Loose Leaf Notes

Every poem is a case note
Every dream is sun for the soul
Every love is a lifeboat
Every life holds a vein of gold

Poetry in my seventh decade: It all started with the idea of writing my memoir, leaving behind my story in verse. Over time, it developed as a healing art for soul work. I wrote as if digging for a natural resource. I wrote until I hit a nerve, a vein of emotion that showed me I was about to mine a truth. The process brought me to the depths of my psyche and the heights of the stars and quantum physics theories.

Lyrical, mythological and biographical, the poems in Mining the Gold for the Inner Life explore aging as a developmental and universal stage, one that’s been shaped by the blessings and losses of life, and forged from the belief that every labor of love is the whole world’s enrichment.

Tourist travelogues of aging, case notes that chronicle life’s hurts and healings, remedies and inner life itineraries, gold to spend and share with others and humor are all contained in this latest collection.

You can order directly from me @ $13, locally at The Book House, The Harvest Moon or The Floyd Country Store or from Amazon. Please consider writing an Amazon review if you liked the book. Thank you.  Colleen Redman

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Save the Date -I will be reading a selection of poems from the book at The Book House, 132 N. Locust Street in downtown Floyd, on May 25th from 2 – 3:00.