🏆 Award-Winning Title — 2025 National Indie Excellence® Award
Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After, is an immersive poetry collection which blends over 60 poems with over 60 bold, vibrant art pieces. Every other page features a nearly full-page illustration. This book was created for the creatives, for the poetry and art lovers, and those drawn to the unseen emotions that connect us all. It journeys through themes of life, change, time, truth, loss, love, resilience, and the extraordinary beauty found in the often difficult contrasts of life.
This book marks my first published collection, and I invite readers to pause, reflect, and allow inspiration to grow. Whether you are a lifelong poetry reader or new to the genre, my hope is that it will stir the soul, and remind us that art is a living thing, passing from contact to contact, ever growing and reshaping itself in our new creations.
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USA — The 19th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) has named Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After by Alyssa Skyes a Winner in the 2025 competition in the Gift Books category.
A hardcover, full-color art and poetry collection, Poetry Dust was selected for its originality, emotional resonance, and striking visual presentation. Blending rich language with vivid artwork, the book captures life’s transformative moments—making it an ideal gift for seekers, creatives, and lovers of beauty.
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Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension
For as long as I can remember, I’ve carried deep questions about life, purpose, love, good and evil, and what lies beyond what we can see. Then one day, I slipped into another dimension—outside of time itself. It lasted only seconds in earthly terms, yet it was vast, timeless, and filled with a bliss I cannot fully describe. It wasn’t a dream or vision—it was a direct encounter.
When I returned, the impact was immediate. It felt as though the wind had been knocked out of me—not in pain, but in astonishment. There were so many layers to grasp, as if everything I thought I knew had been blown wide open. I quickly realized that everything we know and imagine here is based on what we’ve already seen. But what I had experienced was beyond anything my mind could recognize. I knew I had to translate this ineffable moment into words.
In the time that followed, I avoided reading other Near-Death Experience (NDE) accounts, spiritual writings, or metaphysical works, until I could document what I had experienced. I wanted my account to remain raw and unfiltered.
Two Seconds of Eternity is the result: not fiction, nor doctrine, but a metaphysical, spiritual, and philosophical exploration of time, duality, emotion, and the mysteries of our existence. Among the many revelations, one stood out clearly: love is not just an emotion, but a force—as vital as air or water.
If you’ve ever wondered about NDEs, spirituality, or the meaning of life and death, I invite you to read this short but full book and reflect with me. And if you’ve had a similar experience, or carry questions of your own, I’d love to hear from you.