AS THE STORY GOES - A POEM A DAY BY AMBER SILVERSTAR FOR APRIL THE MONTH OF POETRY

AS THE STORY GOES

As the story goes

the flowers of lavender color

all agree to honor

the beauty of their sacred reflections

  to keep secret the dreams

of the story teller

so the Stone People

could hear them talking

the standing tree people

could hear them singing

one day in the garden

a young man came walking

where he heard his lover calling

the flowers of lavender colors

so all might agree to honor

the beauty of their sacred reflections.

ams

Poetry copyright by Amber Silverstar 2010 and photograph by Steven Olson 2010 - all rights reserved.

Poem taken from the book BRIGHT NATURE OF BREAUTY by Amber Silverstar available on http://www.amazon.com/
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THEN DAY COMES - A POEM A DAY FOR APRIL THE POETRY MONTH BY AMBER SILVERSTAR

THEN DAY COMES

Making sure the lights of heaven

are always glowing in the sky

the stars wait to be seen

as darkness arrives

then once again day comes

with red blazing Sun

earth is strong, rich, moist

with fertile soil

together grow plants with trees

and many white blooms in the garden ...

in the garden

at night the celestial dance

of the moon

then at sunlight

the crimson call emerges again

the red blazing Sun shines

we watch from grassy beds of moss

knowing what glorious harmonies

we share when holding our bodies

beneath stones and crevices

of cold water streams

with wondering leaves

from fallen branches.

ams

Poetry copyright by Amber Silverstar 2010 and photograph by Steven Olson 2010 - all rights reserved.

Poem taken from the book BRIGHT NATURE OF BREAUTY by Amber Silverstar available on http://www.amazon.com
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A ONENESS - A POEM A DAY FOR APRIL THE MONTH OF POETRY BY AMBER SILVERSTAR

A ONENESS

I am one with trees

green upon green

refreshing air

with leaves

abundant in their growing

I am one

with the Sun

measuring out warmth

for my skin

healing the colors

of my soul

I am one

with the seasons

which I seek

repeating often

with energy so fleeting

yet doing so

with deliberation

I am one

with the now

and always

that I may

join in togetherness

of each new cycle

and mysteries

of unknown worlds.

ams

Poetry copyright by Amber Silverstar 2010 and photograph by Steven Olson 2010 - all rights reserved.

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TRANSFORMATION ... A POEM A DAY FOR APRIL

TRANSFORMATION

Bless the souls of knowing
who rejoice for arrivals of eternal joy
this contemplation of realities

previously unseen
knowing and emerging with pictures
so real as to be experienced
with eternal wisdom
so tenderly are you held

time approaches
bringing significant measures
of testing yet
releasing measures
for the duality of forces

but now no more waiting
no more waiting
these are victories of completion
a time for resurrection
a time for now.

ams
2010

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APRIL IS POETRY MONTH

Hello Everyone,
To mark the celebration of April as Poetry Month, I am posting a poem a day taken from my book BRIGHT NATURE OF BEAUTY.

The first poem:

ENRICHING THE WORLD

Reaching toward endless blue spaces
are trees with long, giving arms.
These are symbols of green,
ever living green with joy and beauty,
enriching the world
with an abundance of creation.

ams

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Enjoy your world,
love and light,
Amber Silverstar

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EASTER CELEBRATION THIS SUNDAY

Hello Everyone,

Happy Easter and Spring Celebration to everyone! This is so my favorite time of the year. Today it is cool, foggy, and cloudy with thunder storms on the way but the pale, yellow poppies are waiting to open up again as soon as the Sun shine returns ... here in Southern California that means only a short time away.

We plan to go to the beautiful San Juan Capistrano for the weekend to be at the Mission and do Easter Dinner at the Train Depot Restaurant. Even if it does rain, the whole area will be a delight with so many flowers and trees in bloom along with the smell of Honeysuckle and Orange blossoms.

It will also be a perfect time to do a photo shoot for a new book we are working on about Spanish architecture along the coast. We will do a little antique shopping too because we are giving the apartment a fresh new look for spring. We hope to find a chandelier for the living-room, an "Aubusson" type rug and a vanity bench for the bathroom.

If it is too stormy, we will take a drive along the coast through Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Corona Del Mar, Monarch Bay, and Newport Beach. It is as wonderful as it sounds. Most of the sea-side cliffs will be covered with heavenly scarlet blooms of ice-plant, or glorious wildflowers, or even geraniums of pink, white and magenta. Sail boats might just be sailing, and even wind surfers with their rainbow colored sails and matching wet suits skimming along the sparkle glass sea water. Both Swallows and Monarch butterflies will also meander in and out of the coastal skies. We will indeed celebrate all this natural wonder.

