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    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks
    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks
    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks
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    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks

    By Harold Richter

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    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks is a book of short poems that express insights, wisdoms, and sometimes humor. Each section starts with an explanation of a philosophical view of the author and many of the categorized limericks reflect and expand on those views. The book also has an extra section, toward the end, that contains several types of poetry, including non-limerick poems reflecting unique thoughts and ideas. Many, of the over 600 poems, deliver deep inspirational messages that can be viewed as quite thought stimulating, while others are more proverbial. And there are still others that can produce smiles and an occasional belly laugh with their wit and humor. The book holds many easy to read poems that should provide several hours of enjoyment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 8, 2011
    ISBN9781463421267
    Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks
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    Harold Richter

    I’m a 60-year-old retired computer tech, born in a suburb of Chicago, who has just finished a long time ambition. A few years back, I listened to some audio books, directed towards enlightenment. Though I didn’t agree 100% with the authors’ views on everything, they did put into words clearly, how they felt love and life work, in a fashion that, for the most part, didn’t contradict my own outlooks and experiences. Armed with a clearer understanding of the most probable mechanics of love and life, and realizing a few new truths about them, on my own, I contemplated, with excitement, several ways to relay these insights to others, in an acceptable, enjoyable, and easily understood method. My poetry has been a part of me for as long as I can remember. It seemed a natural progression to write limericks that reflect my own thoughts and theories about love, life and truth in general. I find enlightenment is exciting and joyful. When an epiphany is realized about truth, I feel it should be shared and a considerable part of this book is aimed at doing just that, in a manner that won’t be conceived as forcing my ideas on others. Not all of my poems are of a serious nature. Some are purely humor inspired, but most have a potential to generate a moment of joy, or at least a little smile. It is my sincere hope that you find this collection enjoyable reading, while sensing the different values I’ve attempted to portray in my poems and limericks. Enjoy!

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      Love, Life, and Laughter in Limericks - Harold Richter

      © 2011 by Harold Richter. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 10/13/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-2128-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-2127-4 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-2126-7 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011910568

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      What is Love?

      Love:

      What is Life?

      Life:

      What is Laughter?

      Laughter:

      Extras:

      A Final Point

      I’d like to express my gratitude to my mother, Virginia Short, and grandmother, Florence Mackey, for giving me a deep appreciation of poetry, and my wife, Teresa, who acted as my sounding board and advisor for the material found in this book. Thank you.

      What is Love?

      I would guess that everyone, at one time, or another, in his, or her life, has asked: What is Love?

      I think I have a pretty good working theory about love. I was listening to a motivational radio station, called the Winner’s channel, some 25 years ago when I first heard a speaker ask this question: What is the opposite of love? I mentally answered that question, as most people would, with the word hate. Then the speaker said something that has worked on molding my outlook on the subject, ever since. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of like is hate. The opposite of love is simply not caring.

      Over the years since, I’ve done some exploring and expanding on that concept and realized that he was probably right. Where like and love are similar, they are absolutely two separate things. Once more, love is a lot more common than most people give it credit for. If you saw a toddler step off of a curb next to you and head out into a busy street, wouldn’t you reach out and pull him out of harm’s way?

      That’s a simple example of love. It’s a basic instinctive human trait. You didn’t have to like, or even know this child to go out of your way to pull him away from traffic. The love within you is pretty much universal, in this way. Love can be strong, weak, over powering, or almost non-existent, but it is there to some degree all of the time. It has no down side.

      Like on the other hand, is an emotion that can be positive, or negative. The down side of like is hate. Like and hate are obvious opposites, but they are on the same line of scale.

      Our physicists have discovered 4 basic forces in our universe. They are electromagnetism, gravity, the strong force and the weak force. Now, the strong and weak forces are found in the sub-atomic sciences and our world’s best physicists, like Max Planck (Nobel prize winner in 1918), have only become aware of them in the last 90 years, or so. But man has been aware of both gravity and electromagnetism since he began to look around his world. He might not have understood the details, but he could see their effects in common phenomenon, such as lightning, and falling rain.

      These two forces differ from each other in a special way. Electromagnetism, on a scale, has the potential to be positive, or negative. There are both positive and negative poles on every magnet and electricity is considered positive if it’s flowing one way and negative if it’s flowing the other way. However, gravity doesn’t have a negative counterpart.

      To experience the least amount of gravity, you would have to be way out in space, away from any stars, planets, moons, or any other form of matter. Even then, gravity from matter some place in the distant universe would still have a very slight pull, so you probably wouldn’t be able to find anywhere that actually has an absolutely zero gravity condition.

      The heaviest gravity condition would be close to a black hole, where matter is so dense that a pea sized particle would weigh tons on earth. But antigravity is still only found in science fiction.

      Those are the two extremes of gravity, but nowhere does it venture into a negative gravity situation where matter actually repels itself. This scale has no negative. Weight measures start at zero and just go up from there. Never down past zero.

      Love also has no negative side. You can have deep and strong love, or you can be relatively indifferent, but there is no anti-love. Its scale, like gravity, starts close to zero and just increases from there, to varying degrees.

      Like’s scale would relate much closer to electromagnetism with its positives reaching up to close, and passionate affections and negatives that can grow down to profound hatreds.

      Through childhood, I was brought up as a Lutheran Christian. I was headstrong and had little patience for memorizing bible passages that I felt were not only vague, but also written in what was, to me, close to another language. But the stories stuck. I did learn much about the workings and atmosphere of the religion even though at that age, I was far too rebellious to consider applying them completely to my life.

      One thing I remember learning is a line in the bible that says: His sword is sharp enough to cut spirit from soul. At the time, I really didn’t give it much thought, but later, while listening to that motivational channel, I heard speaker after speaker talk quite correctly and logically, defining and explaining spiritual matters, but when asked about spirit and soul, they would invariably come up with what I felt was a disappointing answer.

      They had no problem acknowledging that God was present. They showed how a person’s attitude about life’s trials and encounters would have a direct bearing on the successes and happiness that person would experience. They showed how a person’s spirit could be lifted into a peaceful state by embracing joy and recognizing the ego and its depths. They exposed many relative truths in an exact and comprehensible manner. But, it seemed that most of them considered spirit and soul the same thing. This didn’t sit well with my childhood teachings. If spirit and soul were the same thing, then how could they be divided with that sword? Why would there be two different names for the same thing? I felt that somebody got something wrong somewhere.

      Then, I pieced it together. There have to be two different things. They are similar, from a living human being’s perspective and can easily be mistaken at as one, much like like and love, but I realized the soul isn’t the part that makes me feel up, down, happy, or sad. These emotions are related to spirit. The terms high spirits and a spirited lad refer to this. Another example could be that when a ship sinks at sea, you might hear someone say: So many souls were lost. This doesn’t refer to how happy, or sad these people

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