Uprooted Poems

This past summer, in Taos, New Mexico, I spent six weeks nestled inside adobe walls. The walls of the home were thick red mud, caked by man and baked by sun. The garden and patio also wore a tall, plush robe of the same red clay.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.                                      ― Tom Robbins Beauty begins the moment you decide to…

How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to…

Years ago, I learn from my web designer son, an important marketing strategy regarding book titles and product names. It’s…

It is a really hectic time for me—packing up to move from Texas to Oregon. This time for good. Just…

I’m sitting on pins and needles, waiting to hear what people have to say about my first poetry collection Whistler…

Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but…

"Whistler of Petty Crimes
invites readers to revisit the collection repeatedly,
discovering new layers of wit, wisdom and insight with each reading."

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— Eileen ike West (@ikewest.com) September 27, 2026 at 4:39 PM

All marketing wizards in the queendom of Authorland want me to spell out my mission. I suppose in common vernacular…

Here’s yet ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL REVIEW for Whistler of Petty Crimes
This one by Rae Longest – Originally posted on the website blog page of LITERACY & ME, June11, 2023…I thoroughly enjoyed this little volume, and indeed, it gave me a lot to think about and meditate upon.

My birth was rocky back in 1949. For me, life began with a weak pulse. Premature almost a full month,…

Whistler of Petty Crimes: Poems
Invites readers to revisit the collection repeatedly,
Discovering new layers of wit, wisdom
And insight with each reading.

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— Eileen ike West (@ikewest.com) October 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM

The following six song titles make for easily banked together quasi-Haiku. Please, lyrical reader, merely look down the list of titles, and you’ll see it is so. (Ah, poetry. It shows up everywhere.)

Sure, I love my book cover at first sight. Wow! The colors! A full rainbow of them. And, how about…

Book Reviewer Angel says:

“Whistler of Petty Crimes is more than poetry…it’s a reflective journey that is easy to follow and love.

I really enjoy when a poetry collection intertwines the way this one, Whistler of Petty Crimes, does and gives a full picture. I especially love the format of having a series of poems, within the collection, each with its own special insight.