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    Elegiac Dialogues: More Light . . . More Light . . . More Light
    Elegiac Dialogues: More Light . . . More Light . . . More Light
    Elegiac Dialogues: More Light . . . More Light . . . More Light
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    Elegiac Dialogues: More Light . . . More Light . . . More Light

    By Larsen Bowker

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    AUTUMN IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR

    Driving through autumns red and yellow dream
    leaving as it comes road leaves kick up and float

    in the rear view mirror like notes of a Mozart sonata,
    before falling again like bits of paper, reminders

    of projects Ive started and never finished, friends
    Ive let slip away and the orange I couldnt imagine

    when I was green. Passing through the smoke
    of burning leaves, I am wakened to the stranger

    Ive become to myself since I walked away from a
    town between two rivers where I could hold earth

    and sky in my hand and every morning Meadowlarks
    sang for me alone. Now I ride my fugitive pony

    from quarry to cathedral, betrayed and benumbed
    by the god who came down to give us glory of flesh

    and the gift of sinthen ascended behind steel gray
    clouds, leaving me to choose everyday between

    hymen and hymnal, moon chalk and sun dust, scream
    and sobcarrying, like the wasp, my death inside.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9781524653309
    Elegiac Dialogues: More Light . . . More Light . . . More Light
    Author

    Larsen Bowker

    These are poems of a storyteller, his tone largely elegiac as he probes for balance in the thought/action and faith/doubt systems that give meaning to his life, searching as he says, “for the whole person I’ve always wanted to be.” In memories always threatening to become a vision, he searches for that sense of self etched on his soul by his Mother’s ‘love affair with words”, and his Father’s belief that “words are never as important as they seem to be. One critic suggests “reading his poems makes you feel as if you’re walking in radiant grace of afternoon light in autumn.” They are thought-inspired poems seeking to reclaim that slow drama and deeper texture of life lived before the 24 hour news cycles in their endless drone of words that work mightily to take the individual voice from our lives. This poet grew up in the part of Nebraska that has more limestone hills, rivers and trees than flat farmland, place his Mother made into Arcadian Myth and legend, initiating mystery into slow daily lives lived within their commitment to work, family and friends, lives lived celebrating the self as well as affirmation of others, helping to shape the character without rules. Another critic writing of poems in this author’s book “Flowers from a Deeper Soil”, called them “elegies from an unsung Master: honest, elemental and durable.” And another called them “’word journeys seeking to renew our Faith in a life greater than our immediate experience of it.”

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