Hotel Porta Rivera in L’Aquila

Hotel Porta Rivera is a cheap 2 star hotel in L’Aquila, located in P.le della Stazione, 27

Porta Rivera Hostel is conveniently located for L’Aquila city centre, within a stone’s throw of Stazione Ferroviaria and to 200 metres of ‘La Fontana delle 99 Cannelle’ (1272 d.c.).
The hotel is indeed an ideal choice for all (both business, leisure travellers, students ecc.), offering an ideal location from which to explore the main city, reach in culture and tradition and its enchanting surroundings.
Porta Rivera Hostel offers well appointed accommodation, atmosphere coupled with quiet and attentive service.
The ‘Porta Rivera Hostel’ features 25 rooms (single, double, triple and quadruple rooms), comfortable and modernly appointed.
Accommodation amenities include private bathroom, hairdryer, satellite TV, Pay TV, direct dial telephone and writing desk.

The breakfast buffet is served from 7.00 a.m. until 9.30 a.m. in the breakfast room.
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Two rooms have been specially equipped to welcome disabled guests.

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Do You Know What A Plot Is?

Creative Writing Tips -

What a plot is and what a story is can be sometimes confusing. If you think they are the same… They are not. A plot is the outline of your story. The story is everything included.

I will illustrate the difference by asking you to visualize two pictures…

1. Visualize a skeleton.

Then

2. Visualize a body.

The skeleton is your plot. It’s the outline of your story. It won’t be visible when we flesh it out but it will still be there, holding your story together.

The body is your story. It’s everything, which our story will contain, including the plot. The story is the plot fleshed out.

What does it mean to ‘flesh it out?’

Let me show you.

I’ll take a brief plot…

A man meets a woman and they fall in love. They encounter great difficulties because their family are against the relationship.

This is the outline of the story.

Now we are going to flesh it out and make it into a story. Fleshing it out means adding things to make this basic plot into a story. To do this we will add the rest of the ingredients such as…

• Setting – Where will our story take place
• Dialogue – What will be said and by whom
• Characters – How many characters will our story contain? Who are they? What is their role?
• Problems – What and how many problems will the couple encounter
• Goal – What is the couple’s goal?
• Conflict – What is the conflict?
• Climax – How is the conflict going to come to its peak?
• Ending – Will their love win in the end?
• And anything else I’ll need in my story

Once we have written up all these ingredients, this will be our plot fleshed out into a story.

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Professional Writers Dance Between Passionate and Impersonal

People that love to write often feel being paid for publication is the benchmark of a “real” writer. So they read all the books on writing and dutifully send off queries, filled with hope and fear that one will be accepted: hope they’ll get the chance to be a real writer, fear they won’t live up to the challenge. Sadly, for some, their fears will turn out to be well founded. The emotional highs and lows of writing for pay will be more painful then they can bear. Shocked, wounded, these natural writers will put their dreams behind them in the mistaken belief that they’re not good enough to write for publication.

Why does this happen? Because books on writing often fail to tell the aspiring writer the one thing they most need to know: the marketplace demands more than talent. It demands that the writer be skilled at dancing between the emotional states of passion and detachment. It seems like a conundrum, and it is, so let’s unravel this riddle.

The writer filled with fervor for the process of writing produces the best product. And in the marketplace, that’s just what your article, poem, short story or novel isa product. Products, whether they are romance novels or car wax, are pretty much processed, pimped and put on the shelves the same way. All sorts of people, from editors to advertising sales managers, have their hand in the marketing process. They have the power to tweak, alter and otherwise transfigure the product. As a writer, it takes emotional detachment to watch, even help as your beloved work is worked on.

The ability to call forth and control your emotional states is a primary survival skill if you hope to write for print. Can it be learned? Yes. In his book “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ,” Daniel Goleman says the ability to master emotions often makes the difference between success and failure in people of equivalent intellectual abilities. He suggests these steps for increasing self-control:

(1) Pay attention to your emotional states. Don’t just let excitement or fear run riot over you. Use your writer’s “inner eye” to observe and record your own emotional states. Simply being aware of your emotions is the first step to controlling them.

