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It was in 2012 that I published my first poem in a blog on a spiritual website. Comparing myself to Shakespeare (and in my perception failing miserably) didn’t do much to alleviate my being extremely nervous about this. I was asking myself what kind of feedback I was going to get. But as the people on that site were all very loving and accepting, I had plucked up the courage. I thought maybe one or two likes and thank you for sharing might come up before the post would slink back into blissful oblivion.

When I checked the next morning, I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were more than just a couple of comments, at least five, and all were very positive, saying my poem was beautiful and it had touched them. I couldn’t get over the fact that I had actually been able to touch someone’s heart with my poetry. My heart was racing and leaping. I decided to post another poem a couple of days later and then another the following week.

I received many positive responses and one person asked me, if I minded if she printed it out to hang on her fridge, so she could read it every morning. Another told me, it had struck a chord in her so deeply, she had cried for two hours and it had been very cleansing and healing.

That website doesn’t exist any longer, but it was the birthplace for my confidence as a writer and it was a place where I made many online friends, a few of which are still with me to this day. One in particular, I actually visit in the UK on a regular basis. She is one of my closest friends and she called me “Shakespeare’s sister” in those early days.

That totally freaked me out, triggering all my fear responses. I thought people would think I was a megalomaniac putting myself on the same level as this world-famous poet whose works have lasted over 400 years. And my writing technique was nothing like his, anyway. When I messaged my friend and asked her about it, telling her Shakespeare was totally out of my league, she said, Shakespeare’s works have survived so long because he touches the hearts of people with his words. And that was something we had in common. I had my own style and I shouldn’t be a copycat, but myself.

As I had received many emotional responses to my poetry, I couldn’t deny the fact that I seemed to be able to touch some hearts, even if I could scarce believe it at the time through all my many layers of insecurity. Some people had actually encouraged me to publish my poetry in book form. My greatest dream in my life at this point had always been to have a book published and for my children to be able to say of their mother that she was a published author. To me, that was then the ultimate life achievement and greatest legacy I could think of to leave behind. One book!

Forward three years to the beginning of 2015. I had a collection of poetry that was large enough to be published in book form, but it took me until then to 1. Work up the courage to put myself out there and 2. Find help with the technical side of things. I had no idea how to format a manuscript for that and when someone gave me the address of a website where such services could be purchased for a reasonable price, that’s what I did.

I created my Amazon author’s account and at the end of March 2015, my first book ever, “Poetry from the Heart” was published, first on Kindle, then a little later as paperback. At the end of 2016, however, I could already see that this format was not going to work for future poetry and I decided to split my collection, which had also already grown substantially in size, as I had been writing so much more, some for clients, but I always kept the copyright to my work, so I was able to include all in a new volume.

I arranged the content not only chronologically as I had done before, but also by topic. Then I took the romantic poetry out and started a separate collection for that, deciding I would publish it when I had 66 poems, as 6 is the card of the Lovers in the Major Arcana of the Tarot and I thought that was a suitable number then.

The new poetry book with over 400 pages of poetry was finally ready for publication and at the same time, I unpublished the first poetry book. I decided on the new title while listening to some beautiful Native American shamanic-meets-new age music. “My Spirit Song: A Spiritual Evolution in Poetic Expression.” The poetry had come from my spirit expressing itself in words and to see my own personal development over the years in my spiritual journey through my own writing was encouraging and empowering. Where I had felt too stagnant before, I looked at these words and saw the flow in my own personal growth.

Thus, “My Spirit Song” was born and it holds the culmination of my poetic work from six years of writing. There are healing poems, messages received from deities, poems about people who have touched my heart at one time or another and random poetry, inspired by experiences at the time. “My Spirit Song” was published in March 2017.

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