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    That Innocence Of Dreaming
    That Innocence Of Dreaming
    That Innocence Of Dreaming
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    That Innocence Of Dreaming

    By William Flewelling

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    Poetry writing has proven proficient at helping me see what is there to be seen, hear what is there to be heard. I will see or hear or reflect on something which then provides an image, a nuance that emerges in a word, a line. The single line and image, written, provides a cadence, a focus of sound and echo that invites a second line, and more. Usually, the poems come quickly and run until they stop: the poem is complete. This book draws upon such poems over a pair of sweeps of my history plus a sampling of more recent poems that strike me as desirable in this collection. These pieces of my past often recollect for me the occasion that sparked the poems but also leave that occasion obscured and allow the poem to do its work of creating an image and a flow in my own mind. The poems, in my experience, write their meaning on my mind. And, I hope, on yours as well. For then the poems will have done their work.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 18, 2024
    ISBN9798823037303
    That Innocence Of Dreaming
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    William Flewelling

    I am a retired minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in central Illinois. In the course of that ministry, I developed a variety of projects which fit into the weekly pattern based on Sunday. Among those was what I call Reflective Prayers, a response to a gentle reading of the lections for a given service, particularly one at which I would be preaching. These were inspired by the comments on the Prayers of Saint Catherine by Suzanne Noffke, O.P. Sr. Noffke noted that Catherine’s prayers responded to the lections of the day at Mass and were taken down by her confessor. I soon came to realize that the reflective prayers fed my dealing with the lections for the week and served to illustrate for me the energy of prayer in conjunction with the texts. I continue to produce these reflective prayers and have chosen to revisit earlier sequences of the prayers as in this selection. I live in retirement with my wife of 56 years, our 3 doglets and several cats.

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      That Innocence Of Dreaming - William Flewelling

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      © 2024 William Flewelling. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 11/15/2024

      ISBN: 979-8-8230-3731-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 979-8-8230-3730-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2024923518

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      Enticing My Delight

      The Arthur Poems

      From Recurrent Yesterdays

      In Silhouette

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      Teasing The Soul

      Allowing The Heart To Contemplate

      As Lace Along The Wood

      To Trace Familiarity

      The Matt Poems

      Elaborating Life

      The Buoyancy of Unsuspected Joy

      To Haunt The Clever Sheer Of Grace

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      Adrift On Seas Of Strangeness

      Composure In Constraint

      An Elegance That Dawdles

      The Ash Wind Sigh

      Unplanned Obsolescence

      Savored Once And Once Again

      The Simple Curvature Of Words

      Weave Tapestries Of Naught At All

      On Inscape’s Curve

      Cacophony Of Silence

      Playful Courtesies

      The Burl Becomes The Blossoming

      Inn-By-The-Bye Stories

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      9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,

      17, 18, 19, 20. 21, 22, 23

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      Reflective Prayers: A Second Collection

      A Third Collection Of Reflective Prayers

      For Your Quiet Meditation

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      Cantica Sacra

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      A Sixth Collection Of Reflective Prayers

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      Writings On The Spiritual Life

      Psalms And Selected Canticles

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      A Ninth Collection Of Reflective Prayers

      Directions Of A Pastoral Lifetime

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      Part II: Psalm Meditations, Regula Vitae

      Part III: Elders’ Studies

      Part IV: Studies

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      From The Catholic Epistles: Bible Studies

      Paul’s Letter To The Romans: A Bible Study

      The Book Of Hebrews: A Bible Study

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      The Gospel According To Luke 9:51 Through 19:27: A Bible Study

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      Contents

      Foreword

      1. As If A Visiting Ghost

      2. Forgotten

      3. This Silence

      4. Rejoice

      5. A Forward Scene At Prelude

      6. What Is It Now?

      7. In Finalizing Tact

      8. Chance Recognition

      9. In Parallel

      10. Careful Of Her Place

      11. A Kneading Mix

      12. Close Listener

      13. Dashing Presence

      14. The While Discussing Things

      15. Intensity

      16. What If She Doesn’t Come?

      17. untitled

      18. Inadequate Restraint

      19. So Multiply In-Between

      20. Assertorial Lightness

      21. They’re Dylan’s Lines Intoned

      22. The Queen Is Dead

      23. Remnants Of Cooked Ribs

      24. One November Night

      25. Old Habits

      26. The Toddler’s Prize

      27. Elated

      28. Meander, As It Seems

      29. Come To Answer The Telephone

      30. The Onions

      31. Passing Camp Butler

      32. Prologue Thoughts On Surgery

      33. The Space Has Cleared

      34. Upon A Brief Aside

      35. As Often They Come By

      36. For Veterans’: 11 November 2022

      37. Preparing The Way

      38. In A Lapse In Time

      39. Advent Musing

      40. Her Flowing Hair

      41. The Sam Effect

      42. A Golden Filagree

      43. Cuddled Near

      44. Ex-Change

      45. Belated Cry

      46. Until A Noted Notice

      47. As Summing Up

      48. Awkwardly Familiar

      49. Striped Black And White

      50. Waiting On The Unattending

      51. The Silent Blessing

      52. Baggage Carrier

      53. Allowing Everything To Flow

      54. This Special Day

      55. Anticipation

      56. While Crossing The Parking Lot

      57. Having Come Aside Afterward

      58. Possessed Of A Quiet Ease

      59. ‘That’s Good. That’s Very Good’

      60.

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