Songs Along the Missouri (Electronic book text)

"Harry Benoist Davis writes of profound religious experience in a way that captures the humanity and sometime doubt of the Protestant cleric, a visionary seeker in the embrace of a God who can be both comforting and merciless."-Stephen Davis, "New York Times" bestselling author ("Hammer of the Gods" and "Walk This Way")Harry Benoist Davis began writing poetry while growing up near the bluff-lined banks of his beloved Missouri river. He continued to write well into his eighties. This second edition of "Songs Along the Missouri" introduces previously unpublished poems and sonnets, many from his last twenty-five years, written while he served as a minister near Kansas City. Deeply spiritual, yet completely accessible, "Songs Along the Missouri" encompasses many emotions including the ache for love lost or never experienced, the serenity of ice and snow, Davis's strong sense of place and belonging, and the gentle love of family. His poetry speaks of his profound involvement with community and family-Harry was one of six siblings who grew up in the Great Depression of the 1930s-as well as an almost mystic sense of place: along the wide, often turbulent, always majestic Missouri River.