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poetry: poems in a variety of styles to express the spiritual and the subtle. |
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author reading: excerpts from his books of personal travels in the spiritual dimensions. |
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Kurt Leland is a professional composer and author as well as poet. His poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals, both in the United States and abroad. In 1998 he received a Finalist Award in poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Kurt is active as a composer of modern classical music, and has had pieces performed by "The Just In Time Composers and Players," a Boston-based composers collective. In 1989 Doubleday published "Menus for Impulsive Living", a book of life organizational paradigms written by Kurt and his spirit guide Charles. Due out in 2001 from Hampton Roads Publishing is "Otherwhere", a classical tour of the spiritual dimensions based upon Kurt's dreams and out-of-body adventures, and highlighting influences ranging from Dante and Bosch to Monroe and Edgar Cayce. Kurt is currently working on his third book, a comparative study of near-death experiences and philosophies. |
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images and text copyright 2000-2001 Kurt Leland and others |
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Sparrows
by Kurt Leland
A few flakes of snow
like crumbled bread
on the sidewalk:
at the trolley stop
three sparrows
are picking at other,
nearly invisible crumbs.
What keeps them alive?
I brush from my hands
the remains of a cookie.
Across the tracks
an old man eats
potato chips, scattering
a few on his bench.
When we leave,
the sparrows will take in
some of my world and his,
then wing their way
to another stop,
gathering pieces of people
I'll never meet,
linking us as they turn
our loneliness
into flight.
This poem of spiritual connectedness in the city of Boston was first published as the December Poem of the Month on the Christian Science poetry feature at www.csmonitor.com
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"Otherwhere: A Field Guide to Non-Physical Reality for Out-Of-Body Travelers" by Kurt Leland. Available November 2001 from Hampton Roads Publishing. Cover painting by Carolyn Callahan
"Reflecting upon his otherworldly travels, Leland looks for different cultural expressions of the same figures and concepts he encountered. His 'translation tables' are a fascinating model of the many different ways in which human beings perceive the spiritual worlds." -- Hampton Roads press release.
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