Alice Parris: the Soulgasm CD ReviewWritten by C. Bailey-Lloyd/LadyCamelot
Hearing her eloquently spoken prose, I found compilation of Alice Parris to be enlightening, revealing and seductive. From psychedelic 60s, Alice brings forth a renewed vision of female passion and strength to modern-day times. A superb, audible reading that is befitting to poetry cafes from eras and eras ago - Soulgasm would be an enhancement to any art gala encompassing erotica, emotion or innerpeace. Soulgasm, by Alice Parris is empowerment of woman - an evolution of sexuality - a story of love, life, and ascension of feminine higher consciousness, perception and acquiescence. The following is a compilation of selected, compelling verses from Soulgasm: Track One - Eclipse of Soul is about many shades of life, passion and embracement thereof: '...soft and warm is love's self-drawn blood bath....' 'we become transformed in love's crucible...' Track Two - Soul Sojourn describes strong, middle-aged woman: '...hiding earth's drabbed olive dress...' '...what place have they amongst orchid-centered pieces?' '...Please love me thru closed door...' 'my days in a metabolife haze...and my nights in a soma-coma...' '...I cry out to become like phoenix risen from ashes of my half-century life...' '...purpose pours in living waters and heart of dust comes forth alive...' '...draw up into essence in spirit well...' '...in my desert places, lord touches me...not because he loves desert places, because he fills empty pots...' '....I have emerged like Lazareth....poetry has been created from dust of my soul....' '...to love or not to love...with scale of love weighed in eternity...' Track Three - Soulmate Chronicles - about love's loss: '...my heart is a wounded dove...' '...perhaps there was something that I missed because it was in plain view...' '...my spirit is an eagle powerful and rare...' '...your sad face reminded me of my own, two jagged souls reaching out to one another...' '....my thoughts of you are like an opium cloud...' '...no current could override strength you gave these wings of mine....' '...if I cannot have you, I will not die...' '...eternal in your eyes....'
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Review of "The Best Picnic Ever" by Clare JarrettCandlewick Press, May 2004 Hardcover, 32 pages ISBN: 0763623709 Recommended Ages: Baby - Preschool Review by Sherri Allen: Take an ordinary picnic, add lots of whizzing, whooshing, tootling and lolloping, and you've got "The Best Picnic Ever," an engaging children's storybook by Clare Jarrett. Jack and his mom go to park for a picnic. After Jack wishes he had someone to play with, fanciful friends start appearing, ready to have fun.
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