Purple Haze
()
About this ebook
Purple Haze purports to describe "nondescript days" but that's just a poetic haze that subtly brings the reader to this poetry's real clarity, which is its ability to pose questions. These poems situate the "I/You" of the lyric's spoken voice in a passionate, sometimes erotic, interrogation of imagination and feeling that is looking for answers. The echo is palpable while Candice James sings "'Scuze me" while I write these poems.
– Fred Wah, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2011-2013 and Officer of The Order of Canada
Read more from Candice James
Merging Dimensions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Path of Loneliness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPurple Haze Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEkphrasticism: Painted Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Water Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShort Shots: A Coffee Table Book of Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight Embers: A Book of Sonnets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColours of India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Split In The Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWonderland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 13th Cusp Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInner Heart: A Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Silence of Echoes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCity of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurreal Dimensionalization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbstrusion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYear of Divine Madness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight Embers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShorelines Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBridges And Clouds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFract and Flect Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Purple Haze
Related ebooks
Purple Haze Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Silence of Echoes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight Embers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight Embers: A Book of Sonnets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInner Heart: A Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSudden Thunder Anthology 2011-1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTranslation of Light Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Having Coffee Reading Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMeghashyam: An Anthology of Poems: Poetry, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHours In Time: Lullabies and Moon Songs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSixfold Poetry Summer 2017 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComing Back Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Poet's Passion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGutter Born Glory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurreal Dimensionalization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Murmuring Trees Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMe, You, Then Snow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMind Paintings Anthology 2011 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConnections: A Collection of Poems and Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Split In The Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMegh Mallhar: The Song of the Rains: Poetry, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIce Melts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn These Small Hours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Suede Cave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNonsense Creatures: None Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDevoured By Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKairos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeart Songs and Distant Prayers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Talisman: Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Purple Haze
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Purple Haze - Candice James
SMASHWORDS EDITION
* * *
PUBLISHED BY: Candice James on Smashwords
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
cover.jpgPurple Haze
Candice James
Other books by Candice James
A Split In The Water ( 1979 Fiddlehead )
Inner Heart – A Journey ( 2010 Silver Bow )
Bridges and Clouds ( 2011 Silver Bow )
Midnight Embers ( 2012 Libros Libertad )
Shorelines ( 2013 Silver Bow )
Ekphrasticism ( 2013 Silver Bow )
Table of Contents
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Stone Soul
Angular Circles
Nights and Moons
Signature
Phasing
A Small Destruction
Trying to Stay the Light
A Residue of Resin
Technicolour Details
A Sleep I Remember
A Solace of Sorts
My Hands
Approaching Myself
As I Am --- Not
Awakenings
Back To You
Belief
Beneath the Weeping Willows
Bitter Taste
Loveless Strangers
Tears of the Sun
Electric Air
July Sun
The Step
Paths of Possibilities
Marked
Learning
Night Shift
Unfinished
Voices
Duality Abated
Hot Nights
Purple Haze
Shine The Dulled Edge
Skin on Skin
Star-seed
Crab Boat
The Fire of Your Kiss
The Kick
The Meal
The Poet and the Welder
White on Black
Without Absolution
Black, Shiny Pool
Blue Water Corals
Coming Undone
Cracking
Your Darkest Side
Dead Stories
Desolate Valley
Talking In Your Sleep
Downsizing For Death
Eddying Down
Expectations
Fluid Silence
Gleaming
Gritty Sand of Need
Hard Hope
Hitchhiker
In Broken Pieces
Lost To the World Again
Moments Like These
Summer Stone
Sculpted Crow
A Hard Rain
She Waits
Silence of the Spider
Somebody Else’s Dream
A Raw Bone
White Loneliness
Those Nights
The Fog
The Land of Blood Snakes
Rebellion of the Middle-Ages
Tearing Apart
The Right to Grieve
The Silence
The Strand
Under the Thunder
The Wind
This Place
When You Leave
Worlds
Trilogy
Eternal
The Empty Women
Women and Children
Bread and Roses
CANDICE JAMES PROFILE:
Copyright
Copyright 2014 by Candice James
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or other-wise, without the written prior
permission of the publisher.
First published by:
Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd.
2244 154A Street
Surrey, BC
V4A 5S9
(604) 838-8796
Fax (604) 536-6819
www.libroslibertad.ca
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
James, Candice, 1948-, author
Purple haze / Candice James.
Poems.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-926763-31-6 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS8569.A429P87 2014 C811’.54 C2014-902046-5
Cover Art: Purple Haze
painting by Candice James
eBook design by: www.spicabookdesign.com
Acknowledgements
As always I thank my mentor, now passed away, Fred Cogswell for his tutelage and patience with me in the early days. Without his belief in me I would not be writing poetry today.
I am ever grateful to the City of New Westminster for appointing me Poet Laureate of the City for two consecutive three year terms.
I thank my daughter and granddaughter for their understanding when I am lost in my own little world of poetry and everyone and everything is zoned out.
I thank Ken Ader for his unwavering support and help in all my