About
“Writing (therapeutical ladder to the sky), reading, traveling, exploring, captivating images, observing the mysteries-miracles of life, attempting verses…”
This is the 140 characters description I used on my Twitter page. Short and real maybe not fully descriptive but topic related to the essence of my writing: ”sliding” into myself trying to find the “real me” keeping at the same time my eyes wide open on the world and its wonders.
I think this life is a passage through stormy and sunny places leading us to the light I have been searching since I was a little girl. I would like to learn more and share more through my verses.
I cannot really tell you the what or the how but I am sure that you will see in some of my verses the intricate maze of my journey and you will recognize the when and the why I felt my inner spiritual journey had to be explored even more to finally find the communion between mind, body and my troubled soul looking for peace.
I have always lived within two dimensions, two parallel lives (everyday anxiety and spiritual promenade)… in the middle of these two paths, I often felt inadequate and out of reach. With time, I learned that they can flow together as long as my heart stays connected with my mind and as far as my soul will search for the “light”.
The real challenge is to “keep intact the invisible wire of communication”
“We learn to love and “share” … by sharing I mean whispering words of hope, silently writing verses of wisdom, letting people read our soul and meet our mind!
See my dear, you have just shared this story with me making me richer, making us both richer.” (from The Magic Book short story by Laura Mercurio Ebohon Copyright © 2009)
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
If I look inside, like the title suggests, is a collection of poems, written in a very intimate dimension: they are filled with words caressing the pages like a dancing vortex of sensations, emotions that emerge from the memory, uprooted from any metrical conditioning, free from any rhetorical oppression. In this magic space drawn by the poetic word, reality does not loom over, it lives in a parallel dimension.
Reviews
<span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif;line-height:19px;">“Laura Mercurio is a poet of talent and originality. Her new Italian/English publication 'Se guardo dentro' - 'If I look inside' is written with an emotional abandon, breadth of personal experience, and genuineness one seldom encounters in a 'newly published' poet. Between the most ephemeral lines is a rock-hard knowledge of both the joy and pain of life lived wholeheartedly. Ms. Mercurio writes with the brakes off, navigating skillfully between the domestic, the emphemeral and the profound. Quite a ride! Someone to watch.”
Barbara Bridges , President and CEO , Stealth Pilot Productions
Wordsmith, Editor, Writer's Block Plumber, Publicist
Congratulations Laura
Your amazing talent is well represented on your book “ If I look Inside "
Feelings , emotions , sensations , endless love , magic , and so much more is all we can feel reading your wonderful book of poetry.
Thank you for being you.
Keep writing your soul!
Luis Do Amaral
Musician, Artist
Music , Art, Management
It’s always a big thrill for me to see a new poetry book out, and this time it is special, since I have come to respect your single-minded vision and poetic work ethic. Bask in the sun of this moment, and remember to stay true to your vision.
Semaphore, Samuel Peralta
Poet
A poet with a voice, soul and rhythm. New book out (in both Italian and English) glad to have found you!
A Crockett
Writer Researcher
READ HER BOOK! It just came out - trust me, I've read Laura's work and you will NOT be disappointed. . . she is a true poet!
Jim Wisneski
Writer, Poet, Musician
One of the best poets of our time...
Deanna Schrayer - Writer
Laura Eno - Writer
A gifted soul that shares ,the soul who knows no hate ,the soul that spreads love ,the soul that takes away sadness and replaces with verses ,the generous soul with the creative mind and fountains of wisdom,may your words continue to enlightn us ..
roos..peace is always the word ..
Roospooscreate
Your poetry is especially inspirational, diverse, lyrical, beautiful, fulfilling and yet stimulating a craving for more. Wonderful
Gloxpolguard
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