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GREAT NEWS
My story, Martian Rebirth, is now up for sale. It is an ebook, so if you have a Nook or Kindle, go to Books to Go now and enjoy the read. You can also download this story to your computer.
PUBLISHED POEM
I offer to you another old poem published in 1974. It was published by New Dawn Publications in their anthology, At Heaven’s Gate, edited by Noel Alvin Gardner.
WHAT IS DEATH?
One journeys through life stumbling – blind,
Never knowing what he may find;
He seeks for himself a place in the sun,
But much to his sorrow often finds none.
He asks himself what life is about,
What will happen when his flame flickers out?
Will he have the courage to face the day – –
The day he knows he must go his way,
And leave the world behind?
What will he find?
Will he miss the life he had here on earth?
For then he will know what his life was worth,
Is death really the end of living,
Or for some, is it just the beginning?
As a writer gaining age, I sometimes cringe at my poems and want to change them before I present them to you, but I resist. What you see is what was published.
I’ll have a few more poetic entries to make, and then I’ll have to produce new stuff to keep your attention.
PUBLISHED POEM
In 1974 I published a few poems in different anthologies. This is a very early poem, which I think, shows. Some of the titles of the anthologies were quite a stretch.
This poem was published in the anthology, Notable American Poets, edited by Linda Nash.
SUNSET
I stand here looking into the west,
At the time of day I can stop and
rest,
When the day slows down its hectic
pace,
When peace and tranquility the
world does embrace,
I face the sunset.
The sky is aflame with orange and
red,
It makes one pause and lift up his
head,
Stare up into the golden sky,
Gaze with awe, and say with a sigh,
Thank You for the sunset.
But soon night will blacken the sky,
And sunset’s beauty bids the earth
good-bye,
So now I wait until tomorrow,
When once again I can lose my sorrow
And look to the sunset.
PUBLISHED POEM
I offer to you another poem written in my youth. This poem was published in 1974 in the anthology, Expressive Arts Review, edited by Robert Alexander.
CITY MORN
Sunlight filtering through elevated
roadways,
Dawn, finding its way through twilight
As the sleeping city greets another
day;
Delicate steel webs vaulting gray
rivers,
Ribbons of concrete conveying
sleepy-eyed travelers,
The hush of night giving way to
din of traffic;
Morning-sky reds lost to haze,
Another day begins.
UPDATE – NEW MOON RISING
My dear readers,
Here is a link announcing my novel, New Moon Rising, soon to be published by Mélange Books.
UPDATE – MARTIAN REBIRTH
Books to Go now will publish my story, Martian Rebirth in the near future.
The story will be available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. It will be published as an eBook for both the Kindle and the Nook.
The story is about a journey to Mars, but as is true with most places you go, DON’T DRINK THE WATER.
Here is the cover for the story.
MARTIAN REBIRTH, PICTURE
PUBLISHED POEM
As promised, I’m going to share more of my published poems with you. These poems were published in very small anthologies from 1973 – 1976.
What follows is my first published poem, published by The Shore Publishing Co. in their anthology, Shore Poetry Anthology, in 1973.
THE WANDERER
Hair matted and long
Face overgrown with mustache and beard
He walks down the city streets alone
A broken man,
He stumbles about in the dead of night
With only a ragged coat to keep out the cold
And cheap wine his only refuge.
Perhaps he once dreamt
A dreamer of dreams
And a victim of fate,
For the greatest and lowliest man are of the same stock
Dreamers all,
The only difference being God’s frown
Or smile.
God smiled on me when I met my wife, Joni.
PUBLISHED POEMS
In 1988, New Worlds Unlimited published two of my poems in their anthology, Mysteries of the Lyric World. They were the last of my poems they would publish for the folded shortly after the anthology was released.
Here is a poem I wrote when Joni was pregnant with my daughter, Lynn, born in the spring.
SPRING’S PROMISE
My breath frosts the winter scene from my eyes
as I peer out the bedroom window.
Trees bend their naked arms
as a cold north wind gives them life.
The lawn, the hue of hay
bristles with the wind.
I look to the future
when my world will once again fill with life.
I look to my wife round with life herself
and the sound of the promise of spring
rings in my ears.
