joseph provides some interesting commentary of his poetry-process history co-mingled with his friendship with one of dVersepoets’ two founding poets, claudia schoenfeld

included are some thoughts on the value and quality of the online artistic friendships he has enjoyed seeing develop, especially on the thriving poetic site dVerse poets pub has become

i myself was wiggling for a way to showcase an image from a new series i am just starting, “impressions of gratitude” -

the new series should finally allow me, i am hoping, to resume my love of creating impressionist images, in this case via photography and digital enhancement (vs oil painting, which i’ve not abandoned )

add that i can then add a small verse, and i am close to a joining very dear to my heart

more than a photo-poem, i call these artphoto-poems

further below is the projected vol 1 cover

***

All-Weather Friends

the land and seasons roll

yet

what endures remains

is timeless

***

in-progress

***

Also Available at Amazon Books

99¢ Series Editions

Vol 1′s Are Being Priced as Free as Available From Prior Commitments

Please Click Image for Link

***

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

dVersepoets Prompt : Open Link Night 37 – Late Winter Watch(ing) in Vermont (yoga-adan.com)
dVersepoets dVerse Poetics – Sculpting a Poem, “The Shape of Gratitude” (yoga-adan.com)
Undercurrents, Poem Prompt Response via dVersepoets (yoga-adan.com)
dVersepoets Prompt – Poetics: 1999 : “In Movement, I Am the Tide” (yoga-adan.com)

Tags: ArtPhoto Poem, dVersepoets, Photography, PhotoPoem, Poetry

Comments 10 Comments
Categories ArtPhoto Poem, Arts, Arts Area, dVersepoets, Photo-Poem, photography, poetry

National Poetry Month April 2012 – Free Poetry : ProsePoems PhotoPoems ArtPhotoPoems

1 Apr

Click for Listing

***

Pictured, “Everyday Gratitude Vol 1” -

One of four series, of poetry, or poetry with images ebooks. Vol 1 is FREE at participating outlets.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

national poetry month april 2012 – Poetry : ProsePoem PhotoPoem ArtPhotoPoem

if the words endure, they do so because they link the links -

Happy National Poetry Month

Four Vol 1 eBooks from Four Series

FREE

at Participating Outlets

Click Image for Listings

Intro

happy national poetry month ya’ll

though i really didn’t plan for this release of my vol 1 ebooks in my four small series, to be priced to free during national poetry month, it’s working out that way, mostly because of the timing of these volume one’s becoming available from prior commitments

as posted via google’s + 1

Here’s the idea, and the plan. I have four series of small inspirational ebooks featuring prose poetry, or prosepoems with images. I want to make Vol 1 of each series free by the end of this month. One is free at some participating outlets already, while the other Vol1′s are releasing from prior commitments during the month, then going free.

my regular readers, of either my blog site or my ebooks, are probably fairly familiar with my selection of ebooks

this includes larger collections of poems and/or images, many with work dating from the early 90s through today -

in addition, i have been creating smaller collections of prose poems, photo poems, and artphotopoems, while i continue organizing and formatting more of the larger collection of works, from over a thousand poems written the last few decades

this post is my plan for enabling free pricing for vol 1 of each my four smaller ebook series, as each edition comes off prior commitments, and finish pricing each vol 1 at free by the end of this april, details below :

The Volume One Free Plan

i currently have four small ebook series, consisting of prosepoems, photopoems, and artphotopoems

each series vol 1 will be made free for an indefinite period of time beginning in april
each series vol 1 becomes available from other commitments at different times during the month of april, so please check back to either this page, or My eBooks page for all updates
it is anticipated they will remain free for an extended time

it is anticipated (and in-progress) to add more digital online outlets, where “a month of mornings” vol 1 and the other vol 1′s of these small series will also be available free

The Series

Links to My eBooks page for most current listing information :

A Month of Mornings (prosepoems) – Vol 1 FREE

Everyday Gratitudes (prosepoems) - Vol 1 FREE

Everyday Inspirations, Photo-Poems - Vol 1 FREE

Creative Gratitudes, ArtPhotoPoems - Vol 1 FREE

Please Read, Note About the Work

at the beginning of each description for each volume of each series is the following heads up about the content i present in general in each work in these series

Please Read:

I am breaking usual protocol regarding book descriptions, and offering a gentle heads up about all the books in each of my small ebook series.

These books may not be what you might expect.

There are no thrill images in the books with images. There’s no complex thought structure in the writings in those series books.

My intent, from the beginning, is to offer my own simple, every day, common place experiences that any one might have, in the course of living daily life, day to day. And thus encourage others to also feel compassion for their own experiences, and realize we all can take baby steps to being better people.

I have photographed since high school, from a time when film was precious, tiny smokey light bulbs provided lighting, and there was no recourse to “fix” a picture digitally.

My writing years began only a bit later in the early 70s.

Except for honing how i write and how i compose pictures (both of which are really endless pleasures) plus the wonderful flexibility that digital provides, not much has changed. The struggle, the challenge, the pleasure, is still being in each day the best I can.

I do believe each of us is capable of changing for the better, but I feel it’s more a changing to the person we already are, but maybe not frequently enough.

Each series of books deals with an aspect of working to make a better self of being in our world. There are no grand moments that answer everything and encapsulate the whole process of living, or of reading my books.

It’s always been a process for me, and remains so here.

