My Blog Lyric Fire: National Poetry Month-NaPoWriMo #1
Hello readers! I’m always in a poetic state of mind, but with all of the poetry celebrations going on this month, I’m lyrically loopy! Contributing to that loopiness is NaPoWriMo,…
My Blog Lyric Fire: National Poetry Month Featured Poet – Rimly Bezbaruah
The first writer to kick off National Poetry Month on Lyric Fire is Rimly Bezbaruah. Based in India, Rimly is a beautiful poet, storyteller and blogger who takes you deeper…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Amber For April
We are now four months into the year! I’m sure some of you may feel there is never enough time in the 24 hours we are allotted each day. It’s…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Friday’s Favorite Word Feast – Poetry
It might be a little cold and dreary in the northeast, but that won’t stop me from celebrating one of my favorite words on this blustery yet beautiful Friday! I’ve…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Last Night A Blogger Saved My Life
I’ve been a writer all of my life, but a blogger for just under two years. The activity of writing is something akin to breathing to me and for a…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Pulp, Juice & Skin
my mouth is dry and I’m walking in reverse my soul is dark and cold just like a hearse I’m wallowing in in in vivid pictures of the past you…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Friday’s Favorite Word Feast – Amor
Don’t you just love Thursday’s future and Saturday’s past? Of course I’m talking about FRIDAY! There are so many reasons to love today and one of them is Friday’s Favorite…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Friday’s Favorite Word Feast – Albatross
We’re at the end of the week and whoo hoo! We’ve made it! Happy Friday everyone! Time to zone in on another word worthy of high praise. Today I’ve selected…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Random Thoughts/Questions From A Writer – Take 2
Here is another question from the mind of Tamstarz, a place where thoughts, theories and lyrics mix and mesh to create more thoughts, theories and lyrics! QUESTION: If you were…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Book Binge: “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism” by Belva Davis
I consider myself to be a news head and journalism junkie, but I must admit that I was not familiar with the work of Belva Davis. Growing up in the…
My Blog Lyric Fire: I’m Not at SXSW, But…
I wasn’t able to attend this year’s South by Southwest Conferences & Festivals (March 11-20) event this year, but it has been nice to see everyone posting about their takeaways…
My Blog Lyric Fire: You Sleep, I Dream
Your head hits the pillow and mine pops up I’m going nowhere fast and it’s because you’re not here I go through days in a fog Wishing for a clearing…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Friday’s Favorite Word Feast
On this sunny Friday afternoon I have so much on my mind, and even more things to accomplish and do, but I’m finding it very hard to concentrate. So because…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Magic For March
We’re three months into 2011 and I know for sure that some wonderful things have been happening for people. Someone somewhere just finished a novel, got engaged, opened their first…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Emotional Remnants
picking up a box of cereal shaking it and finding not enough for a bowl your favorite fragrance filled soap bar melted down to just a sliver that bottle of…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Oprah’s Candid Interview w/Author Iyanla Vanzant Part 2
Last week I featured Iyanla Vanzant’s book, “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through” as a Book Binge selection. After searching for the title at one…
My Blog Lyric Fire: The Faith Portal
Working hard and preparing for the future has been your life’s work. You’ve studied, prayed, and sacrificed many things for your dream. Yet it hasn’t come to fruition. You feel…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Book Binge: “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through” by Iyanla Vanzant
Making personal and professional decisions are not always easy. I can think of quite a few that had my head spinning: Do I stay in my hometown or move to…
My Blog Lyric Fire: I Dream of Ta’Liah
a pop of emotion breaks the night dream and extends it into day mysterious eyes sensibilities sent from heaven magic in a human suit changing the course of life sending…
My Blog Lyric Fire: Ode to Love Via Brown Penny Poem by William Butler Yeats
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and it has me thinking about love declarations. Whether you have that romantic connection now or not, it does the heart good to reflect…