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    The Book of Bliss
    The Book of Bliss
    The Book of Bliss
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    The Book of Bliss

    By Alla Bozarth

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    PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING TEXT IN A POEM AND SHOULD HAVE POETRY FORMATTING. TEXT FOR BOOK DESCRIPTION: The Night Gardener This is my bliss time. I water under the moon while the world sleeps. Awake with owls and bats, moths and cats and the worker bee who never sleeps - I give grasses their drink, kiss the night-blooming flowers whose moon-drenched yellow scent surrounds the garden, whose round blossoms glow in the dark, dancing like drunkard angels.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 26, 2000
    ISBN9780595722808
    The Book of Bliss
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    Alla Bozarth

    Dr. Alla Rene Bozarth is an award-winning poet and author of numerous titles of prose books, poetry collections, and audiotapes, including Stars in Your Bones, Life is Goodbye/ Life is Hello, Widsom and Wonderment and Water Women. She is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, history-making women who became the first female Episcopal priests in 1974. Dr. Bozarth holds a doctorate in performing arts from Northwestern University and is a certified Gestalt therapist. She practices soul care of herself and soul-mending and soul-tending of others at Wisdom House near Mt. Hood in western Oregon. Many of her poems, along with the art of owner and designer, Susan Lind-Kanne, are featured on Bear Blessings Soul Cards.

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      The Book of Bliss - Alla Bozarth

      © 2000 by Dr. Alla Renée Bozarth

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      Writers Club Press

      an imprint of iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

      2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      ISBN: 0-595-00607-8 (Pbk)

      ISBN: 0-595-75378-7 (Cloth)

      ISBN: 9-780-5957-2280-8 (ebook)

      Contents

      The Practice of Imperfection

      Novaya Zemlya

      Birth is a Movable Feast

      Eccentric, So?

      Dying is Temporary

      After the Fact…

      Lenten Meditation

      Three Little Words

      Divine Comedy

      The books that never get written

      The Flower that Sees

      Black Madonna -Notre Dame sur La Terre

      Fifty Years After Holocaust

      Who is this Man?

      Voyageur

      Playing it by Heart-My Life

      The Entertainer

      Transcending the Party Line

      The 90% Principle or A Primer of Imperfection

      Watering Time

      I’m Just a Member of God’s Secretarial Pool

      One Minute at a Time

      Life—It’s a Quick Trip

      Stretching Time

      Come Again

      Zen Rainwalk

      It bubbles up sometimes

      O Earth, Wrap Me

      Bodhisattva Meditation

      Nostalgia (an evolutionary paean)

      (The Bodies We Can’t Imagine and) What I Love Now

      The Book of Love and Letting Go

      Ritual for Art and Life

      Where Did You Go?

      Picture of Burntside Lake Found at Easter

      Dream Lodge

      To My Good Health

      Talking with My Hands

      I Don’t Want to See

      Fall Crocus

      Our Time

      Splendor Distilled

      Here in this Body

      Precession of the Perihelion

      Transfiguration

      The Light Around Your Bones

      Sunday Memory

      Pure Lust, Perfect Bliss—Holy Communion

      From As You Like It

      Aging

      I Am Changing

      Flight into Opposites

      Sea Call

      Grunion Run

      The Way We Are

      It is Enough

      Blackberry Zen

      Be

      Tao Bear

      On Not Going to the Ballet

      Second Harvest

      Sing Me Up

      The Book of Blessings

      Poems about My State

      My Body’s Wood is Bone

      Blessings—The Mystery of Things —for far out Neptune and her moons

      Dove Icon

      July—At Home

      Waning Moonrise

      Nobody Owns the Land

      Away

      Communion

      Five Billion Years of Bliss

      That’s Life

      The Tao of Christ or Crazy Wisdom

      Duets

      Grace

      Grace Before a Meal

      A Partial and Preliminary List of Things to Say Grace Over

      Company

      Faith

      Buddha, which Means Awakened One— or, If You Meet the Buddha On the Road, Kiss Her

      Jesus the Buddha, Gautama the Christ

      What Jesus Really Said

      The Stillness that is Trying to Heal

      O’Keeffe Communion

      What Does It Mean?

      Free Fall

      When the Flesh Becomes Word

      Invocation

      Eros Comes to Earth

      Do You Live Alone?

      Dreamsky

      The Book of Bliss

      Interdependence Day Celebration

      Inside My House (Hestia Centers Herself)

      Sunday Work

      No Failed Magician

      The Shamantool

      December Afternoon Tea

      The Night Gardener

      As I Cross a Bridge of Stars into the Underworld

      Sympathetic Magic

      Happy Birthday House

      Being Here

      Flowers are the bodies

      I Love Being Here

      Autobiography of Joy—Continuity

      A Citizen of Heaven on Earth

      My Bliss

      Blessed Sacrament

      Listen—

      The People Who Live in My Body

      Bliss

      Going Back into God

      Fire

      Dreamkeeper

      Pear Wood

      Live in Your Bliss

      Glory Days— an Autobiography of Grace

      Going to Heaven— Like a Bee, Like a Fish, Like a Bird

      Don’t Ask Too Many Questions

      Immanence/Transcendence

      Wedding Dervish

      Image298.PNG Acknowledgements

      Various poems in The Book of Bliss can be found in the following books and audiotapes by Alla Renée Bozarth.

      Books

      Life is Goodbye/Life is Hello

      Love’s Prism

      Stars in Your Bones

      (With paintings by Julia Barkley 

       and commentary by Terri Hawthorne) 

      Wisdom and Wonderment

      The Word’s Body

      Soulfire

      Winterfire

      Audiotapes

      Dance For Me When I Die

      Reading Out Loud to God

      Water Women

      All Shall Be Well/All Shall Be One

      O Earth, Wrap Me first appeared in Life Prayers, edited 

       by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, HarperSanFrancisco 1996

      The Practice of Imperfection 

      Novaya Zemlya 

      Explorers at Earth’s 

       pinnacle below the Pole Star 

       may, without going mad, 

       hear directly the growl 

       of the Great Bear,

      see sunrise in a solar mirage 

       hours before it happens,  

       encircling the world 

       in a single hour 

       they believe to last days.

      All inner adventure 

       begins here. 

       This is the place 

       of illusion and 

       unfinal reality.

      No one escapes

      the caution:

      all things are

      fashioned oddly,

      the joints of the universe

      mysteriously hinged.

      Do not, therefore, attempt 

       to name things too clearly,  

       or imagine the crystal vision 

       you see to be precisely itself.

      All things are born 

       and flow again 

       in realms of the magi.

      Birth is a Movable Feast 

      White is the worst, 

       said the midwife. 

       "Blue and purple are bad 

       but white means a long time 

       without oxygen."

      I was taken up by alien hands 

       on Ascension Day, May 15, 1947:  

       I was denied the long descent 

       down the birth canal, the first 

       necessary transit.

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