The Transcendental Lotus

About the Book

The trip of the lotus-
each is different, individual & unique,
yet it's all the same trip
the struggle up through the morass
to the sunlight
Some are longer
Some are shorter
Some are harder than others-
& not all will make it...

About the Author

I enjoy writing and reading poetry, especially French poetry from the exciting and revolutionry period in the latter half of the 19th Century. My original literary influences were Emily Dickenson, Carl Sandburg, and Robert Frost. I am also extremely interested in art. I paint regularly, and my influences are Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Claude Monet, and Salvador Dali. And I'm totaly into fashion! I love dresses, shoes, purses, jewelry, and makeup. I feel that a woman is like a mobile art gallery - painting her face like a canvas, forming her hair like sculpture, and displaying wonderful works of art upon her body. Fashion is art that you can wear! Of course there's the added benefit of getting the attention of the male population! Obviously not art, but definitely one of my major interests. I can be as ditsy and boy crazy as anyone!