Through These Eyes

By David Newman

Flight is borne when wings dance upon the invisible…when they embrace the open air as their partner…and that lyrical movement has the power to move your soul. If God gave such power to birds to affect the soul, I think He gave much more to mankind. And if mankind wields this powerful gift of lyrical movement through the written and spoken words, then it should be used for good as well as to honour the one who gave the gift to start with. That is what this book conveys.
And every time a bird is born, it doesn't really live until its wings have taken flight. Then it knows what it has been born for. It's like a bird is born twice; the first time upon its feet, and the second, upon its wings. I too had to be born again. And I pray that the gift of poetry which God has given me, that I have used to author this book, may be used to introduce you to the one who is the Author of all things. And that you may learn to look to Him, who the Bible speaks of this way: "Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (KJVER)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jul 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781528967792

David Newman

David Newman is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), marketing expert, speaker, and founder of Do It! Marketing, a strategy and done-for-you services firm that specializes in working with executives and entrepreneurs who want to speak more profitably. He’s also the creator of the Speaker Profit Formula® seminar and mentoring program. David has worked with over six hundred executives and entrepreneurs to monetize their message; his clients and audiences include forty-four of the Fortune 500, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, QVC, Merrill Lynch, and American Express. David hosts The Speaking Show, the #1 podcast for experts who want to speak more profitably. David’s previous book, Do It! Marketing, is an international bestseller and was translated into six languages.

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About the Author

David Newman is a contemporary Christian poet who likes blending his faith with poetry. He aspires to have a modern poetic voice that impacts people through its vulnerable tone and Christian themed topics.

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Dedication

Sometimes the darkest storms

are where blessings are born.

This is a lesson my mother passed on to me

when I was younger.

What the Son of God Did

Throughout the city a story is written

just listen…

One Way, one Truth, one Life…one Love

Just look at the telephone poles above

they tell a story above the city streets…

that groan with the sound of traffic

Like a copper penny spinning on its edge…and ready to fall

…the sun falls behind the city

… On the fringe of the ocean-blue sky

as the tide of the sky turns from day to night

The silver city train divides the street lanes

…humming by like a harmonica

…in the hands of the blues player

standing on the corner

Winter weighs with cold, upon the shoulders of the city…

… And what a heavy burden, on the homeless, that is

who sleep on a cold cement mattress

Pigeons circle through the air like bicycle tires

…till they rest on the telephone wires

And wooden telephone poles tower in the air like crosses…

let them remind us of what the Son of God did

when he came to heal the brokenhearted

and then he