The Morning I Married The Sky: Poems Inspired by Rumi, Billy Collins and more

By Chris Dingman

Poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Rumi, and Bob Dylan write poetry that is both literary and accessible. So does Chris Dingman.

As reviewers have attested, Dingman's poems are also "soulful and wistful and whimsical at the same time," with "more than a bit of cheeky humor thrown in." These are poems that "really see the world," but will also "give you ideas you didn't have before."

Funny and tender. Surprising and resonant. The wondrous in the everyday. "A sparrow's feet on palm fronds."

Selections from The Morning I Married the Sky:

go niners or something
if I had a football team
their colors would be
oak-leaf green against
the gold of dry summer
California grass
about an hour
before sunset and
practice would be
canceled constantly

you don't build up
you don't build up
good works and drag
them in a bag
up to heaven and then
unpack them
before the almighty
for his approval

god is whistling, will
you sing along?

To read Dingman's poems is to cancel practice, to sing along with god, to marry the sky.

For more from and about Chris Dingman, who now writes under the pen name Chris Spark, visit www.Sparkwrites.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492852597
• ISBN13: 9781492852599
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"