Mary Pondered, Sarah Laughed: Poems
Ebook
This collection presents poems about the ordinary affairs of human existence: war and peace, love and hate, life and death. In addition, several selections attempt social comment through poetic interpretation of some of the more immediate and weighty issues of our time: race relations, injustice, warfare, domestic violence, murder, human exploitation. Everything here seeks to encourage intentional, serious moral, ethical, and spiritual reflection which, in response, can promote effective and positive social action.
“Thomas Ronald Vaughan has once again fashioned a thought-provoking collection of poems that will haunt the reader in the best way imaginable.”
—Michael Bishop, author of A Murder in Music City
“‘You will learn you were always alone, / And that all joy resides in deep sorrow.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins knew this and so does Thomas Ronald Vaughan: it is the truth at the heart of his poetry. Vaughan can touch the reader’s heart over life’s pain, whether it be the loss of a lover to dementia or a missed conversion in football, but he does so in a voice that exudes love and compassion. We are more human for encountering his poetry.”
—Ray Moore, author of The Darcys of Pemberley
“Part poet, part pastor, part chaplain, and equal parts father and husband, these new poems by Thomas Ronald Vaughn hold the memories of a life filled with the tragedy and beauty that defines what it means to be human.”
—Donna Marie Todd, Author of Navigating Loss
“Thomas Vaughan’s Mary Pondered, Sarah Laughed continues the excellence of his Swimming in the Lake of Fire and The Earth beneath Lynching Trees. This new collection peers attentively into the world of the Spirit, inspired by literary sources ranging from the Bible to Gerard Manly Hopkins to Marcel Proust to C. S. Lewis to Elizabeth Sewell. Readers will be provoked to examine themselves more deeply and to reflect feelingly upon the mysteries of the world about them.”
—Don King, professor of English, Montreat College
- Title: Mary Pondered, Sarah Laughed: Poems
- Author: Thomas Ronald Vaughan
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666779783, 9781666779769, 1666779768, 9781666779776, 1666779776, 1666779784
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666779783
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-23T00:52:40Z