The Artist By The Shore ( A Poem By Award-Winning International Writer; Elizabeth E. Castillo)

The Artist By The Shore

In the still of the night

All I hear is the slight drizzle by the window

Tiny droplets of rain making sounds as they fall on the ground.

On this cool July evening

Alone in my room 

Still can’t bring myself to slumber,

My mind starts to wander

How I long to be in a far away island.

Far away from this hustle and hurried life

Let time stop for a while as I dream on,

Walk bare footed on the white sand and watch the tiny waves playing like kids

As the cold wind sweeps and caresses my warm cheeks.

I dream of sitting by the seashore

Where I can sketch the setting sun in all its glory and beauty

Colorful hues of orange, yellow, red in my palette,

Gentle strokes of the paintbrush as I get hypnotized by its aura

Distant mountains at the far horizon caught my eye

Wondering how could I cross to the other side and be in another world.

I’m ‘gonna’ play my music, too

By the shore where the sound of the tides goes in rhythm with my heart

Appreciate the beautiful and astounding nature

Created by God, His gift to mankind,

By the shore is all I ‘wanna’ be

Spending time as I wait

For the sun to finally set in and bid it goodbye as I close my eyes and sleep.

Elizabeth E. Castillo © 2010

Elizabeth E. Castillo's Biography

Elizabeth E. Castillo is a professional feature writer/journalist/blogger/international published author & poet/online English Instructor from the Philippines in Asia.  Her articles and poems have appeared in international online magazines, literary magazines and printed publications. She was featured in more than 30 international poetry anthologies both in the USA, UK, Canada, Africa and India and currently working on upcoming anthologies which includes global charities. Elizabeth is a member of the American Authors Association (AAA) and also a Contributing Editor for Inner Child the Magazine, USA. Her first international poetry book “Seasons of Emotions” by Destiny to Write Publications, UK was released on January 7^th 2013. She has garnered recognitions and awards some of which are: Second Place for “Author of the Year” at Destiny to Write Publications Poetry Awards 2013, UK and her book as Second Place also for “Book of the Year” as well as “Best New Comer” at the same awards. Her latest international awards include emerging as the Overall Winner at the recently held “Winning Strategies Magazine International Awards” (WISMIWA), USA recognizing her positive influence to her community as well as to people around the world through her works and another glass trophy award as an “Inspirational Poet” given by the PENTASI B Historical Forum/World Poetry Celebration held at the National Museum of the Philippines, November 15, 2013.

Photo Caption: Elizabeth E. Castillo being awarded Inspirational Poet of the year 2013 by PenPen B. Takipsilim and Ms. Ceri Naz.

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Praise: Halal ( A Poem by Okeke Akudo Nkemjika Christien)

Grizzling texture

Beautiful sensor

Decisive nature

Automatic flavour

Words marbled

Personality separated

Concepts organised

Creativity intensified

Arts from the blue

Pledged in as glue

Initiatives of the hope

Participation round the globe

Your grace

Just your praise

Just God's craft

Your faith

Okeke Akudo Nkemjika Christien's Biography

She is a devoted Christian who is mapped out to make her world better than she met it and her works which have been featured in national and international poetry anthologies, attest to this. She was also one of the creative writers invited in 2013 to both the fidelity bank creative writing workshop, Lagos State and the Garden city literary festival workshop in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Zodiac ( A Poem by Siddartha Beth Pierce)

At once the Universe

combusted

A mighty storm

arose

It seems the Zodiac

has taken

the less traveled

road.

Who are you,

what am I

and what about my horse

am I no longer the bull

stubborn and remorse?

Pluto has disappeared

from the planetary

system

and now I wonder

what exactly

is OUR

horoscopical

system?

Poet Siddartha Beth Pierce's Biography

Siddartha Beth Pierce was born in Fairfax, Virginia but moved to Marshall, Virginia when she was five years old.  She was raised in Fauquier and attended Fauquier High School before moving on to receive a Bachelor of Art Studio from George Mason University, a Masters of Art in Education with an emphasis in printmaking and Computer Art and Virginia Commonwealth in Richmond, Virginia.  She furthered her studies at VCU by continuing into the PhD. Program in Philosophy of Art History with a concentration in African and Contemporary Art.  Currently she is All but Dissertation (ABD).

Ms. Pierce was the Artist-in-Residence and Assistant Professor at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia during 2001 wherein her art, poetry and teaching were featured on PBS, Around the Appomatox.

Her work has been shown nationally and featured in journals and magazines internationally.

In addition, to artwork, Siddartha is a poet and writer.  She has just released her second book entitled ‘I Do’ which is available via the artist.

She is a Mother, Poet, Artist, Educator and Art Historian.  Her works are informed by Nature, Math, Science, the Universal, Sub-Conscious and Metaphysical aspects we encounter throughout our lives.  She works with a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and some computer graphics.

Not only is her purpose self-exploration and philosophical researches, it also reaches to you, the reader and viewer in order to illicit a response mechanism within your own circle of knowledge, heart and soul.  It is her hope that each of you may find something of value to consider and expand upon your own lives and experiences.

It is her mission to bring these works to the public with a depth that is far reaching.

Love and Light!

Photo Credit to Garth Foster