A Lily Pad of Possibilities

By Fiona Goldsmith

Fiona Goldsmith creates a natural world suffused with fairies and magic; her themes are identity, love, beauty, self love and acceptance, truth and transformations. She celebrates nature and our constant connection that we may have forgotten to notice.

There is both silence and sound in this writing, less is more. The poet’s life work as a teacher of yoga, comes through in the breath of some of the pieces in this collection, and the soft touch of a loving storyteller is there too. Meet Alice, Rose, lovely O, Maria, Tasha, Kira and the fairies, in a celebration of the feminine, empowerment and womanhood. Intuition, and following it, is another theme she explores, and this poetry reads like stories to our innocent self. Positive and life-affirming, Fiona’s poetry will make you smile and feel good to be alive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Dec 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781504323710

Fiona Goldsmith

Fiona Goldsmith was Australia’s youngest published poet at the age of 14. She started writing because her single parent father was not always a good listener. So she’d write him a poem. Her lyrical musings were her self expression, creativity and therapy. Fiona is the mother of two young women and has been teaching and practicing yoga, meditation, energy medicine and therapeutic movement for over 30 years.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-2370-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-2371-0 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 12/18/2020

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

The Mermaid

Purpose

Reflection

Rose

Big Love

Into The Unexpected

Inspiration

FOREWORD

My niece Fiona has had a brilliant gift of writing poetry since she was a

child- a beautiful and different way of seeing life and the world around

her. A Lily Pad of Possibilities is a glorious selection of her lifetime of

inspired works from a life interestingly and well lived.

I love her poems so much that I started posting them on my social media

as Fiona’s Friday’s to inspire people in this most surreal and difficult time

in our recent history.

You will find much to laugh, cry and smile about as she explores themes we

may not have thought of before, in quite that way. Fiona opens your eyes to

A Lily Pad of Possibilities.

Olivia Newton-John

Aunty O

November 2020

INTRODUCTION

When I was a little lost girl, there