MoonStain Ronda Miller Books
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MoonStain describes the blood moon as it shines through tree leaves, marking the long hours of a sleepless night as it spreads from one point to another on a young child’s bedroom floor.
In this collection of poetry, Miller weaves stories of life, death, and love through her poetry, primarily narrative in form. From glimpses of her childhood home on her grandparents’ farm to images of a woman’s life, her loves, her losses, we learn of life’s stains, of moments that shape and become a part of one woman’s voice.
Ronda Miller is a poet and Life Coach. Born in Ft. Collins, Colorado, she was raised on her grandparents’ farm in the high plateau region of NW Kansas. She holds degrees in Human Development and Creative Writing from the University of Kansas. She is a Fellow of the Citizen Journalism Academy and a district president and current board member of the Kansas Authors Club.
MoonStain Ronda Miller Books
In exquisite style, poet Ronda Miller shares her life-changing events in MoonStain. She writes of finding freedom in tumbleweeds that taught her “how to roam”, of feeling pelting “fresh summer rain” and “hedge apple sized hail.” But Miller can never know how different she would be if her mother hadn’t died—suicide—when she was three. As a result this child “was left to grow wild and free.”Miller reveals to us the depths of her emotional turmoil and her desperate need to find her identity—before it’s too late—in her powerful poem, “Mama Slam.” In this composition she reveals how she attempted to cope through self-destructive behavior.
Fortunately for her—and us—Ronda learns she doesn’t need to be angry at her mother, or to become her mother. Instead, only by being herself is she set free.
--Jim Potter, author of Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery
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MoonStain Ronda Miller Books Reviews
I am a poet myself and when I read the poetic works of others I look for two things—language and emotion. Ronda Miller has excelled in both areas in her latest work, MoonStain. In terms of language, when I read her words, it resonates like the strong language of Walt Whitman. Ronda uses such artistic phrases as “at night she came out of the walls” or “they sit separated from each other by a grandson.” Her language is highly colorful, exotic even. But what is more important is the emotions of sadness followed by fits of joy that beam from her poems. MoonStain is a fitting title for her work as it aptly characterizes how the poet’s own life was forever stained by her mother’s suicide. This is a deeply moving book that deserves its place along with classical poets such as Dickinson and Whitman. If you appreciate poetry, you will certainly love MoonStain.
The opening title poem, “MoonStain” sets the tone for this brave and intense collection of poems. In the poem, a child discovers a stillborn calf in the barn. She nestles in the hay beside it and puts her arms around its warm neck. In this moment, she knows death closely and feels “the spirit of the calf lift, swirl/around [her], disappear.” Her mother’s death came to her in overheard whispers, but this death allows her to openly grieve both deaths. In the second poem, “Stone Eyed Cold Girl,” she’s older and understands more clearly. She mourns and curses her mother for dying and leaving her. She says, “Stitch a wing from cardinal to owl to make the switch. . ./disjointed yet alive./ I’m an open wound. . . . breathe me back to life.” Thus begins the journey of this woman of anger and grief.
Orphaned, she spends her life trying to find love in any way, even in one-night stands where someone holds her close. She tries to make connections but not always wise decisions, as some of her acts are self-destructive with drugs, cutting, and random sex. We discover that these experiences are necessary for her to become whole. The prairie, the wind, the birds, and the rain become her guides and nourishment. They pull her through anger and confusion.
This book is a journey to finding her way and herself, and she learns to be independent and strong. She learns how to heal. In her final poem, she says, “I am my home,/I keep house with my heart.”
Through a variety of poetic styles, Miller’s details are compelling and powerful. She puts readers into the poems and pulls them from one poem to the next.
The power of vulnerability is the motif that runs through Ronda Miller’s excellent book of poetry, Moon Stain. With the image of the ever-changing moon defining each section of the book, Miller’s poetry deals with the shifting emotional states that come with trauma and with survival and rebirth.
Some of the poems are gut-wrenching, leaving the reader staring off into space in order to comprehend the enormity of the speaker’s anguish. One such poem, “Stone-Eyed Cold Girl,” starts with the line, “Between, you, me, the universe…I fear I shall go mad.”
Another such poem, one that greatly affected this reader, starts with a pastoral scene complete with horses, but quickly transforms as it presages the final horror of the storm. This poem clearly presents the futility of our efforts against forces beyond our control.
However, Miller doesn’t leave us in a state of despair. Her poem, “What my Mother Didn’t Teach me, I learned from the Prairie,” is a shout of affirmation that the land will give one a place, a sense of belonging.
Throughout the book, Miller deals with relationships, that of family members and that of lovers who may have come and gone. She also writes of the disease that, even though it has overtaken her life, she fights against. She opens her life to readers who will find familiar sadness and joy expressed with energy and care.
As Miller says in the poem, “poetry you have to,”
“…give it your all it wants for nothing
leaves you intact makes you complete”
Moon Stain is a book of poetry that will make the reader complete. It is a life in all its joy and sadness, a life of searching and discovery.
In exquisite style, poet Ronda Miller shares her life-changing events in MoonStain. She writes of finding freedom in tumbleweeds that taught her “how to roam”, of feeling pelting “fresh summer rain” and “hedge apple sized hail.” But Miller can never know how different she would be if her mother hadn’t died—suicide—when she was three. As a result this child “was left to grow wild and free.”
Miller reveals to us the depths of her emotional turmoil and her desperate need to find her identity—before it’s too late—in her powerful poem, “Mama Slam.” In this composition she reveals how she attempted to cope through self-destructive behavior.
Fortunately for her—and us—Ronda learns she doesn’t need to be angry at her mother, or to become her mother. Instead, only by being herself is she set free.
--Jim Potter, author of Taking Back the Bullet Trajectories of Self-Discovery
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