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    The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays
    The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays
    The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays
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    The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays

    By Justin P Lambert

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    This sophomore effort from poet Justin P Lambert includes both free verse and more structured forms, including a number of haiku. Each section includes an essay on various topics of interest to the average human. Read some reviewers' kind words:

    "This collection of poems does a remarkable job of exploring the nature of humanity, reality, the power of thought and mindset. I enjoyed the journey taken with the author through his heartfelt expressions. You get to develop a sense of what the author values and cherishes and has concern over. This is mature rumination and introspection !!"

    "It’s like a quaint cabin in the woods, familiar but still new. I enjoyed the essays at the beginning of the 5 sections, they gave his thought process on why he wrote these poems. The poems are both free verse and rhyming. Not filled with lots of melodramatic metaphors, what is laid out in verse is easily understood.
    Definitely worth reading!"

    "Honest writing is the charm that makes this a delightful collection. Despite almost becoming preachy during the creation section of the collection, reading a poem about holding hands with his wife in bed shows the power of personality on writing. Certainly worth your time to read."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin P Lambert
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781370645176
    The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays
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    Justin P Lambert

    I tend toward genre fiction in both my short stories and my novel work. Primarily sci-fi and fantasy, although some other interesting themes occasionally surface. My poetry is almost exclusively what I like to call “speed poems” meaning I’m not agonizing over a space or a comma. I’m dashing out a first draft as fast as possible with a goal of crystallizing a particular moment in time or a feeling. Then, if I look back at it at all, it will be to decide if it makes the cut or not. I’m not going to edit, I’m not going to polish. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like that sucks the life out of a poem. If it does make the cut, I save it and will eventually publish it. I’ve also written quite a few essays under the general topic of Timeless Principles. Basically, these are musings on living a better, more fulfilling and more successful life through basic, time-honored, common sense principles for living. Although I’m a very religious person, I’ve tried hard NOT to make these essays religious in nature because I don’t feel this is the proper format for religious writing. But, you’ll probably recognize many of these principles as appearing in your holy book of choice. That’s not because they’re religious, per se, but because they work. So, relax for a bit and read to your heart’s content. If you’re pleased, leave a friendly comment and I’ll get back to you to thank you for doing so. If you’re REALLY pleased, you’ll find an opportunity to support what I do by purchasing a poetry collection or an e-book at http://justinplambert.wordpress.com/book-store . Rest assured you have my sincere thanks just for making it this far. ENJOY!

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      The Ectopic Epiphany - Justin P Lambert

      Part One

      Thought

      I have often been intrigued by the concept of thought. It's a strange thing, if you stop to consider it for more than a moment or two. And not just from the scientific standpoint, although that is also pretty interesting. After all, try as they might, scientists just don't get thought.

      They have a vague concept of how it works: nerve cells create and pass along electro-chemical impulses along any of a thousand trillion possible pathways, some more worn than others, and the end result is a thought. But, if you're like me, these vague explanations create more questions than they answer.

      For example, how does a nerve cell decide which synapse to jump at any given millisecond? I mean, we're talking decision-making at the ultimate level. It blows away the very fastest computer processor ever developed, and will no doubt keep doing so for generations to come. And, assuming the brain containing the nerve cell is healthy, it almost never gets it wrong. I mean, if you decide to move your right hand up to scratch your right ear, you don't accidentally bring your left foot up in a roundhouse kick.

      And while we're on that subject for a second, just think about how many incredibly complex variables your brain needs to take into account and every time you complete even a very simple action: for the sake of example, let's use drinking a glass of water.

      So your brain must first of all notice that the relative moisture content in some or all of the trillion cells that make up your body is low, or in other words, you are thirsty. Then, and mind you, this is simplified, it has to...

      1.Move hundreds of muscles, bones and joints, while monitoring the level of fluid in the inner ear, processing the visual input your eyes provide and comparing that input with the stored memory it possesses about the layout of your house, all just to get you to the sink.

      2.A similar process finds you a glass and reminds you how your sink functions.

      3.Then, new tactile input needs to be used as you stick your finger under the faucet to make sure the water is the proper temperature, and a whole series of nerve-decisions adjusts the

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