A Poet's Ponderings

This collection is dedicated to every poetic soul: If anyone can perceive the stirrings of our earth in all its moods, it is the poetic soul. Not only can it praise the acorn’s rise to mighty oak through song, but, on sensing trunk’s possible feeling, his scimitar of song can defend and slash against would be destroyer. Every poetic soul must lead today on their kindred’s behalf and it is to this end that “A Poet’s Ponderings” is dedicated: That every Poet’s leadership will ignite a shared love and respect in each and every soul, to triumph against the ecological challenges in each their own way and manner, for the survival of all life.

Published here and abroad, the author (who writes under her pen name, Jean Sterling), cites her favorite work thus far as follows: "A Quarter-Free: Songs of Eleuthera"; "Quintet" (series of poems published in Farleigh Dickinson University's international "Literary Review"); "Scimitar and Song Anthology" (an Anthology in which she compiled and published the works of authors from her "Scimitar and Song Magazine which she edited and published for over ten years); "A Hollow Cry" (an unpublished trilogy written years ago during her graduate work at George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University); and her continuing collections of poems and children stories. In all her fields --- Wife, mother, teacher, editor and writer and Health Worker, her most cherished have always been as loved wife and mother. An avid gardener, person lover and traveler, she has planted, harvested and shared flourishing seeds in her travels throughout Europe, Africa, Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas (mostly, Eleuthera), and the U.S.