Purple Haze
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Purple Haze purports to describe "nondescript days" but that's just a poetic haze that subtly brings the reader to this poetry's real clarity, which is its ability to pose questions. These poems situate the "I/You" of the lyric's spoken voice in a passionate, sometimes erotic, interrogation of imagination and feeling that is looking for answers. The echo is palpable while Candice James sings "'Scuze me" while I write these poems. ~ Fred Wah, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2011-2013 and Officer of The Order of Canada.
Candice James
Candice James, a poet, visual artist, musician, singer/songwriter, workshop facilitator and book reviewer. completed her 2nd three-year term as Poet Laureate of The City of New Westminster, BC CANADA in June 2016 and was appointed Poet Laureate Emerita in November 2016. Her credentials are: Board Advisor to Royal City Literary Arts Society; Founder of: Poetry New Westminster; Poetry in the Park; Poetic Justice, Slam Central and Royal City Literary Arts Society; Past President of Royal City Literary Arts Society; the Federation of British Columbia Writers. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, she has been keynote speaker at "Word on the Street", "Black Dot Roots Cultural Collective", "Write on the Beach" and has judged the "Pat Lowther Memorial Award" and "Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poet Award". She received Pandora's Collective Vancouver Citizenship Award; and the Bernie Legge Artist/Cultural award. Candice has authored 24 books of poetry with 7 different publishers: "A Split In The Water" (Fiddlehead 1979); was the first book published. Candice has featured at many venues both civic and public and appeared on television and radio. She has presented workshops, mentored writers; written prefaces and reviews, published articles, and short stories. Her poetry has appeared in many international anthologies and her poems have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Bengali, Farsi and Chinese. Her artwork has appeared in Duende Magazine and in the "Spotlight" at Goddard College of Fine Arts, Vermont, USA and her poetry inside and artwork ("Unmasked") on the cover of Survision Magazine, Dublin, Ireland and her poetry and artwork have appeared in Wax Poetry Art Magazine Canada. Many of her paintings have been used as book covers for authors nationally and internationally. Websitewww.candicejames.com
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Purple Haze - Candice James
Title: Purple Haze
Author: Candice James
Cover Art: Purple Haze
painting by Candice James
Smashwords Edition 2018
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Acknowledgements
As always I thank my mentor, now passed away, Fred Cogswell for his tutelage and patience with me in the early days. Without his belief in me I would not be writing poetry today. I am ever grateful to the City of New Westminster for appointing me Poet Laureate of the City for two consecutive three year terms. I thank my daughter and granddaughter for their understanding when I am lost in my own little world of poetry and everyone and everything is zoned out. I thank Ken Ader for his unwavering support and help in all my literary endeavours. And last but certainly not least I thank all the poets who have crossed my path over the years. Each and every one of them has given me inspiration. ~ Candice James
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
~ T. S. Eliot
Deep experience is never peaceful.
~ Henry James
Table of Contents
Stone Soul
Angular Circles
Nights and Moons
Signature
Phasing
A Small Destruction
Trying to Stay the Light
A Residue of Resin
Technicolour Details
A Sleep I Remember
A Solace of Sorts
My Hands
Approaching Myself
As I Am---Not
Awakenings
Back To You
Belief
Beneath the Weeping Willows
Bitter Taste
Loveless Strangers
Tears of the Sun
Electric Air
July Sun
The Step
Paths of Possibilities
Marked
Learning
Night Shift
Unfinished
Voices
Duality Abated
Hot Nights
Purple Haze
Shine the Dulled Edge
Skin on Skin
Star-seed
Crab Boat
The Fire of Your Kiss
The Kick
The Meal
The Poet and the Welder
White on Black
Without Absolution
Black Shiny Poo
Blue Water Corals
Coming Undone
Cracking
Your Darkest Side
Dead Stories
Desolate Valley
Talking In Your Sleep
Downsizing For Death
Eddying Down
Expectations
Fluid Silence
Gleaming
Gritty Sand of Need
Hard Hope
Hitchhiker
In Broken Pieces
Lost To the World Again
Moments Like These
Summer Stone
Sculpted Crow
A Hard Rain
She Waits
Silence of the Spider
Somebody Else’s Dream
A Raw Bone
White Loneliness
Those Nights
The Fog
Land of the Blood Snakes
Rebellion Of the Middle Ages
Tearing Apart
The Right To Grieve
The Silence
The Strand
Under the Thunder
The Wind
This Place
When You Leave
Worlds
Trilogy Eternal
The Empty Women
Women and Children
Bread and Roses 103
Stone Soul
Your heart is too brittle for loving.
Your teachers were too drunk with wine
To lead you to wisdom…
Your jazz riddled song,
A suspended chord,
Abandoned before it began.
You never heard
The taste of my hunger
Or hungered for my taste.
You touched me with second hand fire
But still I lingered and languished
In the left over embers
And savoured the burning.
Strangers in all ways but one,
I wash over you in passionate waves
And soak you in my hunger
With a tension that bends desire
From grace into