{"product_id":"dr-john-worldpeace-jd-complete-john-worldpeace-jd-9798509478468","title":"Dr John WorldPeace JD Complete Poems 2021 March April: WorldPeace Poems","description":"NOTES RE: POETRY: Dr. John WorldPeace JD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was born in 1948, in Houston, Texas and lived there most of my life. Between 1970-2, I was in Louisiana, Georgia, and Italy in the Army. 1993-6 in Colorado. I have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 2011 and it seems unlikely that I will have a home base elsewhere in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn October 1970, when I was 22, I wrote my first poem. Since then, I have written about 4000 poems in various poetic genres. My poems could be looked at as a supplement to my autobiography; one-page snap-shots of what I was thinking or experiencing at a particular moment in time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn June 2018, I began to self-publish all the poems I have ever written in chronological order using Amazon's self-publishing software. There are about 40 poem books in total.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have lost less than a dozen poems over the years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with my free-verse poems, I have published one line (not one sentence) poems and Haiku, which are 3 line poems with 5, 7, 5 syllables per line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy genetics and my current state of health make me confident, barring some accident, that I will live more than a few years past 100. I will continue to write poems and, in fact, will probably increase the annual volume of poems written over the rest of my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1) I do not force my poems. I don't write unless I feel inspired. I have no desire to set a world record for the number of poems written in a lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2) My poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder in chronological order. Usually, within a very few minutes after writing the poem I have no real memory of what I wrote. . This is the way it has always been for me.\u003cbr\u003eThe edits I make after writing a poem are minimal. Images of some of the poems in the original cursive are on my website: \u003cbr\u003ehttps: \/\/drjohnworldpeacejdPoetry.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3) I do not write poems that rhyme except incidentally. I would say that I channel poems from muses in the spiritual dreamscape. It is like I am taking dictation. To force a rhyme would collapse the poem into gibberish. I think to make a rhyming poem, I would have to be more concerned about making a rhyme as opposed to communicating the thoughts I receive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4) I am not an intellectual or mechanical poet obsessed with meter, grammar, even spelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5) I stay away from using \"we\" or \"you\" in poems to avoid preaching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6) I like to write words all over the page using spacing as punctuation. I paint the words as opposed to writing them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7) I like to write in a way that makes the reader unsure of what I am saying, and therefore he or she has to slow down and think. It does not bother me to write an ambiguous poem that I understand. Writing something I don't understand would be to write gibberish. If I want to be perfectly clear about something, I will communicate it in prose. Poetry is about abstractions. Poetry is the language of abstractions. Abstract poetry allows the manipulation of logical, linear reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8) A poem is never really finished, the same as a work of art. I like to take a poetry book I have published and edit it a few years later. Therefore, I have no desire or need to make a poem perfect before publishing. No matter how much work I put into a poem, I would never consider it finished. Only at my death will all poems become finished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9) Over 50 years, I kept writing. Until I submitted my complete poems (50 years of poems) to Pulitzer in October 2019, I had never entered one in a contest or for publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrJohnWorldPeaceJDPoetry.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Worldpeace Jd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798509478468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"John Worldpeace Jd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49167861285119,"sku":"9798509478468","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dr-john-worldpeace-jd-complete-john-worldpeace-jd-9798509478468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}