World Poetry Featured Poet:Candice James Poet Laureate of New Westminster

CANDICE JAMES - Poet Laureate of The City of New Westminster, BC Canada

CANDICE JAMES – Poet Laureate of The City of New Westminster, BC Canada

Candice James is a poet, songwriter and musician. She is the author of poetry books “A SPLIT IN THE WATER” publisher Fiddlehead Poetry Books 1979 and “INNER HEART – A JOURNEY” publisher Silver Bow Publishing 2010. She is a full member of The League Of Canadian Poets; a member of the British Columbia Writers Federation; Founder and creator of Poetic Justice, a weekly poetry reading event, and Slam Central, a bi-weekly spoken word performance event.

She has been featured on radio, at poetry readings, in local magazines/newspapers, international anthologies and e-zines. She has been guest host of international Writers Etc forum Los Angeles CA. and has also written the preface for the 6th poetry book written by Sonnet Mondal of India. You can hear and see more of Candice’s poetry and songs on the following websites:

http://saddlestone.shawwebspace.ca

http://candicejames.shawwebspace.ca

www.youtube.com/saddlestone11 www.reverbnation.com/candicejamessongwriter

 To hear Candice on the World Poetry Cafe Radio Show with hosts Lucia Gorea and Alejandro Mujica-Olea , click here!

SANDMAN

In the misty dusk,
Lilacs and roses
Cascade down;
Fragments of a broken rainbow,
Drop from the pocket
Of a star dusted sandman,
Riding a silver moonbeam
At the edge of the twilight sky
He slips into the dark
And sews the sun’s ocean
Into a black pearly blanket.
In a frenzied madness
Chasing a racing dawn.
He kisses the nape of night
With his fluttering eyelids;
In slow motion butterfly effect,
He pierces the eye of midnight
With his hypnotic song.

In the shimmering garden of dreams,
He plucks a pale blue orchid
To commemorate
The death of this dream
He’s chasing down
A whispering valley of voices
And ebony etched secrets.

The dawn slowly hatches,
Cracks open
Like a luminous egg;
Breaks into a million sun splinters
Assaulting the fleeing darkness.
The weary sandman yawns,
Slowly closes his eyes
In silent surrender
To coveted slumber.

Candice James 2011(C)