by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2018 | Poetry |
On Saturdays, I write about my create-dates (one of the recommended Go Creative! flow practices, a date with yourself, doing something that feels totally like fun). This week I spent my create date park walking. And taking some photos of the beautiful autumn day. As a...
by Orna Ross | Nov 25, 2018 | Poetry |
I run a Patreon page for my poetry, where patrons get to be the first readers of my poetry and receive other bonus gifts and giveaways. Once a poem has been patron-only for 90 days, I can publish it here on my blog and in other places. This inspirational poem The Next...
by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Do It is an extract from After The Rising, my first novel and the first book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has left Ireland for London and is drinking too much and achieving too little. Something has to give, and in this extract it does. I’m in...
by Orna Ross | Nov 17, 2018 | The Rest |
This week I spent my create-date with Freddie Mercury, or rather, his reincarnation by Rami Malek in the new movie, named for his most famous song. And it led me to write this post, my answer to the question people are always asking: What do the words of Bohemian...
by Orna Ross | Nov 16, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Be Yourself is an extract from Below The Fall, the second book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has ended up in San Francisco, by way of London and hasn't been home in ten years. She has quite drinking and friends, job, lifestyle have all been...
by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2018 | Poetry |
Every spiritual tradition has writings and teachings about what Christians call… The dark night of the soul. It's understood to be a necessary pre-cursor to receiving the light of redemption. That’s not how it feels while you’re there, though. Dark times are...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2018 | Fiction |
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet WB Yeats, Maud Gonne has decided to marry another. In this extract, she breaks the news to her daughter Iseult, whom she has placed in a convent so she can...
by Orna Ross | Oct 28, 2018 | Poetry |
Each Sunday I publish a poem about some aspect of creative working and living. This week’s inspirational poem: “Good Coffee” is about a woman I saw at a table outside a local cafe. First, my eye was drawn by her tremors, a feature of her age, then what I...
by Orna Ross | Oct 21, 2018 | Poetry |
Each Sunday I publish a poem about some aspect of creative working and living. This week's inspirational poem: Renovation is about a job we're getting done on our house at the moment. Such a mundane and practical topic but poetry finds that there's always more going...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2018 | Poetry |
Do you value poetry and its power to make positive change? Poetry Patrons: People Power Poets used to rely on elites–kings and queens, lords and ladies, tribal leaders and arts councils–to support their work. Only the well-to-do could afford the luxury of...