Woman Wandering.......is a book in print!!!

WOMAN  WANDERING   1975 -- 2015                          POEMS  BY  NINA TEPEDINO

Woman Wandering is a collection of fifty poems spanning forty years of poetic reflection.  It is a memoir in poetry, the new genre, to be considered and honored as my style to chronicle my life as a woman...my life as artist...my life as teacher...my life with Nature... my delights and displeasures and my elder wisdom to be absorbed and heard.  As I walk toward the Tree of Life, an elder Black Oak at the Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol, California, I embrace the living and growth in my life, as my creative force prospers and continues to wander. 

I  Have  Returned...........it is 2015.....it is almost July!! 

May in Portland........Ah, yes......my new poetry book is going to be released soon  called:

WOMAN  WANDERING.....1975  to  2014

A  Morning Response...............June.....28, 2015

Mother Earth

Your skirts are the clouds you shake to make it rain
Your red lips are the blossoms from many cultured gardens
Your hair is braided with vines encircling the sphere
Your tears spill forth from the melting ice caps
Your heart is full like the ocean churning and bubbling in waves of
anxiety and worries  like Mothers do.
With your patience and prayers you give us more time to learn new ways,
like Mothers do. 

Nina Tepedino
copyright June, 2015

Recent Local Appearance

On  August, 29, I was the guest poet/speaker at the Sebastopol Kiwanis Luncheon.  I shared my life journey through my poems, stories and song, for a whole luxurious thirty minutes!!  I responded to very provocative and complimentary questions and comments.  I feel great pride as a Redwood Writers member to be featured as a poet.  My first book of poems will be entitled: A Touch of Time, published by Lovejoy Press.

JULY 14, 2014

ELDER WISDOM HIPPIE LADY.........PHOTO BY LINDA SORENSEN...........

Here I am.....under the umbrella of Redwood Writers.....Our booth at the Bilbliophoria Printing Festival, in Sebastopol at the Center for the Arts on Saturday, June 28th.........a truly lovely exhibit of book arts......
I hope soon to begin creating my own Poetry Chap books with my poems and my photographs.......Redwood Writers is an organization that honors you as a writer.......and supports your efforts and ideas.  Sometimes writers......creative ones......need that added poke to produce!!  Summer and gardening for food can be a major distraction...As the fall and winter months meet us head on, it then becomes a more condusive time to retreat and stay inside....taking more time for my writing projects.

In the current moment I am slightly obsessed with zucchinis......Here is my latest poem:

Zuke Soup

Shiny green skinned cylinder,
spermed from lush golden yellow petals.
Female blossom unfurls.
Male blossom births the edible shoot,
shaded under broad tropical stalks and leaves.
Tis not a shy producing squash.
It dominates with a presence
so proud and prolific,
twisted off the vine,
brought into the kitchen
to be sliced, diced, sauteed
with olive oil and soy sauce,
dipped in egg and seasoned bread crumbs,
creamed into zuke soup
with red onion and ginger spice,
concocted to satisfy my hunger,
a culinary reward for weeks spent
intensely watching my zucchini grow.
Praises for my Italian grandma Maria,
whose earthbound passion taught me to know.

Nina Tepedino
First Day of Summer, 2014

WAITING......A REFLECTION

May 24, 2014

written in the middle of the night on April 2, while waiting for my apartment move in at Burbank Heights


Waiting is worth the wanting.
Wanting is for the waiting to end.
The end is the beginning of no more need to pretend.
After the gift blessing is manifested,
the image created is pre-destined.
The scheme, the plan is molded to be
for the benefit of the future that you see.

Waiting is why we live, hoping for the desired outcome and a unique realization that what has been asked of you is deserved by you.  It adds to the power of your life.  It makes the enfolding manifestation surround you.  It creates a reason for radical gratitude to all those who helped in the waiting, who believed strongly beside you.  It gives you thanks for your own efforts, energy and trust for the intended climax and added dimension of decisions tossed and considered.  Waiting engenders wisdom, invigorates the body and the mind to a sense of acute awareness.  It stimulates your ability to survive--to struggle for substance of meaning and the impetus for creative living, that goes beyond survival and increases the quality of your life and the lives around you, who helped to make the journey fruitful and yes....worth the wait!

I have returned to my blog........

IT IS APRIL 30TH........MY SILENCE DUE TO MOVING TO SEBASTOPOL  FINALLY!! 

THE NEW REDWOOD WRITERS POETRY ANTHOLOGY 2014           IS NOW AVAILABLE.  

TWO OF MY POEMS ARE PUBLISHED
TITLES:  ON MY WAY HOME        and   SEATTLE WALK