Songs from My Heart: Poems and Photographs

By Daisaku Ikeda

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834801337
• ISBN13: 9780834801332
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Weatherhill
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Celebration of Youth, Change and Progress

This collection of poems composed between 1987 and 1988 by Soka Gakkai International President Daisaku Ikeda is dedicated to the personal victories achieved by his friends around the world at home, at work, in school and in society.

Beautiful Songs From The Heart of a Buddhist Poet

In "Songs from My Heart," Daisaku Ikeda, president of Soka Gakkai International, the largest Buddhist organization in the world, presents a poetic statement of his hopes for the future of humanity through reflections upon his own life and the lives of those with whom he has come into contact. Especially important to Ikeda has been his associations with young people, who have been a source of both inspiration and hope.Also included are some of his beautiful photographs, which affirm and deepen the message of his words. This book gathers together poems written over many years and travels. They are a celebration of youth and change and progress. They are a call to all people to work and strive for a better world, one of peace and compassion. While not always following strict poetic conventions, they are expressions of Ikeda's deepest feelings - they are songs from his heart.It is easy to see from this book why Mr. Ikeda has won so many awards throughout the world for his poetry and photography, as well as his writing.