An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal: 2nd Edition Volume II

by Robert Sanders

Overview

Separated into 10 subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting how my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyone; Passing, Man, Wisdom, Time, Personal, History, Life, Woman, Metaphysics, and Religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781490779706
Publisher:	Trafford Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2017
Pages:	564
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.26(d)

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An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal Volume II

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By Robert Sanders

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2017 Robert Sanders
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-7970-6

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CHAPTER 1

God's Revelation

Whitehead 1861–1947


In nature's function and purpose come gift of being,
  Of caring love is life's fulfilling adventure.
Through the eyes sweet emotions intercourse the idea,
  As one brings to the world the image in signature.

From the ears, whispered ideas communicate passion,
  Creating of self is one's revealing portraiture.
As time advances the heart in God's revelation,
  Onto this earthly stage of his heavenly overture. May 2016


To complement the book's dedication to women:


THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE

In prophecy beginning come this planet's destiny,
  An environment transitional process of the natural.
As formed matter yields purpose of the inhabitance,
  From its elemental factor become pastoral.

Through the mother's given desire to forward creation,
  Over the ages of our species being essential.
To nurture life, woman's graceful charm carries the pleasure,
  Of her true ambience of wisdom in the personal.

All world religious art doth reflect and attach themselves,
  Unto the precious image of the female principle.
Her loving conscience is life's foundation and commitment,
  Given to her in a heavenly passion as spiritual.

Her endeared breath of care thus perpetuate forever,
  Our mankind's continued intent in the biblical.
For blessed faith honor this sacred gift in salvation,
  Holds existence through space and time in the original.


Life Forever Cherished

Silently, across seasoned meadow rise the sun over the hill,
  Coming freshly the new day to all that the good-book has sworn.
Garnered, people in abundance from productive land they till,
  Farming from morn to late eve in sacrifice of labor worn.

Softly, hearing the melancholy call of the whippoorwill,
  Singing life's venture of our past on the winds of early morn.
Mankind, his message rings of echoed serve in memory fill,
  Creating warm remembrance in the family nostalgic yorn.

Solemnly, this provision of daily bread in sustaining still,
  Blessing in sanctified thanks for crops in fields of recent shorn.
Comfort, thus be forever from want is the tomorrow's will,
  Giving God's purpose in true faith from whence cherished life
  is born.


2nd Edition-Poems
Life

A Game of Life

Being true worth is expressed on the chessboard reign,
  Where time warrant a plan in strategy measure.
As the challenge pieces slide to advantage gain,
  What space allows to maneuver in winning pleasure,
To encounter opponent is the checking game main,
  When purpose held victory came one's life treasure. Feb. 2015


A Goal (Triolet)

A goal is a wish with a deadline,
  Satisfaction deemed, is end in itself.
Yet nothing at risk, nothing decline,
  A goal is a wish with a deadline.
Delusions of grandeur put on shelf,
  Cause makes dread dreamers of oneself.
A goal is a wish with a deadline,
  Satisfaction deemed is end in itself. June 1994


A Passion Gift

A cared emollient that saves one in distress never withhold,
  For laughter is the universal evergreen come life's gold,
Through humor a psychological necessity unfold,
  As time reveals a passion gift of love in heart is told. Aug. 2012


A Reason for Being P. Buck 1892–1973

What is life' s purpose as Universal time unfold,
  To solve the world's mystery in the Cosmos we crave.
From earthly supreme disposer of the human souled,
  Rest the volume of reason from silence of the grave.

Our history is buried with this question untold,
  For traveling in space forever where each life gave.
That our end lie six-feet under that mother-earth hold,
  To all who are sacrificed in the exertion of the brave.

Come of natural form this gift in the human mold,
  The sea to the land in genesis evolution wave.
We seek the intent for being in the land so bold,
  When nature given our breath in sustained time thus save. Jan. 2015


A Romance Cause and Effect

Time's fulfillment result in an orderly loving process,
  Of the natural excitement filtering through life's romance.
For everything that has such a beginning must have a cause,
  To create the attraction of sweet passion in that first glance.

