O' GREAT SPIRIT
help me always
to speak the truth quietly,
to listen with an open mind
when others speak,
and to remember the peace
that may be found in silence.
Cherokee Prayer
Flowers & Vortexes Magazine
Scattered with purple
circles
the stone road that leads
to the acidic
pool of desire
is tenuous and fleeting
and never holds
to a perpendicular plane
Photograph and text: Dave Brooks
Flowers & Vortexes, Creative Magazine
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King, "Strength of Love," 1963
Hello: writers, poets, and artists of all kind,
dwellers of soul, dimensions of mind. Welcome.
I can see that you’ve decided to join us
for a poetic experience of sights and sounds:
Read some poetry or prose. Listen to a poetry reading
by one of our extraordinary poets, or listen to some music.
There's a different song on most pages.
Gaze at the photographs and artwork.
Order and read Flowers & Vortexes.
Submit your own work . . . and possibly be published.
So. Have fun. Look around. Scroll down. And visit the links
on this page, and to your right.
Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued
~ Robert Frost
Frost was a master at showing you the thing
so that you examine it and see these simplistic truths staring
back
at you.
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the whirlpool of personal experience.
~ Albert Einstein
_______The Age of Reason_______
___________________________________________
"My own mind is my own church." ~ Thomas Paine
____________________________________________
promiseoflight.org: writer
Mary Molina is a beautiful soul
and writes with a voice of comfort and warmth.
We are more than pleased to have her on board here at the site.
Mary's Hideaway
Mary's Hideaway consists of but is not be limited to
tastefully-written (romantic and erotic) poetry and prose.
Mary adds fresh pieces of writing on occasion.
And there's plenty in there now, so, by all means, dive in:
Read Mary's Hideaway.
Please purchase one of our shirts or other items
to help spread the word about the Promise of Light mission
and the message that we want to convey to the world:
We are here for such a short time.
Let us love and understand as much as we can.
Aristotle (384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Water
Water Image Manipulation: Michael J. Csiki
alluring sheen
soothing surface
of purple pastels
promising so much
just below
the glow
of water
Intent
Our intent, as a publisher, is to publish nothing but poetry and prose,
artwork and photographs of the highest quality and literary standards.
If it takes the reader, the observer, on a journey, touches their soul,
activates their sympathetic nervous systems, transports them to another
place all while listening to the sounds of the rain, or to nothing at all, and
the hum of the world fades into its background, this is what we intend to publish.
Here at the site we intend to provide words, images, and sounds
to entice our readers, to enhance their experience in every sense,
to educate, to encourage emotional growth, spirituality, enlightenment,
or just some form of a heightened awareness in which love is the guide.