(2) Get it off your chest. Rejection hurts. Seeing your carefully considered words edited for publication is painful. If your feelings have been hurt, by all means vent, but do it in a journal and not, under any circumstance, in a nasty email to an editor or a hastily posted blog. Nothing is learned from burning bridges, and you could seriously injure your chances of ever being published. Editors and publishers read the net, too, you know.

(3) Consider the other person’s point of view. Editors and publishers have to deal with issues you know nothing about. Before you take personal offence, stop to consider their side. If an editor doesn’t quickly answer your query, stop and imagine the view from their desk. If you got 1000 letters a week AND had to handle the work of 2 because of staff cuts, might you put mail on the back burner?

(4) Try not to take it personally. This can be especially difficult for writers, because our work is so very personal. But when your feelings are hurt, it’s important to take a step back and realize that in business, decisions may need to been made that have nothing to do with YOU, personally.

(5) Stay well-mannered and self-motivated. Being polite and persevering even when your feelings have been hurt is a definite sign of emotional maturity. The ability to keep your cool and keep moving ahead will take you places talent alone can only dream of.

Like any skill, learning to waltz between passion and dispassion takes practice and persistence. Some writers tap a tentative foot, then withdraw to be wallflowers the first time someone steps on their toes. But you can survive and even thrive by joining the dance with passion and purpose, accepting the thrills as well as the spills as you learn to step with the tune.

About The Author

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Dabble in Poetry? Your Chance to Let Your Virtual Ink Flow!

Fellow Poets

Holistic Junction is excited to cordially invite you to our Poetry Challenge Forum! Each week, we will offer a new literary venture in which you may participate!

Our Current Poetry Challenge will begin on Sunday, June 20th, 2004.
Winners will be announced the following Saturday, June 26th, 2004.

All poetry challenges are sponsored each week beginning on Sunday, with entries being judged and announced the following Saturday.

A Weekly “Blue Ribbon” Winner will be critiqued and chosen from all Poetry Challenge Entries. Winners will have the honor of being displayed for the ensuing week on our “Weekly Winner’s Page.

Additionally, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place winners will receive HolisticJunction.com’s premiere “Certificates of Honor; which you may download and print for personal and public display.

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To ENTER this weeks’ Poetry Challenge, please submit your poetry through normal submission protocol. *In addition to your own, unique title, please label your submissions with the word “Challenge,” so as to be included in the weekly judging.

*The Poetry Challenge THEME for Week Beginning June 20th is:

*** A SOLDIER’S HEART ***

Please have your entries submitted by 06:00pm EST on June 25th, 2004.

*Entries do NOT have to be titled with the theme, however they must relate to it in some form or fashion.

I look forward to reviewing your Poetry Challenge submissions, as I am positive they will all be fantastic! Be sure to subscribe to the Poetry Challenge Forum Thread so you will be automatically notified of new, weekly challenges!

Good Luck!

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We would like to extend our THANKS to every poet who entered our poetry challenge. Judging was very difficult as we had several, competitive entries that were very well written!

We wish to Congratulate our A FATHER’S LOVE Challenge WINNERS!

Our BLUE RIBBON WINNER was:
Greg Doyle’s “The Dad He Never Had”
To View “The Dad He Never Had,” click here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1744

Our RED RIBBON WINNER was:
Andrew Byrne’s “A Father’s Love”
To View “A Father’s Love,” Click here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1757

Our GREEN RIBBON WINNER was:
June Summer’s “Dad”
To View “Dad,” Click here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1747

Again, thanks to ALL of our Challenge Participants! You did a GREAT job!

Honorable Mention listing of ALL of our other fine entrants!

