Selected Poetry Book II
Variations on Themes
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page 12 Dawn Dawn Ocean by dawn’s rise Each season wakes not alone We, never parted page 99 Be An Angel Be an Angel Now Lift someone Out of Hell. page 170 101 101 Un-zeroed sum Some and excess Value All in one. page 171 Canto LVIIB CANTO LVIIb Time clock universe Keeping up appearances For owner, manager, worker As time goes by For master slave Thirty thousand years Living, stone age Stonehenge Escarpments gorge Ever since Olduvai. What clouded brow because Bro, boson meson stars Mega-compactness Whereas dark-matter weighs in tops Opulence Ops page 203 Epigramme 2 Epigrame 2 Catch the falling star, traps Telescopes, liquid helium, Dreamer photons set by strings Living in each frame Across dimensions Obstacles to a consumed future. Caveat those asleep Dreamers awakened Set free by truth and beauty In invisible skeins.
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SELECTED POETRY, Book II, VARIATIONS ON THEMES (with a few poems restrung from Book I) is a book of poetry by Paul Shapshak, PhD. There are also 10 photographs and a cover photograph of paintings and sculptures by the poet’s father, Sir Rene Shapshak. The photographs were taken by one of the poet’s sons, Dag Shapshak, MD. (For additional information, see the poet-author description from the back cover.) This book divides into eight sections, Pastoral, Mythology, Cosmology, Theology, History, Social, Economics, and the Arts as was done in Book I. Poetic forms that appear in this book include Cantos, Epigrammes, and Haikus. A point is never completed, but builds and stretches examining time shifts, time drifts, and geographical climes, explored with surprises, and some balls hit out the ballpark. Some are paintings done at the beach by cliffs or in fields by streams, every hour on the hour that vary in chiaroscuro, color, and overtones by time of day and evening. The poet enjoys and hopes that you will as well.