From Pukiyari Publishers - Embracing life after sixty, this collection of poems shares some later years questions yet offers thoughts of comfort, wonder and hope. "What a beautiful and gentle book. Poet Vivian Kearney easily moves from sweet memories of bygone times to celebrating our advancing years. She presents the wisdom and beauty of our later years and writes of end of life issues with curiosity and faith. Her poems bring the important things in life into focus: God, love, family, nature, beauty. This is a book to read again and again through the years." --Donna Wickwar, Licensed...

We are always seeking for signs of reassurance. We want to know that our lives are worthwhile and that we, as the earth's dominant species, are not alone. Nature can speak to us if we open the ears of our hearts, the eyes of our spirits and meditate on all around us. This book of poems explores some messages Nature might be conveying. In the Bible, for example, the sign of the rainbow reassures the survivors of the flood that they and we can still nurture hope. Nature also pleads for a wiser stewardship, a more charitable, less selfish co-existence. As St. Francis celebrated in his Canticle...

Poetry Collection - Can poetry honor the victims of the holocaust? Can one come to terms with its unfathomable evil and suffering that echo through the generations? The author was born in Poland in l942, placed in an orphanage and reclaimed by Freda, her mother, after the war. Her family of survivors built a good life in Canada and left spoken, written and taped testimonies of their war experiences. Vivian Kearney's poetry collection is first a memorial and a response to the tragedies. It then describes Freda's dying days which felt like the end of an era since she was the last of the...

With these poems let's Explore, contemplate That wild river - time we all live in - God's gifts of minutes, hours Days, stages And the flowing seasons

Humanity has been granted the gifts of creativity to fashion objects of usefulness and beauty. When we meditate on some of these man-made artifacts we can be moved to a welcome deepening level of wonder and mystery. This collection of poems explores some ideas about the symbolism, signs and cultures that such items can evoke. As they appear in our physical world and help us on our daily journeys, they can also speak to our spiritual lives about God's provisions and grace.