DOING THE MATH

I'm happy to announce that this week Amazon rates "Raised in the Shadow", my life in 25 poems, as #607,825 on their best-seller list. Last week it was rated #3,225,478. For those of you who don't have a pencil and paper handy, that's a jump of 2,617,653 places. Wow! How DO they figure these things? I have no clue, and, after some google-sleuthing, I have come to the conclusion that neither does anyone else.

By the way, this collection of 25 poems, written over the course of the year I turned 50, is only12 bucks which, again for those of you not sitting in front of paper and pencil, comes out to only 48 cents per poem. Can you believe it? Only 48 cents!! So, here's a sample of what 48 cents will get you these days:

THE ARCHERS

They are moving quietly
through the shadows,
barely below the threshold of my discomfort

They are whispering my name,
the one I forgot.

They are tugging, insistent, forcerful,
their firm, dark hands
on the blades of my shoulder,
turning me first this way, then that

Like an arrow, they aim me
with tender merciless love.
directly toward the center of my fear,
their exquisite accuracy measured
unerringly by the windsock of my resistance

It is an oddly practical dynamic:
The harder I struggle, the clearer their target.

-(c) p.n. rosenberg

If you don't already have a copy of RITS, you can help me move north on that ol' Amazon Best Seller list and have a little poetry with your coffee in the mornings to boot! Go to Amazon and order up a copy. Free shipping with an order over $35, so you can order 3 and enrich two poet-poor friends. Oh, the good deeds abound!

Here's to a New Year, may it be filled with poetry and song!

From Coyote Gulch Studios, high in the wild mojave,
Phillip

5 comments

nancy peden monterey, ca
Jan 4 2016 8:05 PM

great poems, great writer. much gratitude.

great poems, great writer. much gratitude.
Shelley Dallas
Jun 5 2017 7:58 PM

Beautiful poem -- really resonates for anyone who has experienced turning 50 as a futile exercise in resistance when you are not sure of your aim. Have since becoming more accepting that the process will go more smoothly without my interference. This is the first of your poems I have read, and whether it makes cents or not, I plan to read more of it.

Beautiful poem -- really resonates for anyone who has experienced turning 50 as a futile exercise in resistance when you are not sure of your aim. Have since becoming more accepting that the process will go more smoothly without my interference. This is the first of your poems I have read, and whether it makes cents or not, I plan to read more of it.
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