WELCOME to my Cindy L Spear website! I hope you enjoy all the literary and musical feasts I have to offer. I’m a poet, lyricist, musician, photographer, feature & fiction writer and book reviewer but most of all I’m a Canadian born sea-girl whose ancestors were Irish. Now I make my home in Australia where I weave this ancient landscape together with my Canadian Irish roots to create unique historical stories, songs and poems. Join me on my journey through the pages of this site and feel free to contact me on social media through the links below.

Poetry

Returning Again

Through an open window,

I see a splintered bough—

Stretching its web

Across the face

Of a swollen moon.

I see you once again—

Willing, forgiving,

As I search your words

That burst full

With the scent of Spring.

I see myself,

A little girl, standing

On the hill’s edge

Where wild strawberries

Stretch a lattice to the shore.

I turn towards your brightness,

As you gather me like violets

Into your grace-blossoming ring,

Where love is strong as death

And deeper than legend.

Cindy L Spear ~copyright 1994

(From book AWAKENED)

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

Lone Tree - by Cindy L Spear

BY CINDY L SPEAR

Tasmanian Treasure - BY Cindy L spear

Flowers of the Soul - By Cindy L Spear

Heavenly lavender of Tasmania - By Cindy L Spear

The winding road - by Cindy l Spear

News

Voices of the Past

Queen of the Seas

The Marco Polo

Artwork by Eric Allaby

Song by Cindy L Spear & Colin Mold

Built by James Smith in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1851. It became the fastest sailing ship of its day carrying gold seekers to Australia.

Carrickfergus Irish Castle

Singing the Songs of Ireland

by Cindy L Spear

The New Brunswick Reader feature article. (See Blog)

“As I looked out over the grey lough from one of the turrets and watched tall ships with white sails full of brisk spring winds heading into harbour, I could not help but think of all the wars that had been fought on these shores and all the blood that had been spilled upon these stones now washed by the rain and passage of time.”

Historical figures

The challenges that many unique cultures faced over the passage of time.

St Kilda - Incredible tale of survival - a remote Scottish Island

After reading “The Life and Death of St. Kilda” by Tom Steel, I was deeply moved, even jarred by the story of these resilient people and wrote this poem featured on CBC and published in The New Brunswick Reader.

Ireland

Reading of poem by Cindy L Spear from “Awakened.” Music by Iona

My Celtic Home (Ireland)

Song featuring Cindy L Spear’s lyrics

Music and main vocals by Colin Mold, BU vocals: Michelle Glover (“Now You See Me” CD)

WRITING INFLUENCES + OTHER AUTHORS I RECOMMEND

“Your voice—
an instrument of praise,
carries splendour
to this once forsaken place;
filling the caverns
with songs that warm the dark;
stirring imagination’s embers
inside this Romantic heart. ”

— Cindy L Spear