The River Of Winged Dreams (Hardback)

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Celebrated volume of contemporary poems by Aberjhani. Gift book. Special autographed copies available by request through this website.


Table of Contents

  

 

Foreword: Evolution of a Vision, from Songs of the

  Angelic Gaze to The River of Winged Dreams    i  


Introduction to The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009:

  Deliverance in Action     v         

   

Part I: in midnight’s orchard roses blossom

 

Angel of Hope’s Persistent Flight     1

 

Angel of Mercy     3

 

All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry     5

 

The Poet-Angels Who Came to Dinner     7

 

Angel of War    9

 

A Modest Proposal of Alternative Notions      11  

 

Angel of Healing: for the Living, the Dying, and the

  Praying    12

 

Promises of Now      14

 

Angel of Peace      15

  

Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11,

  2001    18

 

There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity     21

 

Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael I    22

Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael II    24

 

 

Part II: a halo like a world

 

Photographed Light of My Grandmother’s Soul    27    

 

Poem Found Running Naked through a Southern

  Rock Garden      29

 

An Angel for New Orleans    31

 

Philosophy of the Midnight Skylark in a Jazz Suite    

  Mode    33


Sounds Scribbled Mixed-Media Platinum at the Jepson Center 3/22/09     34

Sunday Afternoon and the Jazz Angel Cometh      36  

 

Once Was a Singer for God      38  

 

Angel of Friendship’s Enduring Faith      40  

 

A Poet’s Birthday Dance through Fire and Rain      43

 

Angel of Earth Days and Seasons      45 

 

A Poet’s Birthday Dance through Fire and

  Rain 2007      47

 

Part III: earth’s delights and heaven’s tears

 

Angel of Grace      51

 

The River of Winged Dreams    53

A Coat and Shoes for Halloween      55

 

Angel of Christmas Love Shining Bright      57

 

Tybee Island Love Storm      59

 

The Christmas Angel Who Whispered My Name    60

 

A Friend Like a Drunk Poem on New Year’s

  Eve      61  

 

Angel of Valentine Days and Nights      63

 

The Comforter on Your Bed      65

 

Poets of the Angels    67

 

Angel of Gratitude      69

   

 

Part IV: The Bridge of Silver Wings

 

Feathers of Gold, Feathers of Silver     73           

 

Angel of Better Days to Come    79     

 

Midnight Flight of the Poetry Angels    81          

 

What Angels Call “A Poet”    83

                      Part V: Monday burning like oil

Angels and Shakespeare    87    

Acknowledgments      99