Writing
can be satisfying, frustrating, monotonous… a whole bunch of stuff, but there
are times when it is just fun. Those are usually when a character or a story
take a turn the writer never expected. That happened when I started out to
write a poem about the moon…
One
cannot really be a poet
Without
writing about the moon
Comparing
it to something silvery
And
luminous, like a clean plate
In
a still-life by a Dutch master
Or
the gleam and spark
From
the blades of Hans Brinker
As
he glides along a canal
Or
the mushroom that sprouts
From
rotten wood in the ship
Of
a flying Dutchman
Who
mistakes it for a beam
From
the moon through the porthole
Reflecting
on his mirror
The
problem is that poems about the moon
So
easily become poems about the Dutch.
John Robert McFarland
Daughter Katie Kennedy’s Learning to Swear in America will be
published by J. K. Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Press, in 2015.
My novel, VETS, will be
published by Black Opal Books in early 2015.
I tweet as yooper1721.
I also write, once in a great while, Christ in Winter:
Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter. http://christinwinter.blogspot.com/
MY OTHER BOOKS:
NOW THAT I HAVE
CANCER I AM WHOLE: Reflections on Life and Healing for Cancer Patients and
Those Who Love Them [AndrewsMcMeel & HarperAudio, with Czech and Japanese
translations] Paul K. Hamilton, MD, the co-founder of CanSurmount, called it
“The best book for cancer patients, by a cancer patient, ever.”
AN ORDINARY MAN
[HarperPaperbacks] Randall MacLane just wanted to be an ordinary man. But sent
with a message for Custer, he became a drifting lawman with a knack for
killing, and a deep well of loneliness. Then a twist of fate brought him full
circle…
THE STRANGE
CALLING: Stories of Ministry [Smyth&Helwys] I didn’t want to be a
preacher, but I made a deal with God to save my sister’s life. Was that really
a “call,” though? I said, “I’ll try t for 50 years, and if I still don’t know,
I’ll do something else.” These are stories of what happened in those years of
questioning the call.
WHEN FATHER RODE
THE MAIL and Other Stories of Christmas [lulu.com] ISBN 978-1-300-38566-0
If you like baseball poetry, take a look at “Frosty &
the Babe” http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/frosty_and_the_babe.shtml
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