The River of Winged Dreams (gift book)

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In the Arms of Dreamers and Angels

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.

"Angel of Peace" and "Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael"

From the River of Winged Dreams

Each of of these videos are based on poems from The River of Winged Dreams. "Angel of Peace" is also featured in ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.
Angel of Peace by Aberjhani (video poem with text and music)
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The River of Winged Dreams

Fourth title in the Songs of the Angelic Gaze Series

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A Glowing Circle of Winged Dreams

(Part 2 of %u201CThe River of Winged Dreams%u201D)

A Glowing Circle of Winged Dreams by Aberjhani

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%u2026

© by Aberjhani

Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael (II)

"And the dream we were conceived in
will reveal a joyful face,
and the world we once believed in
will shine again in grace."
--Michael Jackson, from Heal the World

Your lungs must have been
two harps for the way they flowed
music through your skin.

from THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Paranormal Partnerships

Back cover for The River of Winged DreamsMovie-goers, television-watchers, and readers of novels -not to mention students of world spirituality-- have long been accustomed to the idea of paranormal partnerships between humans and angels and terrifying clashes with demons. What they had not seen or heard -until "Songs of the Angelic Gaze" -- were such passionate classic struggles presented in the voice of a modern poet who seemed to have occupied a front row seat to battle in both heaven and hell while transcribing all he witnessed into highly original and powerfully mesmerizing literary art. Those unfamiliar with "Songs of the Angelic Gaze" and "The Bridge of Silver Wings" will be glad to know that THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS contains all the works presented in the previous volume plus much more. So there is no need for them to purchase the previous title unless they wish to do so for the collectible cover art by Luther E. Vann (though even this is available with more than 60 other reproductions of Vann's work in "ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love").

Those who own "The Bridge of Silver Wings" might ask why they should invest in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS. The best answer to that would be the book's introduction, which has been published online as "Evolution of a Vision, from Songs of the Angelic Gaze to The River of Winged Dreams." In it, the author notes: "%u2026the death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."

From "Angel of War"

On Waves of Light and Wonder at Red Room

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"I'll Be Your River" by Cnydi Lauper and Vivian Green

This isn't part of The River of Winged Dreams book but the heart and spirit of the music combined with the performers' heartfelt rendering reflect much of what the book is about.
Cyndi Lauper - I'll be your river
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The River of Winged Dreams
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