Dreams and Prayers: Verses From a Wandering Mind

By Jonathan Lovelace

Waken to the world of dreams. Dreams and Prayers is the overflow of a poet's strange and wonderful dreams, most cherished memories, fertile waking imagination, and heartfelt prayers-more than seventy poems in all, most but not all blank verse.

Each of the book's three sections focuses its attention in a different direction:

Metaphors draws images from nature, literature, history, and more.

Darkness falls, except the moon;
A silver fog hangs above the ground.

Memory and Dreams records unforgettable moments, happy years, and strange and wonderful dreams-those that left the dreamer hating to wake up.

Fair friend, have I not wed you in my dreams?
Draw near to me, as my lids droop towards sleep,
And kiss me as I join you in my dream.

Higher Things turns thoughts above, both in prayers addressed to God, meditation on Scripture, and religious reflection. The book closes with a series of poems based on the "O Antiphons".

The wilting fields and thirsty forests prayed,
And God heard and relented; rain has come,
And filled the earth awhile again with green.

Each poem is paired with a public-domain drawing, woodcut, or illustration.

Take up and read, and explore the images and memories, dreams and prayers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FV3VH9GJ
• ISBN13: 9798268185171
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"