Somewhere Between Dreams and Memories

By Miriam Susan Carstons

As the child of an Air Force career man, poet Miriam Susan Carstons grappled with the advantages and pitfalls of a nomadic youth. By the time she was 17, she had settled and pulled up roots from New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, California, Maryland, Virginia, and Japan. And it was in Japan that an inward journey would also begin.

In her collection, Somewhere Between Dreams and Memories, Miriam continues that inner journey with a unique and insightful perspective that touches on a plethora of topics from creation to reincarnation, to human nature, to mother nature, to love.

Whether Miriam is offering up an observation, expanding on a notion or just telling a memory story; her poems are alive with imagination and possibility.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491768891

Miriam Susan Carstons

Miriam Susan Carstons now lives in the American Midwest where she has lived for over 30 years. She began writing at the age of 12 and has recently begun to publish. The passages in this collection were complied mostly from poems written between 2002 and 2012.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-6890-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-6889-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015909479

iUniverse rev. date: 01/05/2016

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Humble Insights during Meditation

III. Lady of the Highlands

IV. Rapture

V. Wisdom of the Pond and the Trees

VI. Channeling Virginia

VII. On the Shores of an Ethereal Sea

VIII. Japan

IX. The Heartlands of the Poet

X. Some Themes Universal

XI. Channeling Clare

XII. Tantric Dreams

XIII. Seasonal Renderings

XIV. Visions

XV. Life after Life

To Sue Bee – who for part of the journey, came along for the ride.

Acknowledgments

This would not have been possible without ShirleyMacLaine.com. A heartfelt thank you goes out to Shirley MacLaine and Brit Elders for creating and maintaining this wonderful forum for independent expression.

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I. Introduction

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In my mid twenties, I had a dream one night that I was a baby in a crib, crying, and my mother came to get me. She brought me into the kitchen and sat me on her