The Ether

By Bill Buck

The Ether is a collection of poetry that spans the spectrum of human emotion and a quarter century of the authors life, including the loss of his best friend and the rekindling of his long lost love. Yet it is not just his stories they tell.

These poems chronicle a spiritual and philosophical awakening and journey They explore the pain and ecstasy of recognizing truth and following wisdoms path They reveal the discovery and decision to live within the light of love no matter what the cost All through captivating adventures that perhaps mirror some of your own.

It is hoped that you, dear reader, embark upon this journey into and within the spiritual Ether with the intent to awaken to the beauty, light and love that is here for all of us. It is us.

Set sail on the trip of a lifetime, and live free in your lifetime the beautiful, exquisite time your life is meant to be. Seek it. Find it. Claim it as your own. The Etherit is your connection to everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504346313

Bill Buck

Bill Buck has traveled the world as an insurance investigator specializing in fine arts, diamonds, explosions, fraud and arson. He is working on a series of mystery novels based on his insurance investigation cases. Bill Lives in Chicago and is the father of four boys and has a grand daughter.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-4632-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4630-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4631-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015920026

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/05/2016

Contents

Part I: CRACKS OF LIGHT

Yellow Daffodils

Choice

Walls

Sculpture

Capacity

Life’s Light

Indian Ways

Sins of the Father

Whose Kidding Me

Perceptions

Touch Eternity

Cloak & Dagger

22 Summers Lost

Daddy’s Little Girl

You Are My Reason

Why the Cardinal

Go the Distance

Mirror Image

Phase IV / At the Door

Mr. Thoreau

Flare Up / Melt Down

Together Alone in Special Places

Yes and No

Misinterpretations

The Dogwoods

The Ultimate Nostalgia

With

Cracks of Light / Cracks of Time

Warm Hope

The Other Side

The Eternal Ocean

Chance Forever

Full Moon

Hunger for the Words

Silent Song

The Last Day Always Comes

Select Memories

Voices in an Envelope

Ode to the light

Return

Oh Yes

Lake Faces

Buck & Doe

Way Back Now

Life / Time

Suspended Animation

Belong

The Island

From / To

Port in Paradise

Love’s Gate

Settle For

The Waiting Time

With You My Love

Come to Me

Strength from Tomorrow

Streets of Love

Celebration

Return to the Garden

Sage Memories

California Dreams

Windows

Close of Summer ‘92

Love’s Bell Tone

My Lover is Come to Me

Why

Life Saving

I Remember

Part II: THE WORK OF LOVE

Food For My Starving Heart

Our Way

For a Season

A Chicago Boy in L.A.

Hurry Sunrise

We Enter the Ether

Don’t Capture the Rainbow

Things Permanent

The Soul of Life

Kiss

The Waiting Time II

A Lesson From The Past

Tomorrows’ Promise

A Quest

It’s Over

The Waiting Time – III

What Do I Write of My Love

The Unworthy

Throne or Drone

Home-Coming

Love’s Light

Seasons Cycles

Her Valentine

Places of Old

The Daffodils of Lindau

Till Then

The Temple

Focus

Lover

Love’s Light Covers

The Sun Sets

My Lover Tells Me a Sad Tale

The Lady of the City

The Rocks of Huntington

The Winds of Love

Death Laugh

Love’s Kingdom

Light

Winter’s Wait

Make the Time Fly

The Moment

Keep Warm Inside

Two Hearts

My Loneliness

When You Are Ready

Anniversary

Tell Me

The Painter

That Which is True

Again

The Waterfall

The Place

But in the Night

Hole in the Sky

The Little Girl from Kedvale Ave

I Am Blind

The Lonely Night

Our Secret Love

Father’s Love

A Return to Places of Old

The Sound of Love Touch

Enter

The Freedom of Tragedy

A Six Year Old Boy

Part III: WITHIN LOVE

My Impression

Without Time / Only Space

Now

Step Out

Choice in Pain

Remember

Labor

July Heat

Memory

Maple Street Park

I Don’t Know

A House of Love

The Gift

Seek

Love’s Glow

Knowledge of Love

Lover’s Lapse

Happy Birthday

Morning Prayer

Your Eyes

Time Away

Away

Sky Window

Angels’ Star

He’ll Remember

Love, Love, Love

Who

The Color of Death

Completeness

Good Morning

Discovery Inside

The Dawn

What I Heard

Daffodils Forever

Christmas Wish

The Heart

The How

Stop Watch

The Edge of Light

Christmas Time

Partiality

Thin Life

Love Lost

Time Less Love

Birthday Song

Slip

Gone

Oh Girl

The Primeval World

Birthday

Reflections

Search

Question

Love Leaks Out

Smiles

Morning

Knocking on Heavens Door

Another

Walk Before Me

Joy Exists

Our Love

The Spoken Pure

Falling

Future Gift

Your Sustaining Love

My Forever

The Kiss of Life

Sight

Early Morning

The True Eternal

The Salt of Life

The Time of Our Love

What is

Celebration II

Time is on my side

Love is the Journey

Egyptian Eyes

Birthday wishes

Good-bye

The Motion of Love

The Moments

Everywhere

Life’s Path

The Everything

My Phoenix

Pathway

The Dali Lama’s Smile

The Gift

In the Light

Love Like a Warm Light

Secret Miracle

Dedication

For Cindy, my muse, my angel come to earth, my redemption.

Acknowledgments

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Prologue

The Ether defined:

The reason we are here, and

The reason we are here

The Ether, the silent knowing essence, wisdom of the ages, font of the sages I bid you allow me entry. I hunger for the flow of your grace, your wisdom, my grace, my quest, wisdom and freedom.

We live within the love, the grace. We move within this beautiful universe but must answer our life’s craving, the tugging on us to LIVE ! That is the Ether. It is part of us, in us. We are of it. Our quest is with interest, our interest to seek wisdom, to live consciously and deliberately within and of wisdom.

I seek wisdom.

The Ether is my passage. Ride its wave, sore on its wings.

Bill Buck

Chicago

June 23, 2015

Part I