Synopsis:

The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 is, technically, the fifth book of poetry by the Savannah, Georgia (USA) born author Aberjhani, whose previous titles in the genre are: I Made My Boy out of Poetry; Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black; The Bridge of Silver Wings; and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.

The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 firsrt earned a name for itself as a series of poems “Songs of the Angelic Gaze,” which were published on a variety of literary websites, including AuthorsDen, The Smoking Poet eZine, Poets and Seers, The Writing Forum, and Creative Thinkers International. The poems initially appeared in book form as The Bridge of Silver Wings in 2007.

Book Excerpt:

ANGEL OF MERCY

 

How wickedly scars
decorate your face with strange
notions of beauty.

 

Your tears are muscles,
hinged on wings lunar and solar.
Your touch: life and death.

 

Best to meet you in
dreams from a poet's pen...than
judgments belched in hell.

 

In a world gushing
blood day and night, you never
stop mopping up pain.

 

Soothing the lips of
babes starved in Darfur. Easing
battlefield passage.

 

How do you fly so
softly...with such heavy loads
of sorrow and hate?

Somehow sensuous--
this sweet warm sizzle of souls
needing you so much.

 

Truly addictive--
whirling through forgiveness like
psalms through David's heart.

 

Only God singing
this song of you...makes true light
...somehow possible.

 

by Aberjhani

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Author Comment:

In the book’s foreword, the author explains diverse reactions to his work in the following manner: “Readers exploring the pages of this book are likely to experience it in different ways as they move back and forth between one poetic state of being and another. The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 may at times appear to be nothing more than a silk-thin illusion ––resembling at moments either a terrifying nightmare or a healing vision––spread across an evening mist. While at other times it will register as solid as a concrete sidewalk or a giant boulder. “

Topics/Categories:

Angels angel poetry, Art, Barack Obama, Inspiration, metaphysics, Savannah author, Savannah poet, southern writers, Virginia Tech massacre

Genre:

African-American poetry, American Poetry, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Spirituality

Type of Work:

Poetry Collection

Publishers:

Lulu

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Original Publish Date:

May 1, 2009

Publishing Notes:

This 2009 edition stands apart from previous versions of the book because of added works that document and comment on the 2008 United States presidential campaign and the subsequent election of President Barack H. Obama. Moreover, whereas the previous volume received acclaim for the book’s special brand of “angel poems” contrasted with everyday human challenges and triumphs, The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 has been noted for it added political and historical dimensions. The new suite of presidential poems include : “Angel of Better Days to Come”; “Midnight Flight of the Poetry Angels”; and “There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity”. The last was published in the historic inauguration edition of The Savannah Tribune in Savannah, Georgia.

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