I’m placing this “Please Read” in the description for each volume in each of my current series:

“A Month of Mornings” (prose poetry)

“Everyday Gratitudes” (prose poetry)

“Everyday Inspirations, Photo-Poems”

“Creative Gratitudes, ArtPhotoPoems”

For those who have and will enjoy my work, my deepest grateful thanks. For those who would like something else, I fully understand, there is much “out there” I don’t much like either. It is part of the wonderfulness of the diversity of nature and our world.

I will respond to any comments as able and appropriate, positive and negative and in-between, as long as they are constructive in nature.

hopefully you’ll consider trying out each vol 1 of each the current four series, and see if you might enjoy reading and seeing more in subsequent volumes, thank you much

Cover Images and Other Titles

cover images for all four series vol 1′s are pictured below

for a full listing of all my titles, please visit my eBook page here on my site

***

Series Vol 1′s FREE – at Participating Outlets

Please click image for this item’s listings on my eBooks page.

New In-Progress Work

“Images” is a larger volume work and not part of a series. Regular pricing when available.

Please Click Image for Larger View

****

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS

Curvy Yoga’s Anna Guest-Jelley’s Free eBook : “Curvy Voices”
The Indie Spotlight : “101 Sports Poems”
Everyday Inspirations, PhotoPoems Vol 4 (yoga-adan.com)
dVerse ~ Poets Pub : Patterns Pictures & Poems, PhotoPoem “Diving” (yoga-adan.com)
dVersepoets dVerse Poetics – Sculpting a Poem, “The Shape of Gratitude” (yoga-adan.com)
dVersepoets Prompt – Poetics: 1999 : “In Movement, I Am the Tide” (yoga-adan.com)

Tags: ArtPhoto Poem, Everyday Gratitude, Free Kindle Book, Free Poetry Books, Free Smashwords Book, inspirational poetry, National Photography Month, National Poetry Month, Photography, Photopoems, Poetry, Prose poetry, Series of Poetry Books

Comments 7 Comments
Categories ArtPhoto Poem, Arts Area, eBook Area, Photo-Poem, photography, poetry, Prose Poem

dVersepoets Prompt Meeting the Bar : Live in the Moment Before I Sleep

29 Mar

Click for Listing

***

Pictured, “Everyday Gratitude, Vol 1” -

Simple every day gratitudes found in daily every day life. The daily story of my search, each day, for the point of gratitude in my day.

***

“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”

Site Areas

Fitness ** Arts ** eBooks

live in the moment

if the words endure, they do so because they link the links -

dVersepoets Prompt – dVerse Meeting the Bar

hosted by Victoria C. Slotto :

victoria presents one of my most favorite topics, the sense of being in the moment

she begins with a statement i myself feel fully :

“I am not a Buddhist, per se. Aspects of Buddhism, however, have inspired me for many years, in particular, mindfulness meditation….”

then showcases examples of being in the now - snippets of data awash in each of the five senses, followed by a poem by louise hastings illustrating the pull of the seasons in one woman’s now

Mindfulness, Heart and Mind

victoria’s excellent intro brought to mind a couple of twangs of my own regarding mindfulness -

one, how often various proponents focus only on the heart and disparage the mind

my own feeling, which i express often here on my site is that ideally, a blending, almost a respect and compassion, between the two, would be even better

carol horton has one of my favorite articles, regarding right and left brain, which i think equally applies (and which she posted on her site a year to the date tomorrow!)

two, is my idea of how / where creativity takes place; but first, this background material, from victoria :

“the words we commit to paper or hard drive are born in the present moment. In order to create, we need to carve out a place and time of silence. We need to slow down and notice details, to block out distraction, and open up to inspiration. Silence, awareness, focus….”

a problem potentially occurs semantically when silence is interpreted as only being able to be when one is literally alone, with no disturbing sound around -

this problem potentially re-occurs in the final three words “silence, awareness, focus” -

Silence

silence, to me, has meant the silencing of both the mind and the heart

the human heart is wonderful, as is the human mind, and both have shown the capacity for infinite good, and evil – which might well be the definition of being human

the silencing of both, allows awareness, and with focus, i believe, creates the opening for each person’s best road of approach in that moment, either the mind or the heart, or, in those rare wonderful times, both the mind and the heart

anyway that’s my theory, and my experience

which, i recognize, doesn’t mean i’m not missing something

Accepting Individuality Within Oneness

but i must work with what i have, believe, and can accomplish

when i’ve sensed this most, are in momentous crowds, and the moments before sleep

weird huh?

***

Live in the Moment Before I Sleep

the cotton sheets crinkle they’re

so crisp

cool

to my touch

sheila’s asleep ill for

a few days

her breathing’s rough

but her scent is

warm

the bed cool

beneath me as i

slip-pull

into

our bed

sleep is the moment

where one

lives

broadest in time

my slowing breath

a slow bellows

beckons

the past, my slightly hunched

shoulders ease, rest back

upon the soft cover

sighing

i was five then-now the

fever so high angels

swirled above me

aside my

parents praying beside

sheila stirs restless resting

uneasy

shhh shhh

my mother laid her hands across my

forehead my dad watching

with softened eyes

shhh shhh

i touch sheila to ease her

sleep-jerky fever

shh shh

the

breath is easier and

darkness comes

wrapped

in light streaked silk

and

morning

comes

after the long moment of night

***

99¢ Series Editions

Please Click Image for Link

Please Note, “Creative Gratitudes” is currently in-progress, but soon available.

In-Progress Work

Please Click Image for Larger View

FREE – at Participating Outlets

Vol 1

Please click image for listings on my eBooks page.

****

Adan Lerma blessings everyone

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

***

***

***

***

INTEGRATING YOGA FITNESS AND THE ARTS