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Gerald Mills

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Born

St. Catherine, Lluidas Vale, Jamaica

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Poetry, Art, Romance

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Gerald Mills is currently the author of two books 'The Decadent Lie' and 'paper lilies & porcelain butterflies'
both are works of narrative poetry.

He is the father of two wonderfully dramatic children. Born in St.Catherine, Jamaica, he arrived in the U.S. at the age of six, and currently resides in Ohio. He has a passion for the written word and a love for photography.

"I find myself searching out the abstract; the intangible beauty found in everyday existence, hoping to grasp hold of it as though it were its own possible possibility, giving it life amidst pen and parchment".

"There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus". -Gerald Mills ...more

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Paper Lilies & Porcelain Butterflies

As speech was made a presence into your mouth. Black birds were brought to an enduring existence.

Their dark bodies ascending your trachea in written lines.
Each rising up from the belly of you,
crying of some adulation.

_Gerald Mills

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by Sylvia Plath

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Gerald Mills said: " Her writing is enjoyable, although at times I get distracted in it. As I see myself going one place, it suddenly turns to something far from my expectation, then I have to move to another piece. "

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by Mai Der Vang

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“Art is the fulfillment of things dreamed”
― Gerald Mills

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“Keep in mind that it is one life we are given to live. One life in which we can create beautiful memories and dream, magnificent dreams. So create without boundaries, give life to your dreams; don't allow yourself to be dismayed by others or situations. Realize your own greatness, value yourself. Value the life given to you and hold fast to your own precious ideals and self worth.”
― Gerald Mills

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“There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".”
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“There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".”
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“Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed”
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“Art is the fulfillment of things dreamed”
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“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

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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