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The Book, The Burial, by R. Penman Smith is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and directly from Tate Publishing. The Burial is a Spiritual Thriller with a dark twist and a redemptive outcome. The story springs out personal experience; ‘write what you know about’. Those who are comfortable with fantasy and are not afraid of the reality of the spiritual warfare inherent in Christian life will love this book.

Imagination is the faculty through which we discover the world around us, both the world we see, and that other unseen world that hovers on the fringe of sight. Love, joy and laughter, poetry and prose, are the gifts through which we approach that complex world. Through the gift of imagination we have stepped into an ever flowing river where the realm of Faerie touches Middle Earth.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Ages of Love










In March, before us lay the ocean wide
The wind danced along the sandy dunes,
Salt seaweed, gulls swooping in graceful glide,
Hands clasped, our merry hearts laugh playful tunes.
In hot July, sun rolls sweat down our backs
As we drill earth with a post hole digger,
Guiding the handles of an iron auger,
Building together our place to relax
The Autumn leaves fall in many colours
But true beauty’s never fading glories
Are deeper than all our human dolours
While our laughter is told in many stories.
With age comes the time for new activity,
Now is the time for generativity.

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