POETRY OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

POETRY OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. A change of pace from the political to the poetic to feel the meaning of politics, not just preach them.  Poetry is so personal it is hard to convince readers to take the time to feel the words and recite them, not just read them. My first published poetry book The Eighth Wonder of the World was motivated by the wonder of the mind that we all possess. In the subsequent WONDER-books it was about poetry combined with photography as the wonderful things we can do with the undiscovered planet called the mind and the combined magic of the soul, heart, brain and spirit. In other words, all five Wonders are about you, I and 8 billion neighbors on the good ship Earth. We come from the same place and return to the same destination. While, at the same time, we are all different in how we use our wonders to live our wonderful life. If you can follow my thinking in these five books we can eventually bond in values, faith and aspirations. And still be different in our experiences. It’s truly a wonderful world we live in. In the series of Wonder-books I have used the word God 562 times and faith 153 times though I tend to be an agnostic skeptic. However, in THE NINTH, TENTH, ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH WONDERS OF THE WORLD sequels to THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD I write that each man and woman must discover their own WORLD and faith. Their life is about the results not the reason for living strong with our physical bodies revolving around a hot sun and wonder-ing under a cold moon how we got here and where it’s taking us. What more can a poet asked for to write about if not to wonder how my own world is connected to THE TWEVFTH WONDER OF THE WORLD TERMED GOD. Life is both warm and cold sometimes hot sometimes bold. It depends on each of us and our circumstances that either enhances or detracts from our dreams. But always we make our own reality by our choices and rejoice our gladness or our sadness. Of the 8 billion people on this planet not a one is exactly a replica of another … we have genetically puzzled the PhD’s and scientists into submission and are not solving how a bug can have a brain and sex drive but no other individual powers except survival weapons … and half of us reject evolution as a part of the answer … and the rest pray to a spirit that formed us and is in charge of directing our future. Both are assumptive at best. WONDERS OF THE WORLD each title is a short story with a topical heading, a poetic body and a profound ending that hopefully meets the readers’ comprehension and understanding and appreciation. If not, then stimulate thoughts of life and the pursuit of happiness. It is very difficult to get the reader to feel the words, not just digest them, as they do with a meal. Many of the topics are words that come to mind about life and its tribulations that were spoken into a tape recorder thirty some years ago while driving a million miles throughout Illinois servicing my company’s accounts. Typed by my secretary Jane Jensen from the tape player onto beige typing sheets with an old-style typewriter in the 12 three ring binders I kept them in for later use. That meant no digital copies for the publisher … from time to time I would point them out to our children and grandchildren but with little if no interest. Most Men consider poetry and prose a chick thing until they need to convey their feelings in an emotional meaningful way … on a greeting card for birthdays, holidays and anniversaries that use poetry and prose as its entire mode of expression. Even the calendars, hit songs, political speeches, weddings, funerals use poetry as its genesis. So, grin and bear it and you may like it. As a change of pace, I plan to recite many of my poems, send them to my listerners and believers in the spoken word as well as the wrtiten word. Since I have recited 2,500 poems for you.