Prayer for Her Man

Prayer for Her Man

He came home all bloody again Lord.
I could tell he'd been fightin',
could smell the stench of
unfairness and inequity oozing
from his pores,
but it wasn't him I was worried about,
it was them.
 
Them poor ignorant folk don't realize
how I pray for him, and
don't know how you always hear -
they think they can jest do him
any ole' kinda way
as if he jest somebody don't nobody
see or respect,
as if he ain't one of your peculiar
people who you love and protect,
as if they know you better than
he do and you favor them
over him jest cause they...
 
Lord I ain't even sure they really
know you at all,
how can they and not see
how bright 'a light you put
in my man's mind,
how strong you made his back
and hands,
how perfect and faithfully
you made the love inside him
that keeps right on flowing
and growing even when he
comes home
 
all bloody cause he been fightin'
unfairness and inequity until
it stinks and oozes from his pores, but
he falls down on his knees
with me to give thanks to you
for the opportunity.
 ©Peggy Eldridge-Love
You Beckon 2002
Page 4


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Please check out my entry into this children bedtime story contest! Would love your vote!

The objective of the project is to create a short bedtime story that will encourage you little one to fall asleep. I'll admit, it was a lot of fun!

Thanks so much!

Peggy

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Letting it Flow

Timothy Stelly Sr. Reviews Peach Seeds

Timothy Stelly Sr (Pittsburg, CA)'s review of Peach Seeds

Timothy Stelly, Sr. gives a great review of the chapbook Peach Seeds at Goodreads!

A few readings ...

Click Here to listen to Peggy's readings of Pink Chanel, The Girl at the Bus Stop, Thespian Monte and You've Got Mail. They were recorded for Miporadio and continue to be some of her most favorite works.

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Check out the new season of handmade scarves and hats, and other fiber goodies from Peggy Eldridge-Love.

Ribbon of Intonations: Peach Seeds

Ribbon of Intonations: Peach Seeds (Click to read the review.)

To say I am speechless after reading this review by Jim K. is an understatement beyond measure.

Linda Benninghoff Review of Peach Seeds by Peggy Eldridge-Love

Peach Seeds
By Peggy Eldridge Love
MiPoesias Chapbook Series

Reviewed by Linda Benninghoff

With an image, a phrase or an outline of a brief incident, Peggy Eldridge Love can capture so much about a person or place: as in “Peach Seeds,” her poem to her mother.

She didn’t like that I thought I was adopted.
She leaned her face into mine so that we
were eye to eye.
I was the worst pain she’d ever known;
Nine hours with complications…

She was no more amused when I decided
I was really the reincarnation of an English
] princess held captive
by a bevy of sixteenth century dysfunctional nuns.

The poem is rich with imagination, as when the poet imagines herself a princess, imprisoned by nuns. For the poet, imagination plays a part in forming identity, and she lets her imagination play, and it plays with words.

In “Induced Labor,” two diametrically opposed lovers are set off against each other, and the poet plays with language to sharpen and reveal this opposition.

I know you love me
and when he doesn’t I run

to your memory, my shelter

deep in the limestone covered

caves of my youth.

I know that you did

and when I remember

how callus I was with your

vulnerability I wonder of

karma’s weight.

And were I now to find y ou,

and love you, and woo you

would you no longer

love me, would I then need

to run to the cavern of

his memory, safe in knowing

he never did.

Some of the poems deal with love, either a mother’s love, or a lover’s love, but the brushstrokes are original and the imagination rich.

In “Circle of the Muse,” the poet imagines a muse hanging around to her right in Kansas City. Whose muse is it? It may be Hemingway’s: another imaginative jump in poems full of imagination.

In “Red Girl,” the poet picks a few details and subtly captures a young girl.

Red girl, we called her,

since the burst of curls, the

sprinkle of rusty highlights

that graced her cheeks

were the envy of all the shades in our

Crayola box.

Then Red Girl disappears at the end of the poem and her disappearance is unexplained, a mystery.

These poems capture mystery, the quest for identity and love, but do so in an original way, with imagery that leaps off the page and makes the chapbook “Peach Seeds” unforgettable.

Peggy Eldridge-Love

Peggy Eldridge-Love (click to listen)

Reading by Peggy of her poem "Gossip" from You Beckon (page 71).


Gossip

Flat land stretches
silent, pleased to keep its
secrets, protective of the
moonless sky that will labor
with the birth; pushing up,
pushing out through the earth.

In the morning, new stones,
still damp with afterbirth,
will cry for the breast
of Mother Earth.

They are bastards,
the sun will whisper;
no mountain has spewed them,
no hills loosed them,
no accounting for their being
here where
horizon and sun
are one.

Fatherless,
the wind will echo.
Shameless,
the stars will bellow.
Silent,
the moon will stay,
knowing why it disappeared.

You Beckon 2002 Write On Writers Peggy Eldridge-Love

MiPOesias Magazine 2008 Best of cafe' cafe....

MiPOesias Magazine 2008 Best of cafe' cafe....

