"You will know them from their absence, the quiet ones, those left behind will feel the loss Holes left large in the water of time with steady hand withdrawn they pass to an Unknown next big show...." Poetry is often a way of coming to terms with the darker mind and many of the poems here deal with loss, a theme that grows in importance as we journey through life. To write positive poetry has been my aim in the past. However, loss teaches us so much that it is a shame we were not born knowing the things it teaches - the world might be a happier place if we were. Yet such is Karma and the journey is all we have. The poems as always are written in Love and I hope you find something in my ramblings, something of hope perhaps. The title of the collection reflects my father's love for mountains. The image is one of my own, taken from the lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park a place he never visited but would have loved. This collection is dedicated to his memory.

Meeting Mogwyn is a literary essay and a response to a visit to Calke Abbey, the house that time forgot. It is full of rich description of the author's day, the people he meets, the stately home and its surroundings. It is an intimate and detailed sharing of warm Summer's day in Derbyshire and yet it is something more too. Colin Edward Mason was enjoying his unplanned day trip to an art exhibition at Calke Abbey when he experienced the inexplicable - voices from the past, and the name "Mrs Fitch." Questioning the tour guide posed more questions than it answered. Mrs Fitch, or Nanny Fitch was a real person, now long dead. The author is a sceptic and keeps his options open but even sceptics can experience the inexplicable and possibly the supernatural. Was this a Time Anomaly? Was it an example of "stone recording"? Was it no more than the babble of an overactive imagination creating a striking coincidence? Always supposing, that is, that you believe in coincidence Could it have been an experience of the supernatural - a genuine haunting with actual ghosts. It is left to the reader to decide whether this was a ghost.

Vaughan Williams is a favourite composer of mine. My introduction to his music came at the age of eight when I sat at my father's feet spellbound by the shivery sounds of the Tallis Fantasia. This book is my own study of the songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was first written in 1979 and I am publishing it celebrate the centennial of the first performance of Vaughan Williams' masterpiece, On Wenlock Edge, in the Aeolian Hall, London, by tenor Gervase Elwes and the Schwiller Quartet with Frederick Kiddle (piano) 0n 15th November 1909. lts reception was mixed at the time as it was so new and impressionistic for a world used to Stanford, Parry and the great German tradition. I hope music lovers will be with me in spirit in my celebration of a truly wonderful piece of music and if you have not yet made its acquaintance that this book might stir your interest in listening to or performing it.

A collection of intense and descriptive poems inspired by nature, love and spiritual awakening, Love from the Ashes Seasons in the Fire was first published in 2006 and is being released in a new edition in paperback and on Kindle. The poet seeks within and exposes a freshness, honesty and vulnerability in writing that is both descriptive and musical. Written at a time of profound personal development, creative intensity and spiritual awakening, these poems will speak to hearts and minds alike.

YOUNG TOURIST ON VACATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FALLS FOR A MYSTERIOUS OLDER WOMAN AND GETS MORE THAN SHE BARGAINS FOR: Beautiful woman by day, blood lusting cougar by night, Berenice is the guardian of an ancient knowledge. She has lived through many ages of man, a solitary creature who yearns for a love lost long ago. The Canadian forest provides a last safe refuge for Berenice and here she meets a tourist couple hoping to renew their fading marriage on a wilderness camping adventure. All is not as it seems when her desire to protect is aroused by a sense of great danger lurking for the woman, Angela, who is inexplicably attracted to her. "The Cougar" is an erotic, Gothic romance about the need for love that drives us all and the many forms love can take. This story contains some explicit love scenes.

"Even now we're One Inseparable by Oceans in our bliss A whisper of the Romantic In the Eye of God..." The first step to freedom, happiness and full self-actualization is to love ourselves with total acceptance. Without making that step we are not fully capable of loving others. This book is about awakening to Love, by which I mean the Conscious and Unconditional Love of self and others. It is about full acceptance and the abundance that follows.... It is not an easy lesson and it is one I am still learning. I share my journey into Conscious Love in these pages.... This is an intimate sharing which I hope will be uplifting and enjoyable. We are all but A Whisper of the Romantic in the Eye of God!

In Remembrance of Future Present seems an odd title, doesn't it? It comes from the poet's sense of timelessness both in her life during the period these poems were written and also from a belief that all time coexists. These were poems written over an intense period of reflection. Written quickly and shared with love they reveal the workings of an inner self in a struggle to break free. In this new edition, you will find poems that rhyme and poems that don't, poems that are sentimental and those that are descriptive. Above all Lisa's poems display an honesty and a vulnerability together with a musicality that speaks directly to the reader.