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Adrift amid the bindweed, through the reeds,<\/strong><\/p>\nWatching the sky with deep unblinking eyes,<\/strong><\/p>\nShe passes where the turquoise mayfly feeds,<\/strong><\/p>\nOblivious of all that swims or flies.<\/strong><\/p>\nRed flowered chiffon billows to her hands<\/strong><\/p>\nOpen like water lilies in the sun,<\/strong><\/p>\nHer skin\u2019s the colour of tropical sands,<\/strong><\/p>\nHer russet hair shines bright as copper spun.<\/strong><\/p>\nFabulous jewels languish on her breast,<\/strong><\/p>\nRich spoils of love rendered useless in death,<\/strong><\/p>\nHer parted lips make unspoken behest;<\/strong><\/p>\nThe rosy portal of her final breath.<\/strong><\/p>\nNow all is cold where roiling passion flamed,<\/strong><\/p>\nAs jealous earth mourns what the river claimed.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Sara Louise Russell , whose internet name is \u201cPinkyAndrexa\u201d, is a UK poet who has earned a well-deserved reputation as a highly respected twenty-first century poetry publisher and poet. She was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Life & Times, one of the world\u2019s premier poetry E-zines, which ran monthly from 1998-2006 under her tutelage. She has always been in on the scene with graphic design, animation, 3D art, web design, sign writing, photography, film and poetry recital videos. Sara is founder and current editor of Poetry Lifetimes and the online Ning network The Video Poets. Her poetry has been published in Artvilla, AuthorsDen, Hello Poetry, The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry (Describe Adonis Press, Ottawa, \u00a9 2005), Sonnetto Poesia, Word Machinist and more, as well as in several e-books by Kedco Studios Inc. (USA). Her skills as a sonneteer are particularly remarkable. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n30 sonnets in this anthology are to be pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information.<\/span>http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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