Dancing with Angels: Songs and Poems of the Millennium

By W. Brunhofer

Good poetry is good because it connects us to universal human values and truths that speak to all people. Poems have the ability to inspire us to seek truth and take us on journeys in pursuit of goodness: from a fearless warrior's journey and stories of dauntless kings who beat the odds to celebrations of the beauty of nature and innocence of childhood and musings on the vastness of time and depth of true love. These verses mount an investigation into sources of human goodness and an exploration of the ultimate source of good.

Dancing with Angels Songs and Poems of the Millennium invites us to engage with those "better angels" whose guidance illuminates our better natures and brings us closer to the truth, rebalancing the human spirit in calibration with our Creator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098064938

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Dancing with Angels

Songs and Poems of the Millennium

William Brunhofer

ISBN 978-1-0980-6492-1 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-0980-8106-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-0980-6493-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by William Brunhofer

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I

A New Jerusalem

The Second Coming

Each and All

As You Like It

Poem in October

Fern Hill

King Henry V

Ulysses

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

On Angels

Second Space

Psalm 23

The Lord's Prayer

Part II

Questions

Consequences

Fashionable Truths

World in Worlds

First Light

Poem on Your Birthday

I Have Seen Love

Fragile Hope

Self-Portrait

Finding Faith

Fog-Held Land

Matchless

Silent Moon

Boast of the Sun

Once God

On Shakespeare's Sonnets

Love Loud Sings

About the Author

This work is dedicated to the Creator of all that is good and true,

and to the lords and ladies of creation, made in the image

of our Creator, who are called to stand and speak words of truth,

and to build and protect His Kingdom on earth.

And to my wife, Susan, and our children,

Aaron, Alexis and Ethan,

thank you for your love and encouragement.

"Life is either a daring, bold adventure

or

It is nothing at all."

—Helen Keller

Introduction

Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, asked in a 1945 Warsaw poem titled, Dedication, What is poetry that does not save nations or people? He concludes in this same poem:

That I wanted good poetry without knowing it

That I discovered, late, its salutary aim,

In this and only this, I find salvation.

Believing that good poetry is good because it contains truths that speak to all people, I have selected a few poems here from the English language that have stood the test of time and found admiring readers from around the world. There are countless poems in every culture that