Foreplay to Afterglow for the Soul

By David S. Bell

My spiritual poems are powerful expressions of love, sadness, joy and ecstasy, where sensual delights and spiritual warmth walk hand in hand along the path to experience the moment . The moment is our gift, our present, our window in time to manifest with all the power we share with our Creator.

The spiritual path to self empowerment depends on living authentically.
Most of us live an almost schizophrenic dichotomy. Split between what we want to do and what we should do, who we are at home and who we are at work, what we want to be and how we really behave, the direction set by our mind and that set by our heart. I know because Ive been stuck there before.

There is a way to live with passion and purpose, to reclaim our soul, to break down the walls that keep us separated from our true selves, to feel and express the shades and subtleties we may have never known existed. It is the life of Authentic Power and being in alignment with your soul, it is the life of forgiving, releasing, affirming, rejoicing, believing and manifesting into reality the fruits of these feelings and beliefs.

Through this book, I share with you my lessons, my pain and mistakes, my joys and my epiphanies experienced on my journey toward wholeness. May you be inspired and empowered by these sharings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 12, 2005
• ISBN: 9781465333339

David S. Bell

About the Author (104 words) Born and raised in the west San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, California, David Bell played high school sports, earned a Masters Degree in Engineering, and had a rock band that toured the United States and released a CD. David started writing poetry to express and understand his own emotional and spiritual growth and passion for life. David is presently a Program Manager with a high technology company on a $228 million missile program; the father of two beautiful teenagers named Kristin and Andrew, and is pursuing a writing career. His prose and essays can regularly be seen on his website at http://www.davidstanleybell.com.

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Foreplay to Afterglow

For the Soul

David S. Bell

Copyright © 2005 by David S. Bell.

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Contents

SECTION 1

I Am Alive

This Life

Must Let Go

Wind

Ascent from Hell

Rage

Sacred Memory

Voice

Bloom

Nothing

The Cliff

SECTION 2

Sacred Space

Sail Away

I See

Touch Me

Fear

Wanderer

SECTION 3

Mariposa

Upon the Wind

Between

Understand

Communicate

Song for You

Believe

She Loves Me!

Sierra

Learn and Grow

Just Once Again

Look in your Eyes

Love

Spring

Child in You

Forever

Dedicated to the Angel of Inspiration

SECTION 1

Calling to the Path

The Buddhists say that we learn through pain until we evolve to learn through joy. Emptiness, fear, hopelessness, anxiety and loneliness are all callings to the path to transcend these very things. No quick fix, just our own steps to walk through all that binds us. Breaking down the walls of our prison can be painful but our salvation is cultivated in our experiences of living our truth. And through this process, we evolve to learn through joy.

I Am Alive

pain

joy

heartache

elation

all have been my own

my path has crossed

perilous cliffs

gentle meadows

dark alleys

the light of the sun in my heart

I have felt my soul open

embracing all that is

I have felt my heart collapse

to a burning knot within my being

tears in my eyes

blood on my hands

fading into the darkness of night

but with the morning

I raise my hopes and dreams to the wind

that love may find its way back to me

for I am all of these

I am this day

I am this moment

I am alive