Whispered Shadows

By Beverly L. Anderson

The winding, twisting paths of a poet's mind can lead to interesting places. Come along and visit this place of shadows. Here, there be dragons, monsters, truth, and more to enjoy. Fantasy, Reality, and Truths come together to form one hundred and fifty poems by Beverly L. Anderson. The beginning is a path of fantasy with mythic beasts of yore a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Warrioress Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869094377

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Beverly Anderson

Whispered Shadows

First published by Warrioress Publishing 2023

Copyright © 2023 by Beverly Anderson

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Contents

The Whispered Shadows of My Mind

Whispered Fantasy

A Vampire’s Beginning

Battle

On the Funeral Pyre

Seduction in White

Unreal Fantasies

My Own Way

Ballad of the Dancers in Shadow

Request For Assistance

The Sacrifice

The Heart of Innocence

Dead Cold

fairy tale world

Once a King

My Legacy

Celestial Honor

Dark and Light Intertwined

Oppression

Darkness I Be

Sent Away

The Olden Child

Encounter By the Hero

In A Day

Dead Winds

Strange Things Happen

Far From Home

Conspiracy

Exile

Flight of the Pegasus

Vortex

The Need

Return to the Past

Riding a Myth

Huntress of the Night

The Flight

Vision of Darkness

Circle of Stones

Xanther

Overdrive

Healing Bath

Shadow Walker

Red Rune

A Silver Sun

Breath of Fantasy

Whispered Reality

Parting in the Dark

A World’s Cure

No Bond Left

Turn Me Away

Love’s Grip

Blue Combined with Red

In Memory

A Mother’s Thoughts

Why Am I About to Die?

Darkness

Ten Thousand Words

My Future

Life’s Children

Window to the Past

Rather Die

Sisters and Brothers

Time of Dying

The Wounded

Death

Simone’s Eyes

Take My Hand

The White Ferry

Inflicting Judgments

One Night in Time

Interface

School Girl

Lone Heart

Likelihood

On Marriage

Letting Go

Angel’s Face

Very Wrong

Like a Child

Second Chances

The One

Shades

The Cloud

Time To Go

Soul of Fire

Heart of Water

Mind of Earth

Spirit of Wind

Broken Ice

Puzzle

My House

Imperfect Love

My Sweet

Whispered Truth?

Truth and Lies

Moment of Fear

Winners and Losers

Going

Knowledge

Speed

Cause and Effect

Tangible

Knowing Inside

Into the Tomb

Midnight Comes

First or Last

Clues

Looking

Feline

Take Up Life

In Black and White

Undying Life

Duality

Find Out

The Loss

To See

Silken Stars

Aniconic Imagery

You

Cosmic Child

The Spider

Tired

Poisons

Time

All Around

A Child’s Vision

The Road to Nirvana

He Only Said

Apple Blossoms

Apple Picking

Apple Leaves

Apple Branches

Searching For My Savior

I Will Be Fine

I Prayed

New Life’s Curse

Evening Shadows

Twisted Whisper

Real Fantasy

Shadows Between the Stars

About the Author

Also by Beverly Anderson

The Whispered Shadows of My Mind

Twisting and turning paths make their way through the emptiness. This place cannot be found on a map, and no one bothers to try and find it. I found my way here and now I am lost. This place is a world of my own creation, and I am locked inside. Most would find such a circumstance troublesome, but not me. The world ends up being a place where I nearly don’t belong. I cannot live in the world that most consider reality. The shadows mold and shift around me. They whisper in my mind eternally. Twisting and turning in an infinite series of corridors and alleys, this place spirals out around me.

Lost. I use that word, but considering that this is but a shadow of my mind, can that be true? No, not in reality. It is somewhere in the depths of my mind that brings to light the things I write. Deep inside the shadows of this mysterious place, there is a wellspring, and from it flows ideas and thoughts that cry out to exist and seen by the world. Is this hubris on my part? Is it egotism? Some would argue that the writer is the ultimate in egotism because their desire is to be seen and admired. The writer on the whole desires to touch someone’s heart in reality. It isn’t a desire for fame or fortune that drives us. It isn’t a matter of egotism or pride. There is magic in the words that we express, and poetry is that expression in its truest form. It is undiluted by dialogue, by excess explanations, or superfluous words.

I recently was told that poetry was a dead form of writing. This person told me that no one reads poetry anymore, and there’s no place for it in our technologically advanced world. Her thought was that it was old, stiff and boring. I disagree. I find poetry to be one of the most enduring forms of writing in existence. The reasoning is simple. There is no time frame in a poem. Some may reference an event or a story of a time, but unlike a novel, which has a