Someone to Love, Someone Like You: Poems of Divine and Human Love
Ebook
Overview
This volume of poetry and prose expresses the vital connection between poetry and the human spirit. The poems reflect themes of desire, time, memory, resistance, natural love, and divinity. They are guided by only one hope, that somewhere and somehow they may touch a chord with another person, another soul.
“This lovely, vivid book intersperses short meditative essays
with flights of terse and piercing poetry. Together they explore
the wonder and the waste of life, creative work and unproductive
labor, the mystery of death and the vulnerability of flesh. And
always, always, the love of God. This is a love responded to
in passion, pain, prayer—as well as through the rigorous, spiritual
discipline of poetic construction. To read Veling’s poems is to
walk beside someone who is both vulnerable and wise. By sharing his
life experience, you gain some of the clarity needed to critique
the form of your own life as well as to marvel at the love his
poetry manifests.”
—Heather Walton, Professor of Theology and Creative Practice,
University of Glasgow
“Terry has a gift for wonder and gratitude. He reminds us that
poetry is on the side of life. He lives in a physical and
colloquial world with disarming simplicity. Instead of
sentimentality, cliché, and pretension you will find creative
imagination, incisive reflection, gentle humor. These are poems of
wisdom, about a life lived in the body and in nature; about faith,
hope, and love; about time, suffering, and death. . . . These poems
constitute a spiritual journal. They are not abstractions. They are
to be treated with tenderness.”
—John Honner, from the “Foreword”
“With words of gratitude, Veling’s prose and poetry illuminate.
Acknowledging our finitude, they call us to attend to creation’s
wonders and alert us to the presence of the divine. They invite us
into relationship—with each other, the natural world, and God’s
love.”
—Thomas F. Ryan, Marjorie R. Morvant Professor of Theology and
Ministry, Loyola University New Orleans
Product Details
- Title : Someone to Love, Someone Like You: Poems of Divine and Human Love
- Authors:
- Veling, Terry A.
- Honner, John
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9781532690624
Terry A. Veling is a teacher and writer. He has lived and taught
in the United States and Israel and now resides in Brisbane,
Australia, his place of birth. He is married with four sons. His
interests include theology, philosophy, and the natural
world.