Spectrum: A Poetry Memoir

By Rachel Wright

Poetry is closest to the heart. Through its symbols, word pictures, intuition, feelings and emotions it is a hint of history, the momentary present and a visionary tool of the future. A poem or a painting is analogous to an iceberg10% visible, 90% hidden meaning. The reader provides the narrative.
These poems, with the exception of five or six, were written after 2000. They show my explorations into the arts, love, people I met along the way, my protestations, introspections, and new perspectives I gained after times of change, personal problems and separations from those I love. The poems enabled me to find new strength, to harness my thoughts of years past, to live peaceably in the present and to recognize that a future of dreams and hopes can become reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468549201

Rachel Wright

Rachel Wright is a “never retired” educator. She lives in an intentional community in southern Indiana established by her father and friends in 1966. She was an active part of the founding of an alternative school which continues to this day. She was also a professor of education in a local community college for ten years. She has published in magazines and academic journals both in education and the study of intentional communities. As archivist and publisher of the community, she preserves and shares their history, stories and works. Her passions include family, midwifery, childcare, alternative education, and fostering creativity and originality in poetry and the arts. She bakes artisan bread (a sour dough advocate), makes wine, paints, writes poetry and humorous short stories and attends workshops in these areas. She has six children and is grandmother to an ever-expanding group of 15 plus. She is an active member of the Indiana Poetry Society since 2019 and is involved in other local art and poetry groups. She is available for workshops within her PoART enterprise and hopes to expand a platform for other poets around Indiana and elsewhere.

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Spectrum

A Poetry Memoir

Poetry and Art

by

Rachel Wright

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Published by AuthorHouse 2/8/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4685-4920-1 (e)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012902162

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CONTENTS

Six

Ink Drawing

Ready

Ballroom Ecstasy

Of Age

The Tavern

Cellar Bound

The Road

Wishing…

An Empty Bed

The Holiday

Knowing…

The Philosopher

The Artist

Preacher Man

Tuned

The Scholar

Lies, Lies, Lies

No Medal for my Son

Lines

NYC

Dogs for Kids

The City

Cheers

The Couple

Visiting Uncle

Released

The Truth

It’s …

Telling me

I wait

View

Jolted

Origins

Heartland

Second Wave Protest

Quest

The Old Tree

Rainbow

A New Vision

The Kinglet

A Father

The Gambler

The Lady

Twenty Bottles of Wine, My Dear

Journey

Cast by Fate

Candle

Master Painter

The Revs

And the people prayed

What have I learned?

Epilogue

In dedication to:

Joy Rae

Victor

Juna Queen

Urim

Guinevere Diadem

Lois Irisa Rae

my grandchildren

…my friends…

…my community…

Six

Six?

My God!

Are they all yours?

Did you adopt?

(Like teeth—are they caps, all plates or half false?)

Yes, they’re mine, all mine

Did you plan it that way?

Didn’t you use birth control?