by Orna Ross | Jul 29, 2018 | Poetry |
Today's Sunday Inspirational Poetry is: Placenta Look to the tree, how it remembers the clay that once pressed, loam-loving, round its kernel through which it roamed out, a tender and unseeing shoot, groping towards the light of day and the airy, spangled light of...
by Orna Ross | Jul 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Today's Sunday Sample is a poem from a collection I'm putting together of bittersweet love poetry: Leaves I'll launch the collection next year, Valentine's Day. If you'd like me to write a poem for you, write telling me about a love in your life and I'll see if...
by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2018 | Poetry |
Promise me, that when the leaves turn in the wind or in the falling, you’ll remember. And smile at the day we spent under the green ocean dome that welled above, each leaf-shake a flutter held, a quark of forest time shifting and regrouping, but yet the whole —the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 12, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Font Publications is my publishing imprint. Not all indie authors have an imprint though many do, for all sorts of reasons. Mine are quite personal. Imprints began in trade publishing for trade reasons. The larger publishing companies have multiple imprints, using the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 10, 2018 | Fiction |
As you know, I've been writing a film script for a while, Dancing In The Wind, based on the strange love triangle between based on the true story of the love triangle between the illustrious Irish poet, WB (WILLIE) YEATS, his longtime inamorata and muse MAUD GONNE,...
by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2018 | Poetry |
Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Dark Night As creative entrepreneurs, we're doers by definition. But sometimes, when things get hard it's not about doing, it's about lying low and doing nothing. Not even thinking. This is a poem for the days when things get hard....
by Orna Ross | Jun 24, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Lines Written On A Seat, a poem composed while sitting beside the famous statue of the Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh, by the canal in Dublin. I'm inspired by creativity in all corners of the world but especially in nature, most...
by Orna Ross | Jun 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Reading and writing haiku is a practice, it brings us into creative presence. And that's the intention of this guide about how to write haiku. “Haiku happen all the time,” says Bill Higginson, who wrote The Haiku Handbook, another book about how to write haiku, these...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2018 | Go Creative! |
Howard Lovy, Managing Editor at The Alliance of Independent Authors, did a Q&A with me recently about my latest experiment: poetry on Patreon. Though it was poetry that first got me into self-publishing, I realized recently I had all sorts of assumptions that were...
by Orna Ross | May 15, 2018 | Poetry |
People power is rocking poetry, taking it out into the streets and pubs and festivals and providing a new kind of patronage for poets. In the past, only wealthy benefactors could afford to support poets and under that system, the poet had to commemorate the patron's...