The Call Of The Ink Bird

‘The Call Of The Ink Bird’ reads like a fairy-tale, both dark and light. We wander through the forest of womanhood and find love-poems and loss-poems. Some poems are situated in higher spheres, talking of a spirituality that sets us free. Other poems sing about the body going through life, experiencing the different seasons. What weaves through all the poems as a red thread is the awe for nature. Animals appear as spirit-guides; mirrors reminding of our source and beauty, their primal essence runs through the heart of these words. Both poems and drawings demonstrate a dreamy but also disarmingly honest nature. Laura believes healing can come through conscious expression. By bringing the art of our thoughts and feelings into the world with the sensitivity of a mother who prepares a self-made birthday present for her child, we find our love. In the title ‘The Call Of The Ink Bird’ ink is used as a symbol of nature’s providing everything we need to fulfill our missions. The call of the bird, a metaphor for our inner hunger to create.

Laura Demelza Bosma is a mother of three, doula, poetess, e-zine River Of Milk-editor, translator from Dutch to English poetry and illustrator. From 2004 to 2011 she has been active as a poetess in the Netherlands, winning writing prices for youth, performing on many stages and her work appeared in various anthologies. She studied Writing For Performance at the HKU, art-academy in Utrecht. In 2007 her poetry volume 'Zo Vliegen De Walvissen' (Thus the whales fly) was published by a Dutch publisher. Laura made her debut as an illustrator in September 2016 in the book of her partner Heath Thompson, 'Taoist Poetry - The Path That Weaves Through Clouds.'