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    Ars Poetica and Other Poems Ebook
    Ars Poetica and Other Poems Ebook
    Ars Poetica and Other Poems Ebook
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    Ars Poetica and Other Poems Ebook

    By Stanley White

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    This Ebook is a collection of poems selected from 40 years of writing. The science of poetry is to translate the intangible thinking of the right brain into a familiar left brain world of matter. No attempt has been made to order the poems, either alphabetically or chronologically or by themes, in the hope that each poem will come as a surprise and maintain interest.

    There are a number of poems on the subject of language throughout the book. To understand some of them, it may be necessary to have an awareness of the thought behind them. The author is passionately interested in how the presence of language influences the process of thought. Did, for instance, early societies before language, see their world as one? Does the existence of over a million words, a million labels, in our contemporary world, tend to make us think fractionally?

    These poems are the tangibles of philosophies that have entered my mind over the past 92 years, and the many issues that all lives have to deal with. They are namely…an autobiography of thought.
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    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 16, 2022
    ISBN9781387791521
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      Ars Poetica and Other Poems Ebook - Stanley White

      Ars Poetica and Other Poems

      Dedicated to my daughter, Heather

      and

      in Memory of my wife, Ann

      Copyright © 2022 by Stanley J. White All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this Ebook may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN:  978-1-3877915-2-1

      https://www.stanjwhite.com/

      Acknowledgements

      This book would never have been published but for the encouragement and hands-on assistance of my dear friend Bernadette Rule. I must mention two other dear friends: Becky Alexander and Katherine Gordon, with whom I have circulated my poetry for many years. I am very grateful for their encouragement. Many thanks to the members of the Arlington Seven for their valuable critiques. Thanks also go to my son-in-law, Frank, without whose it expertise, I could never have compiled these files, and special thanks to Greg Smith of blindpigpress.

      Previously published books by the author: Four Solitudes, About Time,

      Chapbooks: Itinerant, Poems One, Annum, Anomalies of Violence, Oddities

      The following books and chapbooks were written in collaborations with various other poets: Quaere, Portals, Telling Lies, Double Take, Seven by Seven, A Week of Thoughts, Banshee Songs

      Thanks also to the following: The Cambridge Writers Collective, The Brantford Writers Circle, Tower Poetry, The Hamilton Poetry Centre, Byline Magazine, Serengeti Press, Craigleigh Press, Seraphim Editions.

      Foreword

      This book is a collection of poems selected from 40 years of writing. The science of poetry is to translate the intangible thinking of the right brain into a familiar left brain world of matter. No attempt has been made to order the poems, either alphabetically or chronologically or by themes, in the hope that each poem will come as a surprise and maintain interest.

      There are a number of poems on the subject of language throughout the book. To understand some of them, it may be necessary to have an awareness of the thought behind them. The author is passionately interested in how the presence of language influences the process of thought. Did, for instance, early societies before language, see their world as one? Does the existence of over a million words, a million labels, in our contemporary world, tend to make us think fractionally?

      These poems are the tangibles of philosophies that have entered my mind over the past 92 years, and the many issues that all lives have to deal with. They are namely…an autobiography of thought

      Author’s Note on eBook Poems: Viewing/Listening:

      Author’s Note on eBook Poems: Viewing:

      Dear Reader, Thank you for downloading this eBook.  Great effort has been taken to insert line breaks and indents into stanzas to control cadence. However, it is impossible to take into account all the electronic devices or software that may be used to display the poetry. It has been determined that these poems are best viewed with a Times New Roman Font at a size that permits each line to exist without additional line breaks. So, adjust your screen to your comfort and enjoy.

      Author’s Note on eBook Poems: Listening:

      On some laptops, tablets and phones you are permitted to read the poem while listening to author recite the poem.  If your device has access to the internet for streaming, each poem TITLE has a direct HYPERLINK to the MP3 audio version of the poem.

      This eBook has been tested on various Android devices with the following eBook software: READERA 22.x and the MP3 Player: VLC Media Player 3.5.x they seem to work well together. Some Kindle and Kobo versions also support audio streaming.

      Please comment via email at: [email protected]  or you can visit my website at https://www.stanjwhite.com/

      You may also consider the paper volume of Ars Poetica and Other Poems (ISBN:  978-0-9689463-2-9).

      Yours Sincerely

      Stan White

      Ars Poetica

      I write of stars

      and of the infinity behind mirrors

      and of the inconsequence of trifles

      I write in the sound of the sea in shells

      and of the crescendo of silence

      in the light of an eye in the deep of sleep

      I write between a memory and forget

      in the fading half-light at the end of days

      and upon the eve of every eve

      I write in the epilogues of myths

      of where the seaward runes once told

      of when a never is born and a forever ends

      I write of where an echo fades

      and in the touch of a lover’s hand

      and of where a rainbow strays

      I write in the idiom of day, daydreams

      and in the sounds of tip toes in the night

      and wake to a choristry of birds singing

      I write in the loneliness

      of distant mountains

      and in the thirsts of desert sands

      crave the tranquility of still waters

      I write in the confusion of happening

      that the startled pheasant takes into the air

      I write of a shoe that has never stepped

      and of the hem of the emperor’s clothes

      and the weight of a sadness and a regret

      I write in the feeling of falling fast

      and in the sea-saw of the tides

      I write in the crevices of dawns

      and in the drone of the mumble bees

      and of where a fall of wood smoke goes

      I write in the synonym of time

      and of the night side of the moon

      and in the breath of fairy kneeling flowers

      I write of stars

      A Collaboration of Atoms

      I am descended from infinities of universes

      through the heavens that we call our own

      as galaxies expanding birth a dying star

      and its accoutrement a failing earth to

      this dark mad and lonely city street

      of yellowed dim-lit windows and

      it rains in this slum alley where

      I sleep alone unfriended wet

      and cold and yet soon

      destined to become

      far less as all

      needs must

      I shall be

      Dust

      .

      Early Signs of a Very Young Poet

      Moms and Dads he thought the letters,

      drawn in his mother’s careful hand

      chalk-white on black,

      the lower case, their children.

      Soon, he was dotting iii’s with stars,

      crossing ttt’s with trails of comets,

      booting bouncing balls of O’s

      in long sighs over bars of H’s.

      Queries filled his mind with qqq’s,

      xxx’es, with mystery and censure,

      and the intimate of

      mmm’s quiet moments.

      He marveled

      how the bbb’s and ccc’s and ddd’s

      brought swoops of sound up short

      with putterings, how adding aaa’s

      or eee’s could make sounds last,

      how adding sss’es

      made sounds last forever.

      Until his head was filled

      with the resonance of signs,

      and naps in afternoons

      were sleeped in zzz’s

      sounding all

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