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LIVING POETRY by Sonja Phillips Hollie

In my poetry, I am inspiration that manifests thoughts of love…

I am breath that conveys the will. I am the action that effects change. I am the touch that provides healing. I am that which had been written before thoughts began, and came into being when all was meant to be. I am beauty that exists in all that is the creation of the word. I am Living Poetry!

Today, as my first collection of poems, Living Poetry: Perceptions of a Goddess, is being released into the world, I am happy to share with you a little peek into its contents, by unveiling the first poem:

Living Poetry
by Sonja Phillips Hollie

Like the breathing of Spring and the lust of dying words in the fall:
The living, changing and healing of virginal snow, as in life we
            are seasons to everything and its in my words,
            ingrained as our time
Sowing the rust of our souls
leaving behind a part of me
So that you may live in eternal suns,
long after i am gone,
for you are my destiny.
It is me the poet and the goddess
that shall paint my roots on the Autumn rains
In the precious truth of thee
In you…
I start what was always me
As Living Poetry! 



(To enter a raffle to win a free copy of Sonja's new poetry book,
 simply visit her FB page here, like it, and leave her a comment!) 


Sonja Marie Phillips Hollie is a rising poetess, a free spirit, dreamer and spiritualist. She was born in Chicago and now resides in Texas with her husband and three beautiful daughters. Although, she fell in love with words at a very young age, she didn’t become interested in writing poetry until after winning a poetry recital contest in high school. She has an unusual style of poetry, mystical, passionate, otherworldly. Her words are divinely inspired. Several of her poems were selected to be published in an August, 2015 Anthology of the poetesses called: Where Journeys Meet: The Voice of Women’s Poetry. Sonja holds a B.A. in Spanish though her life’s passion is poetry. She hopes to inspire women all around the globe to awaken to the inner goddess. In the fall of 2016, she published her first collection of poems, LivingPoetry: Perceptions of a Goddess, with Golden Dragonfly Press. You may connect with Sonja via her Facebook page here. 



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