oet and Author Floriana Berdyck Hall, born October 2, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Wrote for CFHS newspaper, and solicited advertising while working after school. Attended Akron University Business School.
Inspired in church to write LOVE NEVER DIES, first published poem which won Editor's Choice Award in The National Library of Poetry's Anthology 'Sea of Treasures.' Has had about 400 poems published in NLP's anthologies, and in various books and magazines in the United States, Great Britain and India, winning many 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes, many Editor's Choice Awards and Honorable Mentions. Writes poems on request. She has published books which you can learn about by going to the homepage. Floriana is a Distinguished Member of ISP-NLP, Honored Writer of Cleveland Poets and Writers League, The Famous Poet's Society, WHO'S WHO IN INTERNATIONAL POETRY, WHO'S WHO IN US WRITERS, EDITORS AND POETS, AND MARQUIS WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Her poetry and short stories have been compared to Poe and Hawthorne by Taj Mahal Review, India, June 2003.
Contact Floriana.
YOU ARE...
by Marie Delgado Travis
You are the only one
for whom I'd unwind time.
We were both so young.
Before I realized the
Intricacies of
Love’s design,
Too late.
You were gone!
Wish that I could
Sprinkle the sand
in the hourglass
Dance with the minute
and second hand
Unravel the spring,
Toggle the cogs
Keep time, beat time
Seize and squeeze
and kill time,
Melt and reshape it
Until at last
You’d be mine
Again.
You are the only one
for whom
I'd unwind time.
MARIE DELGADO TRAVIS is proud of her Nuyorican roots. She writes poetry and prose in English and Spanish. Her poem "Bijoux" was named "Poem of the Month" by the editors of Long Story Short (April 2005). She won Honorable Mention in a translation contest sponsored by www.languageandculture.net and is currently a Finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest, www.tomhoward.info/.
Two of her pieces are scheduled to appear in a mass market anthology, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE LATINO SOUL (August 2005). She also writes a monthly travel column, PENNY POSTCARDS, for http://www.penwomanship.com/.
Marie and her husband, Edmunds, a retired attorney, have homes in Houston, TX and Isla Verde, PR.
Former psychology researcher, writer, editor, lecturer Patricia Wellingham-Jones has most recently been published in Rattlesnake Review, Möbius, The Pedestal Magazine, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Edgz, Ibbetson Street Press, HazMat Review. Her poems and articles are frequently seen in Long Story Short. She won the 2003 Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel) and is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Contact her at pwj@wellinghamjones.com
BEFORE INVESTING ALL OF YOU...
By
Susie N. McCray
Be patient,
Don't rush;
Fall too hard,
Love too fast.
Know him better
Before the plunge.
It will hurt
If you push,
And he rejects.
Be still,
Wait for him
To come.
I was born and raised in Memphis, TN, where I am currently a tax examiner for Uncle Sam. I have wanted to be a writer since I was a child, and have finally gotten the courage to pursue it. My short story, An Understanding, was published in Long Story Short's July 2005 edition (http://www.alongstoryshort.net/ANUNDERSTANDING.html) and I have had several poems published at www.poetry.com.
SACRED IBIS
By Belinda Y. Hughes
Sleek grace-
ful yin yang, your
rose blooms in flight. Thoth, the
pharaohs' scribe-god, plucks escargot
from earth.
LAKE TANGANYIKA
By Belinda Y. Hughes
Crystal
clear above,
"Fossil Water Lake" feeds
three hundred fifty fish below
warm silk.
Belinda Y. Hughes lives in Southwest Louisiana with her fur children, Teresa, Sweetie and Stevie. Her work has been published in the (Lake Charles, LA) American Press and the (McNeese State University) Contraband, and many others. Belinda recently discovered the cinquain form through a friend and, inspired by her father's recent trip to Tanzania, combined the two for a well-researched, educational and entertaining collection of Tanzanian-topic cinquains.
Of ghouls, monsters and vampires with sharp fangs.
Frightening masks of goblins and witches
Enchanted wands of fairies bewitches.
Skeletons turn over in their graves
To shiver their bones at comic charades.
And scarecrows fall apart at the seams
While brides and dancers drift into dreams.
At daybreak, the faces of Halloween fade
But it was all in fun as a masquerade.
Floriana Hall - October 2004
Floriana Hall, born 10/2/27 in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 1945 graduate and Distinguished Alumna of Cuyahoga Falls High School, attended Akron University Business school; wrote poetry as a child, and columns for high school newspaper. Married Robert E. Hall in 1948, five children and nine grandchildren. Author of four inspirational books, SMALL CHANGE, DADDY WAS A BAD BOY, THE SANDS OF RHYME, and OUT OF THE ORDINARY Short Stories; at least 500 poems published in U.S., England, and India, winner of many poetry prizes. Floriana founded the Poet's Nook at Cuyahoga Falls Library (Ohio) seven years ago and coordinates it monthly. She edited and published The Poet's Nook's two previous books, THROUGH OUR EYES, Poems of Beautiful Northeast Ohio, and POET'S NOOK POTPOURRI, and is in the process of publishing another poetry book, titled TOUCHING THE HEARTS OF GENERATIONS, and another nonfiction book, HEARTS ON THE MEND. She feels blessed that God has inspired her to keep on writing. WHO'S WHO IN INTERNATIONAL POETRY, WHO'S WHO IN US AUTHORS, EDITORS, AND POETS, MARQUIS WHO'S WHO IN
AMERICA.
Raffle
By Patricia Wellingham-Jones
In the café window
on the Day of the Dead,
the raffle prize:
a junior-size motorcycle
with all the fancy gadgets,
stars and stripes painted
on the tank, shiny fenders and,
in a Halloween touch
so appropriate it brings a shudder,
two skeletons riding nowhere,
grinning and waving to the crowd.
THE GARDEN LUSTS FOR THRILL TONIGHT
by Russell Bittner
The garden lusts for thrill tonight
yet let us judge it fair –
the trellis, birch and pottery,
each hungry element, bare.
Hard winter’s eye upon it now
in cold, paternal glare,
stiff winter’s hand upon it now
stays rigid in repair.
Each seed lies dormant, dreaming spring,
each shooting dream, a flare –
into this longest, darkest night
to which each spring is heir.
Now here I sit and ruminate,
indulging in despair,
while seeds grow restless, birches strain
against my prurient stare.
Russell lives in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have been published on paper by: The American Dissident; The Blind Man’s Rainbow; The Lyric; The Barbaric Yawp; the International Journal of Erotica; and Wicked Hollow. Another poem will appear in the fall (2005) at N.O.L.A. Spleen.
On-line, his poetry can be found at: Quintessence-encouraginggreatwriting; ken*again; SpillwayReview; Erotica Readers and Writers; EdificeWrecked; GirlsWithInsurance; ThievesJargon; SalomeMagazine; LauraHird; MadHattersReview; and DropDeadDublin. Additional poems will appear in Sept. at SouthernHum, JustusRoux and OpiumMagazine; and sometime in the fall at PlumBiscuit (a journal of the New York Writers Guild); at 3 a.m.; and at Zygote in my Coffee.
Russell completed his first novel, Trompe-l’oeil, in September of 2004 and his second, Girl from Baku, in June of 2005. Both are going through agents faster than a greyhound goes through giblets.
Former psychology researcher, writer, editor, lecturer Patricia Wellingham-Jones has most recently been published in Rattlesnake Review, Möbius, The Pedestal Magazine, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Edgz, Ibbetson Street Press, HazMat Review. Her poems and articles are frequently seen in Long Story Short. She won the 2003 Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel) and is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Contact her at pwj@wellinghamjones.com
