Download or read book Divine Inspiration written by Robert Atwan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching. Readers accustomed to the predictable inclusions of many anthologies will be surprised and delighted by the diversity of poets represented here, from Aquinas, Dante, de Guevara, Donne, and Sor Juana, to D.H. Lawrence, Gabriela Mistral, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn Brooks, Czeslaw Milosz, and Leopold Senghor. Perhaps no other thematically organized anthology could have brought together writers as different as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Merton, Alice Walker, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jack Kerouac. Indeed, simply to turn the page in Divine Inspiration is an adventure in itself. And in terms of form, style, modulations of tone and perspective, the variety here is as unparalleled as it is unpredictable. The editors of Divine Inspiration have done a masterful job of unifying this vast assortment of poems. Organized chronologically around the life of Jesus, the book is divided into nine sections--from Birth and Infancy, through Healings and Miracles, to the Resurrection-- and presents passages from the Gospels followed by the poems they inspired. This structure gives readers the dual pleasures of a strong narrative pull punctuated by moments of lyric intensity. Our familiarity with the life of Jesus is thus enlivened, deepened, and in some cases wholly transformed by the imaginative power of the poems. In the largest section of the book, on the Passion of Jesus, we find an array of poems by Anna Akhmatova, Antonio Machado, Thomas Hardy, Miguel de Unamuno, Charles Baudelaire, R.S. Thomas, Andrew Marvell, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Denise Levertov, among others. To see the Passion of Jesus refracted through the lenses of such poets is to see it anew, or more vividly than before. And to encounter Chinese, Korean, Nigerian, Arab, Latin American, Scandinavian, Hungarian, and Greek poets alongside English, French, and German is a testimony both to the editors' devoted scholarship and to the power of Jesus's life to inspire great poetry across a spectrum of cultures and eras. An invaluable sourcebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike, Divine Inspiration should prove equally satisfying to readers with a strong interest in religion and to all lovers of poetry.

Download or read book Bright Star written by Orna Ross and published by 12 Poems to Inspire. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconnect with the wonder of the world through the powerful pleasure of inspirational poetry. The end of one year and the start of the next is a wonderful time for reading poetry, especially inspirational poetry. The shortest or longest day of the year has always been a powerful metaphor for poets. Whichever hemisphere we're in, whether we're in a day of longest light or deepest dark, at this special time of the year, we know that things are on the turn. And we celebrate the human ability to welcome a new cycle. That's the theme of this chapbook of twelve poems to inspire: beginning anew. It makes the perfect seasonal gift for yourself or another. You'll find a poem here for each of the twelve days of the season. None relates directly to the story we've been telling for 2,000 years about what happened in Bethlehem on a certain December 25th, but all pay tribute to the spirit represented by Christmas--and Dongzhi, Hanukkah, Makaraa Sankrānti, Meán Geimhridh and all the other mid-winter festivals. These are poems that encourage us to rejoice in the human capacity for rebirth. Immersing ourselves in meaningful words, we can reconnect with our own creative life-force. Feeling the light within, we can begin again.

Download or read book The Gift of an Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.

Download or read book The Gifts of God written by Helen Schucman and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of inspired poetry from Helen Schucman was created through the same process of "inner dictation" as A Course in Miracles.

Download or read book How to Read the Psalms written by Tremper Longman, III and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psalms are well-loved by Christians, yet they also challenge us when we look at them closely. In the second edition of this popular How to Read volume, Tremper Longman III offers practical study exercises and suggestions for interpreting the psalms, helping us overcome the distance between the psalmists' world and ours.

