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    The Tie That Binds: The Poems of the Poet Preacher
    The Tie That Binds: The Poems of the Poet Preacher
    The Tie That Binds: The Poems of the Poet Preacher
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    The Tie That Binds: The Poems of the Poet Preacher

    By Richard Carleton

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    The Tie That Binds is a compilation of poems written over the lifetime of a Congregationalist minister. The poet and preacher, Richard Carleton, tells us about his faith from day to day, talking about love, philosophy, children, family, and his memories. Within these personal reflections, he speaks of the mystery and eloquence of God. He creates extraordinary pictures of God from the ordinary events in our lives. This is the key!



    Richard Carleton lets us know that God is central to his thinking and feeling and living. It is both a refuge for him and an exhortation for the rest of us.



    If you were to accept-just for the time it takes to read these verses-that God is a real part of our lives, you might see your acceptance of our Creator and Redeemer assume a new and expanded reality: God as the underlying force!

    These poems let you see a man of deep faith, and at the same time, ask yourself about your own faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9780595772469
    The Tie That Binds: The Poems of the Poet Preacher
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    Richard Carleton

    Jon Carleton currently serves as department chair in social, cultural, and behavioral studies for an online university. His interests include American history and culture. He lives with his wife Suni in Charles Town, West Virginia, where he pursues this labor of love for his father?s stories and thoughts.

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      The Tie That Binds - Richard Carleton

      All Rights Reserved © 2004 by Jon R. Carleton

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic,

      electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage

      retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

      iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

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      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      ISBN: 0-595-32453-3 (Pbk)

      ISBN: 0-595-77709-0 (Cloth)

      ISBN: 978-0-5957-7246-9 (ebook)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Introduction

      Ties to Youth and Love

      The Craftsman

      Thoughts

      Ambition

      Philosophy

      Frustration

      Moment of Beauty

      Atlantic Categories

      Reaching for the Moon

      Thoughts of Youth

      To Bright Morning (Edith)

      Dorothea

      Harriette

      A New Friend Becomes an Old One

      (Muriel)

      Incident

      Please Don’t Talk About Me…

      This Hour

      On Reading My Letters to Others

      Ties to Family and Home

      To My Wife

      Home

      I Tiptoe After My Wife

      Why Didn’t They Tell Us

      Twin-Bed Marriage

      After the Baby is Quiet

      I Want To Talk Children

      It Was While Kneeling

      And So To Bed

      To Marcia

      Message to the Chinese Communist

      Baby Girls

      Sunlight On My Son

      Pillow Play

      On Giving Thanks

      Like a Child

      Sniffer

      My Address

      Framework for Freedom

      Ties to Parents and Heritage

      For February Fourteenth

      Mother’s Day 1946

      To Mother (1946)

      To Father (1946)

      Trauma

      To My Mother and Father

      Size 9, Brown

      To Remember You

      Heritage

      Heritage II

      For Christmas 1974

      How We Fail

      The Minister Looks at His

      Congregation

      Ties to God and Nature

      Religious Weather

      Safe Days

      Praise

      Sun and Mist

      Meditation on Noise

      Listen

      Quiet

      One Day in October

      Elements of Nature

      I Sing

      A Spot on the Window

      Inside Out

      For Every Day

      Gifts Thou Hast Given

      On Knowing

      Out of the Bits and Pieces

      Stream of Life

      Sometimes——Not Religiously

      Contrast

      The Ecumenical Meeting

      Ready for God?

      Ties to Time and Myself

      On An Old Christmas Card

      I Remember——and I’m Thankful

      Income Tax Time

      Needs of People

      On Accepting People as They Are

      Who Sits With You ?

      One Year Out

      Cold Hands I Loved…

      Inside of Me

      Popular Song

      The Old Clock Ticks!

      Who, Me?

      To Jane and Peter

      Sister and Brother

      The Tie That Binds

      I’ll be damned if I can remember

      From September to September

      Whether March 15th is Mother’s Day

      Or whether the 12th of that month is for

      Mother and all others should stay away.

      On one of those dates my father was born.

      But both my father and my mother greet the morn

      With such evident joy and youth

      That I don’t know their ages any better than

      Their birthdays and that’s the truth.

      So I enclose these little verses

      Hoping you both may have heard worse

      And if there is now any doubt in your minds

      That I think a lot of you, then you don’t

      Believe in the tie that binds.

      Richard Carleton

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      Introduction 

      Richard Carleton: The Man and the Poet

      The character, as well as the career, of

      my father Richard Carleton may belie some misconceptions of a minister and

      poet. He has been no less the ordinary man for being an extraordinary creator.

      What we learn is that the creator, the minister, the extraordinary man was merely

      the ordinary man intensified: a person whose life was sometimes lifted to a high

      pitch of feeling and who had the gift of making others share his excitement. The

      ordinary man Richard Carleton lived by the creative spirit. He thought in images

      of the family and dreams in fantasy like a child; he lived by poetry. I know this

      well because I am his son.

      Yet he harbored a feeling of timidity in this endeavor. In his youth he had wor-

      ried about not being able to express himself and he feared that he would not be

      understood. This book reveals his

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