Poetry: Reflecting on the Clouds of Everyday Living

About the Book

"Brighter Tomorrows! . . . .
Shadows behind and brightness ahead
Soon the light obscures all shadowy remnants."

Mary Anne Miceli’s exploration of the commonplace, seeking to illuminate the poetic elements thereof, sets no simple task for herself, despite the bread-and-butter quality of much of her subject matters–--faith, today’s ironies of living, being bound up with the Irishness and wildness of the Western world of that historic nation. Actually, she is best when her perception proceed narratively beyond the commonplace, in such poems as “Stone Walls of Ireland,” where she makes better philosophic sense of their signifi cance than say, Frost, in his laconic, slightly Yankee prickley poems of “something there is that doesn’t like a wall.” She is at best when she illuminates her west of Ireland poetry as she does with her cuts of original photography, and when she shines on the light of her obvious passion for the subject.

Neil Bradford Olson
NEW ENGLAND POET


I would like to take this opportunity to express great interest in the book POETRY: REFLECTING ON THE CLOUDS by Mary Anne Miceli. My NAME IS Joey Stricklen of of Peabody Ma, and may be reached at Joey.Stricklen@comcast.net. This collection of Poems has given me a spiritual lift from a hard time I am going through at the present. I believe hope is the best description I felt after multiple readings .

Joey Stricklen
Peabody Ma

About the Author

Mary Anne Miceli is a Boston native of Irish extraction and has enjoyed studying her Irish ancestral roots. Mary Anne has always loved nursery rhymes and music. She so likes the beat of 'rhythm in rhyme,' she thinks and composes in 'rhyming rhythm'. She feels that life itself is a 'rhythmic process' of highs and lows like the ebb and flow of the tides. She feels writing is the hallmark of the creative process as it 'purges the soul and inspires the mind'. Mary Anne lives in a picturesque town on the North Shore of Boston and continues to write both Children's Picture Books and Poetry. Her published books include: “Boston North Shore's Rhyming Fish Tales”, “China Baby Doll", "Confessor's Animal Wartime Blues", "Poetry: Reflecting on the Clouds of Everyday Living" and “TeenY…Tiny…TICKssss…”