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Poetics Presents

Karli Shanklin (Celt)

Mrs. Penny, teaching third grade in Seattle, Washington, once told a small, brown eyed little girl that she was a poet and that she must never stop writing. The child finished school, married the man she loved, and brought four children into the world, but Mrs.Penny's words lay like seeds in the back of her mind, awaiting the proper environment in which to grow.

Karli Shanklin was that child, and now, nearly 29 years later, she has finally found the confidence necessary to let those seeds sprout, her imagination to take root. Thanks to the encouragement and advice so abundant here at WVU, Karli sees her life's dream to become a published author finally within her reach.

More importantly, she wants people to open their minds to think and feel when they read her work. It is for this reason that she writes, more than any other. Karli is a member of the Word Weavers study group here at WVU.

Writers' Village members look forward to reading more of Karli's work.

REFLECTIONS from out the mist peat pools ripple awareness of what canna be seen repository of past knowledge denied existence in a modern world through bone ancestors call out writing their message in colored darkness 'cross a prominent brow a woman's body broad of hip and deep of wisdom in the ways of men and children no apologies made would the mist would part the pools be lit as a bonfire in celebration of life as it should be lived as it once was lived passion simmers impatient upon the coals of life awaiting the inexorable shift in the winds of promise... in the tide of change... Karli Shanklin (aka Celt)

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