by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2019 | Poetry |
This month's exclusive poem for patrons is a Christmas poem “Soaring”, inspired by the Chrismas lights on Picadilly, London. SOARING In darkening afternoons damp air that tastes of sleet and wind, we dodge between the honk of taxis, buses, cars and other...
by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2019 | Poetry |
I am putting together a collection called Dark Night: Poems for Hard Times and this month's exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Passing On, comes from there. It's a bereavement poem called “Passing On”. It's exclusively available to patrons from today for...
by Orna Ross | Oct 28, 2019 | Poetry |
Allowing Now, my new book of mindfulness poetry is out. I have a special interest in mindfulness poetry for creatives and if you'd like to dissolve creative block and foster creative flow, I’d love you to buy it. Yes, that helps me. The book is climbing the Amazon...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2019 | Poetry |
The trees in London are spectacular at the moment. This particular beauty, its dazzling shade of yellow, gave me a new poem: Tree Alert. I wrote it too late to include in my book of mindfulness poems, published yesterday, but it would have fitted nicely in there. If...
by Orna Ross | Oct 22, 2019 | Poetry |
Practicing mindfulness, though they would never have called it that, is something that poets have always done. And poetry readers too. Reading mindfulness poetry requires as much creative attention and presence as writing it. I’d been writing for almost a decade...
by Orna Ross | Oct 13, 2019 | Poetry |
My new inspirational poetry book, Allowing Now, which launches on the 25th of October, is a selection of mindfulness poetry. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” Alexander Pope said in his great poem about poetry writing and publishing back in 1711. I’m no...