Walking Together in Solidarity and Solitude

By Charles Hobgood

Next Generation

Planetary fitness
Issues like Covid-19
and global warming
Calling the next generation
To be one choir
Singing, “We Shall Overcome”
Walking together in
solidarity and solitude
Know we are all descends
from cosmic stardust
Wrapped in love
for each other and the earth.


This poetry is designed to open your inner mystic, a bridge between our deep longings and the present moment. A path connecting our solitude with membership in community helping to create solidarity. A stimulus to ask new questions of ourselves and are fellow travelers, sustaining and deepening our intuitive and spiritual journey. Hopefully these writings like a day at the beach will open us to hear what the surf is saying to the sand. What our hearts are saying to our heads!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728366692

Charles Hobgood

“Hobs”, is a retired faculty from Defiance College who taught social work and psychology. His first book, Finding Comfort in Uncertainty, was published in 2016 by Authorhouse. He had a mental health practice for thirty years in both public and private settings. He has conducted numerous retreats and workshops in the area of spiritual growth. He enjoys writing and walking with his dog, Emerson in the woods along with his wife of fifty-four years, Marabeth.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/13/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-6670-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-6669-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020912056

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Contents

Author’s Notes

With Gratitude

Dedication

Abstractions Taste Funny

Answering Your Own Heart

Astonished

At Seventy

Bathsheba

Beneath Convention

Dangerous Questions

Dictionary Aside

Gathering Nourishment

Golden laughter

Grace and Graveyards

Growing Edges

Harsh Living

Hero’s journey

Holding Ground

Holding Hands with Uncertainty

Hope Sings

Just Beyond or Behind

Lamentations

Laurel Mountains

Morning Walks

Ordinary day 1

Ordinary day 2

Ordinary day 3

Ordinary day 4

Painted Ponies

Poet’s Eyes

Rivers as Rivers

Solidarity and Solitude

Sweet Confinement

The Bend in the Road

The Great Turning 2

The Great Turning

The Point

The Rivers Edge

The Size of the House

Thread Holder and Seekers

Treasure Hunt

Unspoken

Walking Together in Solidarity and Solitude

With Gratitude

Let the Phone Ring

Liminality

Mountain Paths

New Church

Ode to a Zip Code

Open to be Seized

Perhaps

Pilgrimage/Anniversary Poem

Pocket Choice

Where Minnows Dart

Winter

Yough-A-By-Nights

Yough Shrine

Readers Notes

Author’s Notes

There is a space between the implications and inferences of the writer and the interpretations and take away of the reader where mystics are born.

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