Living Somewhere Between the River and the Road: Living Somewhere Between

By Carl Freeman Reynolds

This is the authors second book, the first being Reflections on the Past and Future, a collection of prayers and meditations, also published by Xlibris.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543426120

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LIVING

Somewhere Between the

RIVER

and the

ROAD

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CARL FREEMAN REYNOLDS

Copyright © 2017 by Carl Freeman Reynolds.

ISBN:             Softcover                   978-1-5434-2613-7

                      eBook                         978-1-5434-2612-0

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Rev. date: 05/24/2017

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CONTENTS

Prelude

River 1

River 2

River 3

River 4

River 5

River 6

River 7

River 8

River 9

River 10

River 11

River 12

River 13

River 14

River Via 1

If a poem, or any other work of art

Has to be explained,

It has lost its voice.

Read On and Listen!

PRELUDE

My God

By whatever name you wish to be called

My God

Forgive me for calling you

My God

As if you are not

Someone else’s God

But I have no other words

So, my God

Please help me confess to what I need to confess to

Please help me acknowledge all the ways in which I need help

Doing is only a glimmer of what you wish of me

For all I have been through

Do I even have the faintest clue

Of who YOU are

As opposed to ME

I worship you

I acknowledge you

As the source of everything

But

make yourself

as opposed to myself

real

I know you in my dreams

be real to me now

ahmeyn

RIVER 1

I live next to the Willimantic River

It goes by whether I notice or not

It has been doing so for the last few tens of thousands of years

I’ve only been here for two

It got hot today

Hot enough to need some cool water

To calm me