Harmonic Reflections of Life

By Elias Ramirez

The birth of a child, imagined chats with our kids, heavenly flights when one falls in love, and impending marriage with its mystical image - these are some of the heartwarming and exhilarating moments of life captured in Harmonic Reflections of Life.

Hearing these familiar enchanting overtones of life, we recognize the reflections of our own reality as we marvel at the triumphs as well as challenges of cherished family members and dear friends.

Here also are the devastating realities of life like the suffering of Jesus and the death of a dearly beloved one when the heart screams and tears pour endlessly. The pangs of grief gratefully diminish and eventually come a resurgence of lifes magic moments and even imagined ones.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504351195

Elias Ramirez

Now retired in Hawaii, Professor Elias Ramirez finds great delight in life’s phenomena that inspire literature. He affirms graciously, “Minute and grand miracles in daily life often remain uncelebrated until they become inspirations to write about especially with poetry’s compactness and imagery. These compositions become life’s glorious testaments.

Book preview

Familiar Angels

Little miracles in human form

Can be oh so real.

God unobtrusively

Drops angels into our lives.

These flitting spirits

Creep into our reality

And somehow find a niche

From which to enchant us.

They just work themselves

Into little crevices

That need love and joy,

Performing wonders quite zestfully.

I know three such Angels

That flutter joyously around me

And bring—without fanfare—

Smiles and laughter and happy tears.

Newborn

Into your care I entrust an Angel,

Spoke the Lord to Pian and John.

They thankfully and exultantly replied,

"We have waited patiently for her,

Knowing well a miracle would befall us.

And now she is finally home."

One day she will say,

I am proudly yours!

They in turn will respond,

You are lovingly ours.

The Lord graciously will exclaim,

You are all blessedly mine.

I Love You, My Honey

What else can I say again to you

That I have not said a hundred times:

A hundred times or more perhaps

When I have heard your sonant sounds

As they have carried me heavenward?

Yes, at those times my open heart says,

I love you and again I love you.

Your ringing melodies still remind me,

Remember how you fell in love?

And I answer, I always will be.

Of Birthdays and More

In days of youth gone by

Two genteel people in sweet accord did meet.

Said he to her: Please be my bride.

Said she to him: Indeed I will.

This youth, Brave George by name,

Lived in fortuitous nuptial bliss

With his beloved, Sweet Sal by name.

One day with kindness in her heart

Yet firmness in her voice,

Sweet Sal to Brave George did proclaim:

"If Chinese tradition we must uphold,

Then in our family I am the boss."

To this, Brave George exclaimed,

Am I ready for this? Can this be true?

To which the resolute Sweet Sal replied:

Of course it is. I’m older than you

Joyce

Blessed again," said Mother Vi.

Yes, we are, spoke Father Bill.

"This daughter becomes our fourth

With Dean and Grace and Keith."

With joy she fills our hearts.

So gratified with God they were,

And so freely they rejoiced.

Thus Joyce became her Christian name.

Steadfast as a bubbling brook became