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    Spectrum Ii: A Poetic R-Evolution
    Spectrum Ii: A Poetic R-Evolution
    Spectrum Ii: A Poetic R-Evolution
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    Spectrum Ii: A Poetic R-Evolution

    By Rachel Wright

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    Poems come to me from many dimensionspersonal, family, a friend, my community, or a world happening near or far from southern Indiana. Words grip me emotionallyas an empathy that I feel with someone else or out of my own soul. I may ponder the topic for a few minutes, or a few days, but I must write. Its like a tune I must play but in poetic verse. I grab pen and paper or rush to the computer.
    My poetry falls in three areas. Some are protests of societal problems throughout the world that I cannot be comfortable with: poverty, war, unruly political institutions, lack of resources for education and health, pollution of the earths resources and a vast media /consumerism enterprise that sucks up our freedoms (to name a few). Secondly, I look at myself. Through topics of nature, introspection, love, and family I see changes I must make before I can help others. Thirdly, I see trends in the youthhow they band together in online communities, attack travesties of justice around the globe, form lifestyle businesses, study alternative medicine and politics, want sustainability and the right use of energy. They look not just at the green of the dollar but how the earth can become more balanced. I feel poetry, like music and the arts, leads us to what we share and have in common.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 2, 2014
    ISBN9781496943071
    Spectrum Ii: A Poetic R-Evolution
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    Rachel Wright

    Rachel Wright is a “never retired” educator. She lives in an intentional community in southern Indiana established by her father and friends in 1966. She was an active part of the founding of an alternative school which continues to this day. She was also a professor of education in a local community college for ten years. She has published in magazines and academic journals both in education and the study of intentional communities. As archivist and publisher of the community, she preserves and shares their history, stories and works. Her passions include family, midwifery, childcare, alternative education, and fostering creativity and originality in poetry and the arts. She bakes artisan bread (a sour dough advocate), makes wine, paints, writes poetry and humorous short stories and attends workshops in these areas. She has six children and is grandmother to an ever-expanding group of 15 plus. She is an active member of the Indiana Poetry Society since 2019 and is involved in other local art and poetry groups. She is available for workshops within her PoART enterprise and hopes to expand a platform for other poets around Indiana and elsewhere.

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      Book preview

      Spectrum Ii - Rachel Wright

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      © 2014 Rachel Wright. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/01/2014

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      Contents

      Waves

      Why

      Flat Tire—Please—Not Today

      The 4-Way

      Apee

      Counted

      When is Enough, Enough?

      Enigma

      Man’s Prison

      Trash

      One Family

      In Time

      Where is humanity?

      Rapture

      Millennia

      A Tribute to Those who Went Before…

      Unplugged

      Pillboxes

      Behind the Walls

      The Ring

      A Peaceful Home

      Love

      Yesterday

      Coffee

      Bread

      Writer’s Block

      Love is more than words

      Mother Ring

      Graduation from a Mother’s View

      Electricity’s gone

      Summer Day

      The Wren

      Twilight

      Winter

      Three Daffodils

      Dandelion

      Oh Spring!

      Spring Cleaning

      If You Asked Me

      Pictures in the universal bible

      The Game of Life

      Closed Doors

      The Wait

      The Story behind the Story

      Pause

      Who are the Real Monsters?

      Home

      Me

      A Record

      The Past

      The Price

      Today

      Believe

      Where do we get the power

      I walked alone

      A Connection

      We are the Same

      Born Free of a Midwife’s Hands

      Youth

      Perspective

      The Hub

      Earth

      R-evolution

      My Ghetto

      Are You from down there?

      Friends

      The Apple

      White as Snow on a Red Carpet

      Pilgrimage

      Solstice

      Four (4) Faces

      Soul Survival

      Words of Fire

      Live it Religion

      Twelve Steps

      Prayer

      Thank you

      When I reach the end of life

      One Speck of Sand

      What do I leave?

      Epilogue

      Waves

      I get so frustrated

      about the downside of the good side,

      people trying to bring me down

      when I’m doing something new.

      As a child I was told,

      "Don’t fall.

      You might get hurt.

      That’s hot.

      Dangerous.

      Leave that alone."

      Well, I bypassed those statements

      took a risk and moved forward.

      That’s how I learned to walk, talk,

      swim and ride a bike.

      I got a few bruises, cuts and a broken bone,

      but I survived.

      I could take the credit for doing it.

      Flying was out of my reach,

      but I tried it.

      I went to my first job.

      "Don’t make waves.

      Don’t work too hard.

      You’ll show up your co-workers

      and they won’t like you."

      In bold letters it said,

      NEW IDEAS NOT NEEDED HERE.

      On to a relationship.

      "Not your type.

      Too smart, too dumb

      Not good for you.

      Out of your league.

      Selfish, a loser.

      You’ll be sorry."

      I do need advice—the right kind.

      My mentors who love me give me

      pearls and jewels.

      Parental guidance is here – bio or non.

      My sibs and friends say a thing or two.

      BUT – just move back

      with the what ifs, maybes,

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