Always Look for the Blue Sky

By Tessy Gold Starry

Always Look for the Blue Sky is an anthology of poems that depicts childhood, predominantly celebrating the freedom of childish thought uncompromised by psychological threat and the responsibilities of being an adult. It is a group of poems about the question of identity portrayed through poetry about animals and musicality found within rhyme. The poems and the accompanying photographs help to depict simplicity within the natural world, particularly through light, plants, and trees.

It is a book about dreams and a warning to children about excessive materialism, capitalism, hedonism, the ego, and their need to pave their own way in the world against all the odds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Nov 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524594657

Tessy Gold Starry

Tess attended Gresham’s School after which she obtained a degree in English literature and sociology and studied to be a primary school teacher in Canterbury. She sung in Christ Church Canterbury Cathedral Choir. Tess went to raise standards for pupils and fellow teachers as lead literacy role in a school for children aged four to eleven after studying critical approaches to children’s literature at Cambridge University. Having grown up in Islington in North London, Tess has also taught children in London in nonselective inner-city schools. She has taught the full range as a nursery teacher to year six, tutored English GCSE 11+, and English literature and language to adults. Tess will now move into the world of writing and illustration for children, an audience she knows well. Tess also expresses interest in psychodynamics and healing therapies for children and believes unconscious emotions, thoughts, and dreams often manifest in the arts, particularly those repressed by control systems. Tess can play four instruments and enjoys going to church, cooking, designing, pilates, running, poetry, photography, painting, illustrating, and travelling. She is blessed to have loving friends and some loving family. She believes in positivity despite adversity—believing in the empowerment of vulnerable individuals, particularly women, children, and animals.

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Always Look

for the

Blue Sky

Tessy Gold Starry

GOLD STARRY EDITIONS

Copyright © 2016 by Tessy Gold Starry. 748598

ISBN: Softcover     978-1-5245-9466-4

EBook     978-1-5245-9465-7

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 11/16/2016

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ADDITIONAL AUTHOR’S NOTES

My poetry book looks at the importance of childhood, genetic roots and the shaping of identity. Additionally, the simplicity of the natural world and animals is portrayed in a humorous way. Poetically they are playful, musical and engaging for children and adults but particularly children under any form of controlling restraint or who want to explore their identity further.

The poems also explore energy exchange, musicality frequencies and consciousness. Predominant themes featured are positivity and freedom against any form of adversity: particularly psychological control, a seemingly invisible yet very present danger and obstacle to people realizing their true potential.

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T able of Contents

Stale dusk.

Ratitatcat.

Fresh Dew.

Seven Haiku’s in fifteen minutes.

Mary Rose Ship.

Noughts and Crosses.

Spider catchers.

Autumn.

Withering