Writer, Artist, Photographer
25 May 2016 4 Comments
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: Poetry
Continuity
miles and miles i’ve
come
some walked
many run
alone and not too
and with you i’d walked
but just a few
but there was something
familiar in the pace
my mind recalls that
gentle face
somewhere, somewhen
my friend
we’d walked in step
before
and somewhere, somewhen
we’ll fall in step again
and share a few
miles more
© Perle Champion
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23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: Poetry
Wrote this poem when I celebrated my first quarter century birthday in 1974. The drawing came later. Although I’ll be celebrating all week, today’s the actual day and I’m enjoying an Irish coffee of sorts at my desk watching the steady rain outside my window. 
14 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Poetry, women's history
I’m currently re-reading Women Who Run With the Wolves. Checked it out of the library today for a bit of light reading (just call me Hermione).
I’ve always had a fascination for Faeirytales. They teach us, if we pay attention, about life.
Author, Jungian analyst, storyteller, and true cantadore, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, explores the female psyche in this book.
I believe that all the characters are aspects of ourselves. We are all of them: the miller’s daughter, the miller, the king, the faithful servant, the baby, and Rumpelstiltskin. And too, we are the straw and the gold.
11 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Memoir, Poetry Tags: Blogher NaBlo, Memoir, Poetry
“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.” – Jack Kerouac
Who hasn’t read On the Road? Kerouac understood, as I hope you do, that each of us is the hero, in my case her
oine, of our own story. My journal is my book, and sometimes in recollection, I am truly amazed.
simple notebook pen
soliloquy on the page
journal diary
a day once removed
to march cadence on blue lines
fill each empty page
siphoning angst hurt
experience clears the mind
for new adventure
My journal is the running memoir of my life, my confidant, my Wailing Wall, canvas for creative thoughts, and so much more.
10 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Poetry Tags: Blogher NaBlo, Meditation, Poetry
Falling into the gap
you meditate long enough
you fall into the gap between thoughts and
you are one with the one and for
you all things are possible like the quark,
you are now both here, and there.
© Perle Champion
Meditation is not so much a thing to do, as place to go. It is a realm unto itself, where we become our very own note in the one song that is the universe.
09 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Poetry
Golden rain of leaves
aerie, eyrie, perch 
leaves float on unseen breezes
I sit pen in hand
wanting to capture
it all on the page but words
cannot hold the wind
© Perle Champion
William Wordsworth wrote, “Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher”.
So one could call my gazing hours on end out the window or off the balcony of my aerie watching the seasons change before my eyes as research.
And, one could call my walking down sidewalks kicking leaves as hands on experience to commit to the page at a later date.
08 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Memoir, Poetry Tags: Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Memoir, Poetry
Laying Life on the Line
she sat pen in hand
journal open before her
her life paced the lines
glory inglory
marching cadence cross the page
bare and unadorned
“Never mind the misses and the stumbles…” “The habit of writing for my eyes only is good practice, it loosens the ligaments.” – Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s quote hits home for me, and if you would write, I hope for you. There is something so freeing about writing just for yourself with no deadlines. It doesn’t need to be perfect; it’s a conversation with and exploration of yourself for yours eyes only now or forever unless you decide to share it.
Saying you want to write is not enough, you must write it. The truth is so much writing is just mental gymnastics. A skater skates, a harpist harps, a writer writes. It is the practice that perfects.
Day after day, with no one to see, no one to hear, and no one to applaud, I rise and go to my practice. I write in my journal.
07 Nov 2014 1 Comment
in Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Poetry Tags: Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Poetry
Filling the white space
white space taunts my pen
my épée etching each word
slowly on the page
words marching cadence
along pale blue journal lines
and then there is light
© Perle Champion 2009
William Wordsworth wrote: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
I’ve filled the pages of my journal since I was a child: daily observations, traumas & dramas, poetry, essays, stories and more since I was a child. I didn’t realize how much publishable material languished there in my own journal until one day.
One day I was rereading an old journal when I realized that one story was practically complete, so why not type it up and send it out. That story was “Rain” back in 2004. What a thrill it was to see that story so dear me, not only published but resonating with so many readers.
That day I started paying attention to what I wrote in my journal and noting in the margin whether it would make a good poem or essay or story or a character in a book. That decision has since stood me in good stead. Most of what I’ve published originated inthe pages of my journal.
06 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in Blogher NaBlo, e-book, Get Published, Journaling, NaNoWriMo, Poetry Tags: Blogher NaBlo, Journaling, Nanowrimo, Poetry
I’ve often wondered about those folks who use the excuse of writer’s block for not writing. Yes
, I think it is an excuse akin to a certain in-law of mine who opines, I can’t cook. My response to her is if you can read and follow instructions, you can cook. My response to writers or wanna be writers. If you can put pen to page, fingers to keys, have a thought in your head, you can write.
I write everyday in my journal – that’s a start, and then there’s the Blog challenges, NanoWriMo, and poetry contests, etc. They all have deadlines, so I make the commitment and on top of my daily journal, I write.
It’s day 6 of the BlogHer Blog-a-Day for November (note: they throw that gauntlet down every month), and I’m on track.
And
I’m still plodding away on my NanoNovel and have 17,545 words to-date, so I’m on track to get my 50,000 words done by and hopefully before November 30. I plan to do heavy edit by/before December 15, so
I can take advantage of Amazon’s offer to NanoWriMo winners (anyone who reaches 50,000 words) to publish 2 free hard copies of their novels. I planned on uploading my finished novel to their Kindle platform anyway, but oh, to see the actual book in print (every author’s dream).
I’m encouraged by the sales of my non-fiction e-book published on Amazon in late 2012 – How to Journal and How to Publish from Your Journal. While not a best seller it is selling and yay! It’s making money. I opened my P.O. box this morning and amid the bills, 1 rejected manuscript and the detritus called junk mail, was the check – a royalty check from Amazon.com on my book. It was not large, but oh it’s such a nice feeling to get paid for doing something you enjoy. As I have not promoted the book except for a few Blog posts and an Amazon affiliate link on my Blogs, I’m rather amazed and more than a little pleased.
I like the Amazon affiliate link, as it allows me to link all to the books I review and even those I just like and think everyone should read, and in return I make a few cents commission for having done so. It adds up over time.
Perle Champion 