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    Merging Dimensions
    Merging Dimensions
    Merging Dimensions
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    Merging Dimensions

    By Candice James

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    Merging Dimensions (Ekstasis Editions) is a surrealistic offering of poetry crossing boundaries invisible and visible with brilliant and vivid imagery flowing throughout. It is a subliminial mix of raw bones and sparkling diamonds reflecting the many facets of mind, matter and spirit. In this, Candice James’ 9th poetry book, the reader is taken on an ethereal ride through sliding and merging dimensions of soul. It is a journey within a journey encompassing love and passion; grief and despair; delight and joy; “heartbreak and heartache; tension and excitement, and splashes of deja-vu.

    James’ musical background comes to the forefront in a magical weave of rhythm and melody underscoring the poems as evidenced in: “Cats and Jazz”; “Ruby Crowned Songs”; “Side Steps”; “The Edge”; “The Song” and “Sands of Eternity”. Passion spills from the pages in a blaze of black ink and white heat in the poems: “In The Heat of the Tender Night”; “We Light the Candle Up”; “ Midnight Burn”; “Vessels”; “The Wet” and “Sailing the Night”.

    Heartache and disillusionment centre the core of the evocative poems “Futility Personified”; “Distances”; “Beside Me”; “Something”; “She Wept”; “Lost Water”; “You Take Me By Surprise” and “Moving Through”. The poet delves into the quantum pools of consciousness and merging dimensions, touching down on the tangible and intangible shores of imagination and inspiration. “Dreamscape” opens the book, and the trip begins, continuing through a myriad of surrealistic poems to the germane final poem “I’ve Been Dead” which succinctly finishes the book and ends the poetic journey.

    These poems run the gamut of emotions. Poems to cut your teeth on; poems tear your heart out; poems that sip like wine and drink like memories; poems that fan the flames of passion; poems to take you beyond this world; poems to soak your spirit in; and poems to simply enjoy.

    After total immersion in James’ poetry, that soothes and electrifies simultaneously, the reader emerges in a surrealistic mood of palpable aftermath and lingering afterburn he/she can almost taste.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781774030035
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      Merging Dimensions - Candice James

      Title: Merging Dimensions

      Author: Candice James

      Cover Art: Merging Dimensions painting by Candice James

      Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing

      Smashwords Edition 2018

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. ~ Charles Baudelaire

      Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. ~ Charles Baudelaire

      You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe? 

      ~ Charles Baudelaire

      Acknowledgements

      I am thankful for the support of family and friends and fellow poets as I continue my poetic journey; and a very special thank you to Ken Ader for his unwavering support in all my endeavours poetic. He is my chauffeur, videographer, camera man, bag man and all round enabler.

      I would be remiss if I didn’t pay tribute with another thank you to my mentor and friend, Fred Cogswell. He was here at the beginning, and I hope somewhere in the great beyond he can see my journey as it moves into the final curve on the path… thank you Fred!

      ~ Candice James

      Table of Contents

      Dreamscape

      Harbour Of Living Wounds

      Distances

      Midnight Burn

      Unanswered Prayers

      I Stand

      In The Heat Of The Tender Night

      A Patch of Black Grass

      A Silence of Green

      Mood And Tone

      Beside Me

      Stories And Poems

      Points

      Cats And Jazz

      Concentration

      Dark At The Top Of The Stairs

      Disappearing Of The Sun

      Sailing The Night

      Something

      Futility Personified

      Industrial Ghosts

      Kiss At Qumran

      Merging Dimensions

      Reborn

      Rock Of Ages

      Ruby Crowned Songs

      She Wept

      The Edge

      The Human Condition

      Night Train To Paris

      Slice Of A Second

      We Light The Candle Up

      The Absence

      Emptiness

      Poetry In Motion

      The Fever Burns

      The Illusion

      The Sands Of Eternity

      The Song

      The Understanding

      The Wait

      The Wet

      They Called It Love

      Time Shift

      When You Walk In The Room

      Lost Water

      The Darkness Here

      Two Albatross Shadows

      Vessels

      Fifty Million Raindrops

      Overgrown Fantasy Lands

      Pen Freeze

      Violent Clown

      Vital

      Passed Slowly Over The Lips

      Remember

      String Of Streetlamp Glow

      Desire (sestina)

      Resurrection

      The Rhythm Of The Universe Within

      Copper Dragon Sky

      Sleepless Nights

      Weave Of The Waves

      Flower Talk

      Satin Dolls

      Bleak House Alley

      Opposite Deficiencies

      Rippling

      The Eagle

      Never-Ending

      Freeze Frame Flashbacks

      Scarring The Deck

      You Take Me By Surprise

      Only A Motion Away

      Moving Through

      Years

      Checkmate

      Shadow of Light

      Enthusiastically Unfinished

      Justified Water

      Torn Eloquence

      Side Steps

      Likening

      The Edge Of An Embrace

      The Cat’s Eye

      Whiskey-Wet Kisses

      I’m Not A Carpenter

      Dirt And Sandpaper Wounds

      This Dream

      Synthetic Death

      A Raw Bone

      Remember Me

      For Your Sake

      Journaling

      I’ve Been Dead

      Poet Profile

      Dreamscape

      I entered the dreamscape.

      There

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