All starting points of understanding become a habit of mind,
  Held by the related effects in its loving circumstance.
Some have a causal connection that fits the fond experience,
  Yet, coincident seem to represent caring advanced by chance.
  Feb. 2015


A Simile Song in Measure

I'm as restless as a willow in a windy storm,
  I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string.
I am smiles singing in measured form,
  From a song past written to a happy swing.

I am making music joyful, light, and warm,
  So just be a bouncing ball in rhythm sing.
From the rhyming words come lessons in norm,
  While good cheers do chime for new year ring. Feb. 2003


Abiding Sensations

All sensations abiding as passion bloom,
  Where in conscience portrait of image kept.
Comes perception in self's emotional womb,
  Bring sensuous tears in grief or joy wept.
On life's shifting lights mix changing gloom,
  In love and hate across threshold swept.
For it's in my mind expressing the whom,
  Of faiths enduring will that never slept. Dec. 2003


Aesop Fables Aesop 550 BC

Of Aesop fables in lesson trace,
  Old stories of animals indeed.
Come fiction as myth in plot at base,
  'Tween Hare and Tortoise which to exceed.
In life challenge a claim measured race,
  Seek they in wisdom over one's greed.
While being wise in his pleasured chase,
  Where swift will grow weary and concede.
Find moral warning in treasured pace,
  As slow but sure is bound to succeed. March 2012


An Ideal Mind

One's beauty of the inner self appeal,
Through endearing warmth of the smile reveal.
While the wanting heart never to conceal,
It's modesty to capture the mind ideal. April 2012


Assuredly as the bonding dog of fidelity lie,

  Assuredly as the sun journey across the sky.
Is he who never proves ungrateful in charity,
  Is he who is steadfast loyal at mankind's gate,
Is he who stands by in success or poverty.

Is he who at one's constant side shall be seen,
  Is he who guards the sleeping in peaceful fate,
Is he who licks the wounds to the injured clean.

Is he who is daily faithful to master's breath,
  Is he who in sense snap not at unmeant hate,
Is he who never desert; true even in death. April 2007


Attitude of Behavior Lord T. Macaulay 1800–1859

The highest proof of virtue is to possess,
Of boundless power without abuse profess.

From the heart a quiet conscience doth caress,
The contended mind in continual feast confess.

An open care of wonder which life address,
Take it in daily portions, not through excess.

For suffering comes when emotions distress,
As thoughts are bound to the senses when obsess.

All spirit is enslaved where evil transgress,
To distrust is poison in friendship's progress.

So handle all challenges in moral success,
Where warmth of unconditional love impress. March 2016


Bad Boy

Never a thrashing will get,
  The wild oat's out of a boy.
Adventure more a will is set,
  A pain accept to seek a joy.
In time, a girl of interest met,
  As nature's instinct never coy.
Of opposites in mating let,
  To captured through wild ploy. Aug. 1996


Beauty Reveals Plato 428–348 BC

Beauty is in the harmony of proportions,
  Its mystery consciously revealed in poetry.
Where inspiration is tempered by emotions,
  Brought into metaphor an enlightened simile.
These dreams that kindle the fire are love's provisions,
  When affairs of heart in desired themes are fancy-free.
Life capturing words that impulse thought envisions,
  Bring artistic charm in spectrum of reality. Nov. 2007


Being Free

Across traveled lands
  From the past I see.
Come time on my hands
  Bringing thoughts in thee.
The youth doth commands
  Of fresh days in plea.
March on cheering bands
  Proud, the soul in me.
All 'morrows demands
  That people are free.
As in honor stands
  This welcome will be.
Yet, appear the sands
  Taking life from we.
Our moment commands
  Toward end we flee. Nov. 2003


