Now That's Poetry!
It's Feisty, It's Poignant, And It Rhymes…
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Egoist Money has no hold over me, Power doesn’t turn me on, Today I’m here, taking on the world And tomorrow I may be gone....... Eternal Man A world exists - created in every grain of sand, But it’s the power of ideas That creates the Eternal Man..... Faith It’s the spiritual vacuum we are trying to fi ll, There’s a Supreme Entity we are trying to placate, We put shimmering emotions ahead of the rest, And the brotherhood of Man ends up willing to hate.....
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About the Book
This is a book that delivers a punch, at times with a whiff of salty humor. It is what its title says – “Feisty!” It is one man’s ‘class action suit’ against everything that’s wrong with the world….(and with poetry) that he wants to put right. Although he lashes out at today’s norms and standards, and openly shows his utter disdain for political skullduggery on a global scale, he also writes about the poignant and funny sides of life and a free spirit that just will not quit. In his words, “I know what life is like. Let me show you what it should be like.”
However else a reader may view this work, it is an outpouring of Life experiences – personal wins, losses, love, joys, sorrows………………and future wins!
The entire work could best be described as ballads expressed in quatrains, which enables almost every poem’s message to be delivered with a punch line. He believes that “a poem should make one sit up and take notice. It should produce laughter, anger, indignation, annoyance, tears, and joy, but above all it must provoke thought.”
About the Author
Although I am an unordained Zoroastrian priest from a long line of high priests and Magis, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism. I have been practicing it for the last several decades. Although I do not agree nor accept all her premises and despite the shenanigans in her personal life, I have unwaveringly believed that Objectivism is the practical philosophy for living a meaningful, fulfilling and successful life in the midst of utter chaos. (And it is not far from the teachings of Zarathustra who held the Good Mind as the source of all human action.) I would not have been where I am today, were it not for Ms Rand and her philosophy. So much so that I have passed Objectivism on to my children along with the Avesta, to be understood and practiced, albeit in faltering steps. And I will hear cries of “Contradiction!” because of it. So be it.