The Scent of Ancestral Memory: Poems on Spirit, Grace, Place, Love and Relationships

By Anita Jetnikoff

Poetry expresses the physical and spiritual worlds in ways that other kinds of writing cannot. Travelling opens our minds and feeds our spirit. Creative musings and meditations on life, spirit, grace, love, relationships, art, and nature weave their way through the feminine spiritual journey that infuses these lyrical poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Dec 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452526874

Anita Jetnikoff

Anita Jetnikoff (PhD) lectures in English literature, language, and curriculum. She is a passionate educator as well as a painter, poet, documentary film maker, photographer, organic gardener, spiritual seeker, and avid traveller.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 12/16/2014

Contents

Celebrating nature and our connection with the elements

Blue bands and blossoms

Magpie moment

The fishing eagle

Golden Eagle

Wave art

Esoterica: Spirit and grace poems

Have a lend of me

The compass

Solar eclipse

Shadow and light

The scent of ancestral memory

Horse Therapy

Thoughts on consumerism

Beyond threads

The jewel net of Indra

On Hearing Tama Oma

Travel Inspirations

Sun Dance

Outside the Sundance lodge

Morning in Browning, Montana

Storm on the Stone Child reservation

Remove the veil

Umbrellas

Playing on the ash plane (Tanna Island, South Pacific)

The dragon

The road to Lenakel market

Leaving Tanna

Leaving Beas by train (India)

Santa Monica Pier

Hay To hotel (Vietnam)

Morning on the Mekong

Little India in Singapore

Travelling to Taro

Orphan elephants

Cartographer’s dream

People and relationships

The daughter’s song (for my late mother)

Café notes

It is time

Ambience

Urban Vignette

Libraries and Lives

The turtle and the book

Cory’s snake story

The lovers’ conversation

Ayano’s art

What Laura taught me

Anzac

A satirical dramatic monologue on pouting.

The exhibition: portraits in plastic

Passion

Celebrating nature and our connection with the elements

Blue bands and blossoms

Lying down and reading, I am interrupted as

my eardrums are bombed with a persistent buzzing,

consistent and staccato,