Bare Spirit

Published: 24 July 2024
ISBN: 9780645404166
Imprint: Story Playscapes
Pages: 130
Categories: Poetry: Australian & Oceanian
Body, Mind & Spirit /Inspiration & Personal Growth
Body, Mind & Spirit / Mindfulness & Meditation
Trim Size: 229 x 152 mm (9 x 6 in)

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“Susan Marshall is a brilliant metaphysical poet, who allows us to transcend life’s moments with love. Bare Spirit is a Romantic, visual splendour of life’s sensual and raw impressions on the spirit.”

– Hendrick Jorgensen, Independent Reviewer.

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The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

Susan L. Marshall

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“Bare and glistening blooms do reach,
longing to connect with my being.
Setting my feminine spirit alight
in a tightly wound body of darkness.”

History-making author and theatre practitioner, Susan Marshall,
sets our spirits alight
in this sensual and exclusive poetry collection for adults.

Award-winning Susan Marshall is the founder of Theatre Playscapes, her monumental theatrical style released across the globe in 2023. In this exclusive collection of 30 poems for adults: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall, she further reveals how her attunement to the energetic motions of her lifeworlds, enables her to set the spirit alight. Susan’s sensual verse draws upon breathtaking imagery to distil and transcend single moments, which arise the ‘bare spirit’ from within. This semi-autobiographical publication takes its name from Susan’s original poem, included in this publication, titled: Bare Spirit.

Since 2020, Susan Marshall has touched many readers with her exquisite poetic études through her My Story Meadow project at Story Playscapes. This collection, arranged by the author, shares Susan’s highly popular, original poem: Seeking Sanctuary, which she adapted for Adira, the private detective in her gripping, literary mystery novel: Adira and the Dark Horse. Also included are Susan’s other very popular poems: Awakening North, Sky Bound, Dusk Heart, Spring’s Touch and Trekking an Age of Light, along with the feature poem: Evergold Dream. Susan also shares stunning, unreleased poems from her personal poetry collection, including: Shedding at Shore, Raw Flute, Bare Nocturne, Spirit Tree, Road Block, Whispering Wind, Bare Desire, Warrior Spirit and Flying Free.

Whether growing and discovering the self; meditating and visualising; experiencing spiritual awakening or transformation; connecting; expressing deep desires; relishing romantic moments; coping with loss or grief; clearing negative energies; healing or seeking peace, Susan’s mindful poetry kindles the soul, touches the heart and affirms life itself.

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Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems
of Susan Marshall

Author: Susan L. Marshall
Publisher: Story Playscapes
Era: First Era
ISBN: 9780645404166
When referencing all quotes from Bare Spirit please cite:
Marshall, Susan L. (2024): Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall. Story Playscapes, Melbourne, Australia

Provenance & Technical Ledger: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
The definitive poetic collection marking the author’s return to the literary landscape following a period of maternal hibernation. This volume successfully trialled time, space, persona, and world mapping through a matrix of personal meditations and visualisations, seamlessly weaving elements of Romanticism and Heightened Energy (Fragmentique).

“Let my heart’s warmth
glow an amber-rose,
soothing
and soaring
my spirit.”

(Bare Spirit)

“Bare spirit facing shore,
frothy and icy white.
Soul sinking in sand’s sighs,
light subdued by sea water.”

(Shedding at Shore)

“I feel you now,
your spirit is present.
Your raw flute aches
deep within my soul”

(Raw Flute)

“I ate the very last food scraps,
starving for the light up above.
That was when I saw you new buds,
your stems reaching into the dark.”

(Seeking Sanctuary)

“Midnight eyes, she has,
blending with the dark.
Camouflaging her spirit
amongst jet ink night.”

(Spirit Tree)

“Bare nocturne gleams,
a canopy of star light above.
A pent up constellation
of our restrained love.
Buried spirits we’ve become,
forbidden by our families
to surrender to our desires.”

(Bare Nocturne)

“Your hand in mine,
an age of bliss
and miles
of wander across
lands we dare.”

(Lost in Your Wonder)

“My feet stand in grass
mowed and wet,
drops of water shine.
It has rained,
so have my eyes.”

(Sky Bound)

“For what is a life that isn’t shared,
no matter its fortune or hardships?
Whatever worn bric-a-brac remains
is a trail to follow into a human heart.”

(Heart’s Walk)

Walking dawn my steps are heavy,
the pebbles skirting into my heart.
Stones that are my weight of grief,
remnant dust of life once lived.

(Pebbled Grief)

“Your manicured lawn did dissipate,
revealing a garden dug with holes.
Secrets germinated deep within,
blossoming into botanical madness.

“A mix of grass stalks and fallen leaves,
swept single letters across the ground.
Digging and planting them into the dirt,
you helped me bring earth to my words.”

(Awakening North)

“Your light appears,
a throbbing glow
that stirs my soul.
Your deep, intense eyes
gaze straight into mine,
ablazing my light
with a fiery flame.”

(Bare Desire)

“Extinguishing flame in ice cold,
I watch stinging scars form.
Standing solo under sheer white,
my ragged breath is iced.
I am as frozen as the death
that plagues my waking.
I am all who remains of my tribe.”

(Warrior Spirit)

“I could follow dusk always,
brushing it with stripes and dots
of simple beginnings
for us to share in time.”

(Dusk Heart)

“Like clay was the sand in my fingers,
moulding into hooded, echoing figures.
Past clay voices mixed with sea water,
gurgling words of anger and blame.

I now smear sand clay upon my dress,
white linen heavy with new marks.
I carry the harsh voices as I spin around
and open my arms to the lighthouse.”

(New Clay Linen)

“Years have passed since my life met,
the weather at sail beneath its soul.
Like nature I tread the ever changing,
my heart and mind open to all I face.”

(A Writer’s Company)

“Whispering wind,
a quiet breath
exhaled across years
of tiny, fragments of light.
Glowing in the breeze,
like silent fireworks,
accentuating my wanders
through life’s debris.”

(Whispering Wind)