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About Me

****A new printing of 50 copies of my chapbook, Abrasions, is in. All copies will be signed. If you want a dedication or wish to pay by check, message me. Cost: Eight dollars includes shipping.If overseas, check with me on mailing costs first.*****

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Check out my more varied blog at Songs To A Midnight Sky at blogger.com. My major blog is there. My website is Poetic Inspirations

I've been living with CFIDS since 1990, also known as CFS/ME. I was a Clinical Psychologist, avid sailor, bicylist, people lover, reader/writer and gourmet afficiando in my life before CFIDS. CFIDS is an illness that affects the immune system. It boggles me neurologically. It affects my energy profoundly. If you go to my website and hit 'about me', you'll see more. My creativity is what drives me. My friendships nourish me. I'm a survivor. Yes, they wrote that song about me :-)

My Interests

About my writing...

A late starter, I began writing poetry in 1999. I have poems/haiga published or pending publication in the following journals: MiPo(print/digital/radio/OCHO), Poems Niederngasse, MEAT, Boxcar Poetry Review, Verse Libre, Remark, Denver Syntax, In The Fray,Thunder Sandwich, Tears in the Fence, The Cliffs: Soundings, Empowerment4Women, The Oregon Review, Dakota House, Peshekee River Press, HaigaOnline, Interpoetry, Simply Haiku,The Dead Mule: A Journal of Southern Literature, and several Anthologies, among other places.

I'd like to meet:

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If I don't know you, I would like a short note of introduction along with any friend request. I'm taking very few new friends right now due to limited time to spend on MySpace.****

Music:

Heroes:

All men and women who work long hours for low pay in back-breaking jobs and no fancy vacations, yet who still love, and endure. People who care enough to go the extra mile.

Siren by Rachel Sanchez

My Blog

Badri Narayan Left His Elephant Behind

Sometimes my husband shifts in the night& I wake, make up memories of the two of us.False as cross-eyed butterfliesflitting in evening shadowsor Browning's complete sonnetsescaping a dying...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:18:00 PST

A Sudden Stillness

She told it at family gatherings, until I felt sure I remembered, too, from some space between lifetimes-- my kicks inside her wet womb before storytime with her first graders. Once upon a time and I ...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:45:00 PST

"love hurts" (poem)

sara struts to the stage checks that her pasties on her double A breasts still stick in place The guy with the pimples, second table out, looks as nervous as she feels behind her revlon red smirk...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:35:00 PST

Lunch With Margaret

A friend and I were discussing humorous poetry recently. I write it off and on and enjoy it but have found that The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature has been the only journal to appreciate...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:21:00 PST

Ode to an Aging Lover

Sustain me with raisons, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love. O that his left hand were under my head, that his right hand embraced me! &...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:36:00 PST

Snowglobe

Wiry haired Nick on my left,the one yet to die in a plane crash,and John, once-lover,now friend, on my right,hold me in our giddy weavethrough the snow-bombed Boston Commons.Christmas Eve...our f...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:34:00 PST

Lilies And Headstones

Mother climbs from her grave nightly,the moon sliding, bone white, along thatfragile passage from day's end to beginning.She re-arranges plastic flowers, talksto other coffin-freed friends, polishesth...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:43:00 PST

Regarding my poems

I now remove most of any unsubmitted/published poems after about 7-10 days. All of the poems that work for me eventually go onto my website at: Poetic Inspirations Visit there if you en...
Posted by Pris Campbell on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:36:00 PST