Beyond Fear
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Beyond Fear
Our Greatest Fears
Courage Has No Fear
A Prayer for Courage
I Smiled in Spring
Ode To Honor Woman
Of Personal Non-Intent and Content
In Honor of a Beggar Woman
Bagpipe in the Park
Words, So Essential to Our Lives
Strive for Excellence
A Prayer to Ancestors
Letter to God and Ancestors
Don’t Be Afraid to Help
When Time Stood Still
Something for Nothing
Trials and Triumphs
Choose Death or Life
Suffering Can Be a Blessing
Destiny
Sacrifice
Life Beyond
Don’t Overdo It
Living Within an Oyster Shell
Beyond Daily Fears
Free Your Mind
There’s a Train Coming
Dehumanizing of Humans
The Way of Your Destiny
Total Unselfishness
Advice to Vanessa on “Becoming and Being”
Memorial Tribute to Sean Taylor
Don’t Languish With Anguish
Ungrateful Receivers
Perigee vs. Apogee
A Prayer Against Blaming and Complaining
Do Not Fear a Messenger
Rebels Against Ourselves
Which Way Is It to Sleepy Town?
To Run or Not
Self-Centered Ones
Time Tests Us
Time and Change
Living in the Existential Moment
Intellectual Warrior
Death’s Summon
Things Do Pass
Self-Disclosure
Tests of Life
Fearful Nations
Apology From Honorable Men to Woman and Girl
The Wisdom of an Arrow
Living Outside Our Body
Now Is the Moment
Time and Change
Ode to the Sun
Born To Be
“You” Ask Much of Me
A Humble Servant
Power, Beauty, and Thought
When the Brain Has Its Own Mind
Hold on
Wisdom Before Blind Courage
Time as Teacher
Don’t Die Angry
A Champion
Gates of Heaven
Emotional Freedom
Fast Food
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About the Book
ABOUT THE BOOK
As Harper’s 10th book of poetry with prose, Beyond Fear beautifully addresses life fears and daily fears, both real and imagined, that we encounter and perceive as human beings. Typical of all of Dr. Harper’s creative books, Beyond Fear also contains insightful and inspirational quotes in a section at the end of the book. Examples of poem titles from Beyond Fear include “Courage Has No Fear,” “Beyond Fear,” “Our Greatest Fears,” “Suffering Can Be a Blessing,” “Living Outside Our Body,” “Intentional Happiness,” “Trials and Triumphs,” “Apology from Honorable Men to Woman and Girl,” “In Honor of a Beggar Woman,” “Don’t Be Afraid to Help,” “A Prayer for Courage,” “Letter to God and Ancestors,” “Words, So Essential to Our Lives,” “Which Way Is It to Sleepy Town?,” “Living Within an Oyster Shell,” “Emotional Freedom,” and “Do You Have the Strength To Be?”
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frederick Douglas Harper has authored more than 1000 poems. Beyond Fear is his 10th poetry book. His other poetry books include The Light Within Us (2008), Transitions in Life and to Death (2007), Poetica Erotica (2006), Spiritual Teacher Speaks (2005), Poems for Young People (2004), Love Poems of Frederick Douglas Harper (2003), God’s Gifts: Spiritual Writings (2003), Romantica: On Peace and Romance (1988), and Poems on Love and Life (1985, 2004). Dr. Harper has been referred to as a spiritual master by some of his readers and followers. His poetry on spirituality and love has been compared to the great works of Rumi and Khalil Gibran. Harper views himself as a missionary poet whose work is intended to provide inspirational, educational, therapeutic, and spiritual benefits for his readers.
A university professor of counseling, international scholar, and educational leader, Harper has authored 18 books and monographs, including college textbooks. Furthermore, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of three major scholarly journals. His poems were read regularly on WPFW Radio, 89.3 in