Debbie Guzzi's Blog
 Biography Deborah R. Guzzi was born in Maine, U.S.A. Currently living in Connecticut. Raised in an interfaith family with Christian and Jewish roots. She has spent many years examining the foundations of belief in higher power. Her insights come from study and travel in the U.S., the European Union and Asia. Her credentials range from B.F.A. in Fine Arts, with a Minor in Shakespear to Master’s Degrees in both Tae Kwon Do, and Usi Reiki. First published at the age of sixteen, now 64, she has been published in the 2000 & 2001 literary journals of Western Connecticut University’s Helix. In the early 2000's, she self published two book available at empathic-touch.com. The first book is titled “The Healing Heart” and is a sampler of three distinct styles of her writing. The second book “Heaven and Hell in a Nutshell” focuses on love, when it’s Heaven, when it’s Hell, and when it’s undeniably present as a gift of God. She owns and operates Empathic Touch an alternative healing site. Empathic-touch.com
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Attention PLEASE
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Blog Posted:11/21/2012 6:23:00 AM
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Even though we can almost taste the pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving might be better served by remembering the HERITAGE we have called to be lost by the indigenious people of the North American Continent...below you will find a verse by a powerful writer new to the site..embrace him...Light & Love
Spirit in the Flute
by Michael G. Smith
I walk an already trodden path...
Uncertain, of future lives that lie ahead
But, in faith I close these earthly Ojibwa eyes
In trill, thus, I hear the old ways in your presence amidst Chinook winds
As harmonic they play across the plains, from sacred astral pipes
Mimicking cricket songs that echo abstract out of the season's last autumn mist
I also hear your fifes in the rustle of the leaves, rising into writhe
And almost see your spirit aura as it accompanies the Algonquian breeze
Ancient ghost of proud, but now lost upon a dying nation tribe
Your music from beyond is narrations of a mystical language nature speaks
Sweeping thrush calls, chirps through weeping willow weeps,
Unto past September sounds, beating down on war drum clouds,
of thundering maelstrom claps
And babbling brooks going on and on until narrowing creaky creeks
Alas, whooper wills warning and morning loons mourning,
hidden amidst the swaying grass
When I see you, I imagine spectral legends majestic high across horizon's sky
Snowy silhouettes in headdress, drifting in flowing rainbow crowns
And with the night, I see you in my mind dance as the "Will-Ó-the-wisp" just might
Then, my body shivers from the distance, where your flute imitates
the cry of the lone coyote's sound
As for all of your Mishomis (grandfather) traditions, I accept there is a greater essence
Kindred I am, son to your spirit and without partition from an Ojibwa eye
And I stand here staunch in cattail marshes, pondering my place in ancestral questions
Now, your answers again begin to play upon the wind, but this time traveling
through the November... Whispers on needles of the pine
I walk an already trodden path...
But, each new step before me keeps this culture alive...
Written in honor of my Chippewa family ©2012 Michael G. Smith
Please DO write of your own cultures just because the site is in English doesn't mean we don't want to SEE your worlds through your eyes..
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My Poems
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| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 5/21/2013 | Fruitless Cycles | ABC | conflict,confusion,sad, |
| 5/15/2013 | Hot Mixtures | Senryu | love, |
| 5/9/2013 | Child Abuse | Verse | child, |
| 5/3/2013 | Bacchus The God Who Loved His Grapes | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/25/2013 | Typewriter | Prose Poetry | nostalgia,writing, |
| 4/23/2013 | Shield Mate | Free verse (vers libre) | courage,life,love,men, |
| 4/21/2013 | UFO's Believe It or Not | Acrostic | mythology, |
| 4/21/2013 | Ragnar Two Ax | Free verse (vers libre) | men, |
| 4/16/2013 | haiku 39 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/13/2013 | haiku 38 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/11/2013 | Sweet Dreams | Quintain (English) | adventure,fantasy,prayer, |
| 4/11/2013 | haiku 37 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/11/2013 | Life Is Just a Bag of Onions | Free verse (vers libre) | life,woman, |
| 4/9/2013 | Hunger Reins | Rondeau | introspection, |
| 4/8/2013 | haiku 36 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/7/2013 | Petals Fall | Rhyme royal | nature, |
| 4/4/2013 | Click, Click, Huh | Verse | loss, |
| 3/30/2013 | Spring Showers | Free verse (vers libre) | nature,rain,rain, |
| 3/28/2013 | Bubba's Club | Limerick | humorous, |
| 3/25/2013 | Tweedle's Dum and Dee | Rhyme | for kids, |
| 3/25/2013 | What Lurks Within - Cornered | Villanelle | dark,for her,for her,life |
| 3/25/2013 | Clap Trap | Grook | allegory, |
| 3/23/2013 | The Blowhard | Verse | write, |
| 3/22/2013 | Carrie On | Verse | caregiving, |
| 3/20/2013 | The Windmiller's Guest | Ballad | adventure,love, |
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Fav Poems
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| Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| God | Free verse (vers libre) | life,mystery, |
| Hard Times | Cowboy | cowboy-western,family,fun |
| For Things Once Counted | Rhyme | introspection,loss,uplift |
| Petal | Verse | love, |
| 3 Masks | List | people,sad,beauty,beauty, |
| Defender of the Wastes | Free verse (vers libre) | art,life,parody,world, |
| Birth | Imagism | childhood,life |
| this is why i woo words | Verse | art,inspirational,philoso |
| Forbear | Free verse (vers libre) | sad, |
| Belongings | Rhyme | loss,love,mother,peacewor |
| Gold Fever | Free verse (vers libre) | faithfaith,political, |
| Splattered | I do not know? | life |
| Echo | Quatrain | lost lovewords,love, |
| Bells (after Poe) | Lyric | passion |
| Respectfully, Emily Dickinson | Lyric | introspection |
| Give the End Back to the Beginning | Free verse (vers libre) | dedication,faithme, |
| The Bruised and Rotting Pear | Couplet | faith,hope |
| fly | Free verse (vers libre) | animals |
| ABC's for a Young Captain | ABC | life |
| Not Entirely About Living In New York | Free verse (vers libre) | lifeworld,light,light, |
| Woodcutter | I do not know? | warold,old, |
| Dreams | Free verse (vers libre) | faith,forgiveness |
| A Feed of Chips | Narrative | funny |
| Weep O Willows | Verse | death |
| Harlem Blues | Free verse (vers libre) | black-african amerchildre |
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