Wounded Bud

“This book is a tavern. Enter it from any direction and drink. Each cup is a treasure, hand-crafted, unique, yet all contain the wine of astonishment and one full jigger of God’s freshest glory. O, so delicious! I drank too many and reeled off my barstool into the evening. There I saw Whitman sail past the moon, old Khayyam was singing, and the Girl whom I’m planning on marrying whispered: Lo, these pages express what can never be seen, in words that describe what can never be said.” ~Peter Hayes, Author of The Supreme Adventure and My Lady of the Bog: An Archeo-Forensic Mystery“Fred LaMotte’s poems come from the depth of silence. They are nourishment for the starving spirit, and spring water for the thirsty. They encourage the reader to leave worry and fear behind and return to the origin, the root of all roots. This is the kind of reminder we need in this troubled world that has forgotten how to smile.” ~Guthema Roba, poet and author of Please Come Home“A modern Rumi? Fred’s poetry is rich with love, sensual and timeless, an exploration of what comes out of the stillness and silence of awakening. I have not read a book of contemporary poetry this wise and delightful in decades. As I do with the poetry of the masters, I will return to Fred's poetry again and again. It's a bit like reading Kabir for the first time but in your own language, and your own time. You read it and you know: this is a man who understands poetry, who understands spirit, who understands you." ~George Kinder, Buddhist meditation teacher, author of Transforming Suffering into Wisdom“Discovering Fred LaMotte's poetry has been a true gift to me. His poems are beautifully-written portals to a high consciousness and, like all great poetry, expand the reader.” ~Donna Baier Stein, Author of Sympathetic People and publisher of Tiferet Journal"Fred LaMotte's poems are passionate and rich, yet unusually spare, sewn together with fine mystical thread into beautiful creatures that breathe and live inside us long after we have met them. Reading his poetry is like drowning in nectar and seeing through liquid gold: we are immersed in the sweet taste of Truth.” ~Aile Shebar, founder of Writing from the Heart™, and One Heart Productions.“Fred LaMotte’s poetry is a living bridge between the boundless infinite and its expression: timeless vibration in words. Like a Rumi or Hafez, Fred has the rare and illumined skill of using words to unlock an inner door to the Innate Divine Presence. His poems are not just language, but vibrational medicine that help us remember home. His humor, sincerity, depth, compassion, and challenge are threads that weave a tapestry of transformational writing. We don't read the words of Fred LaMotte, we breathe them in as prayer, and let them melt our hearts open.” ~Dr. Matt Lyon, Founder of Network Wellness Center and author of Radical Healing.

As I do with any new book, I thumbed through "Wounded Bud" without looking and stopped when the Spirit moved me. I landed on page 43, "Kiss." Oh my...manna from heaven; cool water from a sacred spring. Fred has a way with words and concepts that simply drench the reader in the love of God/Brahman, and drowns the reader with love and awe of earth, self and all of life. This book offers the reader a daily renewal of love and amazement for self and for Creator, and reminds us that we are one with all of creation and through all of eternity. I do love to dog ear books that I own, but I'd have to dog ear every single page of this one!! If you want a beautiful, loving and inspiring read for your quiet time and for meditation, I highly recommend "Wounded Bud" for your luscious pleasure.

Just received my copy of this precious little gem of a book yesterday. It really is a meditation tool. As the writer says in his introduction, "This book is for the table beside your meditation cushion, or your bedside, or the carry-on bag on your travels...I hope it gets dog-eared and frayed..." Well, after just one day in my possession, I have dog-eared p. 3, the poem Bow Down, and sent a copy of it to my deepest and most heart-opened friends - the yoga teachers, the chaplains. I meditated on the words and rested in the resonances all day. I cannot recommend this book more highly, because I would need to reach beyond words, and somehow produce on this e-page a shimmering light and a deep lake, and a handful of rich earth. Thank you, Mr. LaMotte.

I’ve just received the book and can see that these poems are to be read over and over. One poem may call one day and then the next day other. If you love Rumi you will love this living poet.

I am rating this 3 stars because I was unable to understand a few of the poems because the author's religious beliefs. Aside from that, It is a beautiful book with vivid and ethereal imagery in the poems. The book weaves together flowers and bees, the cycles of life, and spirit, as fragments of one shattered mirror, which we all are.

The poems all seem fresh. It is a matter of perspective. LaMotte seems to be reaching us from a vantage point deep in the universe and deep within us at the same time. Marvelous imagery.

Interesting.

Beautiful!!

A truly inspirational, ecstatic poet. Alfred K. Lamotte's poems are a joyful celebration of awakening to the gift of life.