poetry from ron boggs
Songs of Soul (111 poems)
Summary
- Poems written coincident with writing of A Year’s Journey with Soul: The Art of Darkness
- Initial creative expression of soul’s calling to manifest her desires and loves out into the world
- Soul gave these poems the name of song to convey the art of darkness and how we are streamers out of that art
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Morning Songs (41 poems)
Summary
- Soul’s calling draws out and paints new life epitomized by the transformation of dark into light
- Songs dawn from everywhere and everything in mutual nourishment
- Hermes, guide of souls, dances with madness to wake morning songs of sun and rain
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Shocks and Amazement (111 poems)
Summary
- Recoveries and discoveries detail the stunned surprise of the shocks of life to life
- Soul and spirit link amazement into eyes to see with fresh look at existence
- Psyche’s exercises to free oneself using shocks and amazement
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Out of Water, In Water (57 poems)
Summary
- Poems from the bottom of the sea
- Poems from the borderland of sea and land
- Poems with feet on the bottom of the sea and head above the surface
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- “Lived a Lifetime in a Thousand Wars”
- “Salmon Leaps”
- “Pollen”
- “Love Song to William Carlos Williams”
Fires of the Dragon (54 poems)
Summary
- Living in the fires of life
- Primal terror and love – slay, wrestle, kiss, or ride the dragon (the Self)
- Live without parachute and as the abyss and create out of them
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Art of the Heart(89 poems)
Summary
- Beast Heart to Feast Heart
- Seed Heart
- Furnace of heart to ash to alchemy of art
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Alive! (50 poems)
Summary
- How be alive, how be dead
- What it’s like to be alive in this day and age
- Shivers of aliveness go boundless
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Nature's Creatures (100 poems)
Summary
- Ways of nature’s creatures; don’t want to be this creature, and how this sinks us
- Agony of our ectascies
- Chaos, slaughter, and one heart
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Black Sun, Black Heart (53 poems)
Summary
- Life’s lover is combat and bliss
- Life slapped me in the face
- Earth’s Issue: Soul is not done with you
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One Dream (89 poems)
Summary
- Many lives, one dream
- Dream lives you, not the story
- Dream sings to you day and night
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Visions and Voices (104 poems)
Summary
- Earth’s eye, Give it all away
- Being wherever the flower is
- Song of Embrace or why doesn’t sweetness last forever
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Free Sea (115 poems)
Summary
- Our true face is free sea
- All of you must be here to swim free sea
- Giving song and fire wings for radiance of free sea
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Spiral Dance: Songs of Silence (105 poems)
Summary
- Spiral dance is to do the impossible that you cannot do and so chosen to do it
- The music of silence along million miles of lover’s body
- Breaking evolution’s roots
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Gifts: Granted Gratitude (approximately 85)
Summary
- Out of the bottle
- Wish fulfilling gem: gifts and gratitude
- With gratitude comes infinity
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Original Eyes (approximately 50+ poems)
Summary
- Seeing with original eyes what cannot speak
- How light shines through wide open eyes
- Gifts gift: primal fear, primal love
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The Cry (approximately 118 poems)
Summary
- Surface from ground of being what lives you
- Wild life and wild mind
- The cry walks the earth
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Love Letters (Approximately 92 poems)
Summary
- Love letters to poets reading the poems
- Carrots and Celerys
- It’s true!
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Coming Soon
"How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea/Whose action is no stronger than a flower"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet #65 (Approximately 150 poems)
Summary
- Rage
- Beauty’s plea
- Flowers action
Excerpts
- Spring Presence (Approximately 114 poems)
- Transformers (Approximately 108 poems)
- Kaleidoscope (Approximately 75-100 poems)
