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    Sedona Lit: Poems of the Sedona Light

    August 22, 20164 Comments
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    Sedona Lit is a series by Dr. Elizabeth Oakes, an award winning poet and former Shakespeare professor. A Sedonian of three years, she will highlight the literature, written or performed, of Sedona, past and present.

    photo_elizabethoakes_216By Elizabeth Oakes
    (August 22, 2016)

    In Sedona, light is our habitat, just as the red rocks, junipers, bluest of blue skies, clouds, and vortex energies. It’s not just beautiful sunrises and sunsets, although there surely are those; it’s the way the actual light sometimes enters our world. I don’t know that there’s even a word for it. Some may say it’s the refraction on the camera lens, and sometimes it is, but other times, it seems that the light we live by just shows itself to us, shows us our world, shows us what makes everything possible.

    In this first installment of poems by Sedonians about the light, four writers share their experience, as do two photographers, and this party’s going on for two more weeks!

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    The dark and light take
    turns; a Sufi twirling skies
    Ecstasy abounds
    Annie Berardini-Rivers, Writer, Musician, Lifetime Nomad

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    The Magical Light in Sedona
    When you “watch” the sunset, do you miss
    what it is really about? It is not just as the sun
    goes down. It is about the precious few moments
    before and quite a while after that.
    Stop talking! Just walk slowly around and be!
    Beverly Kievman Copen, Author, Photographer

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    Light played the contours
    Revealing hidden patterns
    Among crevasses
    So, this is home
    Tender resonance
    Martha Entin, Poet

    Sedona Twilight
    Living in Sedona one never sees
    the exact moment of sunrise or sunset
    blocked by the Mogollon Rim or Mingus Mountain
    forcing the Sedonuts to live in extended stretches of twinkling twilight.
    I think that explains a lot.
    Gary Every, Writer

    Parts Two and Three will feature poems by Randy Fridley, Kate Hawkes, Nicholas Kirsten Honshin, Barbara Litrell, Christine Marie, Jan Justice Oswald, Kenyon Taylor, and Bill Ward, with photographs by Nicholas Kirsten Honshin and Ron Chilston.

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    4 Comments

    1. Beverly Kievman Copen on August 22, 2016 1:07 pm

      Elizabeth, what a lovely idea for a series. I feel honored that you wanted me to be a part of this. I appreciated the encouragement to remember writing poems again.

      • Elizabeth Oakes on August 24, 2016 5:39 pm

        Beverly, your poem and photo are wonderful! Thank you! I’ll be doing something like this again and hope you’ll share your creative vision again!

    2. Randall Reynolds on August 24, 2016 6:05 am

      Thanks Libby– this is all wonderful and I always look forward to your entries. It is inspiring to read of other people who experience the ‘Sedona-Dream’, however it may be expressed! The addition of images is magical. Cheers!

      • Elizabeth Oakes on August 24, 2016 5:39 pm

        Randall, You are always so kind, and I appreciate your feedback tremendously! Thank you —

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