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Now available in Kindle Edition!

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A Friendship with Flowers

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​This book was originally created by hand in a small journal while I was living in Oxfordshire, England. It was done with gratefulness for the flowers that graced and healed me with their beauty, wisdom, and playfulness.​

In A Friendship with Flowers ...

the gifted American author and artist Diane Denton invites us to share a healing journey she took when the flowers that surrounded her in a very English part of England gave her solace, hope and inspiration. This beautifully produced book will not be left on a bookshelf for long; and as if the exquisite paintings (you’ll never look at a  dandelion in the same way again) are not more than enough in themselves, the author also includes her unique commentary on the natural world as she studies and interacts with it while coming to terms with an unspecified experience in her life. This combination of artwork and poetic observation, that is both personal and universal, creates a unique alchemy that calms and comforts while still leaving open the essential mystery of the natural world and our place in it. Sometimes, the author seems to suggest, it’s OK for there to be no answers; there may be no pat solutions, but there are insights and realisations, looking back to move forward (This holy rose/is another reminder/of the summer past/and yet/to come...), and new ways of seeing things (I found the snow didn’t drop/from above/but sprung from below/to cover the ground...). The illustrations and the accompanying poetry, which is controlled, understated and pared back, combine to create a companion 
book that will reveal a little more each time you dip into it; you will feel (to  borrow the author’s words): here’s a friend/I just got to know/suddenly,/by the roadside,/as I was going/nowhere. This book also includes a detailed glossary listing all the flowers shown in the beautiful illustrations throughout the book. This glossary includes the everyday and Latin name of each flower plus brief information about its habitat and the time of year that you’ll be able to spot it (easily recognisable in real life from the painstaking accuracy of the  artist’s depiction).
Deborah Bennison, http://www.writinginc.co.uk

The Library Next Door

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An Illustrated Kindle Short published by All Things That Matter Press
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Books were Rose's secrets. Reading was an easy distraction, friend to her curiosity and the only thing she was sure she wanted to do. When she entered the library next door, what was real and imaginary became indistinguishable, and she grew ready to reveal the future of her relationship
with the written word. 


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An Illustrated Kindle Short published by All Things That Matter Press
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In Depression-weary times, a little girl’s wish for a special  doll touches a stoic heart. Through sacrifice and pure intent, giving her what  she wants results in disappointment but eventually confirms that love and  patience can work magic.
 
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You constantly long

for the right word,
though how could
you ever

be content
with just one-
courting the idea
of a sentence,
a paragraph,
a page,
from the first chapter
through many more
to the end?

This is the romance
you live for now
and perhaps always have,
for your heart
has been stolen
more often
by your imagination
than your reality.

Don’t give up
because your love
is unrequited
and it seems
no one will ever know
how it breathed
as though
nothing else mattered.

Be true
to your calling
and don’t regret
a word of it,
for each one
that comes to you
takes your hand
in hopes
of fitting your vision
and pleasing your voice
like diamonds
forever.
        
               ~DM Denton

Comment
from smzang @
Pitching Pennies Poetry

Your art and poetry always touch the inner core and Summer Solstice
does that with ease. Absolutely gorgeous! The bumble bee is the highlight for
me. I had to look twice to make sure it was not a living being landed on my
screen. The wings are a bit of heaven, as is your poem and all your artwork.

Not Divorced from Daffodils

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It might be she had dreamed up that courtship,
following an inclination
over such green and pleasant hills.



To Eire with Love

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I traveled there a woman
and came back a child
with my eyes
full of the clouds
coming over the mountains
so I could never tell
how high they were ...

The Lavenders

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A sprig on the wrist 
a spell for a plague
is worth two
in the bush
where the Lavenders
lay their cares.


Published on the Collins Poetry Residency Site April 12, 2012

Tears and Sun

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Find me a yellow rose
 in bud and blossom
and withering too ...

Like a Nuthatch

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What wouldn’t you give
for that peanutty feast–
something of your shyness
at the very least?
 

January Blooms

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The snow has shrunk back
into the distance of the woods,
a receding wave of winter
that will roll over us again.

Summer Solstice

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Enter summer
in ladies slippers
to walk through clover;
dressed in being
with tortoiseshell adornment
and sighing
all the fashion ...



Bog Chorus

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If I could send
a clear high note,
then I might
keep my head
and heart afloat.


Up in the Air

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I no longer remember
being undecided
between one place
and another.



A Friend Indeed

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O, the wild constancy
of the brave chickadee
simply changing his tune
like the man in the moon
for the tilt of the sky
as the seasons pass by.



Wrestling with Love

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The rug was a rink
in front of the fire,
it’s design hooked
in roses and thorns.


Cracked Pot

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Looking for a
little relief.

The pot is cracked from the cold, the lavender scented like summer; spring bulbs show impatience while knowing they must wait.

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