The Tears of the Desert: 101 Poems

By Gregory David Done

The Tears of the Desert is the first collection of metaphysical poetry from Bay Area writer Gregory David Done. Utilizing a number of different poetic styles including the sonnet, free verse, the haiku, and the quatrain, The Tears of the Desert is a chapter in the spiritual journey of every human being. In many of the mystic traditions of the world they speak of a period of spiritual darkness and despair that occurs before the light of discovery called The Dark Night of the Soul. This collection of poetry is an attempt to convey this experience in an open, emotional, and personal manner. Drawing upon Buddhist, Vedantic, and Sufi thought, The Tears of the Desert is Gregory David Dones attempt to describe personal truth in the only form of language adequate enough to do so: poetry. In the authors own words, ?Ono matter what you do, you cannot know, you cannot explain, you cannot answer the great riddle of life, the mystery of the universe. It is only when you discover this that you step out of the symbolic world and into the real one. You begin truly to see this mystery, to live in it, to dwell in it, to experience it directly for yourself. It is only then that language finds its true purpose: to describe the indescribable, to say what cannot be said?O

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432769960
• ISBN13: 9781432769963
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"