Anne Beverly Brown

aka Brownie!

A Creative Spirit Inspired by Nature Fueled on Love

Brownie's Version: Poems and Prose

The important stuff happens in the silve

Welcome to Brownie's Version, the place where I offer up my take on things through memoir, poems, song lyrics that haven't been recorded, or anything else I feel drawn to setting down. So often I find myself telling stories in my head as if I'm talking to a good friend about what I find fascinating. I have a big desire to lasso these thoughts and share them. I've been imagining this platform for quite awhile so it feels good to be venturing forth using this medium. Thank you for reading!

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Jun 20, 2021
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Growing Pains

Here's an old photo for an old song. I think I'm about thirteen here, playing my ancient, beloved piano with the name 'Kunkle' written on...

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Feb 12, 2021
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Be Prepared to Fall

With Valentine's Day in mind, here's the lyrics to a song of long ago charting the ups and downs of romantic love.... Here's to a soft...

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Jan 24, 2021
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The Progress Prize

I had made the mistake of washing my hair during my one allotted fifteen minute bath time on Wednesday evenings, only to discover...

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Jan 12, 2021
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The Gnome and the Drainpipe

A story about an encounter with one of the 'little people', or more accurately, an element of Earth's consciousness, with a message to relay

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Sep 17, 2020
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The Sound of Siren

The Sound of Siren - An Ode to the Feminine....'waiting for you on her bed of roses....'

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Aug 9, 2020
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Serenity

To travel from home into the unexpected seeking clear visions in clouded places emerging from the chrysalis of infinity's dreaming ....

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Jul 28, 2020
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How Much Further to Go?

An incantation to summer and to finding a place in the sun.

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Jul 18, 2020
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Electricity

Ultimately though, doesn't everything boil down to a negative positive yin yang tension release of it all? Or do I simplify too much?

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Jul 8, 2020
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The Day of the Iris

For me, irises figure as a symbol of magical creativity. Somewhere along the line I read that this was so, and so I took it to be.....

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Jun 14, 2020
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The Sound Carries

The sound carries you carries me carries us through eternity turn turn turn around greet the harmony

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Jun 3, 2020
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The Heart of the World

We’d better stop, look and listen, the lights are turning green for go, all hands on deck there’s work to do ....

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Jun 2, 2020
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Paging Cecil B. de Mille

Where are you now, Cecil B. de Mille? There’s chaos brewing in my brain. I do believe I have just the role for you....

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May 21, 2020
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The Power of the Atman

Everything you think or do, ripples out away from you, to the ends of the universe where it turns around ....

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May 10, 2020
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Earth Magic

Perfumed-scented night bloom under dome of curving moon like a proud and swollen womb - Earth Magic

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May 3, 2020
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Golden Light

For those who slip easily into the Imaginal or would like a little encouragement, this one’s for you....

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Apr 10, 2020
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Trial by Fire

With a trial by fire how can I not but learn?

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Apr 7, 2020
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Into the Dark

In case we need reminding, there is no light without the dark so let’s gather our things for the journey ....

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Apr 3, 2020
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A Simple Act of Faith

It’s not always sunshine and roses as we know, although I’d like to think it could be. It’s my intuitive hunch that we are destined to ....

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Mar 25, 2020
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Are You Receiving?

Hope attracts vital energy, whereas despair drains it clean away. It just seems wise then, to keep good company with faith as a way to ....