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    Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems
    Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems
    Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems
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    Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems

    By Mark R. Turner

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    Fifty-one poems sifted from fourteen years of art making, theater, filmmaking and contemplation. Curiosities, childhood memories, events, deep space, history, theology, philosophy and life in the forest are capsulated in poems grouped under eight headings. Links are included to view films which feature some poems in the sound tracks. Background and context is offered for each poem in the form of dates and places of their writing and, for many, scripture references which were formative in their composition. Like seeds, they do not reveal by simple dissection the nature of the mature plant. For those who will thoughtfully receive them the poems can aid in personal reflection which, in due season, bears good fruit in the contemplative life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark R. Turner
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9781476041636
    Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems
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    Mark R. Turner

    Mark Turner is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer and artistic leader. He has produced and taught in five major regions of the globe as the director of Horizon Gate Productions, a non-profit arts organization which he co-founded with his wife in 1981. His emphasis has been in multi-media to tell stories and produce contemplative experiences using his visuals, poetry and soundtracks. He is currently creating tangible and digital art of inspirational and metaphorical images which he then re-purposes as motion graphics films with rich sound tracks of his poetry, sound effects and music. All this is exhibited together in a conversational atmosphere called the Film Gallery Cafe which can be booked in many venues.

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      Beautify, Oh - Mark R. Turner

      Beautify, Oh

      fifty-one poems

      Copyright 2012 Mark R. Turner

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Invocation

      Lord Speak

      Beautify Oh

      If You Had Not Inspired Me

      Oh Holy Love Maker

      Eyes to See You

      Navigating the World

      From Earth We Gaze

      Empires Inundate

      Periscope My Eyes

      Looking Above

      When Every Star

      Light Pierced Night

      In This Yard

      Are The Stars Like Sand

      Bound To Earth I Look

      Children On Earth

      As Upon The Earth

      At This Time

      I Knew As A Child

      There On Your Shoulder

      Flashing Chrome And Glass

      Catch Me On Your Breath

      If From The Height Of An Edge

      I Drink The Holy River

      Word and Culture

      Wish Down The Back

      Habla, O Speaker Into Being

      What Is Spoken

      We Regard As Wisdom

      Graffiti Left From Years

      Each Head Invisible

      He Throws The Seed

      I know an Artist

      O, Priest Rapt In Bliss Beyond

      History Then and Now

      How Far Back

      Ancient Before Ancient

      Once One By The Tree Of Risk

      On The Back Side Of The Unknown

      I Am Present

      When People From Far

      On the Journey Growing

      My Way Of Dust

      The Wing Of Heaven Brushed

      I Met A Grey Feathered Elegance

      Sawing Us

      So Innermost Being

      The Grid Of Me

      Curious, I Look

      There Is A Drought

      The Sun Breaks The Line

      Your Own Significance

      You’ve Never Seen Your Face

      Benediction

      Thy Testimonies Are In The Heavens

      I Wish For You The Sabbath Retreat

      All These Things

      You after all

      About the Author

      Preface

      These fifty-one poems are capsules carefully packed and sent out with hope someone

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