By the Morning of Our Healing
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To Adventure!
To adventure!
To escape!
To enthusiasm's keeper!
To release from the foregone, to jump out of frame, glance the ordinary, foreclose on the usual thing
Be time unlimited and vision unreflected
Dance the unheard tune: sing wild, exotic and loud
Carry your bones to a different stance
To hypnotism that reaches the corners of your lungs
Rejoice!
Adventure comes to bargain your quietude, put rings on different fingers and tilt your hat on your nose
Open those eyes grown restless, the voice that quivers in renunciation
Stand up and shake off the residue of yesterday's convictions
The mountains approach to grab the dullness that has slept too long in your gut
Grab the wine, yes the opportunity and embrace the breaking of the crocks
Adventure has no patience: throw it in the fire
Plunge the gorge with one hand waving free till your mind and body are out of balance:
To adventure!
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About the Book
By The Morning of Our Healing contains poems with passion, depth, sincerity and the stuff of living. They convey honestly and vigorously the joys, pains and rough resolutions of living and loving in the world. The book calls the reader to reflect on that invisible contract we all have with life. Remember that naive and idealistic state of sweet young love, becoming aware for the first time of the immense power of the ocean or the unpredictable impact of growling death? In response, we are all called to show up and participate. These poems convey one man's journey through these unique yet universal experiences. With confusion and anxiety, joy and sudden pleasure, the book takes the reader on a powerful journey through the geography of relationships. The book calls to mind the awareness that suffering does not stop us from succeeding. Healing happens all the time and in quite gentle and subtle ways. The book reaches into scenes and senses of living, loving and loss. It reflects the wisdom, triumphs and tragedies encountered along the way. Expressed here as well, is how we are shaped by the power of the wind, the grandeur of the mountains, the ethereal presence of the ocean and God's subtle voice in all. You will find here an eclectic collection of poems. Some are as serious as leaving home. Others are as carefree as an ice cream sundae. Hopefully you will identify with and hear echoes of your own voice and journey. These friendly poems will take you on a pleasant and challenging ride through living and loving that may get your heart pumping again and remind you that you are still alive and the fat lady hasn't sung yet!.
About the Author
The author is an almost 60 year old psychologist, husband and father of three grown and married children. Born on the east coast, he has lived his adult life in the midwest. Poetry has been an informal commentary and companion since he was young. Having lived in an alcoholic home, experiencing the early death of his father and making his way often blindly but usually keeping it on the road, the author has had a lot to write about. The author has been joined by friends and family along the way and by that irrepressible spirit to honestly experience this life in all its wonder and tragedy. As well, he has traveled from ocean to mountain and back again and to that inner place of desire, pain and healing. He received a Ph.D. in psychology and for almost 30 years has been a therapist and teacher. He has spent his working life talking to people of all ages about their suffering and growth. This has given him a reservoir filled with the experiences of joy and pain that has sought expression in poetry. He decided it was a good time to clean out the file cabinet in order to make sense of it all. So, here you go. Let the words show off their stuff. When it comes down to it, it's nothing special, just some old guy's poems about a walk in the woods and 30 years of therapy!