So I hope you will have a fabulous celebration too ... a time to enjoy a renewal of life! Happy Easter and Spring to everyone.

What do you think? Please let me know amber@ambersilverstar.com

Love and light,
Amber

LOOKING FORWARD TO OSCAR

Movies have always been a huge part of my life. I guess it is no accident that I am living in the LA/Hollywood movie scene of the world. For the past month the TURNER CLASSIC MOVIE channel has been featuring all these fabulous movies which have won Oscars for best picture. It is like getting (excuse the pun) to eat a "box of chocolates" everyday and filling up on a perpetual flow of goodies.

Now it is time for Oscar 2010 and I am looking forward to the Academy Awards tomorrow night. My choice for best actress is Sandra Bullock in her wonderful, performance in the movie BLINDSIDE. Of course I would love to see  JULIE, JULIA win a few of the awards too. I know this is practically "UN-american" but I have yet to see AVATAR, HURT LOCKER, OR CRAZY HEART so I cannot really comment but AVATAR does seem to be a great cinema breakthrough and achievement.

As a side comment, I do not see why a producer for HURT LOCKER got barred from attending the Oscars for saying what he thought was his truth. Seems a violation of free speech to me. This action coming from the movie industry is hard to understand when the movie makers use their own freedoms to create whatever they please regardless of how much violence in words and actions are used to get their own points across.

Anyway, taking the good with the bad, I am still looking forward to what I am sure will be an amazing night. It is suppose to rain as it is right now. Regardless the stars will shine and I will be here watching all the glitter and glamour of "Oscar and friends."

Haiti: A Place Of Pain and Prayers

Dear Friends,

I come from the land of Earthquakes ... California. And as I watch the images on television and the Internet, I keep thinking "This could easily happen in California."

Experts talk about preparing for an earthquake but how do you really prepare - The quakes come in seconds and go in seconds? - if you do survive - how do you use cell phones that do not work? - how do you breath air thick with fumes and fire and dust? - how do you use your preparation kit if it is buried in rubble and so are you? - how do you cover for safety if you are on a crowded freeway and it collapses? - how do you get help if the first responders are dead and the hospitals are gone?

I think, if we have a major earthquake, just like Haiti, we will be in a
place of pain and prayers, waiting for someone to come and rescue us while we try to survive in a hell of confusion, terror, and desperation.

Just a few months ago, only a mile from where I live, I watched an entire mountain go up in fire, people died, homes were destroyed, once beautiful lands were scorched and scarred, the air was filled with toxic smoke, and yet the real help that people needed did not come when they needed it - just like Katrina - and now just like Haiti?

Why? My only answer is we are all in our humanity imperfect, fearful, greedy, forgetful, mistaken, misdirected, angry. So here we go again an unbelievable disaster - the earthquake - very close to home and yet far away.

In the days to come there will be many opportunities to help with money, supplies, food, prayers and hope for a people who wait to be rescued. Some day it may be you, it may be us, for today it is not. So I plan to give to The Salvation Army, The Red Cross, The United Nations. Where and when will you give?

I pray that each and every person in Haiti today receives the help they need in this very moment and in the moments to come.

Light and Love,
Amber Silverstar

A NEW YEAR FOR BALANCE, ABUNDANCE, AND ADVENTURE

Hello Friends,

Happy New Year 2010 - this New Year promises a return of the "light" which I believe means a lighter attitude towards the seriousness of life's issues which you have been learning from for the past twelve months.

However "lightness" does not mean turning away from accomplishments, dreams, and solutions to problems. In numerology the year is a three. Threes are powerful hard workers. Threes are learning, processing, and planning. Threes are focused goals for balance, abundance, and adventure. You might think of the Trident held by the god Neptune, Lord of the Underworld, or the trinity of father, son and Holy Spirit, or the trinity of maiden, mother, and wise woman. The pyramid is a three figure of power. You can think of threes in your thoughts about time; past, present, and future.

This year 2010 also ask for you to be sensitive to the emotions of others, especially family members. This is an excellent time to work harder at understanding how others might feel before you make decisions about proceeding with your own life.

This could be the year you review the past for anger issues and realize the limited power of anger from the past. This could also be the year to truly learn how to live in the moment - using the power of intuition to propel you forward on your path of greatest joy. As for the future, you could work on a vision board for the year, for five years, for ten years. You create your future through energizing your visions.

Remember to take time to review this past year for what you have experienced from the symbology of not only two but the master number eleven. Did you master how to succeed in your partnerships? Were you a good "team player"? Did you double your efforts in understanding the importance of mastering not only the physical but the metaphysical?

