Cartwheeling Through Life

By Toni Poll-Sorensen

This new book of fully illustrated narrative poems, titled Cartwheeling Through Life, is a collection of thoughts about events or feelings that are experienced by all of us. These poems came to our author when she was emotionally upright, upside down, terribly off balance or somewhere in between.
The idea of a cartwheel is used by Toni as a metaphor for life. Cartwheels are childlike and fun, but not without difficulty or danger, particularly as we age. Toni believes that the point of a well lived and happy life is to not miss a beat while going hand over hand and foot after foot in a steady rhythmic pattern.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524539139

Toni Poll-Sorensen

Toni Poll-Sorensen is a retired dancer, choreographer and dance educator turned poet. This collection of fully illustrated poetry is her eighth collaboration with her former colleague and friend Mallory Maria Prucha. Toni is currently a student of piano, acting and yoga. She works as a Commercial Model in Florida and is now living in her dream in a home on the beach. Her goal is to celebrate the next ten years in the happiest and most profoundly physical way possible.

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Copyright © 2016 by Toni Poll-Sorensen. 711469

ISBN:   Softcover         978-1-5245-3912-2

             EBook              978-1-5245-3913-9

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 09/14/2016

Illustrations by Mallory Maria Prucha

Author photo credit, Becky Richartz

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this collection to Mallory Maria Prucha. She has done backflips for me in the midst of such varied life experiences. I could not even begin to count the number of cartwheels she has made during her artistic, educational, and personal life. She is now, and always will be, living proof of the notion that we all cartwheel through life. Thank you, Mallory, for sharing all of your great gifts so freely!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Julie Zack for her typing and initial layout skills. I am grateful to my husband, my family and my friends for their support and encouragement.

I am also grateful to my students whose valiant efforts as undergraduates in music, theatre and dance have left me with great clarity that the process of making art is everything!

CONTENTS

Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday

My Eldest

My Middle, My Only

My Youngest

A Slip

The Painter and the Poet

The Landscape

Framing Life

Complex Patterns