On The Wings Of Words
World Book Day 2024
A Reading from the Book’s Prologue is found here. Podcast Style
A writer only begins a book,
A reader finishes it.Samuel Johnson
Happy world book day 2024!
Today I am releasing the second edition of my book Cuoreosity: The heArt of Being.
Living the Questions
Have you been to yourself
in all of this noise
Are you living your dreams?
Does your soul have a voice?
When you close your eyes
what do you see?
Where your heart meets your soul,
who must you be?
Will your why be your way?
How will you tell your story?
© Jamie Millard
This book is an interactive space to guide you into a deeper conversation with your own authenticity. Let it guide you as you live into your own purpose. The path of discovery is to find and to be found by the poetry within.
In 2022 fuelled by a post covid awareness of being I released the first edition of this book. Poetry had come for me. As Pablo Neruda famously wrote, I didn’t know where it came from or how it even showed up. Poetry had arrived to find me looking towards the second half of life. Like a strong gale she knocked me over, grabbed a hold of me and pulled me upwards. It had engaged my whole being into a deeper conversation to “divine” meaning as opposed to define meaning. The book in three sections of poetry described a poetic journey from head to heart to soul. A spiritual awakening.
After writing the book I realized that I had forgotten one thing. I had forgotten you. The reader. I had never formally invited you in. Poetry books often leave out the most important piece. The missing ingredient in poetry is us. The reader. Poems are never for analysis or interpretation. Poetry is not there to separate the subject and the object. We enter into a poem. A poem is what a poem does to us. In poetry we enter into our own experience. Poetry is a mirror. Poetry is a portal to presence.
This second edition is interactive. It is an invitation to enter into the poems as an exploration into your own cuoreosity. It is an invitation to enter into your own feelings, and insights as you read and recite the poetry out loud. It is an invitation into yourself. There is space to write and reflect after each poem and again after each of the three sections. Poetry arrives and she never leaves us where she found us. This book is a guide to travel the mere 45 cm from our head to our heart to our soul. The longest journey we will ever make! The door only opens from the inside!
On the Wings of Words
On the wings of words
May you be Cuoreous
Opening your heArt of Being
Walking beside the Grace of mystery
as she collides with your spirit
May the consciousness of words
invite you into a deeper conversation
with the very voice
that aches in your bones
On the wings of words
May you connect to the river of awe that
swims inside of everything
transcending your senses
A body in a soul
Flowing in oneness
with the universe
An ocean of awareness
walking with possibility
May you feel the invitation of truth
kissing the divine hand of time
On the wings of words
May you live your questions
May poetry arrive to find you
as shelter and a storm
May you meet the authenticity of your soul
greeting the very stranger you are becoming
May you fall in love with yourself
all over again
On the wings of words
May you open the door
and cross the threshold
Home
© Jamie Millard
On the wings of words please join me in officially setting this book, Cuoreosity: The heArt of Being, free, as we live into the questions that have no right to go away.
In the following weeks I will share and discuss some of the poems in the book. Please reach out to me with any questions on the book or the process of writing it. Reviews and feedback are always a gift. Thank you for being here and bearing witness to this journey. Thank you for meeting me in the spaces between the words.
A partial reading of the prologue can be found above podcast style under the main headings.
Lots of Love,
Jamie
Jamie
Good question!
Shared ground here: I remarked before, you take a canny picture - that is Castlerigg? That is an important place with a number of symmetries.
Read on folks ...
So so wonderful! Thank you for inviting us into your poetry! I can't wait to fill out the pages and explore my inner world with cuoreosity! Your words are speaking to my soul. Always. 🙏 Happy world book day to you!