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Don Campbell: AFABW "SPIRIT OF YOUTH" Awardee
"SPIRIT OF YOUTH" Awardee
Don Kingfisher Campbell
"For dedicated service inspiring our youth towards the creation of a better world through aesthetics."
Don Kingfisher Campbell, listed on Poets & Writers, is the founder of Poetry People Youth Writing Workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets, Wednesday Afternoon Critique Workshops, and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena, California. He is the recipient of the National Writers Association's Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry In The Windows Prize.
His poetry has been recently published in the anthologies Looking Out Of Pasadena, Prism Review, Looking Out Of Alhambra, Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Cookies And Poetry, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind Number Five, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black; and is also viewable on the internet at Stone Table Review, Six Little Things, Turbula, The Barricade, Tattoo Highway, Poetry Midwest, River Walk Journal, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity, Writer's Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway, Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, Wired Art From Wired Hearts, and Poetz websites.
His first book of poetry "Enter", reviewed as "pithy, trenchant, raw with life", was published by iUniverse Press and is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, etc. You can even find him interviewed on Litrave.com and Poetix.net!
Don Campbell's Written Works
IN THE SEA OF DOLPHINS, I AM A MANTA RAY
Dive into the sun to find opened eyes
An empty sky, full of ghosts
Smile because trees become bare
Carcasses on snowy streets
A monkey dreamt the cosmos, found a house
To sit in, gaze at an apple, stare at a fist
Pray in the wilderness, he said
We might as well be ants
But the scientific mind was high on civilization
They celebrated our rocks and roles
Envisioned the perfect you
Driving a lonely night freeway
Galloping to repopulate the stars
And play the game of movement through air
Read… Continue
An empty sky, full of ghosts
Smile because trees become bare
Carcasses on snowy streets
A monkey dreamt the cosmos, found a house
To sit in, gaze at an apple, stare at a fist
Pray in the wilderness, he said
We might as well be ants
But the scientific mind was high on civilization
They celebrated our rocks and roles
Envisioned the perfect you
Driving a lonely night freeway
Galloping to repopulate the stars
And play the game of movement through air
Read… Continue
Posted on November 4, 2008 at 5:52pm —
HOW DID HEAVEN BEGIN?
When we made Love
Our bones exploded
Into particles orbiting
Eons as we
Saw cultures form
In petri space
The Earth bubbling
For centuries we were
Happy in the brilliant void
Floated as ether
Over darkness and light
Then we rained down
Sizzled in the water
Mutated into gods
Multiplied our selves
Blood rushing heads
Feathery eyes opened and we
Found dizzy beings in bed
Smiled, that it was good
Our bones exploded
Into particles orbiting
Eons as we
Saw cultures form
In petri space
The Earth bubbling
For centuries we were
Happy in the brilliant void
Floated as ether
Over darkness and light
Then we rained down
Sizzled in the water
Mutated into gods
Multiplied our selves
Blood rushing heads
Feathery eyes opened and we
Found dizzy beings in bed
Smiled, that it was good
Posted on November 4, 2008 at 5:51pm —
CAMPBELL'S TRAVELS
I looked around the room
and my poetic eyes grew big:
Posters were just
postage stamps
The door,
but a chocolate bar
I punched a hole in the
paper-thin wall
Lifted off the roof
like it was a book
And stood up and surveyed
my new toy world
All around me, tiny models
I could have destroyed
Save for my feeling of guilt
at stepping on aunts, and uncles
I stomped out into the ocean,
which soon seemed a mere puddle
I left the Earth behind,
and started playing marbles with the stars
Until the… Continue
and my poetic eyes grew big:
Posters were just
postage stamps
The door,
but a chocolate bar
I punched a hole in the
paper-thin wall
Lifted off the roof
like it was a book
And stood up and surveyed
my new toy world
All around me, tiny models
I could have destroyed
Save for my feeling of guilt
at stepping on aunts, and uncles
I stomped out into the ocean,
which soon seemed a mere puddle
I left the Earth behind,
and started playing marbles with the stars
Until the… Continue
Posted on November 4, 2008 at 5:48pm —
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