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Attention Autistic Writers/Poets! Call for Submissions (Journeys With Autism)

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:59:14 +0000

Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg, author of the Journeys With Autism blog, is welcoming submissions for an upcoming anthology of poetry and prose by people on the autism spectrum aged 35 and over. She says below:

I welcome all pieces of writing about your feelings about being autistic, your experiences, your sense of yourself, your view of the world, your work history, your relationship with your family, or any other area of interest to you. You can write about your life pre- or post-diagnosis, you can share your experiences as a child or as an adult, and you can take a personal and/or a political point of view. The possibilities are as varied as your feelings, perceptions, and life experiences.

I welcome submissions from those who are self-diagnosed as well as from those with an “official” diagnosis.

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011. Pieces must be emailed to rachel AT journeyswithautism DOT com. For further information and submission guidelines, please visit her call for submissions page.

-Nicole

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Empty

ravenswingpoetry — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:39:13 +0000

Empty page
Empty space
Empty mind
Empty heart
This is writer’s block
And I am
Empty
Of words.

Written 4/10/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

To A Girl

ravenswingpoetry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:33:30 +0000

This was written about the girlfriend of an acquaintance. We’d barely met, but his story of her was so spectacular that it was hard not to notice and not to feel anything at all. After this, I began to think – and realize – that her personal struggle is not unlike my own. So for her, I wrote “To A Girl”. Enjoy.

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You say you want to make memories,
Holding photographs inside your head – for you,
Sweet and black tinged, pink and mood indigo.

The grand is never the grandest for you;
I know, for I feel the same way too –
Bitter and blue tinged, violet and mood indigo.

Your head is a whole new universe -
Inside, a kaleidoscope of multicolored hue
With moments plastered on mental walls of indigo.

You live inside, you love inside, and you die inside,
Chased by chimera and nightmares on hooves.
Listen to the signposts, venture beyond indigo.

Now step outside and regard the rose so real;
Smell its fragrance, feel the thorns, sharp and true…
And take another step. Into life you must go.

Written 2/26/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

J.M.S.

ravenswingpoetry — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:26:45 +0000

I followed your maps
I followed the legends
I walked your rivers,
connected your words,
and see your face.
Patti passed you your torch.
Now you pass me mine.

Outrunning the Dragon

ravenswingpoetry — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:50:21 +0000

Sprint!
I leave the gate, running feverishly
To outrun the fire-breathing dragon

Smoke on my neck
Fire on my heels
I dash across these pages,
Running like a mad woman,

Lest the dragon-critic
GULP
Then belch forth Hell, the Inferno,
In her breath

And destroy my art
Before it leaves my pen.

Written 2/26/2008