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Cecil Hickman’s “A Father’s Love”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1759

Carol Keeler’s “A Father’s Love”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1753

Just Marie’s “Looking Up”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1756
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ENTRANTS – PARTICIPANTS

Burton Danet’s”Journey to Say, Good-Bye”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1742

Faith Mairee’s “Daddy”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1743

Faith Mairee’s “He Read to Me”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1631

Carol Dee Meeks’ “My Dad on Earth”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1762

C Bailey-Lloyd/Lady Camelot’s “Have You Seen the Hero?”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1638

C Bailey-Lloyd/Lady Camelot’s “In the By and By”
View it here: http://www.holisticjunction.com/displaypoem.cfm?ID=1058

Come and be aspired to greater heights!

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About the Author

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Paying Attention to Exchange Rates

Currency trading is fast establishing itself as one of the most prominent sectors in today’s inter-connected planet. With each country trading, foreign currency currently has a value on the world stage and there are now even quite a lot of souls who make it their profession to purchase foreign currency. Foreign Currency Direct can help you with all your foreign currency exchange needs.

Have you heard of foreign currency trading? Just like stocks trading, it is the purchasing & selling of currency positions and individuals can make a significant profit for the reason that different currencies each have distinct positions in the international marketplace. Quite obviously, should you be using US dollars, then you will probably not feel the difference, nevertheless, this particular business functions at its best if you are engaged in exchanging, say, the Croatia Kuna for Iceland Kronur.

Currency exchange furthermore has a lot to do with trading of goods and services. Firms that export their wears over-seas, are always paid foreign currency, which, understandably, they will not be permitted to use in their own country, and as a result they get their currency exchanged. Aside from this, the prices on the world-wide market are usually determined because of currency trading, thus individuals and companies can suffer a loss if their country’s currency currently has a weak position when held up to the stronger currencies, such as the US dollar and the Pound

Currency trading is becoming important when preparing for holidays. Patently, should you travel to Europe, then maybe you obviously need to have some currency changed to Euros consequently you will purchase even more goods. Of course, the American dollar is accepted anywhere in the world, nontheless, there are a significant number of places where they very much need the precise amount in payment for services. Buying goods with American dollars when you are overseas will probably only cause inconvenience to other people because they also, will very much need to get the money changed. This is establishing itself as the rational, why most airports already have within them currency exchange services so you won’t find it a requirement to scour all around the land looking for shops or entrepreneurs whom purchase overseas currency. It doesn’t need stating that there are also on-line websites, that purchase foreign currency, therefore, consequently you have the opportunity to get your currency changed on the net and withdraw any of the currency in local currency whenever and wherever you are currently located on the globe.

Preselling. Your Pathway to Success

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MYCPS!… The ONLY Book Of Its Kind

“Make Your Content PREsell!” (“MYCPS!”) is the ONLY book of its kind. There are, of course, hundreds of books that teach you how to write, the classic being…

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“The Elements of Style”
by William Strunk Jr
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Only two problems with these “general writing” books…

1) They are so dry as to be almost unreadable. Medical textbooks are easier to read!

2) They have almost nothing to do with the REAL world.

—–SIDEBAR—–
There is a certain irony about these books.
After all, if there were truly written well, they’d COMMUNICATE far more effectively.

After all, THAT is the point of writing. How well does MYCPS! communicate? Take a look…

http://mycps.sitesell.com/forum-beta.html

—–SIDEBAR—–
Besides all the books on “general writing,” there must be thousands MORE on how to write “sales copy.” (Our own MYWS! continues to be a favorite!) And that’s great, if you have something to sell. Even then, the power of C-T-P-M has established that SELLING comes after PREselling…

Discover how to Create a Web site that Sells.

Yes indeed… thousands of books about all kinds of writing.

But MYCPS! is the ONLY book of its kind. It shows you, step by step, clearly…

1) how to write to COMMUNICATE

2) how to develop your own “voice” with flair and substance

3) how to spin your site/biz/SELF into a unique position

4) how to HONESTLY convince people to trust and like you.

