Eye Time: A Feminist Poet

By Alyx Jen

Having traveled alone in Europe, the poet saw details in nature that affected her vision, mind, and soul. As nature and as human beings inter-relate---We become aware committed to the rhythms of the universal hum. We laugh and cry for the joys and the pain we experience that life gives usAs in her poem: Elegy Of The Patriarch

The poet has won four awards in Poetry---The poem Envelopes was Published in Outstanding Poets, 1998 Published by The International Library Of Poetry, Washington, D.C.

Most recently, her poems will be included in The International Whos Who In Poetry, anthology, and in the Anthology being published by The World Poetry Movement.

The poet currently resides in Dallas, Texas

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479742493

Alyx Jen

I was born during the depression era... However, family was not affected as my father owned property which was later bought by the city to build the Fiesta grounds and he owned and property where a popular cafe was always busy.... and my dad had a grocery store. He used to take me to the farmers market to get produce for his store. Since my older sister and brother played tennis at the nearby park on weekends I slowly learned how to focus where the ball should land so as to make my returns very competitive which they loved having to backhand tennis racquet. When I was alone I would practice hitting the blank wall of an empty building. I learned early how best to use my time when I was alone... Now writing poetry in solitude...read Bible daily, play piano, read murder mysteries written by women and write poetry as spiritual growth leads my octagenerian years.... World Poetry Movement “Best Poet 2012” Certificate “Poetic Achievement” 1990 from Vassar Univ.

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EYETIME

A Feminist Poet

Copyright © 2012 by Alyx Jen.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920587

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Contents

Anecdotes

You Can Write Poetry

A Cat’s Stare

Alone

Bachman Lake

Baglady

The Balcony Of The Lady Companions

Career

Clueless In Dallas

Corporate

Death

Death 2

Drawers

Eating Strawberries

Elegy ~ To The Patriarch

Elevator

Envelopes

Family Ties

Homeless

Hope

I Don’t Date

Lemmon ~ Marsh

Midnight Grey Oregon Beach

Moon

Need

No One Said It Was Easy

Obsessed

Plastic Wrapped

Power Hungry Bitch

Puerile Passion

Rust

Scooters

Secret Rendevous

Theatre Center

There Is A Woman

To The Power Of Twos

Turtle Creek Suburbia

Untitled

View From A Distant Window

Waking Feelings

Wild Child

Yellow Coveralls

Young Love

My L’eggs

A Personal Note . . .

The Poetic idiom characteristic mode

of the poet

Epilogue

Biography

Charge of the Star Goddess

Anecdotes

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1990 Poem Rust included in Anthology

Life In The Garden WaterMark Press

1990, Certificate Of Poetic Achievement Award,

Included in American Poetry Annual Anthology

The Amherst Society, by Paul Brodes,Executive Director-

Poem: Untitled

1997, Editor’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, by National Library Of Poetry. Poem: Waking Feelings

Anthology Published: Essence Of A Dream

1998, Poem: Envelopes published in Anthology: "Outstanding Poets Of 1998" by The National Library Of Poetry, Washington,DC

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You Can Write Poetry

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Pull a word out of the air or choose a word that tickles your fancy and write a sentence or partial sentence, you have begun a poem. Write a paragraph and you have begun a short story. Everyone has a story to tell. You can do that when you walk with a friend . . . I do.

Some poets feel that poetry is like music: rhythmic and musical . . . Seeds of creativity for the soul

You want to compose poetry; must not dwell on particular words stringing together in just the right way, rather do not dwell heavily on composition at the moment. Listen to the sounds around you, your environment, writing down thoughts and short words, eliminate verbs, prepositions (of being, to and from, etc.), adjectives, extra connecting words not needed and you begin to pick up your style, read out loud what you have written, listen to the cadence, turn the page of your writing books and do another word, leave the editing form another time. Audre Lourde does three different editings after a space of time to let change in words occur Give it space/time and then later look at it—While you are sitting having a cup of tea or juice or coffee; look at what you wrote and re-arrange the words. The surroundings are different. Put your hand with pen to paper and then write like a stream of consciousness, just words. The results will surprise you.

Myself, I feel that it is a therapy of sorts that you sometimes have to pour out your words as though your spirit is bursting with thought in pain or in ecstasy, two very deep emotions. It has been said: when you blend your spirit, your heart and your spirituality, you have touched your soul. When you are lonely, do not get into the depression state, if you put words to paper and then play with them, you never go inwardly the way depression pushes you, rather you go outwardly to writing and away from the self. "Be here now" . . . And the ego cannot push you into depression," says Eckhart Tolle.

I feel we are all (those of us feeling a need to write, a few of those who took up the study of psychology told me) . . . trying to find ourselves or about myself, hoping to