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Contact: Bonnie M Pike
bonnie.pike@hotmail.com
Contact: Bonnie M Pike
bonnie.pike@hotmail.com
“DANCING WITH THE SPIRITS OF SHADOWPLAY”
written by Bonnie
Breuilly=Pike and illustrated by T.L. Fernow
Poet/writer Bonnie (Breuilly) Pike
has experienced the extreme high and lows of life; and has shared those same
facets with others as they walk their own journeys.. Now she taps those
experiences in her third full length book of poetry; “Dancing With The Spirit of
Shadowplay” The book, divided into 7 distinct sections, follows life through
love, family, friendship, loss, illness, and grief. Utilizing the magic and mystery of the desert
mountains, canyons, rivers, and sky she has come to love, she weaves a spell of
longing, hope,, laughter, and love.
Writing poetry comes as naturally to
Bonnie as taking that first breath of fresh morning air comes to the rest of
us. While a teenager in Albion, New York she had her first poems published as a
chapbook, “A Teenager’s Thoughts on Life”, after a teacher submitted her
manuscript to a competition. While
living in Pensacola, Florida. where her late husband Douglas James Pike. a
career Navy man, was stationed, she became an active member of the West Florida
Literary Federation ; participating in the Back Door Poets, The Readers
Showcase (which she produced and directed for one year), The Pen Wise Poets,
and holding a position on the Board of Directors. She has been featured in: “The Emerald Coast Review”, “The Poets
Voice”, “The Panhandler”, “Home Life” “Amelia” and “The Back Door Poet’s Chapbook.
In October of 2002, Bonnie published
her first full book of poetry titled “Survive The Shadowstalker; A Poetic
Journey Through Abuse”. The poems that grace the pages of this book detail not
only the personal survival of abuse, but of the tragedy of abuse suffered from
the blind hand of illness, rape, war, and loneliness.
In February of 2011. Bonnie released
her second full book of poetry titled” Shadows of Love”. In the pages of this
book she touches on every aspect of love, from the familial to the platonic,
from the erotic to the subdued.
Bonnie possess the unique gift of
being able to put down on paper a feeling or thought that everyone us might
have had at one time or another, She will not only touch your heart but she
will have you pull it out and touch it as well; to feel its warmth; to feel its
aches. She will touch the deepest part
of your soul.
Do you want to come and play, and
dance, and dream? Then meet Bonnie at the foot of the Superstition Mountain,
just off the Apache Trail, in Mesa, Arizona, and she will show you the way . .
. join her in The Dance of Shadowplay.
Available through Amazon.com, all major book stores and via Kindle and Nook.
