Author : John WorldPeace
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ISBN 13 : 9781689606332
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)
Book Synopsis Dr John WorldPeace JD Complete Poems 1970 to 2019 Volume 4 Of 4 by : John WorldPeace
Download or read book Dr John WorldPeace JD Complete Poems 1970 to 2019 Volume 4 Of 4 written by John WorldPeace and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 11, 1970, I wrote my first serious poem. It was the night before I was to report for military duty in the U S Army. I had been drafted. By serious, I mean that I had over the prior two years playing around with writing poems. The subjects were very frivolous and I experimented with rhyming and free verse. I wrote about 30 poems and then made the mistake of reading them to my father and brother-in-law and it was like reading to the wind. No comments. This event was a precursor of the reactions of others for my whole life about just about everything I have ever done that was out of the ordinary. I threw the poems away. They were to me just rough sketches. Later I decided that I enjoyed writing poems and I would get serious about it.Over the last 50 years, I have written several thousand poems. I have over the years made a half-hearted effort to have my poems published. One or two were published. This was in the mid 1970s. I was too busy to pursue the marketing aspect of being a poet because after the time in the Army I was raising a family, going to college to get an accounting and a law degree and I was opening over the years my own businesses in insurance, accounting, tax, law, and web design. But I continued to write.I kept all the poems; I maybe lost a couple of dozen at the most. I tried several times to get the poems typed in the 1990s but it became a significant task. Finally, this year, 2019, I determined to get all the poems typed and organized. In the 1980's I began to write some Haiku. I enjoyed that. Then in 1995 I had an idea to begin to write one-line poems. Not one sentence but one line; 10 to 35 words. I wrote about 500 poems in 1995 and put the project aside until 2019 when I wrote another 500. I call the book "A Thousand Petal Zen Lotus". On October 10, 2019, I will have been writing poems for 50 years. I have published the poems over the last year in individual volumes. This book is one of four volumes that contains all my poems. 2100 +/- free verse, 1000 one-line poems, 200 Haiku. I will continue with these genres for the rest of my life. No reason to stop now that I have learned my trade. Dr Jwp JD 190827