Author Jay Sturner

" Faerystruck Down " has been nominated for the annual Rhysling Award in the category of "Best Short Poem of 2013."

She goes about pressing plants beneath her step eyes to the sky pondering her faith in flowers a cornerstone of heaven which for her, nowadays must be outdoors or nowhere at all There is a hand and heart silent like embers across the old sea threaded through twilight and alight till morning, a glorious time when dreams are mirthful and nectarine-light kicks away city shadows Once, he could touch the long hills of her restless body and see a soul shimmering beneath his fingertips (From the book Wilderness & Love )

Can you accept, my love, regression to older ways, more passionate days?   To fall into a swoon of love and lose the world through the haze?   To a time when romance was a pink hue, searching for souls on earth's winds?   To a place where heroes forgot time and distance to reach their maiden?   Let us go there, my love: Please, take my hand, it longs to bring you, and follow my heart, it longs to show you.

One of my old love poems, "The Existence of You," has been chosen as Poem of the Month at Long Story Short .