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ANGEL OF EARTH DAYS AND SEASONS


A soft dream of green
colors starlit intentions
with sincerity.


In your hands winter
is a book with cloud pages
that snow pearls of love.


Your flight shines classic––
composed of symphonic nights
and honey-hued days.


Inside your laughter
spring’s kiss animates the beat
of summer’s warm song.


In your hair oceans
leap with sky-blue abandon
and sacred timelines.


Eyes of bright autumn
stare with red tear-stained wisdom
at human regret.


Bombs explode gashes
that flicker tales of men’s blood
splattering your lips.


Rivers of poets
flow blues-heavy urgencies
naked on your knees.


Even when muddy
your wings sparkle bright wonders
that heal broken worlds.


In the dancing fields
of your sweet and holy ways
heaven blossoms gold.

by Aberjhani
from THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

The River of Winged Dreams

The River of Winged Dreams 2010

What began as Songs of the Angelic Gaze in the summer of 2006 continued the following year as The Bridge of Silver Wings, and developed even further two years after that into The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009.

Whether readers describe it as a conversation between one author’s pen and his sense of an angel-populated cosmos, or a modern interpretation of literary voices such as Kahlil Gibran’s and Rainer Maria Rilke’s, this great adventure through dimensions of soul and letters now moves boldly forward as the volume entitled The River of Winged Dreams.

What marks this volume as one significantly different from its predecessors? As pointed out in “Evolution of a Vision: from Songs of the Angelic Gaze to The River of Winged Dreams,” the difference stems from a paradox. It is a paradox in the form of a dream that has exhausted the life of its beauty while giving birth to a new ongoing manifestation of its remarkable glittering self.

The manifestation of vision continued because the unsentimental realities of history continued, and exactly what that means in the context of The River of Winged Dreams is exquisitely apparent in pages reflecting seasons of the horror and elation of our very modern twenty-first century times.


Cover of forthcoming hardback edtion of THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS.

Each roll and wave of the river
Flashes a new song and a new color.

Light rises at midnight from the water’s bottom
like a giant angel of pulsing stars.
It shines a language known to one soul
and one soul only, singing the solitary story
of that woman, that man, or halfling child.

It calls them from the hissing mud of the trembling shore
into the womb of water and gleaming death.
And that is when it happens––
A glowing circle of winged dreams rises
from the water, surrounds the fallen soul
in a ring of time and destiny confirmed…

© by Aberjhani

Gift Books We Love Giving and Receiving

Twenty-first Century Poetry
The River of Winged Dreams
Works in verse on the rise of President Barack Obama, the life and death of Michael Jackson, the Virnginia Tech massacre, and the celebrated days and seasons of the modern world.
Literary fiction and poetry
I MADE MY BOY OUT OF POETRY
An inspired celebration of spirituality, the music of language, and the power of dreams.
Poems by Aberjhani
THE BRIDGE OF SILVER WINGS
A poetic flight into the exploration of how human beings manage, or sometimes fail to manage, the transition from imminent personal destruction to unaccountable personal victory.
Art and Poetry
ELEMENTAL, THE POWER OF ILLUMINATED LOVE
A brilliantly painted journey through the art of Luther E. Vann with accompanying text by Aberjhani and guest authors.
Paranormal Fantasy Fiction
CHRISTMAS WHEN MUSIC ALMOST KILLED THE WORLD
A rock and roll metaphysical fantasy set in the Deep South, this is one extraordinary novel.
Travel and History
The American Poet Who Went Home Again
A shimmering collage of memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and dizzying flights into poetic observation, this is the amazing story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself.
Nonfiction
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
“Celebrate Harlem’s past and present with Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.”

--ESSENCE
Magazine
THE WISDOM OF W.E.B. DU BOIS
“Readers have praised this superlative book for the author’s intelligent and informative writing.”
--Biblio.com
SPOKEN WORD MUSIC CD
The Goddess and the Skylark, Dancing Through the Word Labyrinth
“These are some of the most talented people in urban poetry today, and I think you'd be missing something huge if you don't get yourself a copy, now.”-- Poet William F. DeVault
Literary Historical Anthology
LITERARY SAVANNAH (edited by Patrick Allen)
An exceptional historical literary anthology featuring writings by natives of and visitors to Savannah, from founding father George Washington to modern award-winning author Aberjhani.