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    Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium
    Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium
    Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium
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    Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium

    By W. Brunhofer

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    Good poetry is good because it connects us to universal human values and truths that speak to all people. Poems have the ability to inspire us to seek truth and take us on journeys in pursuit of goodness: from a fearless warrior's journey and stories of dauntless kings who beat the odds to celebrations of the beauty of nature and innocence of childhood and musings on the vastness of time and depth of true love. These verses mount an investigation into sources of human goodness and an exploration of the ultimate source of good.

    Dancing with Angels Songs and Poems of the Millennium invites us to engage with those "better angels" whose guidance illuminates our better natures and brings us closer to the truth, rebalancing the human spirit in calibration with our Creator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Faith Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJun 30, 2021
    ISBN9781098064938
    Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium

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      Dancing with Angels - W. Brunhofer

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      Dancing with Angels

      Songs and Poems of the Millennium

      William Brunhofer

      ISBN 978-1-0980-6492-1 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-0980-8106-5 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-0980-6493-8 (digital)

      Copyright © 2021 by William Brunhofer

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

      Christian Faith Publishing

      832 Park Avenue

      Meadville, PA 16335

      www.christianfaithpublishing.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Part I

      A New Jerusalem

      The Second Coming

      Each and All

      As You Like It

      Poem in October

      Fern Hill

      King Henry V

      Ulysses

      Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

      On Angels

      Second Space

      Psalm 23

      The Lord's Prayer

      Part II

      Questions

      Consequences

      Fashionable Truths

      World in Worlds

      First Light

      Poem on Your Birthday

      I Have Seen Love

      Fragile Hope

      Self-Portrait

      Finding Faith

      Fog-Held Land

      Matchless

      Silent Moon

      Boast of the Sun

      Once God

      On Shakespeare's Sonnets

      Love Loud Sings

      About the Author

      This work is dedicated to the Creator of all that is good and true,

      and to the lords and ladies of creation, made in the image

      of our Creator, who are called to stand and speak words of truth,

      and to build and protect His Kingdom on earth.

      And to my wife, Susan, and our children,

      Aaron, Alexis and Ethan,

      thank you for your love and encouragement.

      "Life is either a daring, bold adventure

      or

      It is nothing at all."

      —Helen Keller

      Introduction

      Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, asked in a 1945 Warsaw poem titled, Dedication, What is poetry that does not save nations or people? He concludes in this same poem:

      That I wanted good poetry without knowing it

      That I discovered, late, its salutary aim,

      In this and only this, I find salvation.

      Believing that good poetry is good because it contains truths that speak to all people, I have selected a few poems here from the English language that have stood the test of time and found admiring readers from around the world. There are countless poems in every culture that

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