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This is where it all started. I wrote my first poem about a butterfly in grade six and it was published in a school magazine. If I said I continued writing steadily since then, I'd be lying. For years, I wrote nothing! It wasn't until the early 2000's that I picked up my pen and journal and started writing seriously. That decision was the beginning stages of Karlene Millwood Productions. From Jazz and Poetry showcases to theatre to film. It's been an interesting journey and yet, I'm just beginning.
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Sharing two of my poems here with you. Enjoy!
Life
Life is lived forward but understood backwards
We often go through life wandering to find a resting place
A place of comfort for our souls
Soothing waters to caress away the hurts and the pain
We look for solace in the arms of men
Human beings, themselves broken
A case of the blind leading the blind
Both walking but unsure of the destination.
We never understand until we stand still and turn around
Survey the path from whence we came
Study the bumps and turns in the road and learn from our mistakes
Then look forward again and plot a new course
This time looking to the True Source
The Spring of Living Water, The Healer of hearts broken
The One who erases all life’s pain
No, we don’t really begin to understand until we are engrafted into the Divine
The Life Giver; The Source of all life.
Until we turn back to Him how dare us think we understand anything?
How can we live life without the One who gives life?
Do you not realize that our lives are intertwined?
What one does affects one thousand
It is a never ending circle
Life is useless without a purpose
Have you found yours?
Seriously, what are YOU living for?
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Copyright 2013
My Heart's Desire
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Like fresh dew on blades of grass in the morning
Delicate and moist to touch
To touch You would be to break you
So instead I nestle you in the centre of my palms
And breathe lovingly on you and watch you dance
A smile plays on Your lips and as it grows You disappear
Leaving my hands empty.
But now I see You in incandescent sunlight, smiling
Your warmth dances on mountain peaks
Dry desert plains cry for a canopy of protection as You move
Opening Your arms to stretch across deep valleys
Growing, expanding until You find me
And hold me within Your embrace.
Playing hide-and-seek You tease me by darting to and fro
In vibrant reds, oranges and periwinkle blue
Roses, hydrangeas and bougainvilleas are saturated with Your essence
But just when I thought I found You, You move and change
Now You are tall, strong and sturdy
A majestic, green life bearing tree.
You are as soft as the Caribbean breeze
Wafting across lush, green landscapes
I feel Your caress on my cheeks
I reach up to touch You and feel air
You are the air that I breathe
Crisp and clean that fills me up inside
And rejuvenates my being.
You are the lull of gentle waves stealthily creeping on the shore
Intimately clinging to memories in between grains of sand
And leaving glistening traces of wet kisses on my toes
You are silver moonlight mysteriously dancing across dark waters
With tiny stars twinkling in Your eyes
Silently daring me to love You.
You are the melody drifting in my mind
The song playing on my lips
Beautiful music coming from my fingertips
My thoughts paint a striking mosaic of how I see You
But wherever, whenever or however You show up
You are, and will always be, my heart’s desire.
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Copyright 2010
Photos From An Evening With Saxophonist Cameron Ross
