Title: Flight of Fancy
Genre: Poetry/Prose/Short Story
Author: Bernadette Bland
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 64
Language: English
ISBN - 978-1-45028-453-0
Purchase: iUniverse
Life is
filled with emotional highs and lows. Riding the wave of this experience is
part of living, but for poet Bernadette Bland, dreaming was even more
important. No matter the attitude, mood, or circumstance, Ms. Bland has always
believed in the beauty of life. Never to be deterred from her heart’s desire,
she has ridden her own life wave with an eye to her dreams and an eye to the
beauty of nature.
In her new
poetry collection, Flights of Fancy, Ms. Bland shares her imagery with the
outside world. She delves into the lavish splendor of nature in “Drifting
Grace: God’s Art Show.” She peers behind the protective mask of a weeping clown
in “Behind the Mask.” She recalls watching her mother slowly grow old in the
poignant “Mama.” In all her words, she reveals her deepest yearnings and fears
with selfless honesty.
Flights of
Fancy is an example of an imagination set free. Ms. Bland fills her poetry with
wonder and will leave you longing to step out into the sun. She is not afraid
to depict the sometimes traumatic rollercoaster of life; yet she encourages us
to move on, move up, and not look back. Within every word, she calls to the
reader, challenging each one of us to never stop dreaming!
Bernadette Bland was born in Westerly, Rhode Island. A news
reporter and photographer for many years, her poetry has been published by the
National Library of Poetry, the Amherst Society, and the Iliad Press, among
others. Ms. Bland lives with her husband in the Capital District of upstate New
York.
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