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    Poetry and Verses: On the Nature of Things
    Poetry and Verses: On the Nature of Things
    Poetry and Verses: On the Nature of Things
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    Poetry and Verses: On the Nature of Things

    By Jim Steele

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    Verses and Poetry are the reflections of author Jim The Man of Steele on a varied list of topics ranging from reflections from authors youth and his mothers observation, social dogma that we all must bear in order to survive, to musings on time written on a flight from Denver to Atlanta.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 26, 2017
    ISBN9781499046533
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      Poetry and Verses - Jim Steele

      Copyright © 2017 by Jim (The man of) Steele.

      Library of Congress Control Number:      2014912140

      ISBN:                      Hardcover                      978-1-4990-4654-0

                                      Softcover                        978-1-4990-4655-7

                                      eBook                             978-1-4990-4653-3

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      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.

      Rev. date: 12/18/2017

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      Poetry and Verses On the Nature of Things by Jim (the man of) Steele

      ……Introduction

      The verses, and poetic musings, and reflections presented in this book are the result of a flirt I had with death in April 2010, when I had a seizure while driving my Subaru Forester on Highway 52 in Boulder county and awoke in an ambulance whole, alive and breathing.

      After 4 months without any alcohol in my life, I began writing poetry and verses and dreaming, and I began to accept the messages from the infinite spirits who are responsible for all things… past, present, and future.

      The 60 or so verses included provide reflections on my personal history, my self introspection regarding the nature of my emotions, my ego, my anger, my reactions and other human conditions, that I have learned to accept and seek to minimize the consequences thereof.

      I have sought to find some understanding of the nature of love and the human need to find a soul-mate in this ocean of humanity.

      I was inspired by the life and the quote of Viktor Frankl, the greatest human freedom is the ability to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances to write verses on attitude.

      Many of the verses were inspired the specific events that have occurred in my life. Following my transformation from thinking in my scientifically trained left brain toward creative right brain thinking, and toward Eckart Tolle’s gospel of existing in the Now and letting go of total mind control over our chaotic thought patterns.

      I was inspired to read many of the works of the masters such as Shelley’s the Masque of Anarchy and Whitman’s epic Leaves of Grass during the last several years, the themes of which seem to be re-echoed by many of our modern poets as well as the ancients such as Lucretius of Rome. In his Nature of Things

      The voice of Whitman echos in my head when I write and I am always encountering his phantom as he expressed as the source of his voices in:

      As I Ponder’d in Silence by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass -1855)

      As I ponder’d in silence, returning upon my poems

          considering… lingering long,

      A Phantom arose before me… with distrustful aspect.

          Terrible in beauty…in age… and in power.

      The genius of poets of old lands, 5

          as to me directing like flame its eyes,

      with finger pointing to many immortal songs,

          and menacing voice.… What singest thou? … it said;

      know’st thou not… there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?

          And that is the theme of War… the fortune of battles,

      the making of perfect soldiers?

      Be it so? … then I answer’d, I too, haughty Shade

          also sing war… a longer and greater one than any,

          waged in my book with varying fortune…

      with flight, advance, and retreat

      Victory deferr’d and wavering,

      (Yet, methinks, certain or as good as certain, at the last,)

      The field the world… for life and for death

          for the Body, and for the eternal Soul,

      Lo! too am I come… chanting the chant of battles,

          I too… above all, promote brave soldiers.

      Acknowledgment: The Man of Steele" drawing on the cover

      is an original drawing by my grand daughter Ms. Ally Meyer.

      Verses and Poetry by Jim (the man of) Steele

      Contents with a descriptive note about each verse.

      Chapter I. Who is this Man of Steele? .in de-skies…

      ¹st verse:      Who is it? that I Am

      My view in the mirror that reflects

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