MiPOesia-Chapbook Series

Two of the chapbooks of poems published in the 2010 MiPOesia-Chapbook Series. Peach Seeds by Peggy Eldridge-Love and Delicious Dangerous by Michelle McEwen

Open publication - Free publishing - More poetry

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Open publication - Free publishing - More poems

A New Work in Clay

Photo: Clay Sculpture by Peggy Eldridge-Love

A new work I recently finished in Cernit clay, but I'm really torn as to the title I want to use for this work. Sometime the "The Crooner's Last Song" seems to fit him best, while other times it seems "Our Family Griot" feels more right! Who knows, it might even turn out to be something different.

Regardless of his name he seems at one with his world. His sense of peace and personal well-being I've come to believe is to be envied!

Peggy

GOSS 183: new chapbook: Peach Seeds by Peggy Eldridge-Love

GOSS 183: new chapbook: Peach Seeds by Peggy Eldridge-Love

"Peach Seeds" is a part of the Mipoesias Chapbook Series. A dozen Eldridge-Love poems from a dozen different angles that promise to make a whole!

Click here to preview.

It is also available for download for free to the iPad.

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You Beckon Poetry Run

Wow!

Not sure what's up, but there's a sudden 'run' on You Beckon! Now I'm definitely not complaining, but not sure what has triggered it.

If you by chance know could you leave me a comment please and provide me with the link, point me to the new (I assume) review or article if you've run across it, or if you know of anything else that might have lit this fire.

Thanks!

Peggy

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Short Story in Mipoesias Magazine OCHO #30

I have a short story titled "War Paint" in Mipoesias Magazine OCHO #30. Sometimes we find that the reason why is heavier than the what and knowing is more painful than ignorance.

Lots of other great poetry and fiction included too from the likes of Bob Hicok, Grace Cavalieri, Eileen R. Tabios, Letitia Trent, Flavia Tamayo, Sam Rasnake, Nick Carbo, Christine Klocek-Lim, David Krump, Andrei Guruianu, and Cheryl Townsend. Check out the online issue below!

Oil Painting from American Poets Series: Peggy Eldridge-Love
by Didi Menendez

Open publication - Free publishing - More poetry

A Breeze in May

Spent Memorial Day with a most extraordinary young person. Someone who so has the world by its tail it is spellbinding to watch. She has the gift of focus and concentration, self-discipline doesn't seem to be a chore to her, but rather it exhilarates, she admits to having an idea of what she wants, but isn't closed to it changing or expanding, and she's grounded in her spiritual beliefs, her own set of morals and joy of living.

She's nineteen.

I've had the pleasure of watching this young woman's life unfold since she was a day or two old. Who she is today is who she was at one, at six, at eleven and sixteen. Life was not always kind. She had some major heartbreaks and devastating set-backs that could easily have embittered her. They did hurt her, she is still singed by the pain of those disappointments, but even the little girl in her understood that she had a choice of whether or not to allow them to empower her or stifle her. She appeared to understand the power of choice and to exercise it to her better good even as a toddler.

Her personal fortitude and the sacrifices of those who love her, especially a single mother who moved too many mountains to count into the sea with her unrelenting faith and hard work, has garnered her an opportunity that is stamped in 24-karat gold with the words across it "American Dream". But it was listening to the wisdom of this young lady, witnessing the humble knowledge of what she held in her hands and her commitment to herself and to a world of other responsible people not to squander it, that was mesmerizing.

She's already contributed a lifetime of selfless service; community volunteer, educational mentor to children and adults, mayor of an urban branch of the Boys and Girls Club, diplomat for an organization that was instrumental in giving bright, talented young people like her "keys" to a better life, and it's ingrained in her to continue to give back whatever, whenever she can. She loves life, she lives life everyday to its fullest possible extent. And when you spend a beautiful, breezy late May afternoon on a porch with her you cannot help but be inspired to try to do the same.

From the Mouths of Babes

Lesson 101 : Thoughts Are ...

Peterson and Eldridge, Associates LLC Welcomes Hense Powell

The principals of Peterson and Eldridge, Associates LLC take special pride in announcing the addition of Hense Powell, one of the most celebrated musical directors in the industry, to their team of professionals.

Hense’s incomparable fingerprint as composer, arranger, producer, band leader, song writer and teacher has been solidly affixed on the musical landscape for more than thirty-five years. He has worked with Bloodstone, Bobby Womack, La’mont Dozier, Brook Benton, Charles Wright, Brenton Wood, Nina Simone, Edwin Starr, Richard Dimples Field, L L Cool J, Johnny Bristol, Junior Walker, Solomon Burke, Dorothy Moore, Brenda Halloway, B.B. King, Junior Walker, Tyrone Davis, Little Milton, Robert Guillaume, Margie Joseph and many more. He is himself an accomplished jazz musician; a noted trumpeter and piano player.

Powell’s added presence to the team brings exhilarating opportunities and enhanced potential for Peterson and Eldridge, Associates, LLC artists and clients.

New Poem in Poets and Artists (O&S) June 2010 Issue

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

One of my poems has been included in this issue of Poets and Artists (O&S)! This one is entitled Free Wrapping with Purchase (After Christmas Sale) and can be found on page 82. As with all my poetry, I hope it provokes an 'ah ha' or a nod or a tear or a laugh, or whatever emotion it stirs. If so, I've been true to my art, true to the craft.

It is always a thrill to be included with such extraordinary artistic talents, and this time is no exception. Thumb through the issue now and please, enjoy!