Love's Arrows L-poems & stories: L-Poems & stories

By Phyllis Parun

Written with intriguing delicacy, these romantic L-love verses and stories stir the emotions entice the reader into a tantalizing dream world. The author a beautiful, mysterious palace is built in which the reader’s imagination can play. Interplay on the level of the mystic gives voice to the universal yearnings of romance, love, and

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phyllis B. Parun
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781732356092

Phyllis Parun

Born in the mysterious city of New Orleans, Phyllis Parun is a self-styled creative with an individual intelligence whose voyage of self-discovery destined her to develop first as a visual artist then as a gilding craftswoman and a pioneer culturer finally as philosophical poet. As a writer she has explored many literary forms: non-fiction, essays, short stories, philosophical and poetic memoir. Community activism set her course of involvement in black, gay and women's rights in late 1960s and in the arts in the mid-1970s then in the healing arts of the 1980s-90s. This author writes with insight and honesty about the human condition as she has lived it. New Orleans Born is her poetic homage to her New Orleans of the 1940-50s and continuing to 2000 in New Orleans Between Poetry and the Blues. In this, Phyllis' third book she continues traversing five decades of her life with captivating autobiographical tales about the people, eras, and circumstances that shaped her character and life. These personal tales will inspire any reader who seeks a deeper understanding of their own lives to remember long forgotten memories.Phyllis Parun is a deeply honest author and a quintessential example of Cocteau's dictum that "writing should be an act of love otherwise its nothing but handwriting." Ms. Parun's published genres include interviews, articles, essays, poems, e-Zines, visual art, and photography in a wide variety of local and national publications: The Beachcomber (LSUNO, 1961-63), AOBTA Pulse (2006), American Assn. of Oriental Medicine (1995), Macrobiotics Today (1991-2015), Gulf Coast Arts Review (2004), ArtLit (2006), Iris (2005), Qi: Journal of Traditional Eastern Health and Fitness (1995), The New Laurel Review (2001- 2015), The Maple Leaf Rag III (2006), Mending for Memory (2017) and creator of "The New Orleans Living Treasurers Award" and her self published eZine: "The New Orleans Avant-Garde" (2008 ongoing).

Book preview

DEDICATION

To everyone who has ever loved.

CONTENTS

Poet’s Life

That’s a Nice Tomb

I sit in my studio

Each time we made love

Sunday Morning

Collateral Damage

Mephisto

Artists and her Muse

Pilgrimage to Paris

You turned me into a poet

Your sweet smile

Sapphoisms

Stories

The letter

Encore

Baiiley’s Storms

A POET’S LIFE

I keep poets hours

writing ‘til dawn

sleeping ‘til noon

following my muse

everywhere she goes

with the tip of my pen.

Turning the ringer off my phone

I bask in the solitude of my home

curl up in bed

on cold winter nights.

Pulling the covers over my head

and with my night light ballpoint

and poetry journal in hand,

I scribble down sweet phrases of love and longing

pleasuring myself with beautiful verse

stroking the flesh of erotic words

and stoking the fires of poesy—

These are the true joys of the poet’s life.

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THAT’S A NICE TOMB

That’s a nice tomb!

New Orleans is full of tombs

whole cities for the dead

above ground tombs big as houses

embellished with finely carved

figurative sculpture.

Here the Dead are dead

the living are dead  -

walking dead

Everyone here is dead.

Bodies haunting the streets

taking up space

roaming around

looking for meaning

looking for love

looking for sex and drugs

Finding only the walking dead.

Tombs

City of tombs

City of living dead

walking dead

buried dead

reincarnated dead

and I,  foolishly looking for a solution

to my heartbreaking sorrow

among these