Download or read book The Gift written by Hafiz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by author Elizabeth Gilbert as one of her ten favorite books, Daniel Ladinsky’s extraordinary renderings of 250 unforgettable lyrical poems by Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all time More than any other Persian poet—even Rumi—Hafiz expanded the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the “Invisible Tongue.” Indeed, Daniel Ladinsky has said that his work with Hafiz is an attempt to do the impossible: to render Light into words—to make the Luminous Resonance of God tangible to our finite senses. I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through— listen to this music! With this stunning collection of Hafiz’s most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in presenting the essence of one of Islam’s greatest poetic and religious voices. Each line of The Gift imparts the wonderful qualities of this master Sufi poet and spiritual teacher: encouragement, an audacious love that touches lives, profound knowledge, generosity, and a sweet, playful genius unparalleled in world literature.

Download or read book Like a Tree Walking written by Vahni Capildeo and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2021 Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree, Walking is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence. Many pieces originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments – emotional and aural – around English trees. These journeys offer a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation. Capildeo takes guidance from vernacular traditions of sensitivity ranging from Thomas A Clark and Iain Crichton Smith to the participants in a Leeds libraries project on the Windrush. Like a Tree, Walking is finally a book defined by how it writes love.

Download or read book Inspirational Book of Poetry written by Dionne Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dionne Brooks hopes and prays that people will be inspired by this book of poems. These religious poems are designed to encourage God's people in their daily challenges. People do learn from their mistakes. Brooks' words will guide you on the road to be more successful with your goals in life. The key to success is never give up on your hopes and dreams. You can choose what door you go through. Life is full of opportunities to make this world a better place. About the Author Author Dionne Brooks has been writing since she was thirteen. Born in Ann Arbor, she grew up in Ypsilanti. She attended Ypsilanti High School and Washtenaw Community College. Her church is St. Mary's Baptist Church. She loves to sing and play the piano. Brooks' writing has been recognized in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Contest and in the Tunnel Contest.

Download or read book Poetry Book I Still Love You Inspirational Love Poems on Life Poetry Books Spiritual Poems Poetry Books Love Poems Poetry Books Inspirational Poems Poetry Books Love Poems Poetry Books written by Nerissa Marie and published by Poetry Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Book - I Still Love You (Inspirational Love Poems on Life, Poetry Books, Spiritual Poems, Poetry Books, Love Poems, Poetry Books, Inspirational Poems, Poetry Books, Love Poems, Poetry Books)I Still Love You, is a poetic journey created with the intention that you may adventure within to find happiness, and discover the confidence and courage to shine bright! This glorious poetry inspires inner strength, compassion and courage.This is a magical poetry book filled with enchanting illustrations. The raw poems embrace life¿s challenges and the beauty beyond our conscious mind. Poetry to awaken the illuminated love that is all pervading, ever present and resides within you.Poetry that floats into the astral realms looking for love and life purpose. Bringing home connection, humility, compassion, happiness and eternal love.This poetry book is especially great for conscious people, who wish to embrace themselves and shine bright as can be!* Poetry to illuminate the soul* Excellent for self-healing* Magical and peaceful poems* Read aloud* Love Poems* Inspirational poetry* Spiritual healingThis is a great inspirational poetry book to share with friends and family.Encouraging:* Self-Confidence & Self-Esteem* Mindfulness* Inner Calm* Happiness and Joy* Compassion* Inner-Peace* Love* Compassionate Living* Service to humanityScroll up and click 'buy' and enjoy some quality reading time!tags: love poems, poem books, poetry, poetry collection, rhyming book, kids poetry, inspiration books, spiritual poetry, spiritual poems, self help books, poetry, poem, poems, funeral poems, wedding poetry, angel poems, chakras, enlightenment, bedtime stories, short stories, poetry books, poem read aloud, poem crazy, poems free, poems about love, poems about life, poems for kids, poem read aloud, poemas de amor, poems free kindle, poetry anthology, poetry handbook, spiritual self healing, religion and spirituality free books, spirituality books, spirituality and mental illness, spirituality of imperfection, spirituality without religion, spirituality and health, self help, self help books, self help books for women, free self help books for kindle, self help free, self help workbooks, meditations, meditation book, meditation free kindle books, meditation techniques for beginners, chakras, chakras for beginners, chakras balancing, chakras healing, mindfulness, mindfulness for beginners, mindfulness meditation, love poems.