No other book in the world shows you how to do this. So…

Why is THAT so important? Glad you asked…
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Without The Right Skills, You’re Doomed

The Web is a communication medium. Let’s be more precise…

The Web is a TEXT communication medium.

For the next 10 years (at least), text will remain THE way to communicate. During that time, you will make or break your business success, your very life possibly.

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Yes, The Web *is* a TEXT communication
medium. “Text rules,” and it will rule for AT LEAST 10 more years. Sure, high-speed access has finally reached the 50% mark. But, as I predicted years ago, it’s taken much longer
than anyone else was projecting. Now…

It will accelerate. And as the developed world becomes more and more of a 24 x 7 high-speed world, visual technologies will become more important (an interesting
challenge for today’s Search Engines).

But never, never, NEVER forget…

The Internet is *NOT* Microsoft or AOL or CNN. It’s not the Fortune 500, at all.

So WHAT IS the “real Internet”?

It’s the millions of small business people, the countless “islands of expertise.”

It’s YOU.

Together, the tens of millions of small
business people provide the Web with the diversity that makes it such a beautiful, rich experience.

Sure, CNN will be full-video in 5 years. But I can ALREADY watch TV!

Sure, the “BIGCOs” of the world are moving their current business online, and will become progressively more visually oriented.

But that reduces the Net to a more efficient catalog or a faster way to do business.

Small business people will remain the
backbone, the real reason for the Net to even exist. And THAT Internet will STAY text-based for at least 10 years, likely much longer.
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Phew, glad I got THAT off my chest. Now, where was I? Oh yes, the Web is a TEXT communication medium. However…

Somewhere along the way, we have become obsessed with everything except how to write that TEXT. I can’t overemphasize its supreme importance.

ANYONE who
communicates on the Net, even if it’s only via e-mail, NEEDS this book. (It is “#1 must reading” for our support staff.)

In truth, it’s not ONLY for online marketers…

EVERONE needs this book. EVERYONE.

If you don’t insist that your children READ this book, you’re doing them a disservice. If you don’t tell YOUR audience the same thing, you’re doing THEM a disservice.

Ditto for the children of your audience!

As I said above, MYCPS! shows you, step by step, clearly…

1) how to write to COMMUNICATE

2) how to develop your own “voice” with flair and substance

3) how to spin your site/biz/self into a unique position

4) how to honestly convince people to trust and like you.

No other book in the world shows you how to do this.

We live in a world where communication is the #1 skill set of value.
Without that skill, you’re doomed.

THAT is why this book is so important. And THAT is why I call this book…
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“One Heck Of A Paddle”

That state of writing in the english world is absolutely abysmal. And there is no reason for it. If anything is holding small business back on the Internet, it’s writing.

Most small businesses can’t afford to hire a writer.

And most small business people can’t write.

So where does that leave them on the Web, where the written word is king?

It leaves them up a certain creek, without a paddle.

Well, MYCPS! is one heck of a paddle.

When we think of “writing,” we think of Hemingway. But…

Hemingway had a gift.

Writing to PREsell is not a gift.

Writing to PREsell does not REQUIRE a gift.

Writing to PREsell is a skill you can ACQUIRE.

MYCPS! helps you acquire that skill.

It helps EVERYONE acquire that skill.

And I do mean EVERYONE.
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Which brings me to where this book belongs…

In EVERYONE’S hands. That’s why…
Check it out here:
Discover how to Create a Web site that Sells.

Regards Chris Ryan.
The Six Simple Steps to Online Success

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aussie male and web master of The Six Simple Steps to Online Success.
Residence: The wonderful Perth.
Western Australia.

Broken Wings [part 1]

The shout of my mother is all I’m hearing. My stupid ears doesn’t want to seize hearing those painful words from where I came from.

I hate my skin for it let me feel the pain and the madness of stopping myself from saying what’s inside of me, the feeling of sadness and anger to myself.

