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Wings of silver

Chapter 4: OMNIPRESENCE
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The collection presents spiritual and nature-centered lyric poems that use images of flight, birds, and weaving to explore life, faith, and immortality. Through meditations on growth, seasons, and the soul's ascent, the verses celebrate love, the transformative power of prayer and perseverance, and the letting-go that opens the heart. Several poems personify life and the weaver figure to contrast selfish ambition with loving creation, while invocations to the sky and stars urge trust in a transcendent presence. Tone alternates between contemplative exhortation and hopeful consolation, with recurring motifs of wings, dawn, and renewal framing a steady emphasis on spiritual uplift and inner victory.

OMNIPRESENCE

Borne on the air by surging wings,—
Above, below, about, around,—
Up, up he soars and blithely sings;
Nor fears the ground.
Covered by waters, ’neath, above,
He lives and knows the sea as all;
Nor doubts he of the deeps of Love,
Nor fears to fall.
Compassed by Love, man lives and basks
In sunshine blest; but sleeps a clod,
And breathes Him, dwells in Him—yet asks:—
Where, where is God?