Bobbie Panek

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This is a journey as well of the spirit and the heart. An accomplished craftswoman in the lyric tradition, Bobbie Panek is a poet to savor, one you will turn to again and again, season after season.” </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                           --Patricia Roth Schwartz,</div> <div> poet, writer, teacher, workshop leader</div> <bR> <bR> <div> “This collection of Bobbie Panek's beautiful and inspiring poems takes the reader along on a vivid, celebratory walk in nature, where senses come alive and beauty is found in all realms of life and death, overhead and underfoot… and always deeply connected with the Earth.” </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> --John A. Eisler, Ph.D. </div> <div> SUNY Empire State College</div> <div> Associate Dean/Northeast Center</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>INTRODUCTION</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> You learn to walk at around twelve months of age </div> <bR> <div> You stumble, gain your balance, and reach for stability, while observing your surroundings </div> <bR> <div> Occasionally you land on your butt</div> <bR> <div> These pages represent my two-mile morning walk to work </div> <bR> <div> feeling wind on my cheeks, hearing the crunch of small stones, smelling swamp water, witnessing life and death</div> <bR> <div> seeing color, defined by an exact moment when the sun reflects off a sumac leaf or the wing of a </div> <div> Canadian goose</div> <bR> <div> walking primal one foot then the other, one foot then the other</div> <bR> <div> a meditation, recognizing the earth underneath my feet </div> <bR> <div> an intimate connection with the season and the changes </div> <bR> <div> moment by moment, step by step, day by day, always changing</div> <bR> <div> I'm about to share this connection with you </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>APRIL</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>She Was Blowing Trumpets</B></div> <bR> <div> I searched for April this morning</div> <bR> <div> Green tulip spears pushed her up </div> <div> from slumber</div> <bR> <div> I touched her slippery pink </div> <div> apple-bud skin </div> <bR> <div> Looked into her yellow </div> <div> forsythia eyes </div> <bR> <div> Found her cavorting </div> <div> on purple crocuses</div> <bR> <div> While hyacinths bathed her </div> <div> in fragrance</div> <bR> <div> April was blowing trumpets </div> <bR> <div> She is so loud </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Bobbie Panek is a writer and poet. Her poetry has been published in <I>Sunshine</I>, <I>Many Waters</I>, Magazines & <I>Moondance</I> on-line Magazine, and in the poetry anthologies: <I>Common Intuitions</I> and <I>Remembering Faces</I>. Her articles have been published in the following magazines: <I>Birds and Bloooms</I>, <I>Reminisce Extra</I>, and <I>Journal for the </I><I><B>A</B></I><I>merican </I><I><B>S</B></I><I>ociety of </I><I><B>R</B></I><I>adiologic </I><I><B>T</B></I><I>echnologists</I> and published by <I>American Mothers</I>. Bobbie wrote a weekly/column for one year for Auburn's newspaper, <I>The Citizen</I>. One of those columns was included in Reverend Albert Shamon's book, <I>The Power of the Rosary</I>. </div> <bR> <div> She worked for twenty-five years as a Radiologic Technologist registered in Radiography, Mammography, and Computed Tomography. She is currently a senior at Empire State College, graduating in June 2010, with a B.A. degree in Creative Writing. Bobbie is the chairperson of the Finger Lakes Writing Group.</div> <bR> <div> She lives in central New York with her husband on a farm, where they grow many crops including sunflowers for inspiration. Their children and grandchildren bring them immense joy~ Please feel free to contact Bobbie at panekpoet@yahoo.com and check out her website at <A HREF="http://www.bobbiepanek.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bobbiepanek.com"><U>www.bobbiepanek.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="14ef4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Morning Walks</B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > is an 88 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $16.00</FONT></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >                             </FONT></div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Morning Walks"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--07"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Morning Walks"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--07"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Morning Walks"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--07"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>