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Voyage in Thoughts
Paperback
Metaphysical GeneralGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2021
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Have you ever paused in the middle of an ordinary day and wondered what your life actually means? Where does a life come from - what does it mean - and where does it go?
Voyage in Thoughts is a poetry collection that follows the full arc of a human life - from the bright, hopeful dreams of childhood to the quiet, honest questions that arrive as life slows down and looks back toward eternity. It is a book about searching: for purpose, for peace, for God, and for the self that sometimes gets lost along the way.
Across more than forty poems, this collection moves through four unforgettable stages of the human journey:
Dreams, Childhood, and Hope - poems of innocence, wonder, and the first stirrings of the soul, including the tender lullaby Smile, Smile, My Baby, Smile and the gentle wonder of O My Friend, the Crescent Moon.
Humanity, Desire, and Struggle - poems that confront the messy middle of life: ambition, morality, nature's beauty, and the gap between who we are and who we hope to become. In The Only Gambler, the universe itself becomes a game of fate and chance, while His Wondrous Great Arts finds divine mystery hidden in galaxies, tears, and heartbeats.
Faith, Reflection, and Spiritual Discovery - poems of prayer, doubt, repentance, and devotion, including The King and the Beggars, a haunting parable about recognizing the divine in disguise, and Where Is Yours? - a breathless, repeated plea to find God's presence in an uncertain world.
Eternity, Departure, and Beyond - poems that face life's final questions with surprising calm and even joy. What Do I Do, Oh Lord! asks for strength at the threshold of departure, while The King Is Waiting imagines death not as an ending, but as a return home.
What makes Voyage in Thoughts so engaging is its honesty. These are not poems written to impress - they are poems written to be felt. Nature is everywhere: rivers that go, ever go, glide and collide, oak trees that have stood since before humanity, crescent moons that watch over a sleeping child. And throughout every poem, there is a quiet, constant presence - addressed simply as You, He, Him - the Divine, searched for, questioned, doubted, and ultimately trusted.
This collection speaks to anyone who has ever felt the pull between the world's pleasures and something deeper - anyone who has prayed without knowing exactly to whom, or felt grief and gratitude in the very same breath. Readers of inspirational poetry, spiritual reflection, and philosophical verse will find themselves returning to these pages again and again, each time discovering something new.
Written across many years and many seasons of life, Voyage in Thoughts does not rush toward answers. It sits with the questions - the way an old friend sits with you in silence, asking nothing, simply being present.
Whether you read one poem a day as a quiet meditation, or the entire collection in a single sitting, something here will stay with you long after you close the book.
If you have ever stood beneath an open sky and wondered where your own voyage is headed - this book was written for you. Begin your journey today.
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