Where Journey's Meet…New Book Release!!

Once in a blue moon something magical comes along…

Coinciding with the second full moon of July, 

Journey of the Heart Women's Spiritual Poetry

announces release of it's second collection...

sharing hearts and voices from women from around the world.

This book will be available at Amazon.com 

beginning July 31st, 2015

All proceeds to go to ~                                                                                              

a mentoring program that encourages girls to explore and develop their creative talents, both written and oral.

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I am pleased and honored to have three poems chosen to appear in this collection:

Marooned

This Cynical Heart

Old Friends

My pre-release interview may be viewed here:

View Trailer below:

An Incredible Lightness of 'Being'

It happened without fanfare

no ticker tape, no announcement…

so subtle it was hard to say the exact moment

when the veil lifted,

the weight disappeared,

and calmness claimed

the place where pain had screamed.

Once again your blue eyes shown

  and hope danced in their brightness.

©  Ginny Brannan 2015

Finding the "Groove" Again

Internet Image, James B. Whiteside, hard edit

“One step forward, two steps back…

Two steps forward, one step back…”

You dance this strange, unconventional dance

trying to find your balance once more

No pirouettes, no jetés—

only petite adagios and tour lents instead;

  —pivoting cautiously—

as pain surveys silently stage-left

anxious to claim the spotlight again.

Eyes forward, back straight

slow and steady—

     stand…hold… rest

     stand…hold… rest

building strength

until each movement becomes rote;

…your accolades acrued in each forward measure.

©  Ginny Brannan

Internet Image, Darek Fidyka, hard edit

Dance terms:

Pirouettes: spins

Jetés: throw the leg, jump with a throw of the leg

Petite “adagios” small slow sustained movements

tour lents: to turn slowly on one leg