What is poetry?
Is it merely alliteration, imagery, rhyme, rhythm, sound, stanzas, tone, and meter?
Or is it something shimmering between reality and realization? Is it the charismatic sister of prose encapsulating enchantment bringing substance to that which is known intuitively?
Often people ask me, “How long does it take to write a book?”
No matter what my answer; one year, two years, twenty-five years this book, my second published book of poetry, took the longest.
I first started writing poetry before I ever heard of poetry. There are poems in this book that I wrote while in grade school and there are poems in this book that I wrote in 2024. Therefore, in the case of this book it took more than sixty odd years.
Touching on everything from religion, to whimsey, the offerings in this book are meant to entertain, enlighten, and amuse.
I don’t claim to be a Kipling, an Emerson, a Cummings, or a Ginsberg. All I can say of myself as a poet is that from an early age I felt as if I had to write, or I’d explode.
Poetry was the first vehicle of expression I was able to drive down the road of life. While I have since added other vehicles to my fleet …
When the stars are blinking
through the trees
and the wind is singing in the leaves,
I find my meaning rhyming,
No matter the timing
Like a ship tossed in translucent seas.
What else can I say that hasn’t been said.
Dr. Robert Owens
Published by Dr. Robert Owens
My name is Robert Owens I am a retired house painter, retired pastor, a musician, composer, author, a college professor. I hold an Associate Degree in Biblical Studies, a Bachelor Degree in Religious Education, a Bachelor Degree in History, a Master’s Degree in Religious Education, a Master’s Degree in History, and a Ph. D. in Organizational Leadership. Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Religion, and Leadership. My books include; Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. A four book commentary on the book of Ephesians. Four books of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump, Floating Through Time, The Fruit of the Tree, and God Is. A series entitled; New Old Sayings. These are books of 1,000 proverbs each compiled by Dr. Owens over a period of more than sixty years. Eight have been published so far and it is projected to include ten book in all. And of course the universally acclaimed: The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
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