Download or read book Romantic Poetry written by Angela Esterhammer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Poetry encompasses twenty-seven new essays by prominent scholars on the influences and interrelations among Romantic movements throughout Europe and the Americas. It provides an expansive overview of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry in the European languages. The essays take account of interrelated currents in American, Argentinian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Caribbean, Chilean, Colombian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Norwegian, Peruvian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Uruguayan literature. Contributors adopt different models for comparative study: tracing a theme or motif through several literatures; developing innovative models of transnational influence; studying the role of Romantic poetry in socio-political developments; or focusing on an issue that appears most prominently in one national literature yet is illuminated by the international context. This collaborative volume provides an invaluable resource for students of comparative literature and Romanticism.SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series' total contents. Romantic Irony sets the broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of “irony” as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. Romantic Drama traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. Romantic Poetry demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. Nonfictional Romantic Prose assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism's own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, Romantic Prose Fiction, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to Romantic Prose Fiction explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the “Old” and “New” Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age.

Download or read book The Invitation written by Oriah Mountain Dreamer and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the world, and is now reissued with a beautiful new cover design.

Download or read book Poems of Inspiration written by Brenda Nichols and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of Inspiration are poems about inspiring thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It relates to all lifestyles. It reaches out and touches the soul that lives deep within. The one true connection that all the poems have is Jesus. In the book, you will see the words such as love, heaven, smile, tears, fear, grace, and faith. These words all work together in unity to the Lord. The poems give way to believing and praying which are two important factors in the Christian life. It is a book of hope, and dreams that sometimes do come true. It is about trust and belief in the Lord. Through His love, he makes all things new. In writing poetry, my soul finds favor with the Lord.

Download or read book The Breathing Earth written by David Austin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Austin's first collection of poetry is the tale of The Breathing Earth: not a metaphor, but a living entity, an ecosystem that is the root of every story. Often drawing on his own life experiences in these personal tales, here is the philosophical, meditative poetry at the heart of the English tradition. David Austin is the author of a number of books in his capacity as the most distinguished breeder of roses and founder of the UK's largest and most prestigious rose-grower, but in The Breathing Earth we find a book unlike any of his other work: the account of a career and a life spent in contemplation of the natural world and human behaviour.

Download or read book Inspiring Poems to Feed Your Soul written by Matthew Cook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of positive, inspiring poems that were created by the author to bring a feeling of calm to your soul, as well as a glimpse into a better world in the here and now.

Download or read book Poems of Inspiration written by Kenneth Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of all types of experiences, some we would like to hold on to, and others we would like to forget. We live every day looking for a better way to make our tomorrows better than our today. No one truly knows in this life what will befall them, we live every day of our lives operating in something that we do not even recognize, that is part of us, that has been placed in us for the troubles that life may bring about. But there is a spiritual person that lives within your heart that will give you the strength and faith to look forward to another day, and rejoice in the fact that if everything doesn't go right, there is still tomorrow, and the assurances that you will learn by bringing you closer to God. Poems of Inspiration shows you how to experience that closeness with God.

Download or read book Take A Walk Through My Mind written by Angela Wignall and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I discovered many years ago that writing poetry is therapeutic for my anxious mind. Scribbling down words and rearranging them to form a poem, enables my unruly thoughts to escape from my head. This little book contains a selection of thought provoking, but ultimately, uplifting poems, composed by the author. That's me! The poems are complimented by the true story of how I developed my writing skills. First attempts in those early days were filled with fun and laughter for my family and friends. As I journeyed through life and experienced the highs and lows of living on this planet, my poetry became more inspirational and I am told, helpful to others struggling with bereavement, anxiety or just coping with today's fast pace of living. I hope you enjoy reading Take A Walk Through My Mind and perhaps will be inspired to put pen to paper yourself. Go For It!

Download or read book Poetry of Inspiration Love Expression written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: