Pardon, Master, I will be correspondent to command And do my spiriting gently ~ Homer’s Ariel, in The Tempest”
A Pacific Northwest poet
A scriber of haunting confessional poetry, whimsies, political irony and a recorder of nature.
I am currently doing 2024’s poetry challenges of NaPoWriMo (Poetry Writing Month) and April’s Poem A Day (Writer Digest’s). I post these poem drafts to my blog.
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Released
Aug 28, 2019 Terra Incognita: Oregon Poets Write for Ecological, Social, Political, and Economic Justice
Poetry Memes
A collection of memes I created for Twitter’s #1linewed games. These are also available on my RedBubble products (search “ArielPacNWpoet”) and ShopVida
Poetry Collections
- Evolution of Ariel – poems about life. Poems added.
- Bits of Cyn – poems of erotica (Must be 18 or over)
- Chasing Tiger – poems about love and lust. Poems added.
- Haiku/Tanka – poems of haiku. senryu, tanka, etc. Poems added.
- Lady Pixy – poems of fantasy
- Living Under 45 – poems of Trump’s America Poems added.
- Pacific Northwest – poems inspired by Pac NW. Poems added.
- The Waiting Room – poems of Mourning Poems added.
My non-poetry can be found at Ariel writes …
Blog
Ariel, CC Willow & other Aliases
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Poetry Prompts
Archive of daily poetry prompts. Also a place to download a monthly prompt list, like June’s !
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Chapbooks
- Bits of Cyn: Erotic poetry. In Progress.
- Cascades – Poems about the Pacific Northwest In Progress
- Chasing Tiger – Poems of the joys and heartbreak of love – both requited and unrequited – In Progress
- House of Breakage – poems about poverty in America. In Progress.
- The Waiting Room – Poems of Mourning. In Progress.
Works In Progress
- Everybody Likes Pie – When the quirky tourist town of PIe, home of a popular cartoon creator, gets invaded by ultra-conservatives, the beloved Oregon town stops being so beloved and instead becomes a showdown between isolation and diversity. More than gravity waves got skewed here!
- In Defense of T – A romance: In the pursuit of independence and casual sex, Cyn falls in love – with the capital L. Wait? Is that a thing? Cyn never believed so – and still doesn’t want to …
- Leaf On the Ground – A romantic fantasy. Lefan is a modern-day fairy trying to pass undetected in the Pacific NW, while working for the State – this meant losing her wings. Life is complicated enough – but why did she have to fall for a mortal?
- Leaf on the Water – Fai Windkin and the Pacific NW fairy clans – both native and celtic – strive to protect a lake from an ambitious water-scavenging company …and that’s how the human got shrunk!
- Stuck Here In The Middle with You – A romance/thriller. A former playgirl who must escape a storm-ridden island after being shipwrecked with various ex-lovers … and the only man she ever loved.
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My Alter Ego …
My alter ego, Pacific NW artist CC Willow …
Most of the art and photographs on this website is my own CC Willow pieces. I have some originals and prints available at the AiA Art Gallery in Elsinore Gallery (Salem, Oregon).
Etsy RedBubble ShopVida
BIG NEWS: I have two new paintings hanging in the Spring Renewal Art Show at Elsinore Gallery.
New paintings available on Etsy!
Available on my CC Willow page
I have sample art gallery here along with links to my work and online Etsy store.
Upcoming Art Shows:
- AiA Art Gallery Currently
- Spring Renewal Exhiition Apr 5 until Apr 30, 2024
- Summer 2024 AiA’s Paint The Town/ Write The Town series starts May/June (TBD) in Salem, OR