My Moon Self: a spiritual memoir through poetry

By Philomena Moriarty

"If poems were wishes / then in this poem / bird song would / call out your name / bringing you back / to your precious existence" (from If Poems Were Wishes) MY MOON SELF is a luscious, spiritual book that inspires readers to remember "We are not human beings on a spiritual path but spiritual beings on a human path". (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin). In this collection poetry and memoir come together. Reading poetry as spiritual experience. Writing poetry as spiritual experience. The writer uses her history, her insight, her imagination to invoke the same in others. Her life growing up Roman Catholic and then turning to Eastern Religions, particularly Buddhism to enhance our understanding of the spiritual path. Using Mindfulness practice in her writing she is enlightened by spiritual teachers such as Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle and Jon Kabat-Zinn. The book is further made beautiful by being a mixture of prose, poetry and photography.(photography by the author's husband Samuel Trumbore). MY MOON SELF informs us that "Just by being yourself you are a great gift" (from My Moon Self).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514740656
• ISBN13: 9781514740651
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"