Native JoyNative Joy: Poems Songs Visions Dreams by Geoffrey Oelsner begins with the author's pre-birth and early childhood memories, proceeds to poems for his wife and family, then journeys on deep into the twin terrains of Nature and the world of dreams. This big book of celebration and communion contains sections with topic titles like "Men, Mentors," "Hard Karmic Weather," "Great Mother, Women, World," "Older Brothers: Buddha and Christ," "Visions and Highs," and "U.K." (exploring human and Other realms in Great Britain). A performing singer/songwriter, Oelsner includes a selection of song-lyrics called "Morning Branches." These poems leave traceable trails into our own innate native joy. Cover painting by Robert Sudlow |
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... Buddha and Christ 214 Strange Gates #13 223 Great Mother, Women, World 225 Strange Gates #14 234 West 236 Strange Gates #15 246 Here the Words Fade Out, But... 248 Natal and Later Tales CONCEPTION AND BIRTH One seed plunged iv.
... Buddha and Christ 214 Strange Gates #13 223 Great Mother, Women, World 225 Strange Gates #14 234 West 236 Strange Gates #15 246 Here the Words Fade Out, But... 248 Natal and Later Tales CONCEPTION AND BIRTH One seed plunged iv.
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Contents
Strange Gates 1 | 11 |
Strange Gates 2 | 35 |
Strange Gates 3 | 48 |
Strange Gates 4 | 67 |
Strange Gates 5 | 82 |
Strange Gates 6 | 95 |
Strange Gates 7 | 112 |
Strange Gates 8 | 137 |
Strange Gates 9 | 154 |
Strange Gates 11 | 190 |
Strange Gates 12 | 212 |
Strange Gates 14 | 234 |
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Aberdeen bird Black Mountain blessed blue Bob Dylan body bones Border guards breath breeze bright cabin CHORUS clouds colors dance dark dawn deep door Dylan's earth eyes face feel flame forest Gary Snyder gaze Geoff girl gone grass gray green hands head heart hills huge John Locke Kansas Karmapa Kenneth Patchen Lama Surya Das leaves Leslie ley lines light living look meadow menopausal mind Mississippian Culture moon morning branches Mother night Oelsner Ozark pine poems prayers rain river road rocks Rumi Sacred Hoop Secret love shadows Shekinah Malkuth silence sing sleep slope snow song spirits stars stone STRANGE GATES sway sweat lodge Tesuque Pueblo Thank There's Titles of dreams TORI AMOS Trail of Tears trees turn in circles voice waking walk walls watch wave wind window wings woman