Telling Tales: A collection of Poetry

By Eilie Brown and Vasyl Mushyk

Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, now residing in Montreal, Quebec. Educated at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Having written over 100,000 poems over the last twenty years. Telling a tale with each poem, Eilie Brown will take you on a magical journey. Published in Poetry Train Canada, Poetry Train Africa, and Poetry Train books and Pray

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eilie Brown
• Release date: Dec 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781962624695

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Telling Tales

A Collection of Poetry

Ellie Brown

DEDICATION

This, my first book is dedicated to my youngest daughter Moriah Jeynes.

Helping me more than anyone I know.

And to my eldest daughter, Antonia Brown, and my son Emmanuel Brown and all my eight grandchildren.

CREDITS

I would like to credit:  Vasyl Mushyk for the painting of me on the cover photo.

Entitled Morning Prayer

Back photo by: Angela Bhattacharjee

Testimonials

Eilie is a wonderful writer...thrilling all of our senses with her well described poetry.

Godgal Caroline Cecile 

Eilie’s spiritual essence resounds in her poems. Her distinctive poetic voice is a joy to readers.

Margaret Karim 

I so love and appreciate the depths and originality of Eilie’s poems.

Maurice Murphy 

I have had the pleasure of enjoying Eilie’s poetry for many years. She is a brilliant poet, and her words are hauntingly beautiful.

Patrick Bollinger 

I marvel at Eilie’s poetical achievement and her accomplishments. I am delighted as a fellow Writer and Published Poet to encourage her.

Graham Robinson, U.K. Poet 

Table of Contents

DEDICATION

CREDITS

TESTIMONIALS

THIS MOMENT THEY REMEMBER

SHINING THROUGH THE DARK

WRITING ON HIS HEART

LET ME

SHARED SECRETS

WINTER’S TABLE

MOUNTAIN WOMAN

LEFT TO THE ELEMENTS

A LONESOME KEENING WOLF

EAGLES OF ETERNITY

OUR STORIES SPEAK

COYOTE GALS

MOON RIVER

THE GALAXY’S GREAT ARM

TWILIGHT ENDURANCE

DENYING LIMITATIONS

RUNNING AS SCARS

BE WARNED

I STILL RECREATE

SONG WOMAN

LET THE CHILDREN BE BORN

UPROOTED

HIDDEN IN THESE WOODS

THE COUNCIL

COYOTE’S STRANGE LITTLE HOUSE

BURN WITCHES BURN

SPRITES

THE ECHO OF INNOCENTS

SO SLEEK & BLACK

HEEDING ANCESTRAL CALLS

TWO SISTERS

MUSHROOMS HUDDLE

A NEW SEASON

NO ONE INTRUDING

A BROODING ATMOSPHERE

REMAINING KIND

A WILTING HEART

WHY

GARDEN GHOSTS

AN ISLAND

ART IS REVERED

ETERNAL SLEEP

WHITE OWL

BLUE HILLS

WOODPECKER

WILD WATER HIGH

A NYMPH

LIFE & BEAUTY

SACRED AREAS

LINGERING UNCONFINED

SOMETHING HUMS

DRAGONFLIES & BEES

HEAR OUR LULLABY

LEAVES & TREES

SIRIUS

ANOTHER SPHERE

DUCK TALES

ODE TO THE DAISY

RAIN

STRAY BIRD

BLOSSOMS & BERRIES

THE OLD ROAD

AMBER EYES FATHOM

DAYS START TO REPOSE

A CITADEL OF DISBELIEF

HOW FAIR THE VINES

AUTUMN SWOOSHES IN

LOVE & CARE

TO DARK RECESSES

A CITY FALLS

THE MIGHTY ONE

PRETERNATURAL PATIENCE

IMPROVISING WORDS

PEOPLE OF PURPOSE

ART....WITH NO ARTIST

THE SEA OF QU’ABAL

COUNTLESS CENTURIES OF WAR

HER OWN OFFSPRING

PONDER’S GIFT

UNION

A SNOWY MORNING

FAITH SHOWS THE WAY

FOLLOWING A STAR

MAGICAL MARVELS

LOVE IS NEVER LOST

ASKING & PLEADING

BEYOND THE GRAINS OF SAND

OUR BROWNIE

TWO WANDERERS

CHRISTMAS CARDINALS

APPLAUSE FOR SANTA CLAUS

YOUR HEART’S DEPTH

A DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS TALE

GUISE OF THE BENEVOLENT

CHRISTMAS FAERIES

THIS MOMENT THEY REMEMBER

The moon was generous

and gradually they make out the sky which is a bright

metallic blue. ..sounds seem to grow louder with the

call of the night heron

And the subtlemovements

of tiny creatures through the tangled oak trees a

thousand years old or more and a wave of giddiness

comes over them

And when they look

on this moment they remember the clear starlight

the sweet warm air and when they remember this feeling

they become charged

With excitement

they remember how very alive they felt. .. how much

in love. .. how foolishly excited by the mysteries of

love... and how

They felt invincible

and on his battlefield of manhood ...she was his

princess and he is her white knight riding forever

by her side

With a passionate heart

and a delirious head he lays beside his beloved

putting a bouquet of daisies so fresh soft and beautiful

tenderly in her arms

SHINING THROUGH THE DARK

The feathers

The charm of melodious birds

Caress the very chords of your throat

Warblers sound

And you begin to trill

As sweet as any songbird ever could

An elixir wild

As free and musical as ever was

The forests are full within this picture of snowy pines

The cold breath

Of dawn flutters across the sky

Hearts are still imprinted upon last night’s snow

Thought now paints

And their songs color and pour

Over my world as I reclaim song and air

My dreaming body

Is caught in this force of absolute alignment

This moment tightens into a fusion of incandescent wings

A light swift

Fluttering of pure clean and sure motion

Falling out of the sky with words to catch me

A crisp breeze

Blowing through my time bringing flecks of gold

Light to my eyes shining through the dark of dead poets

WRITING ON HIS HEART

She touches his body with her mind

As there he lays sleeping ...she’s always been his lover

Little traces in her mind

Bring him back to when their souls first encountered

She is whispering

But how he failsto understand her intense yearning

As she mixes stars

And the dust of lightning fervently just in front of him

He cannot escape

For her hands are like flowers breaking his icy ground

Taking him down

To a place carried by the snow’s swirling wind

Writing on his heart

With pure icicles curling with white-hot flame

Deeper and deeper

Little drops ofsun cling and hold golden-white hands

For the more he feels

The more his mind changes ...the more he needs to