franny50

I have been published in independent print anthologies,including;"Reflections On A Blue Planet"series,"On The Words Of Love,"A Poet's Way Of Being","A Haiku Treasury", "Winter".Published by Brian Wrixon. "The Attic","The Art Of Darkness", "Landscape Of The Dream"."The Poetic Bond 2",and in"The Gift Of A Rose",and "The Black Rose Of Winter" both by Lost Tower Publications.Some of my poems also appear in the literary quarterly FM(five volumes) Online,my work is featured in Carty's Journal.Angie's Diary,Outsider Writers,The Original Van Gogh's Ear,and in Cygnus.I have also edited a number of ebook anthologies all available on bookrix.Recently(May 2014)I have been published in "Bridge Of Fates",by Lost Tower Publications.My essay entitled,"A Lifetime In New York",will be featured in the Summer edition of FM.

Favorite Quotes

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?-John Keats

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good. -Dylan Thomas

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast .-William Wordsworth