Wild Waters Never Sleep
By Stafan Lowry
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Wild Waters Never Sleep is an all new and best of collection of poetry from the author of From the Igloo Confessional, Winterland, and Venom and Nectar; Stefan Lowry. In this poetic voyage brimming with insight and words from the soul, the author entices the reader with poems that surge to another time and place wrapped around the threads of natures beauty. Returning to classical poetic themes yet written in contemporary forms, Wild Waters Never Sleep brings together the best of Stefan Lowrys canon of work over the last ten years while welcoming the reader into new seas of majestic atmospheres and enrapturing wonder.
The eloquent yet grandeur of ancient China is brought to life in Nanjing Road; The Album, a tribute of sorts to the work and life of Li Po. Featuring poems such as The Chow Mein Lady, Gold Spun Rain, and The Peony Emperor. This brocade of written structures flows with the mighty waters that wind deep from the Far East into the readers imagination. The Cathedral Forest sees a return to nature that will remind readers of the authors first book, Flight of the Imagination. These pools of poetry take readers into Technicolor Rain, Kingdoms Under the Sun, and Bells Back Home. The next movement brings the Hummingbird Hotel to life in rich color and voice. A wanderlust set of poems, featuring Direct Light, Origami Glass, and To All the Saints. Maelstrom collects some of the authors best work over the last decade inside one frame. Including new versions and edits, revisit Far to the North, To Catch Mona Lisa, and Procession of the Flying Seahorses. Finally, Wild Waters brings us to Canadian Creek, a cozy simple collection the author penned over ten years ago and has never been published till now. Maple Leaf Mine, Prosper O Newfoundland, and Legende de un Province and more take us to a faraway place of solitude and quiet beauty.
This collection comes round full circle from a writer who continues to emerge with new word art and the blending of traditional and contemporary, giving readers something new to always discover. The currents in Wild Waters Never Sleep flow and ebb to new literary shores, and remind the reader the beauty and adventure that is poetic art.
Stafan Lowry
Stefan Lowry, a writer and artist has, has published four previous books. Flight of The Imagination, Winterland the Christmas Collection, From the Igloo Confessional, and Venom and Nectar. He lives in Florida and also runs a media business that focuses on book and music sales, and publishing.
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Wild Waters Never Sleep - Stafan Lowry
Contents
Acknowledgements
Where the Wild Waters Meet
WAVE 1
Nanjing Road; The Album
Deluge
Into the Land
Gold Spun Rain
The Crane of China
Shiitake Mushroom
Nanjing Road
Escape into Shanghai
Red Gate Open
The Peony Emperor
The Chow Mein Lady
Not Forbidden
Under the Flowing Tree
Carved Garden
Hong Kong Electric Company
Snow Monkey
Put On the Armor
When You Float to the Moon
Apothecary
Egg Drop Soup Lullaby
Ten Years: Dedicated to T’ienanmen Square 1989-1999
The End by Chen Jingrong
WAVE 2
The Cathedral Forest
Trees in the Woods; Dedicated to John Muir
Storm Now Over
Night Dust
Apples Turning in the Snow
The Cathedral Forest
Weeds in the Heart
Technicolor Rain
Spring Soldiers
Kingdoms Under the Sun
I Saw a Seagull
What Has Been
Bells Back Home
Thunder Song
Absolute Illumination (New Version)
From the Woods of John Muir
WAVE 3
Hummingbird Hotel
Origami Glass
Detached
Aquaria
Direct Light
Hummingbird Hotel
A Fresh Day
Hunt Me Down
November Pottery
Journey to Mars
Miss Madeline’s Marmalade
To All the Saints
Mont Saint Michel
Civil Feather
Rising Suns
Gypsies of the Modern Inquisition
WAVE 4
Maelstrom
The Best of 1999-2011
Far to the North (Flight of the Imagination 1999)
Midnight Call (Flight of the Imagination 1999)
Daily Market (Flight of the Imagination 1999)
Lusterfjord (From the Igloo Confessional 2005)
North Sea Lullaby
(New Version) (Winterland the Christmas Collection 2002)
Eventyr (From the Igloo Confessional 2005)
Wood and Wool (Winterland the Christmas Collection 2002)
To Catch Mona Lisa (From the Igloo Confessional 2005)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Venom and Nectar 2009)
Maelstrom (Venom and Nectar 2009, appeared as Maelstrom of Sound)
Prague Winter (From the Igloo Confessional 2005)
Welcome to Wenceslas Square
(appeared in Winterland the Christmas Collection 2002 as Wenceslas Winter Wheat) (New Version)
February Revolution (Venom and Nectar 2009)
Tideland (From the Igloo Confessional 2005)
Stagnant (Venom and Nectar 2009)
Tomorrows Front Porch (Winterland the Christmas Collection 2002)
Procession of the Flying Seahorses (Venom and Nectar 2009)
WAVE 5
Canadian Creek
Maple Leaf Mine
Port of the Maritimes
Hotel du Canada
Salmon Island
Prosper O Newfoundland
The Crab of Nova Scotia
One Minute to Ontario (Dedicated to Grandmother Ida)
Saskatchewan Fiddle
The Caledonia Bagpipe Player
Territories of Frost
Ever Changing
About the Author
About Water.org
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Yale University Press’s
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry by Michelle Yeh 1994
with use of the following:
Twilight by Lin Geng
Division by Cheng Jingrong
Remorse by Wen Yiduo
Beyond the Border by Qin Zihao
The End by Gu Cheng
and Sayonara by Xu Zhimo
to Deborah Jones at the London Science Museum
for her help and securing license for the front cover art, Diagram of Meteorology
‘Science Museum/SSPL’.
And to Water.org for usage of the companies mission statement.
Where the Wild Waters Meet
Below
Endless chasms, a chaos of boiling water
Roaring through them,
Battling waves that smash the racing torrents into foam.—Li Po
As I write, torrents of waves are churning here at home in Florida, as a hurricane is badgering the east coast of the country up north. I am reminded of the finely stitched words from Chinese poet Li Po which are presented above. To know that waters truly do never sleep, no matter where on earth whether it be an ocean, river, tide, or estuary etc, is a powerful thought that we don’t think about and take for granted with every sunrise and sunset. Our recent times have been chalked with a film of memory by the fury of water. Tsunamis and hurricanes, massive floods and rains, migrating waves from Asia to America, Europe and beyond. Water has been the main ingredient for so much destruction yet the main ingredient for survival. In the scope of poetry, water becomes a display of aqua fireworks for the writer to draw from. For this collection the theme of this globe covered force is more of a turning waterwheel that carries these pieces, an under flowing current that links and celebrates the wonder of nature, and many other delicious things that flow within it.
One might think I came up with this title purposely because of the current events taking place around us. I did come up with it of course but oddly it was over ten years ago now and was never planned to be a link to natural events per say. It was originally going to be the title of my second book, but for some reason, which now I understand why, didn’t work out. A better time was waiting, a different era, a new tide where it fit in place