As anyone who’s been reading for the past few weeks knows, I’m working very hard to enter a blog post here every day for the August NaBloPoMo challenge. This month’s theme was “green”, and I’ve done several blogs about that subject in one form or another. Other days, when I’m running out of day and need to get something posted, I recycle some of my old poems that I wrote years and years ago as a way of making sure something is posted. And because it’s recycled, that makes it green. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. LOL

If anyone has actually read any of my posts from this month or even before, thank you. I know my friend Gina has stopped by on occasion, and I love ya for it honey. But to all those who read but don’t leave a comment, I appreciate you too. I’d love to hear from you, but it’s not a major issue. I’ve spent years trying to turn this blog into something that was worth mentioning to others, but nothing seemed to work. I don’t care anymore. It will be what it wants to be and I’ll be happy that I have a few people here and there that stop by.

To everyone who’s ever left a real comment, thank you. To all of you who like to leave your nasty little spammy comments, thanks for giving me something to laugh about each day. I even appreciate the fact that you seem to think having your link associated with my site is such a good thing. I’ll take that as a complement.

I know I don’t have as many followers her as I do on my other blogs, nor do I have as many as a lot of other sites. But I do appreciate each and every one of you who stop by once in a while to see what’s going on. I’ll keep plugging away, you just sit back and let me do all the work.

I’ve never loved like that since then,
And I’m not sure I will again.
My broken heart is all I own,
And feels as if it’s turned to stone.
You’ve become a world away,
As my sky’s gone from blue to gray.

I miss the way you made me feel,
My soul was not yours to steal.
I wish somehow that you could see,
Just what it is you’ve done to me.
Now that you have gone away,
My blue eyes are turning gray.

He was barely visible,
with sunset at his back.
Looking like a silhouette,
Done totally in black.

Then a ray of sunlight,
glistened off his beak.
While though I felt excited,
I had no words to speak.

He circled quite awhile,
above me in the sky.
I guess I didn’t notice,
that a tear ran from my eye.

To soon the night did come,
and the eagle went on his way.
Yet I knew that I had seen,
what freedom was that day.

The scent of her fragrance
floral in all its glory
drifts through air

Playfully she begins
to ting the barren ground
with drops of color

She giggles in the breezes
the hint of warmth flirting
in the sun

The grace and charm
of innocence at its finest
approaches once more.

Christine R. Senter
© 2003

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve just published my first e-book of Christian poetry.  I’ve been writing poetry all my life, and during the 1990’s, things got pretty rough in my world.  I hit rock bottom and wasn’t sure how to bring myself back out of it.  Then, I started writing poetry.  I wrote hundreds of poems, but many of them were just the rantings of someone lost in the world.  I’ve titled my book Silver Cloud-Poetry for Christians, and hope that it brings at least one person in this world to the foot of the cross.

Over the past couple of weeks, I went through all those poems and picked out the best of the lot.  I went back through each one and polished them up a bit, making them more readable.  That’s when I decided to put them into e-book form and offer them out to the world.  I know the first thing everyone is going to ask is, are you charging for them.  The answer is yes, but I’m only asking $2.00 or $2.50 per copy, depending on where you buy it.

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to sell my e-book from my site, but I think that’s just a little beyond my brain at the moment.  With all the problems I’ve been having with websites and such, I decided to let the experts handle this part of the process and have my book for sale at Lulu.com for $2.50 per copy.  The reason it’s 50 cents more is due to their costs.

I’ve also added the e-book to my webidz store for sale at the price of $2.00.  I can do it for that price as I don’t have to pay someone else to sell it for me.  The problem is that because I have a free store there, I can only offer 1 book at a time.  I can relist it a thousand times, but I have to do it by hand.  Kinda sucks, but that’s life.  I don’t mind, I’m just thrilled that I finally convinced myself to do this.  I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time, but because of the backlash I’ve gotten because I write in rhyme, I almost didn’t do it.

(UPDATE: I figured out how to add more than one copy.  Thanks to the wonderful people in the forums at Webidz.)

I know there will be someone out there who gives me crap for doing this, for one reason or another, but I don’t care.  This is something I had to do for me and my family.  In the future, there will be more coming out.  I’ve got a whole cupboard full of stuff I’ve written over the years and it’s going to waste.  Keep on the look out for more poetry books coming out in the near future.  There will be one for children, one for nature lovers, and one for, well, lovers.

I’m also working on two more e-books of writing prompts, but they’re going a little slower than I’d like.  I have a thousand ideas, but I’ve also got an inner critic who talks me out of doing a lot of the stuff I think about.  Sometimes, I’m my own worst enemy.

As the other books come out, I’ll post about them here.  I do hope that you’ll run over to one of the sites and pick up your copy.  It would totally make my day.