It’s a little ironic that this was the last poem published in this fourteen year series.
I know you writers out there will savor its meaning.
WAITING TOOL
A pencil sits poised
waiting to give life.
As a sculptor creates form
from the essence of marble
So the words await
Needing a sculptor of thought.
That is the end of the poems published by New Worlds Unlimited.
But my readers, there is more to come. I also published, during this period, with various publishers. I will share those with you next.
Thanks to all who read these poems.
Walt Trizna
UPDATE NEW MOON RISING
My novel, New Moon Rising, is now available as an e-book, and soon in paperback.
For those who have enjoyed my poems and short stories, you’re sure to enjoy this book.
Here is the release promo.
Subject: January 29, 2011 Releases from Melange Books, LLC
Vol. 1, Issue 5, January 29, 2011
Welcome to Melange Books, LLC
Hello Readers,
If you like romance, adventure, science fiction and fantasy, we’ve got some excellent, entertaining novels we’re releasing today. Praxton 3 by N. S. Howard is filled with lust, love, and kink that will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat, wanting more when it ends. A Ranger’s Tale by Mysti Parker, is fantasy at its best. Delve into the unusual world of Tallenmere. I guarantee you will fall in love with the characters. Guardian2632 by Nora Weston, is an adventure tale, filled with action, time-travel and suspense. Hot Days Anthology by T. D. Jones tells two very different stories; one filled with sweetness and joy, the other a fun, sexy little romp with a cocky town sheriff that will make you smile—maybe even laugh. Kiss the Magic Mountain by Eric Ellert is a riveting WWII novel that leaves you feeling both happy and sad—an excellent depiction of what happened to the lives of so many after Pearl Harbor. New Moon Rising is a catastrophic story that will make your heart pound—and even think that the creation of a second moon is possible. Enjoy!
–Nancy Schumacher, Publisher, Melange Books
New Moon Rising
By Walt Trizna
The Pacific Plate is one of the most geological active areas in the world, and the site of nearly constant volcanic and earthquake activity. The Ring of Fire, in the Pacific Ocean, will soon escalate its impact on mankind. Two brothers, one a geologist, and one a surfer are at the center of an event that will change the Earth, forever.
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EXCERPT
New Moon Rising
By Walt Trizna
Prologue
In countries bordering the Pacific, needles on seismic charts formed tiny squiggles, and then moved violently side to side. Moments later, the machines themselves began to move, fell from shelves as the over buildings that housed them crumbled.
Wade Randall stood on a hillside. He looked to where the Golden Gate Bridge once stood and surveyed the destruction. As far as he could see, columns of smoke issued from devastated buildings. People who survived wandered around in shock and horror. The world they once knew had come to an end. The piers of San Francisco no longer jutted into the ocean; they now stood in mud. The shore, once close, was now distant.
“God help the world,” Wade said to himself, “the prediction came true.” It had been two years since events put into motion this cataclysm.
Wade thought about his family and friends, some now distant, and his heart ached wondering if they were still alive; wondering how many millions around the world had died.
The predicted event seemed impossible, even to him. Many chose not to heed the warning and many died. The irony was that in the history of life on Earth, the irregular cycles of destruction by asteroids were now accepted as fact. Everyone looked to the sky for the next cataclysmic event to visit Earth; no one expected that the next ruinous event, on a scale unknown to man, would come from beneath the sea.
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PUBLISHED POEMS
My first daughter, Annie, was born in 1986 and I began writing poems about her. Lynn followed in 1988.
I sent two of my ‘father’ poems to New Worlds Unlimited and they published them in 1987 in their anthology, Memories of the Halcyon Days.
Since each of my girls was about two, I wrote them a poem for their birthdays reflecting on the past year. That tradition continues.
MY CHILD SMILES
My child smiles
and I look into her eyes
and she knows nothing of the world.
And that is good.
My child cries
and she knows nothing of the sorrow
the world can give.
And that is good.
My child laughs.
And that is good for the world.
HOPE
I looked the Lord full-faced
and saw my daughter
and I knew there was
something greater than I.
I saw my daughter discovering the world,
feeling new textures, wondering at new sounds
and I wished she could know
all I know and more.
I hold her close and feel the future,
Feel my past having purpose.
I feel new life.
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