Advice on Exploring Erotica in Your Writing
MediaBistro's Morning Media Menu had a conversation with author Jamie Brenner about advice for writers looking to explore this newly crowded genre. An excerpt from Brenner: My first erotic novel came out two years ago. The landscape feels completely different. There is not just the hope to reach a mainstream audience with erotic novel, but the expectation that success is reaching everyone, not just the genre readers. Fifty Shades of Grey really raised the bar for that. At the same time, working…See More
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*BEAUTIFUL Poetry*
PEACE LOVE & BLESSINGS Jill
Faith love devotion escapes me
Who have I been devoted to?
Who have I loved? Who loves me?
What have I been faithful too?
Springs come forth but nothing capture me
My values where are their origins
Powerful inspiring thoughts lost in transition
My thoughts only preserved in my mind
Ethnicity handed down to me not by choice
Fables inspire my thoughts I act
Fantasy overpower reality no sense at all
Throughout ages lies adopted as truth
Where are the promises of truth past comments?
Where is the preservation of life fulfillment?
When will the fable become fact?
When will fantasy become non-fiction?
The origins of my land polluted with fabrication
When will my race my color not matter anymore?
When will everyone who’s anyone see me as colorless?
Not a race or a statistic
I’m a person I’m a woman
A guardian that carries life to this place
Look at me. Not at my skin color. I’m colorless.
I’m human living in blended bloods
French, Indian, African America and White
It’s still me
Devoted to springs of life
Life springs me colorless
Capture my spirit take me whole
Where is faith, love, appreciation, devotion?
Not in my color. Not in my race
Inside me where you can’t see, so
I’m colorless
Capture my faith
My love, My devotion, My motivation
Then you will capture me but I will still be colorless
By Dorise Dixon
3/26/07
Nurture, sensual ferocious that’s me
Though I died now I live reborn
Tested and tried yet not denied
Some trails I passed many I failed
A gift was given me in spite of my trails
Newness given past now old
Isolation takes its course
Many others walking the same path
Only a few gracious souls last
My life not contained by the rules of society
Desires followed whole hearted speak of my forward smiles
Blessed by God cursed by the world
Loneliness and misunderstood has been my path
Such a freedom in solitary not many will experience
Obedience and adherence my temperatures
I am a real spiritual woman now realized
Sounds, smells and my sight overwhelmed
Right through the soul of human
Seeing in the spirit formless details
Independence, fieriness, total confidence mine
Human reflexes heightened by spirituality
Still me but spirit hid in fleshly garments
Ferociously spiritual that’s me I cannot deny
Freedom from imprisoned cage calls for present joy
Accepting my spirituality
And loving my gift liberates me
This awareness powerful totally exhilarating
Now I can be me
When he saved me from the sea he saved my future
Now the angels and workers protect my nights
More confident, bold and strong in the day light
A spiritual woman walking by faith not by sight
Ferocious that’s me
Graduated from sweet milk and honey of timidness
To ferocious spirituality for the world to witness
That’s what happened when he delivered me
His spirit hand touched and specifically chose me
So that’s why I am
Ferociously spiritual
That’s me totally free spiritually
A spiritual women
By Dorise Dixon
3/10/07
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