Personified: Volume 2

A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life, form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts.

Pieces include — the Fertile Ground of the Unknown & Frustration as a Wasteland; Traveling thru the Valley of Fear; Love’s Leap & the Landfall of Faith; Hope as Strong Liquor; the Circle of Worry; How Time is Always Fresh; Being Prisoner to Pain; the Future as a Friend; Belligerent Courage & Carving Will; Keeping Reins Tight on Hope; Uncertainty like Wolves; the Shield of Faith; Pain as the Greatest Teacher & more.

Includes 32 individual poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck & Leonardo da Vinci.

Includes quotes from:
C. S. Lewis
Rumi
Jim Morrison
Khalil Gibran
Charles Bukowski
Joseph Campbell
J.K. Rowling
Margaret Atwood
Deepak Chopra
Oscar Munoz
Richard Paul Evans
Psalm 23:4
Jack Canfield
George R.R. Martin
Miguel de Cervantes
Hunter S. Thompson
William Shakespeare
Rosa Parks
a Japanese proverb
Robert Frost
Soren Kierkegaard
Chinese proverb
Pema Chödrön
Ruth Gendler
Richard Eberhart
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Ernest Hemingway
James Ellroy
Ephesians 6:16
George MacDonald
James Russell Lowell
Anton Chekhov
Plato
Mahatma Gandhi
Marcus Tullius
Martin Luther
George W. Bush
J.R.R. Tolkien
Madeleine L’Engle
Elbert Hubbard
Michelangelo
Robert Hillyer
Kenji Miyazawa
Matshona Dhliwayo
George Bernard Shaw
Marco Aurelio Antonino
John Lennon
Fernando Pessoa
Victor Hugo
John Green
Jackson Pearce
John Sterling
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Julius Caesar
Jim Rohn
Wm. Paul Young
Emily Dickinson
George Orwell
Raymond Reddington
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mary Tyler Moore
Maxime Lagacé
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charlie Chaplin
Don Ingall
Woody Hayes
Rabindranath Tagore
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A.W. Tozer
Lao Tzu
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Henry Ward Beecher
John Keats
Carl Jung
Robert Gary Lee
David Richo
Frida Kahlo
Lionel Trilling
Marilyn Manson
Coretta Scott King
James Baldwin