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  From My Heart to Yours - As We...

  Vernon Postmus

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  Embark on a stirring odyssey through rhythm and rhyme, where every verse resonates with profound reflections and deep insight.
   
  Experience the rhythmic cadence of life. Be captured by the enchantment of words. 
  Unveil just a little something of God’s design for life.
   
  Every poem in this collection is infused with a deeply Christian message, offering solace and encouragement.
   
  Pause, reflect, and let the words seep into your soul.
   
  Will this book captivate you so deeply that setting it aside becomes a challenge?
   
  Embark on this voyage, and may it bless your own life’s journey.

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  William Tell

  Friedrich Schiller

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  William Tell by Friedrich Schiller is a powerful historical drama that celebrates freedom, courage, and the unbreakable spirit of a people determined to resist tyranny. 🇨🇭 Set in the Swiss Alps during the early 14th century, the play tells the legendary story of William Tell, a skilled marksman whose quiet strength and deep love for liberty inspire a rebellion against oppressive rule.
  
  When the cruel Austrian governor, Hermann Gessler, imposes harsh laws on the Swiss people, fear spreads across the land. In a shocking display of authority, Gessler forces Tell to shoot an apple from his own son's head with a crossbow. Tell succeeds—but the act becomes a turning point that ignites a larger struggle for independence. What follows is a gripping tale of resistance, unity, and the fight for justice.
  
  Schiller masterfully blends historical legend with dramatic intensity, exploring themes of political oppression, moral courage, loyalty, and the universal human desire for freedom. Through vivid characters and breathtaking alpine settings, the play captures both the personal sacrifices and collective determination that shape a nation's destiny.
  
  Widely regarded as one of the greatest works of German literature, William Tell remains a timeless symbol of defiance against injustice. 📖 Its message continues to resonate with readers around the world, reminding us that the pursuit of liberty often begins with the bravery of a single individual.

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  Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

  Omar Khayyám

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011.The popularity of the celebrated translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has cast many other worthy translations into undeserved obscurity. Among the earlier translators was Henry George Keene (1781-1856) whose translation of one quatrain appeared in 'Fundgruben des Orients' in 1816.Instead of the image of the wine and cup popularly associated with the Rubaiyat, the stanza translated by Keene refers to an image even more thoroughly explored in the poem : the potter and his clay. It may be said that while the wine represents the chemistry of Omar's universe, the clay represents the physics. In this context, wine can be seen, not merely as an intoxicant, but rather as the mysterious elixir which enables the clay figures to enjoy a brief experience of life before they crumble into dust.(Summary by Algy Pug.)

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  Eye of the Beholder

  Luci Shaw

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  Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes her dedication to this art as a burden to "speak into a culture that finds it hard to listen." This collection of new poems—all composed over the last two years—is in many ways the culmination of a stunning career.
  
  
   
  
  
  The joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.
  
  
   
  
  Eye of the Beholder is meant to awaken in readers awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. They will find in this collection a focus for meditation and be excited into their own imaginative writing.

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  Once on a Time (Dramatic Reading)

  A. Milne

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  This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. 
   
  When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle during breakfast provokes a series of incidents which escalate into war. While the King of Euralia is away, his daughter Hyacinth tries to rule in his stead and counter the machiavellian ambitions of the king's favourite, the Countess Belvane. Ostensibly a typical fairytale, it tells the story of the war between the kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia and the political shenanigans which take place in Euralia in the king's absence. The book introduces us to a princess who is far from helpless; a prince who, whilst handsome, is also pompous and vain; an enchantment which is almost entirely humorous; a villain who is not entirely villainous and receives no real comeuppance; a good king who isn't always good; an evil king who isn't always evil, and so on. The result is a book which children may not enjoy as much as adults. The book was written by Milne partly for his wife, upon whom the character of the Countess Belvane was partially based. (Summary from Wikipedia)Cast: 
  Narration: Bob NeufeldKing Merriwig: Mark F. SmithPrincess Hyacinth: Karen SavageCountess Belvane: Catharine EastmanPrince Udo: Peter EastmanDuke Coronel: Glenn SimonsenWiggs: Arielle LipshawWoggs: Karen SavageKing of Barodia: Roger MelinChancellor of Barodia: Robert KeiperChancellor of Euralia: Denny SayersFairy: Neeru IyerOld Woman: Catharine EastmanAttendant: Arielle LipshawCarlo, Men of Euralia, Captain of Archers, Flunkey: David LawrenceLookout, Cautious voice, Messenger, Wizard, Sentry: Barry EadsAudio edited by: Barry Eads 
  Proof Listening by: Joy Easton and Arielle Lipshaw

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  Stumblings

  Keith Ravenscroft

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  ‘Better to have questions you can’t answer than answers you can’t question.’
   
  The author describes these poems as ‘stumblings’ because they are stumbling attempts to understand what can seem beyond understanding. In his writing he confronts the issues that are inescapably a part of being human, as he sees them playing out in the maelstrom of his own life. He takes us into areas of desperation, confusion, even despair, but also of acceptance, fulfilment, ecstasy, obstinate faith, and above all of tender love.
   
  The poems range widely through philosophical musings, urgent questioning about what it is to be human, irony, self-mockery, overwhelming passion – and always with an intensity that acknowledges that everything matters, everything has meaning if only we could decode it. And throughout this volume the writer attempts to comprehend and reach the elusive God who 
  he believes in but fails so comprehensively to connect with as deeply as he longs to. 
   
  Any readers who are prepared to stumble with the writer on this poetic journey through life may find themselves in a place where they can at least begin to understand, accept, and even glory in their imperfect humanity as the writer does. And maybe hope to stumble into Grace, 
  enlightened and affirmed.

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