Debora Elizabeth Hill

Review for The Crystal Chalice
1. Having reviewed the first book in The Lost Myths Saga (The Land of the Wand) last year, I was looking forward to reading the sequel – and I’m glad to say it did not disappoint! 
Picking up one year after the close of their previous adventure, all is not well with our intrepid trans-dimensional travelers and their problems make them seem all the more rooted in reality, which in turn, gives the fantasy side of the story a more grounded feel. 

This poem was published in The Best Poets of 2000.

This poem for Tom and Sandra's tortoiseshell cat Mrs. Underfoot was published in THE BEST POETS AND POEMS OF 2002.

FOR BONNIE was published in The Best Poems and Poets of 2004, by The International Library of Poetry.

This poem was published in Centres of Expression by Noble House, London in 2007.

My oldest friend, my dearest too...
Come sit with me and talk awhile
I need you still...no, even more
than years before
when we were young and so secure.
It’s not been what they said it would.
But I’m not different; can you see?
Inside this built-up shell it’s me.
Success now stands before me
and I see the open door.
But now I’m frightened of its song;
I never was before.
The steps are getting shorter;
if I stretch I see the peak, 
but there’s nothing on the other side
except a free fall into space.

WHEN THE ROSES DIE was published as the first poem in The International Who's Who of Poetry, in 2007.

This poem was written for my friend Cathy Thompson's German Shepherd, a most beloved beautiful boy. It was first published in the anthology by The International Library of Poetry BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT, and again in the Noble House anthology Labours of Love in 2005, and is the first poem in that volume.

My mother, Madge Lillian Ridgeway-Aarons Hill, died in April of 2000. I wrote this poem two months before her death.

FOR BENJAMIN was published in the anthology The Colors of Life in 2003, by The International Library of Poetry.