Native Joy

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Trafford Publishing, 2004 - Poetry - 253 pages

Native 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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Contents

STRANGE GATES 1
11
Shes Standing at the Center of All This
12
STRANGE GATES 2
35
Lantern Thoughts
37
STRANGE GATES 3
48
Ozark Scrolls
50
STRANGE GATES 4
67
To the Heart of You in All Creatures
70
STRANGE GATES 9
154
Hard Karmic Weather
156
STRANGE GATES 10
166
Morning Branches Song Lyrics
168
STRANGE GATES 11
190
Vision and Highs
192
STRANGE GATES 12
212
Buddha and Christ
214

STRANGE GATES 5
82
Men Mentors
84
STRANGE GATES 6
95
Passage to Kansas and More Than Kansas
97
STRANGE GATES 7
112
In the Dreaming
114
STRANGE GATES 8
137
UK
138
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
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