Small Wonders

By Kaye Lynne Booth

The world is filled with amazing things, if we will just stop a moment and take notice. In this vast universe, we are but tiny individuals, filled with awe and amazement. From reflections on first love, to reflections on growing old. The poems within these pages express a lifetime of unique reflections in Small Wonders.

 

Whether chasing moles in the garden or fantasizing about the life of a cat, Kaye Booth's poems find playfulness, humor, levity, and often beauty. Small Wonders is a delightful compendium of poetic forms—from pantoums to Shadormas. Each poem is an invitation to see the world with new eyes.—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and Hush

• Language: English
• Publisher: WordCrafter Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223970521

Kaye Lynne Booth

Kaye Lynne Booth lives, works, and plays in the mountains of Colorado. With a dual emphasis M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a M.A. in Publishing, writing is more than a passion. It's a way of life. She's a multi-genre author, who finds inspiration from the nature around her, and her love of the old west, and other odd and quirky things which might surprise you. Her latest release, The Rock Star & The Outlaw, Delilah, as Book 1 in the Women in the West adventure series, and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets, are all available in AI audiobook, as well as digital and print. She has short stories featured in several anthologies and online. Her poetry has been published in Dusk & Dawn poetry magazine, Colorado Life Magazine, Manifest West #5: Serenity & Severity, and a portion of her poem "Intimacy & the Harlequin Dance" was featured in a painting by Mitchel Barrett, which was displayed in the Kaleidoscope Gallery, in Battle Sea Park, London in 2010. In addition, she keeps up her authors' blog, Writing to be Read, where she posts reflections on her own writing, author interviews and book reviews, along with writing tips and inspirational posts from fellow writers. And she has also created a small publishing house in WordCrafter Press, and WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services, where she offers quality author services, such as publishing, editing, and book blog tours. In her spare time, she is bird watching, or gardening, or just soaking up some of that Colorado sunshine.

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Foreword

By Robbie Cheadle

When author and poet, Kaye Lynne Booth, told me she was publishing a book of poetry and asked me to write the foreword, I was honoured and delighted.

I was introduced to Kaye Lynne’s work in 2019 when we both contributed stories to an anthology, Nightmareland, compiled and edited by USA Today bestselling author, Dan Alatorre. I very much enjoyed Kaye Lynne’s contribution to that anthology, a short story entitled ‘The Haunting of Carol’s Woods’.

A short while after our initial introduction, Kaye Lynne asked me if I would like to contribute a monthly article about writing for, and encouraging literacy among, children for her website and blog, ‘Writing to be Read’. I was pleased to do that as children’s literacy is a great passion of mine.

The following year, Kaye Lynne and I started a monthly series published on Writing to be Read called Treasuring Poetry. The intention behind this series was to introduce readers and lovers of poetry to new poets in the poetry reading and writing community and share some of each poet’s work and a review of one of their books. This series is now in its fourth year and has been most successful; leading to the annual publication of a poetry anthology, compiled, and edited by Kaye Lynne and myself, including three to six poems written by each of the Treasuring Poetry contributors during the prior calendar year. To date there are three books in the Poetry Treasures series: Poetry Treasures, Poetry Treasures: Relationships, and Poetry Treasures: Passions.

Kaye Lynne writes powerful and thought-provoking short stories, and I thoroughly enjoyed the first book, Delilah, in her Women in the West Adventure Series. I expected that her poetry would be equally compelling, and I was not disappointed when I read her inaugural poetry collection, Small Wonders, Reflective Poems.

The poems featured in this collection have been written over Kaye Lynne’s life and share a wide spectrum of memories, some full of fun, for example My ‘Vette, some are achingly beautiful, Sun and Shade immediately sprang to mind, and some, like A Single Heartbeat, are poignantly sad. All are worthwhile and inform the reader about the human condition whether delighting in nature, agonising over trauma and grief, or throwing care to the wind and riding the wave of life.

Kaye