My poetry book #2 isn’t even titled yet! Book #1 is done! Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry, book #1 in this series, came out in November and received a Gold medal at the Global Book Awards. And now it’s time to work on the next book in this four-book poetry series.
I had a title—I Dwell in Possibilities. I fashioned that poem after Emily Dickinson’s poem, I Dwell in Possibility. So my title would be I Dwell in Possibilities: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry. There are several books that duplicate her poem’s title, but mine is a little different. What do you think?
Here’s Emily’s poem:
I dwell in Possibility – (466)
I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52197/i-dwell-in-possibility-466
Here’s mine:
I Dwell in Possibilities!
July 26, 2002
I dwell in possibilities. . .
It's a rich life
full to the brim.
I face it in every question
that comes.
I move from abundance.
I have all I need.
I have all I want.
What a sweet refuge!
Life can come and go,
but my worry is set at ease
because of my attitude.
No one can crash through my armor,
because I am safe and warm.
It's a life of plenty,
of abundance.
I have no worries left.
My God supplies it all!
©2002 Larada Horner
I wrote this poem twenty-three years ago, and today I realize there’s not a lot of similarity to Dickinson’s poem in structure. At the time I thought there was, but I love the idea of possibilities. That’s where I’ve lived my adult life—in possibilities!
To update you, I hope to release my poetry book #2 in the next few months before summer. Hopefully I plan to release the third book in the fall. Does that seem ambitious? Maybe, but I have the outline for a new memoir that’s crowding out this series, so I want to get it done, so I can focus on this new surprise book.
Here’s a list of my future books:
- A four-book poetry book series – Book 1 – Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry
- A haiku poetry book series with the series title—Haikuing My Way through Life
- I Said Yes: How to Write a Biography—based on what I learned in writing the Marshall Flippo biography
- An Eye Witness to Life —a women’s fiction that I wrote during the November 2016 NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). So I wrote 51,796 words. The goal of this November writing month is 50,000 words. The Flippo biography caused this book to be put on the shelf!
- And one more Tumbleweed book—more poems & stories about growing up in the Branson, Colorado area! There are so many!
- My new memoir book—a surprise for my readers! It documents a new chapter in my life!
Finally,
As you can see—at seventy-one years old, the creative juices still flow through my veins. Currently, I plan to focus on my poetry book #2. I still have to dictate some poems out of a couple journals. I have to decide where to divide book #2, #3 and #4, so there’s lots of work to do.
But tomorrow I focus on book #2 and its title!
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