Down in the White of the Tree
Spiritual Poems
Published on 16. November 2018
163 pages
978-1-947548-48-0 (ISBN)
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The marriage of poetry and spirituality is of course an ancient one, and in Down in the White of the Tree, Tim J. Myers works in that tradition. But his isn''t conventional religious poetry, some of which, he believes, is either inadequate for genuine spiritual seeking or antithetical to it. Myers works from the larger tradition, in which Rilke speaks of God as the profoundly distant Center on whose outermost periphery we reside-and from which Hafiz can assert that the universe is "just a tambourine" for us to play against our "warm thigh[s]." These are poems of doubt, of faith, and of a profound love for the radiance we can encounter in the world.
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- February, 1991
- Paleolithic Burial
- On Laughter
- Secrets
- After Prayer
- At the Edge
- Faith in the New World
- A Dance for the DIA
- Admonished
- Lecture Engagement
- Sacred Riddle
- Love-Making Song
- After a Theravadan Sermon
- Song for Dust
- Question Put to Self
- April 2006
- Keep in Mind
- Grace On a March Morning
- Names of God
- Omphalos
- Twilight Prayer
- After the Dinner Party
- Master
- Death Song (2)
- Irrational Hymn
- Junk Windchimes
- In March
- Before an Ancient Bas-relief
- He Glimpses the Breadth of Love
- For Edgar Allan Poe
- X-ray
- The Discovery of Extrasolar Planets, 1990's
- Song for the Intimations
- March Night
- Transphysical Song
- Hymn to Peregrine Mutability
- As We Hiked
- The Angel Thanatael
- Song for Five O'Clock
- Orange
- To the Flowers of the Crepe Myrtle
- We Moderns
- Her Husband's Death
- Liberation Song
- Those Roses
- After Bernini's ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA
- Two Poems for Truth
- On January 6th
- Capitola Beach, New Year's Day '03
- Snapdragon in Spring
- A Prayer Before Sex
- Love Song (2)
- To Find
- We Think We Know That Country
- To Kali
- When Death
- Apple Trees in Early Winter
- Going to Bed in My Parents' House
- Night Waking
- Inca Dig
- On Language
- for Stepping Out Under the Stars
- Song of Being
- Remind Me
- In Praise
- A Night Prayer
- To the Ghost of Francois Villon
- On Becoming
- Muse (2)
- Numbers
- Etymological Hymn
- From the Bike Trail
- Leap of Faith
- Buddhists Believe in 16 Kinds of Voids
- Son to Father, Religious Disagreement
- Incident on the Border of History
- Saying Grace at a Neighbor's
- Toys
- When Sleepy
- For a Hymn to the Edge
- Hymn for the Eventualities
- For My Wife
- Creed
- A Child's Night Waking
- Funk Band: A Theology
- Something
- Milky Way
- Endpiece
- Acknowledgments