I can feel my adrenaline rush when she calls me idiot or stupid and it ends up in punching the wall in my room, having it wounded and weak. But, I’m weaker than my hands indeed for I can’t help myself.

I was slapped again and nearly punched by my mother’s hand. The feeling was so intense.. it made me cry AGAIN. I can still feel the pain in my right cheek and the pain in my chest… inside my chest.

But through all these pain, I love my mother very much but, I don’t want her to know. Really don’t want her to know.

I’m waiting for a day she’ll came up to me and say she loves me. But indeed, it’s nothing but a dream.

I already said what I feel about us but nothing happened.. I was slapped again.

I cry ‘coz I need to feel her loving arms instead of those heavy hands with blood from my heart.

Won’t she listen to my heart?

Me: an animal. My own mother said this a thousand times. Am I really an animal?

Do we need to be like this? Do I need to take the pain and give a smile? Do I need to feel those painful words? Is this my life?

These wounds may heal but the scars will not disappear. I need God for I am broken.

About the Author: I’m broken.

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There is no limit to the food items snakes eat

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There is no limit to the food items that you can even think of a snake might eat. Different species have different preys that they prefer to have. There are common preys that most of them like to have. According to season they might change their prey. Whatever is available in abundance would become the prey for the snakes. Depending on their growth their diet also varies. A simple search on the Internet for the phrase what do snakes eat would reveal a lot of interesting things to you. Some of the snakes prefer to have a particular prey alone. Even if there is irregular supply of prey in a particular place they could survive that condition since they are cold blooded.Some of the snakes like the tentacles snake eat aquatic plants apart from eating fish. Do not think that a snake might catch any prey that passes it. They would evaluate the prey they are planning to catch. If the prey is too small for it to be the meal then it might not even consider hunting. Some of the prey might be bigger for them to swallow. So they might even pass it without attacking it. Rodents serve as the important prey for most of the snakes. Note that it is a mammal. Snakes use their venom and constriction to kill the mammals and this method is well suited to kill the mammals before they eat. That could be one of the reasons for them to eat mammals mostly.The other food that they prefer to have is other snakes. It is easy to swallow other snakes since they easily fit their long body. For example the King Snake will eat snakes like rattlesnake by constricting them before eating. They also have other prey other than snakes. It is a wonder that some of the snakes that eat other snakes are harmless. One of the other snakes that also prey on snakes is the King Cobra.

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Freelance Writing Markets, Poetry Markets – Highly Paid -v-

Amazing as it may sound, there is a real shortage of good writers and poets. Try telling that to the thousands of writers and poets who get daily rejection slips.

As far as they are concerned, writing is virtually impossible to break into no matter how hard they seem to try.

There may be a number of reasons why they don’t succeed:

Their writing is not up to standard – as far as the particular publishers or editors are concerned;

They don’t bother polishing their writing before submission;

They knock on the wrong doors – sending materials on a random basis;

They have failed to do basic research;

The list goes on.

1000s of publishers

There are of course thousands of publishers, especially online, who are willing to publish anything that you send them. Such publishers don’t pay writers or poets. They expect that writers and poets should be grateful just to get published. That is reward enough.

Professional writers on the other hand command handsome fees. They make a good living out of writing.

Anyone can become a professional writer. You just need the determination to succeed. If you don’t have a natural gift, you can learn to write well. This can be by self-study, online, or at a college or school near you.

High quality professional writers demand anything from $1000 to $5000 per project – and the best earn substantially more. A project may involve just one page or a few poems.

Why do most aspiring writers and aspiring poets fail?

In a recent survey conducted on behalf of http://www.WritingHolidays.com, it became apparent that most writers and poets were not willing to invest time or effort in training or acquiring the necessary skills.

The survey revealed that most writers and poets were happy to plod along by trial and error rather than investing in a decent course. They accordingly fail to reap the rewards that are there for the taking.

They remain amateur writers and poets whilst their professional colleagues cream off the best paid writing markets.

