Richard Douglas Kydd

Spiritual Earth: Mystical Song of the Wind Richard Douglas Kydd

In Spirit Earth, Richard Kydd's second collection of poems, the author continues to inspire deep-seated emotions and deal with a wide range of human experience. The theme of spiritual growth and awareness, touched on in his first book, Lost in the Garden of Remembrance, is emphasized more strongly here. He also accentuates the importance of family relationships. Richard expresses great understanding for the human condition, the struggle to accept pain and loss. He is deeply saddened by the harm done by prejudice, injustice, and greed, and pleads for understanding and compassion between human beings. Yet in the midst of these serious concerns is a strong thread of happiness and delight with the beautiful things of life. Some of his poems have a musical, dancing element. Although the author is solidly grounded in the issues of everyday life and the physical world, he is capable of a mystical vision that ultimately absorbs and resolves man's suffering and confusion, in the all-encompassing tenderness of a God whose chief attribute is love. Underlying all of Richard's work is the consistent spiritual theme that love is the answer to man's suffering.