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    The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems
    The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems
    The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems
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    The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems

    By Judy Brown

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    Deeply moving . . . complex emotions and ideas are handled with disarming simplicity
    John W. Gardner, Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

    This is a book of wisdom in the form of poems, useful, yet delightful and even sometimes surprising. A single poem can shift thinking so everything is different from then on
    Carol Pearson, author of The Hero Within.

    Judys work is rooted in the shared soil of our lives, and her images help us understand how lovely and full of promise our common ground is. You hold a feast of insight in your hands. Read it and be nourished.
    Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak and A Hidden Wholeness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 23, 2016
    ISBN9781490768700
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      The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems - Judy Brown

      Copyright 2016 Judy Brown.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN:

      978-1-4907-6869-4 (sc)

      ISBN:

      978-1-4907-6871-7 (hc)

      ISBN:

      978-1-4907-6870-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016900300

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      NOTICING

      Beginnings

      Wooden Boats

      Dead

      Seeing Complexity

      Sorrow

      Hoarding Pain

      Circles

      The Other Shoe

      Connection

      Traps

      Just Human

      Invisible

      Trough

      Our Music

      Stop It

      The Universe Says

      Underneath the Porch

      Again

      CREATING SPACE

      Emptiness Invites

      Fire

      To the People In My Lost Calendar

      Sabbatical

      Lost File

      The Walk

      The Recluse

      Alone

      Leadership Like Symphonies

      Fishing

      The Arborist

      Ceremonies

      Vast Sky

      Rest

      Snow Days

      SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES

      When Did the Weather Shift?

      Dialogue and Measurement

      Invitation

      Startings and Endings

      Bridges

      If You Were Sick

      Shouting Yes

      Airborne

      Which It? Which They?

      Time

      Apple Wood

      Sometimes

      Moth

      The Sea Accepts All Rivers

      Companion

      SPEAKING TRUTH

      Luminescence

      Stop Dancing

      Now

      Easier

      Truth

      Answer

      Sign

      Synchronicity

      Garden

      Crosswise

      Stories

      Moved

      Trapeze

      Progress

      Heard

      Somewhere

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      My thanks to those who helped create this book of poetry: my daughter, Meg, for the clear eyes and wisdom of the young, my friend and colleague Steve Hill for his beautiful front cover picture, my associate, Lorna Fltzqerald Morris and my colleagues Peg Paul and Sheila Gibson at the original publisher Miles River Press, and those many friends, members of my extended family, colleagues and even strangers, whose presence has drawn these poems from me, convinced me that they find use in them, and encouraged me to publish them. This book belongs to you all. And to my

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