Sizzling Spring and Summer Sundown Sensation – Summertime Treasures –
A Publication of Patty’s Worlds Publishing – TTW Marketing
Patty L. Fletcher
Tuesday August 6, 2024
Moon Phase Waxing Crescent
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Greeting…
Happy Summertime evening to you!
I’m back tonight with some great summertime treasures for you to enjoy.
We’re starting off with a link from Abbie Johnson Taylor, who shares a peaceful summertime sensory sensation with us.
Take-it-away-Abbie!
https://abbiescorner.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/at-peace-in-summer-tuesdaytidbit-poetry-inspiration/
Surprise!
Next up, a surprise even for me.
Robbie Cheadle’s post – Roberta Writes – d’Verse Quadrille #205 – A Jar Full of Poems #poetry
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August 6, 2024
Found here: https://roberta-writes.com/2024/08/06/roberta-writes-dverse-quadrille-205-a-jar-full-of-poems-poetry/ Inspired the following off the cuff poem from me.
Thanks to Robbie Cheadle for her sponsorship of Patty’s Worlds.
The Buz of Summer Winding Down – 44 Words
By Patty L. Fletcher
Blue and I bounced out the door.
Another late-night walk,
The breeze is alive with scent and sound.
Jar flies,
BUZZZZZ!
All Around.
I don’t know their true name.
Cicadas, Locusts,
different, same.
It’s the sound of summer winding down.
YAY!
Fall!
Coming,
round.
Patty L. Fletcher, Kingsport Tennessee, USA, email: patty.volunteer1@gmail.com
Close Out.
We close this week’s Sizzling Spring and Summer Sundown Sensation with a poem from sponsoring member Leonard Tuchyner.
Please keep reading after his lovely poem for information on his book launch coming tomorrow, Wednesday August 7, 2024.
I know Leonard will be proud to have you there.
For now, Leonard Tuchyner and his poem,
Broken Chords
An old crafted kite hangs on my wall.
Strong, supple, hand-cut bamboo strips
form its framing avian bones,
with skin of colored comic print,
a golden gift of heart and hands
from my best bud of latter years.
Many gabs of young days in flight
on paper wings and sailing ships.
He formed his kites from stuff he found.
I purchased mine from a five-and-dime.
His were, by far, more wonderful.
No art do I treasure more dearly.
I cherish it for his memory.
We both kenned that kites and sails are wings that break the bonds of gravity causing our souls and ships to fly.
My kite hangs listless from a wall.
I cannot dare to let it loose,
for if I lose it, or break its bones,
then ever deeper I must grieve.
My aged friend has flown away
to some far-away unknown shore.
I fear to risk a broken cord.
I know someday I too must soar.
So while there is still time and will,
I shall go to the open sea
and carry his paper kite with me,
then free our flight to eternity.
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More on Leonard and where you can meet him.
Book Launch with Leonard Tuchyner
Time: Aug 7, 2024 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Where: Online – Zoom
Author Leonard Tuchyner is coming to readers live and in person to talk about his latest release.
Read on for more.
B. Zeke and the Other World
A science fiction novel by Leonard Tuchyner / C 2024
For sale on Amazon in e-book, paperback, and hardcover formats / 315 pages in print
Full information about this book and the author’s previous books are at:
https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/
Synopsis:
Gazeon. A gaseous planet far from Earth, but whose bubble–like, intelligent inhabitants are working to contact other planets and civilizations. They have no permanent edifices, yet they live and work in ways not unlike our own. There are births, deaths, marriages, divorces, sports, restaurants, and institutions of higher education and research. There are also personalities of every stripe and problems similar to ours here on Earth, including drug addiction and its disastrous effects.
The Gazeon characters have marvelous names that always reflect something of their essence. Strong–Presence, Dr. Mind–Storm, Harmony–Lights, and Dark–Lights are just a few of the most prominent beings involved in the Other Worlds Contact Project.
Earth. Rural Missouri in the 1920s. The boy Ezekiel Isacks, or Zeke, is contacted in a subtle and mysterious way by Strong–Presence, who has been sent to attempt to bond with him. Strong is tenuously anchored to his home world by what they call the silver cord. From that moment on, the formerly ordinary child is overtaken by a desire to “learn everything.” In the military, he becomes a doctor. He marries the beautiful Lila, and they have two daughters.
In the story that follows, the lives of the scientists on Gazeon are roiled by frustration and fear that they can never get Strong–Presence back. Is he in fact hopelessly, permanently tied to Zeke? In addition, serious personal problems beset many of the Gazeons. On Earth, people age much faster than the Gazeons do, and at last Dr. Isacks is an old man with dementia and a wife with her own mental problems.
The most pressing question for the Gazeon scientists is this: What will happen to Strong–Presence if Zeke dies before they can be uncoupled?
We find the answer in an ending of immense beauty, tenderness, and hope.
Description of the cover for blind and visually impaired readers:
The scene is of a young boy standing in a field of short corn stalks. The sleeves of his shirt are rolled up, and his hands are in the pockets of his overalls. The sky is cloudy, and we see two farm buildings in the distance. Only the right side of the boy’s face is visible to the viewer, but he is obviously staring at a strange object in the sky: a large blue orb filled with clouds. The main colors of the picture are black, white, gray, and grayish beige. Only the orb and the narrow band at the bottom of the cover are blue. The title is at the top in very dark, reddish-brown letters, and the author’s name is in white letters at the bottom, on the blue band. The picture radiates mystery and fascination. The back cover is the same blue, with the synopsis in black letters inside white, puffy-edged surroundings that resemble clouds. The blue orb is duplicated in the lower left corner.
Behind Our Eyes Writers with Disabilities is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Book Launch with Leonard Tuchyner
Time: Aug 7, 2024 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
To receive call-in information please reach out directly to, Ann Chiappetta anniecms64@gmail.com
Please include your request for the call-in information, your name and the email address you’d like it sent to.
Thanks, and we cannot wait to see you there.
*Sneak peek at Leonard *
To get a sneak peek at Leonard, visit him in his debut on Patty’s Worlds.
Thank you for enjoying our poets this evening.
Please come again soon. You never know what you’ll find in Patty’s Worlds.
Abbie Taylor
August 6, 2024Thank you, Patty, for sharing my post here. Thank you all for reading.
Patty Fletcher
August 6, 2024Hi, Abbie. You’re most welcome. More to come.