Know as you meditate on where this next year will lead you that 2010 is the number one the second time around. You get a new chance this year for balance, abundance and adventure.

This is my revue or the possibilities of the New Year 2010. Enjoy!

Let me know what you think. Write to amber@ambersilverstar.com.

Light and love,
Amber

HAPPY GREETINGS FOR LOVE AND BEAUTY TO EVERYONE

Hello Friends,

I thought I would catch up with all of you with a greeting of love and beauty from Southern California. I have been as busy as possible to finish all the preparations for Christmas and now I have time for a little news and reflections on current events.

1) Brittany Murphy - how can someone so young be gone so soon? Our prayers, light and love go out to her husband, mother and friends. We loved her work in so many films. We know she is already an angel in her new life.

2) )Health Care - I still think finale passage of the Health Care Bill will be sometime in March. This situation is so personal, there is no way everyone will be happy no matter what bill passes and when.

3) Holiday Movies - Go see BLIND SIDE ... the story is wonderful and SANDRA BULLOCK is perfect. Save seeing Disney's CHRISTMAS CAROL for watching on DVD - don't take younger kids - too dark and too scary. I plan to see DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS?, AVATAR, THE BACK UP PLAN, THE BOUNTY HUNTER, UP IN THE AIR, INVICTUS, AND NINE.

4) TIGER WOODS - This guy is so in need of professional therapy or a serious conversation with former president Bill Clinton. How tragic for his children. This whole "sexual addiction" in my view is epidemic in the world. Sexual addiction, drugs, violence, gangs, child and spousal abuse, genocide, war ... all press the same button marked destruction, evil and death.

5) HAPPY EVENTS ... A new president, improving economy, heroes being honored, cities in repair, new technologies for a better world, progress in curing illnesses of mind, body and spirit. New songs and singers, new art and artist, new creativity and creators, new discoveries and discoverers, new dreams and dreamers ... a whole collage of positive choices and changes by individuals who believe in the good life and a wonderful destiny.

Write and let me know what you think!

amber@ambersilverstar

Love and light,
Amber

The design for this blog is a digital art creation by Amber Silverstar 2009.

WATCHING THE TEARS

Dear Friends,

I watched with sadness on television today as President Obama came to Texas to talk to those who had gathered in shock and grief to bury and mourn the dead of the tragic events of Fort Hood.

I remember once a quote, "Beware the man for whom we make life not worth living." How does one man's life become so not worth living that he would make a choice to destroy not only his own but so many of his own soldiers serving to save others?

The choice to be a Muslim today must be a very scary one. The choice to be Muslim, American, and in the military must be even more difficult - all those life issues coming at you for sorting out; politics, race, creed, religion, philosophy, ethics, your very way of life. How fragmenting it all must be to the mind, heart, soul and spirit.

I think when we make a choice for war, we make a choice for fragmentation just like the bullets, bombs, and all the weapons make a fragmentation of each target they make their mark upon. There just has to be a better way. I pray we can each use words of love and tools of wholeness for a world of harmony, peace, and beauty.

Here is a reprint of a blog I wrote after seeing a young man make these incredible efforts to put his life back together after his own tragic wounds in the Iraq war. Read this and ask your self if you could have the courage to go on if your life were to be shattered the way this soldier's life was shattered - and now the lives of so many others. Then pray that we all have the courage to go forward.

How brave the human spirit can be. I saw a young man on one of the morning shows. He had been injured in the war with Iraq; both his legs were amputated. In his eyes I could see the sorrow but I could also see a soul filled with courage and light. How amazing to have so much taken away and yet still focus on making the most of what surrounds him in his quest to survive. He walks, he drives, he dates, he creates a world of opportunities. There is no bitterness in his words, no resentment in his smile, no revenge in his attitude. Instead, he inspires, he jokes about how his "private parts still work" and how he sees marriage and children in his future. He puts on his leather gloves, he manipulates the hardware that replaces the flesh he once could be so sure of.

He talks about "walking on stilts." I do not believe in war but I do believe in the honesty and honor of the warrior spirit and this young man's pure heart who went to carry out his destiny to do what he believed would defend and protect others so they too could follow their own pathways of truth.

Here indeed is the angel messenger, a living portrait of the dichotomy of battle, in seeking to free and protect others, he looses his own life as he once knew it. I ask with all my heart that he will continue to find the wings of support, love and respect for his courage to set the example of what it must mean to live in the moment, trust in spirit and continue going forward one day and then another and then another.

Light and love,
Amber Silverstar