Celestial Promise
Hayley Ann Solomon
In this collection of poetry, written over half a lifetime, Hayley Ann Solomon focuses primarily on the pursuit of excellence, immortality achieved through finite life, love in all its forms, and social justice. As it waxes and wanes, the collection cycles through sequences of lyrical ballads, sonnets, elegies, haiku, snippets of nonsensical verse; all blended with a substantial dose of existential philosophy and social comment.
The collection covers a full spectrum, from the darkest psycho-social moments, to zeniths of absolute joy. The liberal use of consonance, assonance, alliteration, echoes and half-echoes, rhyme and cross-rhyme make for a style rich in sound-play. This, together with strong metrical awareness – very often iambic or trochaic pentameter and tetrameter – evokes a flow that is quite typically euphonic. There is therefore a sense of lyricism despite a broad diversity of topics and moods.
The anthology evolves to become a promise of regeneration, in synchrony with the phases of the moon, from which it takes its celestial title.
Duration - 2h 13m.
Author - Hayley Ann Solomon.
Narrator - Gillian Bickley.
Published Date - Sunday, 15 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2017 Proverse Hong Kong ©.
Location:
United States
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Gillian Bickley
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Description:
In this collection of poetry, written over half a lifetime, Hayley Ann Solomon focuses primarily on the pursuit of excellence, immortality achieved through finite life, love in all its forms, and social justice. As it waxes and wanes, the collection cycles through sequences of lyrical ballads, sonnets, elegies, haiku, snippets of nonsensical verse; all blended with a substantial dose of existential philosophy and social comment. The collection covers a full spectrum, from the darkest psycho-social moments, to zeniths of absolute joy. The liberal use of consonance, assonance, alliteration, echoes and half-echoes, rhyme and cross-rhyme make for a style rich in sound-play. This, together with strong metrical awareness – very often iambic or trochaic pentameter and tetrameter – evokes a flow that is quite typically euphonic. There is therefore a sense of lyricism despite a broad diversity of topics and moods. The anthology evolves to become a promise of regeneration, in synchrony with the phases of the moon, from which it takes its celestial title. Duration - 2h 13m. Author - Hayley Ann Solomon. Narrator - Gillian Bickley. Published Date - Sunday, 15 January 2023. Copyright - © 2017 Proverse Hong Kong ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:15
About Celestial Promise
Duration:00:01:58
Title: Celestial Promise
Duration:00:00:10
Introduction
Duration:00:01:50
Contents
Duration:00:03:43
PHASE 1: WAXING: Philosophy and Inspiration
Duration:00:00:07
Freedom won
Duration:00:01:08
Do not sip from the cauldron of common m4a
Duration:00:01:02
I'm bound by the weave
Duration:00:02:04
Once grown, now gone and green no more
Duration:00:01:35
I am not alone
Duration:00:03:37
Intimations of him
Duration:00:01:17
If I could capture a glimmer of happiness
Duration:00:01:29
It was always a gift
Duration:00:02:04
Bands of the spirit
Duration:00:00:51
Tangle, tangle your fingers in mine
Duration:00:02:28
The blink
Duration:00:01:11
Chess
Duration:00:03:46
Sonnet
Duration:00:01:52
If I could clutch a far off dream
Duration:00:01:10
PHASE 2: Full Moon
Duration:00:00:15
For this one night
Duration:00:01:17
Said the thorn to the scented rose
Duration:00:01:49
A thousand snowdrops and a rose
Duration:00:01:50
To jump on a bunk
Duration:00:01:30
Quirky cooking
Duration:00:01:56
Up on the farm at Marybank Road
Duration:00:03:26
On challenging a speed fine
Duration:00:01:27
Upon receipt of three sons
Duration:00:01:48
A beauty I could never be
Duration:00:01:03
Divine comedy
Duration:00:00:53
Mr mathematical
Duration:00:01:31
Financial wizardry
Duration:00:01:55
The reading quest
Duration:00:03:15
A nymph to the goddess
Duration:00:01:37
A pot for my pit
Duration:00:04:21
I will live with thee and be thy love
Duration:00:01:14
My son, if you please, drops his esses, drops his gs
Duration:00:01:25
Bliss bedazed
Duration:00:02:53
PHASE 3: Waning
Duration:00:00:10
The mirror
Duration:00:02:37
Quartet of haiku
Duration:00:00:46
Give me the time of day
Duration:00:01:32
Like a jute sack
Duration:00:00:47
In opal fields
Duration:00:01:14
This vast valley of sound
Duration:00:01:45
Paradise
Duration:00:02:10
I'd rather bear a fractured heart
Duration:00:01:44
Cogito ergo sum
Duration:00:01:20
Freedom lost
Duration:00:01:20
You who are my friends
Duration:00:01:24
Not for me the niceties
Duration:00:01:32
My whispered wish
Duration:00:01:21
My air will be your aria
Duration:00:02:16
Dell of dreams
Duration:00:01:24
Dare
Duration:00:02:03
To die for
Duration:00:01:20
PHASE 4: New Moon Darkness
Duration:00:00:14
I'll watch how wild the poppies grow
Duration:00:02:03
Annette
Duration:00:01:03
Give not, grant not
Duration:00:00:52
In memoriam September 11
Duration:00:01:33
When shall we five meet again
Duration:00:01:56
Elizabethan sonnet 1 compare me not
Duration:00:01:02
Elizabethan sonnet 2 my master's teeth are nothing
Duration:00:00:59
Mantra of the living dead
Duration:00:03:17
Greek mythology cycle ballad of strimadees
Duration:00:03:10
Betrayal of Persephone
Duration:00:03:28
The sirens to the mariners
Duration:00:01:26
Circe to the sirens need regeneration
Duration:00:03:28
Fear a palindrome
Duration:00:00:53
Joy a palindrome
Duration:00:00:41
I am the moon
Duration:00:02:40
Advance comment by Randal A Burd
Duration:00:02:28
Advance comment by Viki Holmes
Duration:00:02:26
About the author
Duration:00:03:38
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:29