Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season was mentioned in a post on BG Authors - Poetry for Fall - Blog. (This blog is from Bowling Green State University - a community of readers and authors from the northwest Ohio area and Bowling Green State University - who want to share their love of books and highlight local authors.) I am so incredibly honored to have my book mentioned and recommended! Thank you!
Here’s the link:
https://bgsuauthors.com/2023/09/poetry-for-fall/
A recommendation tonight by my daughter from Netflix! I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House is a 2016 gothic horror movie written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The pacing is a little slow, but the atmosphere is mysterious and unique. Very different and maybe not for everyone, but yes, we would recommend!
Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”
By William Shakespeare
From: Macbeth
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and toe of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worms sting;
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood
Then the charm is firm and good.
From The Random House Book of Poetry for Children 1983
I have two movies to recommend tonight. Both are from the 1940s and both have some wonderful actors. If you watch TCM do not miss Cry Wolf (a mystery) with Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, and Conflict (suspense) with Humphrey Bogart and Alexis Smith. Perfect for an almost autumn night!
My story, The Stones, was published by Black Poppy Review today! (They have reopened their gates!) Click the link below to visit this haunting publication full of dark wonderful poetry and flash fiction!
https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-stones-by-jan-darrow.html
Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewel is truly a strange tale. Mysterious disappearances always intrigue me and this one held my interest all the way through. A fast read. Yes! I would recommend!
8 Poetry Collections for Sweater Weather - posted by Read Poetry Blog.
https://www.readpoetry.com/8-poetry-collections-for-sweater-weather/
I want to share another chateau renovation project that I watch on YouTube. (I have watched this one from the beginning.) It’s called How to Renovate a Chateau. This is this is probably my favorite and I want to share the latest episode where they have taken a vacation to northeastern Italy to the Dolomite Mountains. They actually do some mountain climbing. I also recommend watching this series from the beginning - their chateau renovation - and it’s beautiful.
Blue Moon
The second moon
emerged from behind a cloud
outside our kitchen window.
Bleached luminous dust.
There are holes you say
in a black heart
gaming a backdrop of stars.
We followed it with our eyes.
Weeks later
all that was left was a sliver.
From a large white ball
grazing that warm summer night
we tell ourselves our emotions
were unattached.
And yet, were they?
Jan Darrow. (c) 2023
