Poetry Echoes Through the Chambers of the Heart: A Seekers Dialogue: a Journey of the Soul Through Poetry and Philosophy

By Valerie Lawrence Pellegrini

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664178465

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POETRY

ECHOES

THROUGH THE CHAMBERS

OF THE HEART

Valerie Lawrence Pellegrini

A Seekers Dialogue: A Journey of the Soul Through Poetry and

Philosophy

Copyright © 2021 by Valerie Lawrence Pellegrini. 827107

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With thanks and gratitude I share the message here in which Stan and Joan Cohen gave me the inspiration and fortitude to write this book.

From: Stanley Cohen [e-mail]

To: [e-mail]

Yes I did receive a copy of your yellow rose poem, and I have shared it with many of my fellow professors and my wife. The feedback was all positive like, What a beautiful poem. I can personally relate to this.

And you personally got into my soul. Keep writing. You are gifted. Stan Cohen

Stan Cohen, Ed.D

Executive Vice Dean, HPD

Much thanks also to:

Cathy Marina my Xlibris publishing innovator for her devoted professional publishing assistance.

Jerry Dell Ehrlich fellow platonist and author of Plato’s Timeless and Profoundly Inspiring Wisdom.

Catherine Gemeiner a fellow Nova lecturer and dear and encouraging friend.

All my wonderful children and family ~ never a day without their love and praise.

My forever appreciation to all for whom I owe my deepest gratitude for turning a Could Be into a Now.

Valerie Lawrence Pellegrini Ph.D., LMHC

POETRY

Echoes Through the Chambers Of the Heart

A Seekers Dialogue; A Journey of the Soul

Through Poetry and Philosophy

Part I.     Poetry

I. Poems in the Quest

II. Poems on the Soul of the Mind

III. Poems on Love

IV. Poems on Transcendent Awareness

Part II.                       Poetry as Philosophy:

The Source of Insight Knowledge and Spiritual

Euphoria: the Heart of Poetry

I.   Poems on the Quest

Images Once Lost ~~ Arising

II.  Poems on the Soul of the Mind

The I the Me the We.. Beyond Physiology

III.  Poems on Love

Un-Defining Love: The Heart in Union with the Soul

Poetry ~ transitions over time

Over ~ voice, words, verse and rhyme

Eclipse ~ in thought to find

True ~ source of heart and mind

Revelation ~ mind to soul

You ~ as one when parts become the whole

Prelude

Valerie Lawrence Pellegrini

I came to understand as I reviewed all my poetry that a deep imperative need for finding the source of life, of existence itself seems to reverberate through almost every word from the core of my being.

But now I see that the search for the source of life of thought of meaning itself is a transcendent doorway to awakening.

Lets understand that poetry as a form of artistic experience is a way we intuitively transcend data, or symbols or numbers that often then elevates us into an overview an understanding of life and the universe beyond the structured forms of matter here in the tic-tocs of time.

Yes poetry is one of those ethereal mental ladders. Well that appears quite metaphysical but then again that is what metaphysics is conveying. As Thomas Carlyle wrote The attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

I can understand now the relevance of that inner dialogue which poetry and philosophy embrace. Mentioned later here I quote one of my favorite philosophers Kurt Godel a physicist and friend of Albert Einstein, who wrote, The mind is the thing that is structured but the mind exists independently of its individual parts. Kurt was a Platonist and Plato had become my philosophical mentor.

As we accept the duel here of life, death and the struggle for survival we can understand and forgive. You are the knowing not the condition that is known. Eckhart Tolle

So the depth of poetry for myself and many can inspire an ever evolving spiritual and psychic revolution to our evolution.

Poetry

Echoes Through the Chambers

Of the Heart

A Seekers Dialogue; A Journey

Through Poetry and Philosophy

Part I.

I. Poems on the Quest

II. Poems on the Soul of the Mind

III. Poems on Love

We are here to find that dimension within ourselves that is deeper than our thought.

Eckhart Tolle

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

PHILOSOPHY

The Source of

Insight, Knowledge and Spiritual

Euphoria at the Heart of Poetry

Part II.

I. Poems on the Quest:

Images Once Lost ~ Arising

II. Poems in the Soul of the Mind:

The I, the Me, the We, Beyond Physiology

III. Poems on Love:

Un-defining Love,

The Heart in Union With the Soul

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe. Buddha

I think, ~therefore I am. Rene Descartes

I am not that, that is not me. Ram Dass (In