Life is filled with emotional highs and lows. Riding the wave of this experience is part of living, but for poet Bernadette Bland, dreaming was even more important. No matter the attitude, mood, or circumstance, Ms. Bland has always believed in the beauty of life. Never to be deterred from her heart’s desire, she has ridden her own life wave with an eye to her dreams and an eye to the beauty of nature.

In her new poetry collection, Flights of Fancy, Ms. Bland shares her imagery with the outside world. She delves into the lavish splendor of nature in “Drifting Grace: God’s Art Show.” She peers behind the protective mask of a weeping clown in “Behind the Mask.” She recalls watching her mother slowly grow old in the poignant “Mama.” In all her words, she reveals her deepest yearnings and fears with selfless honesty.

Flights of Fancy is an example of an imagination set free. Ms. Bland fills her poetry with wonder and will leave you longing to step out into the sun. She is not afraid to depict the sometimes traumatic rollercoaster of life; yet she encourages us to move on, move up, and not look back. Within every word, she calls to the reader, challenging each one of us to never stop dreaming!

I stand in the last stages of the invisible, with those compassionate, superfluous people who triumphantly carry on, tears in their eyes, with the illusive quality they recognize as sincerity, nobility, genius and heroism; in their daily focus, in their momentary focus, in their minute to minute existence.

In the course of adapting to English The Educated Cat from the Yiddish (by Nochum Yood), Quartet from the Russian (by Krilov), and The Wolf and the Stork (from French, by La Fontaine), Ms. Seeman became enamored of fables. She began to write her own poetry involving all animals and their conversations, adding illustrations.