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    Spit and Spirit
    Spit and Spirit
    Spit and Spirit
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    Spit and Spirit

    By Pauline Beck

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    Spit and Spirit is a collection of poems that celebrate life. It contains poems that sing of our shared experiences as human beings. The poems in this book are about people we all know in one way or another, about the natural world that we all share, about the art of poetry that lives in every human heart and excites every human mind, and about the Spirit that breathes fire and life into every living being.



    Spit and Spirit is the score of the spit of everyday life and the Spirit of that wondrous, mystical, interminable life that will always be a mystery and a miracle for every poet-- every human being. It is a collection of poems about sinners and saints, about dirt and divinity, about you and me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 19, 2013
    ISBN9781491706763
    Spit and Spirit
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    Pauline Beck

    Pauline Beck is a former English teacher; she taught English in grades 7-12 in the Youngstown City School District for 25 years. She has a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in English from Youngstown State University. She is a Northeast Ohio Writing Project fellow and a Poetry Alive! seminar participant. She has had several poems published in Ohio Teachers Write, No War, No More, Youngstown Poetry, and Mahoning Valley Poetry. She currently lives on a 30-acre farm in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, with her cat Calpurnia and her two goats Pygmalion and Billy Budd, surrounded by the beauty and wonder of nature.

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      Spit and Spirit - Pauline Beck

      Copyright © 2013 by Pauline Beck.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced 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 except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-0675-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-0676-3 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 09/16/2013

      Contents

      Companions On This Journey

      Baptisms

      Go Figure Of Speech

      Flowering Of Faith

      Mother And Child Reunion

      Today

      Peace Is Power

      Buttercup Wisdom

      Helen

      Love’s Laughter

      Duet

      Wrapped

      A Voice Still Borne

      My Little Snicklefritz

      Little Wild Wind-Child

      Fragile Fractivist

      Blonde Ambition:

      A Work In Yellow

      Desert Dialogue

      Tv Evangelism

      Disarming Forces

      Country Epiphany

      Pure Practicality: A Proposal

      No Strings Attached

      Reckless

      Silent Screenwriter

      My Soul Is Magenta

      Shared Seasons, Scenes, And Spirit

      Mirage

      Mourning Breaking

      Dancing In The Hands Of Time

      Joy In The Woods

      Oasis

      Beauty On The Wing

      Serendipity

      Graced

      Summer Mornings

      These Summer Days

      Split

      Autumn’s Amazing Advance

      Woods In Winter

      Resurrection

      Eden’s Breathing

      Essence

      Ghosts Of Grace

      So Precarious

      Stardust In The Wind

      Time Forgiven

      The Turning

      Wisdom

      Solitude

      Futility

      Centered

      A Stirring Of Spirit

      Storm At Sea

      Glimpse

      The Word’s Echoing

      The Word

      The Voice

      Children In Paradise

      Dumbfounded

      Change Of Plan

      Bethlehem Bound

      And The Word Became…

      Embrace

      Not In A Mansion

      Redeemed

      Out Of Darkness

      Simeon’s Sword

      Pieta: Salvation’s Song

      Cradled

      This Hill

      Eclipse

      Judas And The Resurrection

      Reunion

      Saul’s Conversion

      The Stoning Of Stephen

      The Cripple

      Rebel… Lion

      To Father John W. Rebel

      (February 13, 1937-March 17, 2013)

      Introduction

      This book was inspired and prompted into being by Father John Rebel, who told me for years that he was still waiting for a copy of [my] book—a signed copy. He waited in this realm until March 17, 2013, when he was called home to the realm of the Spirit. I did not want him to wait as long in that realm to receive this book.

      It has also been written for all the beautiful people with whom I’ve been blessed to share the wondrous journey of life: For my family and my friends, who have given me words, inspiration, encouragement, and, above all, love. For my sister Helen Erickson, who has been the mid-wife of many of these poems. For my brother-in-law John, who encouraged me to publish and answered all of my many computer questions. For my brothers Steve and Bill and my sister-in-law Beverly, who have reaffirmed in me the joys of nature and farming and living simply. For all of my professors in the English Department at Youngstown State University who awakened in me a passion for poetry. For Nancy McCracken and the Northeast Ohio Writing Project at Kent State faculty and fellows, who taught me so much about writing, sharing, and being. For my St. James the Apostle Parish family, who have inspired so many of these poems and have allowed me to share my poetry with them. For the Spirit that sparks all life and all creativity.

      This is a collection of poems that bridge the space between this natural world of spit and that other realm of the Spirit. It is an expression of my experiences here and of my awareness of there. It is a gathering together of people I’ve known, whom you’ve somehow known too; of events that have impacted my life and shaped my thinking and, in some way, yours as well; and of retellings of stories I’ve heard and read so many times—stories with which you are also probably very familiar. It is my way of swapping the spit and sharing the Spirit of life with you. It is my way of connecting to you and to the Source of the One Life that flows through all living beings. It is a gift given in gratitude for this life and for the blessing of all of you—both those of you who have come a long way with me, and those who are just now joining me on my journey through it.

      COMPANIONS ON THIS JOURNEY

      Baptisms

      (For Father John

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