Biography of Lura Dungan

Lura comes from a small town in the mountains of Colorado, but has been a resident of Denver since she turned 24. Now at 48, after earning her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing in 2007, she wants to share her unique life and vision with perspective readers. She has been writing since she was 12. She states that she was a moody teenager and during her sophomore year in high school wrote a poem every day.

Recognized nationally for her fiction, winning the 1998 Outstanding Fiction Award from Mensa, and locally recognized by having many of her poems published and winning a local poetry contest. She has also been the featured speaker for the Colorado Poetry Society in 2008.

Most recently, she has written a children’s book for her great-nephew in the hopes he would learn to love to read. Lura is now looking for an agent for her book.

Madness
by Lura J. Dungan

A Muse materialized.
Raindrops rushed down
in sheets.
Teachers seemed to
murmur meaningless messages.
Calliope called my name.
Her fingertip touched my
lower lip,
scorching me into silence.
Yet sentences shrieked
from my pen.
Thousands of threadlike connections,
suspended
on a wire of words;
a fine filigree of madness.

Understanding
by Lura J. Dungan

I finally comprehend:
your love is more then
the swinging branches
of a weeping willow,
or the cascade of my daughter’s
hair. More
than a tear poised to fall,
or the gush of blood and
water with the pangs of
birth.

Your love is more than
the imprints of nails in
sanguinated palms, or
the hallow ache of the
tomb.