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    My Life in Metaphor
    My Life in Metaphor
    My Life in Metaphor
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    My Life in Metaphor

    By Joseph Baldi Acosta

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    Dear Reader:

    Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one mans life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between.

    My writing reflects

    growing up a part of two distinct, rich cultures;

    training as a scientist and public health professional;

    work and residence in three foreign countries Brazil, Jordan and Ecuador;

    a love of nature; and,

    great respect for our country, but concern about a decline in our nations values the growing hostility and intolerance, technology as a substitute for direct human contact, and excessive violence.

    I hope you will enjoy my poetry, find it interesting and thought-provoking.

    Sincerely,


    Joseph Baldi Acosta
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781491820568
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      My Life in Metaphor - Joseph Baldi Acosta

      © 2013 by Joseph Baldi Acosta. 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.

      Published by AuthorHouse   10/12/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2055-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2054-4 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2056-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013917746

      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.

      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

      Dedication

      Comments received regarding the collection of poems in My Life in Metaphor

      Letter to the Reader

      Still Life Moving Fast

      The Limited

      Silver Dust

      Fallingwater

      Restless Sands

      USA, Look In The Mirror

      Mae Dos Santos

      Letter To The Sun

      Sentinel

      Alternate Reality

      Sonnet To Autumn

      American Nomad

      Aliens

      Great Black Birds

      Hunchback & The Redeemer

      Through God’s Eyes

      Haiku #1

      Child Of Linz

      The Embrace

      Proteins

      Delhi Odyssey

      The Muse

      Sonnet For Will

      Medieval Church

      Fasching

      Haiku #2

      Sisters Of La Frontera

      Six-Point Buck

      The Mission

      A Romance Novel

      The Route

      Morning Glory

      High

      Dead Sea Road

      Seven Up

      Plea To Monos And Odyne

      Jaipur

      Living Retro

      Janus

      Cannons

      The Countess

      13Th Day Of The 7Th Month—Urabon

      Cab Driver

      Stealth Bandit

      Sounds

      Scarlet Snow—April 16, 2006

      Thai Temples

      Tranquility

      Haiku #3

      Signs

      Ballad Of The Software Genius

      The Artist

      Curandero Of Juarez

      Jack-In-The-Pulpit

      The End And The Beginning

      Fim Do Mundo

      Red Bulls-Eye

      Dedication

      To my precious wife, Maria

      my lovely daughters Cinira and Rachel

      beautiful granddaughters Anise, Camille, Carlyn

      and all my family

      Comments received regarding the collection of poems in My Life in Metaphor, by Joseph Baldi Acosta

      Joseph Baldi Acosta offers us a range of delectable verse, sweeping globally from magenta borderlands of the Southwest to vertiginous views of modern art. Whether chiseling a fine, fixed form, or shearing a with the variable foot, Baldi Acosta is ensconced in his element, and the result is illuminating. Relish these poems for pure delight and apt instruction.

      Dr. Swift Stiles Dickison, Ph.D.

      Professor of English

      Montgomery College—Rockville, MD

      With Still Life Moving Fast the reader enters Joseph Baldi Acosta’s book of mystical wonders:

      the Holy Spirit sent to replay scenes of a still life moving fast—/ in reverse, back to the womb and creation, or forward to what awaits. In this debut collection one visits the Greater Southwest with its deserts and cultural richness, expanding onto East L.A. It’s in the cultural spiral that Acosta taps our curiosity:

      Curandero /

      with thick, mystical /

      two-thumbed right hand, /

      how do you cure me /

      with blessed holy water, then /

      making the sign of the cross /

      on my bloated belly?

      (Curandero of Juarez).

      Adeptly, he captures that element of humanity in The Mission and other poems that leads him to his calling of being on a

      poetic mission.

      —Robert L. Giron, Editor of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2

      Central to the collection, My Life in Metaphor by Joseph Baldi Acosta is his poem The Route—the story of his childhood liberation when at 15, he funds his first transcontinental flight by selling a

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