The survey compared writers and poets to other professions. Lawyers, Accountants, Doctors, etc., are all highly paid. They all undergo training before the rewards are forthcoming. Yet, most writers and poets believe that the riches will come to them without spending $1 on training or developing skills.

One per cent. of writers or poets may get lucky. They may have been “born writers or poets” – they succeed without any training. The rest slog away – hoping that one day they may make some money from writing.

The good news

The good news is that there are 1000s of paid writing markets that are waiting to be exploited. There are more assignments than writers or poets.

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Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” A Discussi

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” was written by America’s first female poet, the Puritan, Anne Bradstreet. In fact, Anne Bradstreet is one of only a handful of female American poets during the first 200 years of America’s history. After Bradstreet, one can list only Phillis Wheatley, the 18th century black female poet, Emma Lazarus, the 19th century poet whose famous words appear on the Statue of Liberty, and the 19th century Emily Dickinson, America’s most famous female poet.

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” has several standard poetic features. One is the two line rhyme scheme. Another is the anaphora, the repetition of a phrase, in the first three lines. And a third is the popular iambic pentameter.

Iambic pentameter is characterized by an unrhymed line with five feet or accents. Each foot contains an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable, as in “da Dah, da Dah, da Dah, da Dah, da Dah.”

The subject of Anne Bradstreet’s love poem is her professed love for her husband. She praises him and asks the heavens to reward him for his love. The poem is a touching display of love and affection and extraordinarily uncommon for the Puritan era of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in which Anne Bradstreet lived.

Puritan women were expected to be reserved, domestic, and subservient to their husbands. They were not expected or allowed to exhibit their wit, charm, intelligence, or passion. John Winthrop, the Massachusetts governor, once remarked that women who exercised wit or intelligence were apt to go insane.

Anne Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in 1612 in England. She married Simon Bradstreet when she was 16 and they both sailed with her family to America in 1630. The difficult, cold voyage to America took 3 months to complete. John Winthrop was also a passenger on the trip. The voyage landed in Boston and the passengers joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The men in Anne Bradstreet’s family were managers and politicians. Both her father and her husband became Massachusetts governors. Her husband, Simon, often traveled for weeks throughout the colony as its administrator.

Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” was a response to her husband’s absence.

Very little is known about Anne Bradstreet’s life in Massachusetts. There are not portraits of her and she does not even have a grave marker. She and her family moved several times, each time further away from Boston into the frontier. Anne and Simon had 8 children during a 10 year period, and all the children survived healthy and safe, a remarkable accomplishment considering the health and safety hazards of the period.

Anne Bradstreet was highly intelligent and largely self-educated. She took herself seriously as an intellectual and a poet, reading widely in history, science, art, and literature. However, as a good Puritan woman, Bradstreet did not make her accomplishments public.

Bradstreet wrote poetry for herself, family, and friends, never meaning to publish them. Consider that her friend, Anne Hutchinson was intellectual, educated and led women’s prayer meetings where alternative religious beliefs were discussed. She was labeled a heretic and banished from the colony. Hutchinson eventually died in an Indian attack. Is it any wonder that Anne Bradstreet was hesitant to publish her poetry and call attention to herself?

Anne Bradstreet’s early poems were secretly taken by her brother-in-law to England and published in a small volume when she was 38. The volume sold well in England, but the poems were not nearly as accomplished as her later works.

Bradstreet’s later works were not published during her lifetime. Her poems about her love for her husband were private and personal, meant to be shared with her family and friends group only.

Though her health was frequently a concern, especially during childbirth, Anne Bradstreet lived until 60 years of age.

Enjoy “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” a remarkable accomplishment.

To My Dear and Loving Husband

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

About the author:

Garry Gamber is a public school teacher and entrepreneur. He writes articles about real estate, health and nutrition, and internet dating services. He is the owner of http://www.Anchorage-Homes.comand http://www.TheDatingAdvisor.com