Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry by Author Kym Gordon Moore

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry is an eclectic full-length collection of poems depicting experiences illustrated through diverse forms of self-expression. Kym Gordon Moore portrays versatility in rhymed and free verse poems that convey stories about people, places, nature, inspiration, cuisine, music, celebrations, epiphanies and inanimate objects. Included in her compilation is a metrical sample of a Pantoum, Limerick, Elegy and Haiku.

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry contains 81 carefully chosen poems that are significant to the foundation of this collection and easy for readers to identify with. Besieged by segmented poetic elements of flight, your journey through the pages of this book will be entertaining, educational, emotional, nostalgic, stimulating and edifying.

Kym Gordon Moore, also author of “Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit” is an award-winning recipient in poetry contests such as the Edward Davin Vickers Memorial Award and Oneswan Productions Writing Competition. Her poems appeared in Writers Digest Magazine, Poets for Peace: A Collection, Reach of Song, Home for the Holidays and The Blind Man’s Rainbow anthologies. She was selected as one of the contributing authors for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom.

Kym is the co-founder of “Favorite Things for a CAUSE, a member of the American Author’s Association, the North Carolina Writer’s Network, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, American Marketing Association and the Poetry Society of America. She was also selected as one of the U.S. 2012 and 2013 National World Book Night Volunteers for North Carolina. Kym holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice, an MBA with a concentration in marketing, certification as an email marketing specialist and certification as a corporate spokesperson. As one of the three 2009 General Mills Feeding Dreams Community Champions for the Charlotte, North Carolina market, Kym was recognized for her volunteerism with the Dove’s Nest, a subsidiary of The Charlotte Rescue Mission.

Kym's book can be purchased at BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com and OutskirtsPress.com. Visit her website www.kymgmoore.com, her blogs http://frombehindthepen.wordpress.com/, http://www.teaandpoetrybookclub.blogspot.com/  and connect with the author through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google +.

What A Day of Rejoicing!

Today is such a wonderful and beautiful day, just as every day is. When my mother died on Easter Sunday, 10 years ago, I mourned a very personal and heartbreaking loss. Then, through it all, I realized that her death on this earth was actually the beginning of a new life for her and commemorating that on Easter is even more precious to me than the finest jewels.

 

I want to take this moment to wish everyone a joyous Easter. Beyond the Easter eggs, chocolate bunnies and Easter baskets, let us look to the “Son-rise” and witness a light that is more spectacular than anything we have ever seen before.

 

Happy Easter and enjoy another day to celebrate 

the Risen Christ!

Remembering Good Friday

As Maundy Thursday leaves and births this day that we observe as Good Friday, we can’t help but become absorbed in the somberness of these historic days leading up to Easter. Maundy Thursday, also known as “Holy Thursday” or referenced as “Great Thursday” commemorates the foot-washing ceremony and the Last Supper that Jesus shared with His Disciples the night before he was crucified.

“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” is a familiar song we hear sung during this time. Some give little thought to that song because they think that this event happened well over 2,000 years ago, so how could they be there at Golgotha on this glorious day back then. Well, fast-forward to now. Think about if you have denied The Lord in some way, perhaps unintentional and out of sheer fear, just like Peter did, and not even realize what you were doing. Were you one of those spectators who watched the soldiers brutally nail Jesus to the Cross and did nothing? Compared to today, have you watched someone being tortured and didn’t do anything when you knew that you could? Were you one of the soldiers who inflicted such horrific abuse to Jesus, but followed orders eventhough you knew it was inhumane, humiliating and unethical? Compared to today, have you hurt or bullied someone so horribly just because everyone else did?

As we search within ourselves on this Good Friday and having heard and read about Jesus’ tortuous journey to the Cross, we have to examine what can we do today to walk and behave in the way God wants us to. Sometimes that is a hard thing to do when you are being attacked mentally, emotionally, verbally, physically and spiritually. But just remember, no weapon formed against you shall prosper. They may think they will, but the reality of it is, they are sadly mistaken and will fall in defeat.

Free Your Mind and Do Your Job!

Evil is as prevalent as good. Just as we have a purpose to do what God assigned us to do, the Devil has his mission as well. When God sends His saints on assignment to recruit, the Devil is doing double-time recruiting too. Yes, the Devil is busy, but let us not be blind to the fact that the enemy is only doing his/her job. He/She is out to seek, kill and destroy. We have to step up to the plate and do ours! We have to stop giving the Devil so much credit. This only energizes him/her. But, if the Devil isn’t taking a day off, why should we?

- Excerpt from the book Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit

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Quote by Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

Dale Carnegie, American writer, lecturer, and developer of famous courses in self-improvement 

The Moods by W.B. Yeats

"The Moods"

by W. B. Yeats

Time drops in decay,

Like a candle burnt out,

And the mountains and the woods

Have their day, have their day;

What one in the rout

Of the fire-born moods

Has fallen away?

*This poem is in public domain

Thoughts: How Do the Results of Groundhog Day Affect Your Plans?

Each year on February 2, it is customary that  Punxsutawney Phil will predict whether spring will arrive early or late. If the day is cloudy as the groundhog emerges, then spring will come early. If it is a sunny day however, the groundhog will obviously see its shadow and winter weather will continue for six more weeks. 

After Groundhog Day comes and goes and the predictions are given according to the weather conditions, how many of us actually count the weeks after this day to check the accuracy of this folklore? Some may, but when this question is posed to most people I know, unless they are in the agricultural industry, no one really seems to think about it or monitor the timetable after February 2. Life goes on and apparently we adapt to the current weather conditions, with or without the shadow of Punxsutawney Phil.

Happy Groundhog Day!