Table of Contents
*Postscript Essay
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Book 1: The Path to Poems


A Picture of Perfection

Twilight Thoughts
Relaxing Rhymes*
Time's Torments
Lessons from a Master*
Fortune's Favor
An Enduring Art* (see excerpt)
A Call To Action (The Driver Wheel)
The Cost of Free Verse*
A Cause to Sing (A Helping Hand)
Imitating Art*



 

Book 2: Saving Inspiration

Winter Winds (First Snow, Lost Spring) (see excerpt)
Surprising Insights*
God's Glorious Nature
An Ideal Inspiration*
God's Gracious Goodness
Art Assisting Prayer*
The Perfect Sunrise
Faithful Images*

 

Book 3: Voices from the Past

A Message in the Stars
Delayed Inspiration*
Ghost Cats (see excerpt)
Verse Versus Art*
Alien Encounters (see excerpt)
An Art for All Times*
Lessons from the Dead
Voices from the Past*

 

Book 4: Art from the Unexpected


Grave Lessons
Our Lost Light
Engaging Grief*
Death Watch
Synergistic Inspiration*
1861: The Restoring Soldier
Creative Repetition*
Determined D. Day (June 6, 1941)
The Soul of Inspiration*

 

Book 5: Ideals of Beauty

Beauty's Shield
Individual Ideals*
April's Glories
Suggestive Syntax*
Thoughts of You
Accidental Inspiration*

 

Book 6: Unworthy Words

Winter's Harvest
Undoing Age*
My Gray Day
Our Average Importance*
Poets' Lament
Appreciating Words*

 

Book 7: Haunting Refrains

Sea Monsters (see excerpt)
Images of Ourselves (A Sea of Possibilities)*
Pursued
Mystery Metaphors*
Windy Haunts
Artistic Recycling*
Phantom Calls
Improving Inspiration*

 

Book 8: Miracles in My Life

Life's Work Undone
Images and Ideals*
Life's Last Secret
Miracle Metaphors*

 

List of Poem Pictures (Illustrations)

Star-Struck Thoughts
Star-Struck Thoughts
A Picture of Perfection
God’s Heavenly Glory
Guiding Lights
Art Assisting Prayer
Sunrise Solace
Star-Struck Thoughts
Displaced Spirits
Alien Angst
A City Cemetery
Living With Death
Grave Lessons
Forgotten Beginnings
Faces in The Waves

Cover Art and Illustrations by Don Lusk

*Postscript Essay