{"product_id":"a-third-thousand-petal-zen-john-worldpeace-jd-9798475833858","title":"A Third Thousand Petal Zen Lotus: Poems 3000 to 3200: WorldPeace Poems","description":"I do not force my poems. I don't channel these poems unless I feel inspired. I have no desire to set a world record for the number of poems written in a lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll my poems have a spiritual connect and I say that I channel them from the spiritual dimension as opposed to writing them. The poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder in chronological order. I have lost less than a dozen poems since 1970 when I began channeling them. Usually within a very few minutes after channeling a poem, I have no real memory of what I wrote. The edits I make after channeling a poem are minimal. Images of the original cursive of many poems are online: https: \/\/DrJohnWorldPeaceJDPoetry.com. All but maybe 50 of my poems have been recorded in my handwriting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI do not channel poems that rhyme except incidentally. For me to try to force fit a poetic thought into a rhyming format or any format breaks the flow of the poem; more specifically, crashes the poem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI have, and it seems natural, significantly refined a method channeling poems. I am in truth a filter. A poetic thought that comes to me is skewed in the interpretation and recording by my personal filters; physical and spiritual (not religious doctrine and dogma dictates). The same poetic thought channeled by someone else would be skewed by his or her personal filters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eZen Petals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am not a religionist of any stripe. I believe in the teachings of Jesus but not in corporate Christianity. Zen for me is a generic metaphysical word. Petals in my poetry are a metaphor for mostly\u003cbr\u003every short free verse poems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI keep two steno pads together for writing poetry. One for my standard free verse poems and the other for the shortest of poems. Sometimes I will take a line out of one of my poems and enter it in my Zen Petal steno pad. I am most impressed by poets who can in the course of writing or recording a poem have within it a free standing shorter poetic expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoems are never finished until the poet dies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is my hope that various publishers will decide to go through my poems and publish a selection of about 100. If that were done, it is unlikely, due to the variety of what I have channeled, that any two selections would be even close to being the same. What I have channeled is a metaphysical enigma matrix of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr John WorldPeace JD\u003cbr\u003e210912-1142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Worldpeace Jd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798475833858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"John Worldpeace Jd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066543517951,"sku":"9798475833858","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bfa9048-38b0-4336-a03d-76c27ceb0ada.jpg?v=1768679019","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-third-thousand-petal-zen-john-worldpeace-jd-9798475833858","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}