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    Leaves of Light
    Leaves of Light
    Leaves of Light
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    Leaves of Light

    By Charles Michael Burack

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    The natural world comes alive in Charles Burack's luminous collection of poems. The poet meets trees, flowers, birds, spiders, cats, seals, and other wondrous and endangered creatures as equals. They share their wisdom and beauty, love and fear, humor and suffering and inspire in him profound ponderings, playful antics, and startling realizations.

    "Walt Whitman wrote of 'leaves of grass, ' and Charles Burack sings of 'leaves of light.' Burack weaves nature with science and religion and the wisdom that creation speaks to us whether walking in the woods or eating forbidden foods or hanging out with cats. His poems assist us in recovering our gift of seeing the world through the eyes of glory and numinosity and reverence again." --Matthew Fox, author of Confessions, Original Blessing, and One River, Many Wells

    "To choose praise is not a simple choice in our fragmented, cynical time. In Leaves of Light Charles Burack enlarges his vision-and ours-to praise the intimate and the immense, illuminate the vertical stillness of trees, and celebrate the green light of the world around us." --J. Ruth Gendler, author of The Book of Qualities and Notes on the Need for Beauty

    "Charles Burack's poems pulse with divine mystery and kaleidoscopic consciousness. From the ecstasy of love to the elements of the living world, his vision burns and shines like sparks rising up to the stars." --Drew Dellinger, author of Love Letter to the Milky Way

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn R. Mabry
    Release dateOct 5, 2016
    ISBN9781944769390
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      Book preview

      Leaves of Light - Charles Michael Burack

      OPEN TO YOU

      In prayer and

      meditation

      I keep hearing

      I am to open

      to your

      presence

      wisdom

      and love

      in all things

      at all times

      and not to walk

      a single

      narrow

      path

      THE DIVINE MARRIAGE

      Let us walk together, my beloved,

      toward God, with God, in God,

      deeper and deeper into Unity,

      Each of us a guide, a witness,

      a friend and fellow traveler,

      a mate and muse on the path of Love.

      Let us surrender to the Presence

      in each other and bow heads

      and anoint toes with kisses and tears.

      Let us guard the Pearl of our souls

      and drink deep and long the Life

      ever flowing from our inmost Heart,

      Both of us Beloved’s adoring

      servants, ecstatic with boundless

      service, dancing wildly into night

      intoxicated on wine of Eternity

      until we collapse in twined arms

      and sleep the deep peace of Bliss.

      O come, my beloved, come come

      soon for the hour is late

      and our hearts open and ripe

      to drown as one in One.

      ALL IN THE SAME MOMENT

      Buddha fountain bubbles

      Prayer wheel rings

      Heater booms on

      Power saw buzzes

      Meditation legs ache

      All in the same moment

      MT. MADONNA REDWOODS

      I

      Nine young redwoods

      circling remains

      of mother tree,

      her body charred

      wishbone

      ten-feet high.

      Children born

      from maternal ashes

      like a flock

      of arboreal phoenixes.

      II

      Redwood stump

      like green mountain

      stream,

      mosses cascading

      down

      her terraced contours

      flowing, flowing,

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