Enter into another door of Naomi's inspirational writings in Poetry. This is Book 3 and just as Book 1 and 2, you will find these poems speaking to and from the heart and soul. Simple as they may seem, they are of a different kind. They carry deep messages for spiritual awakening, enlightenment and encouragement. If you are seeking a closer walk with the Lord, you will see your desires in her writings that will inspire you.
Here is another collection of Naomi's inspirational poems and just as Book 1 and Book 3, you will find a thirst of heart for a closer walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. Simple as they may seem, they are of a different kind carrying deep spiritual messages. May it be a blessing to the reader as it has been a blessing to her while writing. Be encouraged - be inspired.
Enter into the door of Naomi's inspirational writings in poetry. This is book 1 and just as book 2 and 3, you will find a cry of the heart for a closer walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. Simple as they may seem, they are of a different kind carrying deep spiritual messages. May they be a blessing to the reader as they have been a blessing to her while writing. Be encouraged - be inspired.
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.
Thirst: Seeking God When All Seems Lost is full of poems, psalms, and inspirational prose to empower you to cry out to God and trust that He's with you in this season of heartbreak.
Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks. Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise renderings that will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.
Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Roger Housden’s reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life. This volume brings together the voices of Thomas Merton, David Whyte, the Basque poet Miguel de Unamuno, Anna Swir from Poland, Stanley Kunitz, the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, and Jane Hirshfield, as well as three of Housden’s favorites, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab Nye. His luminous essays on the poems show us how to integrate the poets’ truth into our own lives. Roger Housden’s love of poetry and life leaps from every page—so much so that his readers feel they have found a guide and mentor through the extraordinary Ten Poems series. He has opened the eyes and hearts of many, not just to the power of poetry, but to the truth and beauty of the life of the soul. What more can one ask?
