Ravensong Poetry And Writing Blog by Donovan Baldwin

NAKED OUTSIDE OF EDEN
An original poem by Donovan Baldwin

She is a secret thing,
Of fantasy and dream,
Phantom figure in the
Back corners of my mind,
Swirling dancing woman,
Eyes bright with the heat
The music and the fire
The wonder and the wine,
Timeless dancer, her face
Smiling across the flames,
As she dances ancient rituals
The artlessly seductive way
Women have known since
First a man and woman
Desired each other
Naked outside of Eden.

Art: Seductive Woman by Paolo Gaidano

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By Donovan Baldwin

I write in pursuit of
Adventure beyond
The limits of myself.
Even if motionless,
Powerless, I can
With words, perform
The most powerful feats
Lifting myself to levels
Beyond the physical,
Moving the human soul.

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By Yvonne Reed

Swimming with
you
love
in the
fiery pool
of desire

Embracing your
hunger
with eager
excitement

Welcoming
each touch
each kiss
each sigh

Submerging in
ecstasy
we dive
Into
euphoric depths
of pleasure

Floating
in communion
of contentment
with you
love

Yreed
More writings by Yvonne Reed at twitter.com/Rojotortoise

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By Donovan Baldwin

If only I could speak
The words which reverberate
In secret recesses of my mind,
The poetic phrases
That my lips cannot form
The smooth sentences that
Hide behind this silent face,
Saying so much
Echoing so loudly
Over and over in my thoughts,
Yet, which must remain unheard
Only existing within this
Disordered brain which
Knows not how to speak,
And as insensitive ink upon
These pages of poetry.

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By Donovan Baldwin

The quality of your healthy aging strategy is part of the quality of your life.

From the day we are born, we begin to age.

In our younger years, we don’t think about the later years that are to come in our life. We all live in a very fast paced world today and it causes a lot of stress in our lives. As time goes on, this stress will increasingly affect us.

Everyone, whether young or old, needs to take care of their body and mind.

Taking care of ourselves day to day helps keep us thinking, moving and preventing major illnesses such as cancer and many other diseases and conditions. We all must work at keeping ourselves healthy and there is no better time than right now...no matter your present age.

However, the younger you start taking care of yourself, the better results you will attain over your lifetime. By starting early you are catching, and preventing, things before they have time to progress.

Right now, you can start of by eating healthy.

Keep an eye on that diet and make sure you are not overeating, but eat enough to get the vitamins and other nutrients you need for health.

Taking a good multivitamin is an excellent way to start adding necessary nutrients you don’t get in your food without eating more food.

Many believe that food today doesn’t always have the amount of vitamins like it used to, and that starts at the farmer’s level. Don’t blame the farmer for this because they are just doing their jobs the same way we all go to ours everyday.

The farmer has to add fertilizer, chemicals and even water to their crops to make them grow bigger, faster and for beauty too. Adding all these chemicals is believed to decrease the natural vitamins that you need which would normally be found in food. Even something as simple as water may have chemicals in it too. This, by the way, is one reason why your water needs to be tested at least once a year especially if you have well water.

Many, by the way, try to protect their health by arranging to provide clean water at home through the use of a water filter.

Once the food is grown and ready to be shipped, it is polished, coated to keep it nice and fresh looking during shipment, which is another step which may take away some of the vitamins as well while adding "unnatural" chemicals and compounds to the food we eat.

Try to eat as much organic or homegrown food as you can and avoid processed foods where possible. Fresh, homegrown food is the best, since you get natural vitamins without all the additives used in commercial farming and food processing systems.

A good multivitamin isn’t going to hurt anyone. It is known that people who take a multivitamin everyday is in better health than someone who doesn’t. Sometimes your doctor may want you to take extra vitamin, as we grow older because our bodies change and sometimes require more of something. In addition, as we grow older our eating habits change and we don’t eat as much or we want to lose weight and don’t eat the right foods. Nevertheless, remember you can lose weight and still eat right.

As we grow older our bodies and mind change. All the stress we had growing up and continue through out our lives. Relieve that stress as much as possible because it can do a lot of harm to us. Stress is known to be a major factor for poor heart conditions, strokes, and it will lower our immune system, as we grow older.

A regular exercise program is good for all ages and helps relieve stress at the early ages as well. If only families took time out maybe as a family with their children and made it a part of their lives that would help relieve it during the younger years.

A person who learns and enjoys exercising on a daily basis will keep during it, as they grow older as well.

Exercising will help the older person to keep those bones more flexible so they don’t get stiff and weak. The heart gets benefit from exercising too. Exercise will cause the heart to produce naturally, by working it harder to keep it highly flavored. Exercising helps to keep our bodies toned up and helps us to lose weight, or at most keeping the weight maintained.

Remember starting early can help later in years to make your life healthier and more contented.

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Original Poem By Donovan Baldwin

Each time she looks at me
I hear wild distant music
Something from another
Ancient place and time
When fire and passion
And a mystic dance at
The edge of darkness
Resolved itself into an
Intimacy in the shadows
Beyond the reaches of the light.

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