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R.J. Cerrato

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Poetry, Paranormal, Romance

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RJ Cerrato was born and raised in Illinois. She has one older brother, a nephew, and two dogs. RJ first began writing at the age of 5 by cataloging in detail her daily journeys throughout her summer. In elementary, middle and high school RJ won multiple contests for her submissions of poetry, getting herself published in several poetry collections. At the age of 17, RJ published her first collection of poems entitled Hush: Her Best Kept Secrets (get it here: http://www.publishamerica.net/product... ). Then she took a hiatus from writing to pursue other academic goals. In 2012 RJ graduated with a Masters in Professional Counseling and began her career counseling troubled adolescents and their families. RJ has now returned to her first passio ...more

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Hush: Her Best Kept Secrets excerpt

Here's an excerpt from my published poetry book. It highlights the book's balance of flow of consciousness and simple rhyming to create a melodious flow of thought. This is the poem entitled "Headphones":

And this is what it has to be
pictures staring holes through me
drowning out my thoughts
by the music in my headphones
It tells me I"m fine without you
that I don't need you anymore
but I just can't see Read more of this blog post »

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Hush: Her Best-kept Secrets

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The Grimm Diaries Prequels volume 15 - 18: Snow White Black Swan, The Pumpkin Piper, Prince of Puppets, The Sleeping Swan

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Her Mad Hatter (Kingdom, #1)

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“Free to fail, free to succeed; the choice is yours, but you are free.”
― R.J. Cerrato

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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion

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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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