Now Bound in Bone and Sinew

By Joan Belle Nemeth

NOW BOUND IN BONE AND SINEW is the
culmination of a life-long work in progress, poetry that
sings and dances among the stars and upon the hills and
in the hearts of the readers who will take it up to enjoy
and make it a part of how they too appreciate life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479747894

Joan Belle Nemeth

Joan Belle Nemeth has been a student of the art of living in communion with All That Is. She is an impassioned teacher of what she has learned by means of her writing and has found pleasure and purpose by seeing life through the eyes of beauty and majesty. Posing life-changing questions and finding answers in the language that her poetry speaks, she shares and inspires so that others can find their own opened illumination and passion for living, learning, and loving. She says, “… Written words, the in-mind sounds, syllables, the flow of them, the impressions and effects of them fascinate me. How they inspire and are able to recreate or influence is at the center of why I write….”

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Now Bound In

&

Bone

Sinew

Joan Belle Nemeth

Copyright © 2012 by Joan Belle Nemeth.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One, Spirituality

Now Bound in Bone and Sinew

Tabula Rasa

Silken Souls

Now Host

Rock Faces

Doors

Life Ever-circling

Eternal Geometry

Soul Dancing

After the Bath

Comes the Journey

Mono-Chromaticism

Sand upon the Wind

On Wings

Threads

Elemental Space

Life’s Mirror

Great Gifts

On Self and Soul

I Am

Healing Me

Which Way?

The We of Us

There is a Lamb

Within the Kingdom

Divinity’s Window

There Is Time

Part Two, Nature

To Stand

The White Unicorn

Rock Water Symphony

In the Trees near Red Lodge

Away, Far Away

First Snow

Faerie Grass

Windstone

In My First Garden

Snow Passing

Stone Living Water

All Hallows Eve

Mountain Snow

Autumn Wind

Mountain Sighs

Winter’s Hope

Part Three, Love

My Love Is

Misted Ones

My Friend

Hands

Tower Dreams

Kitty Marie I

Kitty Marie II

Kitty Marie III

Night Cry

Reaching Us

At the Wall: That Came to My Town

Rain

Tobias, Sabrina and Sheba Marie

Spring Melt

Here

Why?

M.W.B.H., the III

Forgiveness

Losing You

Thanksgiving

Where Have You Been?

Haiku on Love

Acknowledgements

How do you go about recognizing and thanking the innumerable people, places, and things that have gone into making you who you are and helped fashion how you relate to life so that you can accomplish what you set out to do? All the details of living contribute to the whole being of you, the specific influences of character and value fulfillment that foster your interpretations of the causes and effects of them, so that they structure the circumstances to your best and highest good.

All the dislikes and likes, the eases and comforts, the not so easy and not so comfortable, the road blocks and impediments, as well as the effortless rights of ways that are the growing grounds of teaching and learning. And ultimately, the synchronicities of desire and actuality all have their impacts and consequences, all enlightening and enriching you in spite of your sometime opinions of what appears to be happening. Is it a disaster or a blessing?

I am eternally grateful for the dis-eases, miseries, and misfortunes in my life. They have all played their prompting parts in creativity without which their inspiration to know and feel the joys and beauties of life would go unnoticed and unappreciated. I am also grateful for all the encouragements along my way from those who made it a point of showing and telling me how to hold onto my aspirations and the knowledge that what I had to say was somehow touching and worth sharing with others. Without them my poetry would be stuck in my computer files or on the sheets of the printed hardcopies in the folder of will these ever mean something to someone else?

My immediate family, especially my parents and brother, John Charles, upheld me in ways I’m sure they don’t know about, and I am eternally grateful. They provided me with the lessons that have inspired me through the depths and heights of this life. Their examples have been the sources and resources for the finding, identifying, and refining of my own inner guidance.

Life, the life we are creating each day, is gritty and mysterious in its ability to have us be productive and fulfilled. That’s why we are here, to experience what it is to be human in all its myriad expressions of being. Our companions along the ways help us shift probabilities; the certain outcomes become less likely or all the more firmly entrenched, all the possibilities presented in the choices we make that color and change them.

Are we changing the next potential result and establishing new ways of being? Are we paying attention or not? Perhaps, that’s another point to ponder, how we affect and are affected by others.

The acquaintances and friends in my life are counted as precious and appreciated, those still living and those who have gone onto other journeys in existence. Each has played a role that influenced me in ways that contributed to my physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and expansion. They are always with me.

I name but a few of those friends for whom I hold such profound gratitude hoping that those I don’t name will understand they are nevertheless included in my memory and held in deepest respect: Michael Britt-Henley, Joseph Dillon Ford, and Susanna Caridad Alonso, these three taking their places in my heart by sharing their special love for the arts, for words, and for their individual impacts on how living is more dear because of them; Lynne Madler Weber, our happenstance but timely meeting led to my discovery and being a recipient of her lovingly generous and encouraging nature; Jeffrey McManus and Gary Rocha, beloved teachers, mentors, and spiritual guides; and Kimberly Dawn Clausen, a sister friend in the true spirit of eternal love that knows no limitation.

That this publisher has found my poetry, my life’s work of artistic expression, worthy of printing is a joy. I am profoundly grateful for those creative assistances from Xlibris making this endeavor a reality. The photos for the cover were taken