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Be Creative and Live Forever
Paperback
Publisher: Kenneth F Conklin LLC
Published: Mar 28 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if every dawn invited you to create something so true it never dies?
In Be Creative and Live Forever, octogenarian poet Charles C. Finn welcomes readers into a year of twilight ruminations-intimate, lucid, and quietly luminous. Written at daybreak by a woodstove or in a ring of stones near the Blue Ridge, these poems notice everything: a mockingbird's bravura, a granddaughter's bright eyes, a jet's interruption forgiven, the ache of the moon, the solace of old friends, the nearness of the departed. Finn's voice is warm and companionable, yet unafraid-turning from birdsong to war, from politics to prayer, from Teilhard's cosmic fire to the tender gravity of gnarled hands. He returns often to a living current-love as the universe's deep intention-urging us to slow down, listen closely, and answer with courage, kindness, and song.
Moving between haiku-like flashes and meditative lyrics, Finn blends Quaker stillness with a pilgrim's wonder, finding divinity in the ordinary and meaning in the unfinished. He writes of way will open, of memory as a shrine, of death as a faithful friend who shakes us awake to give our gifts while we can. He names trees and birds as persons, invites us to lay flowers before Remember, and insists that every small act of generosity carries the cosmos forward. For readers who yearn for clarity without abstraction and devotion without dogma, these further twilight ruminations offer a daily practice of attention-simple, spacious, and enlarging. Keep it by your favorite chair. Sip and savor. Then go out and create.
For readers of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and David Whyte: if you cherish clear-eyed wonder, nature-infused spirituality, and poems that return you to what matters, you will feel at home in these pages.
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