Beloved

Gift of love; a present in any season,
  Bestowed and cherished in a worthy way.
Passion be its desire for life's reason,
  Holds all in thrall does this longing sway.
Forever sweet stirring does heart achieve,
  Of this beloved need in life to embrace.
Thru glimpse of eternity we receive,
  That what is loved is ever held in grace. Dec. 1998


Beware Foolish Pride

Be careful the pride what it bestow,
  Let it not blind you from dignity.
That sets you above your friends you know,
  Their enviousness harbors self-pity.
As arrogance in vain foolishness show,
  Making false pride feel as itty-bitty. June 2009


Bi-Creators

All mothers' feel revelations from the start,
  As fathers' sense attraction of the mind.
From her mercy, a care in sympathy's art,
  To him to propagate through temporal find.
She in fulfillment of a contented heart,
  He as initiator in a performing kind. April 2007


Big Bang Presence

Before space-void was fulfilled by creation all.
  To awaken Cosmos-time from its prefix sleep,
To start a beginning in catastrophe weep,
  Then the voyage trail of stars came as night fall.
To venture across the sky in darkness deep,
  To complete this sail in precious heaven sweep,
Sail the blue was Captain of our fate on call.
  To seek of God's given way in life to reap,
To answer quest brought morn in safely keep,
  In sacred faith we bless our presence on this ball. Sept. 2015


Big Chief Bush

Big Chief talk with forked tongue,
  Cheating the home security act.
That political call is lot of dung,
  When with wrongful sanctioned pact.
From sympathy votes, his elect was swung,
  To keep his foolish promise intact,
Now enter aliens illegally unsung,
  Of millions per-year as fact. March 2005


Blessed Family W. Wallace 1819–1881

Through mortal time, God's word became our start,
  A spiritual gift of existence throughout our strife.
Of such precious breath began our loving heart,
  To praise true meaning of all expectant life.
In clasp prayed hands expressing the family art,
  We are sacredly blessed in child, father, and wife. Nov. 2011


Bob Foolery

Abracadabra please let me write,
  gobbledygook and chuckle words corrupt.
With hanky-panky to set you fright,
  and daffy-down dilly to crack you up.

Words go helter-skelter I do know,
  while scratching my noggin-noodle.
Yet mumbo-jumbo, I think it so,
  like a flummadiddle and flapdoodle.

Let me bamboozle you just this time,
  with lingo in pandemonium-um-um.
While your chowder-head shake and chime,
  chance laugh off this hokum-pokum-um-um.

This gibberish daresay a boondoggle,
  nonsense swaddle in fiddle-faddle.
All hooey, to keep your mind a-boggle,
  While this old geezer plans to skedaddle. June 1994


Breath of Fire

Of birth come one to hold the torch,
  In youth the heart is touched with fire.
Life's flame of truth is on the march,
  Slow it burns till the breath expire. June 2012


Breathless Adoration I. Watts 1674–1748

We cannot fathom the mystery of a single flower,
  In our constant pursuit be charmed by the love of its beaut'.
A breathless adoration in that delicate tender hour,
  To forever hold in heart its worldly sensual fruit. Aug. 2007


Brought Fraught

Fear has many eyes that do see what's not,
  And bears anxiously all in echo shot.
That in frightening beat the heart pumps hot,
  From the startled mind in knowing not what. Aug. 2007


Burning Blazes

Some words and measured phrases,
  From the heart that hormone raises.
Held her love in treasured praises,
  That to me in passioned phases.
Newly found in pleasured gazes.
  She caught my eyes in burning blazes. June 2012


Burning Thoughts

When passion imaginations have inflamed leanings,
  and
There, heated silence is pregnant with fertile gleanings,
  now
Share your burning thoughts to expose those faithful meanings.
  Feb. 2007


Bushy Tail (Triolet)

Bushy curl, this squirrel's tail unfurl,
To and fro its high tail scurry.
Alert and quick her head does whirl,
Bushy curl, this squirrel's tail unfurl,
Many nuts she gathers in a hurry,
Eager, her acorns for winter bury.
Bushy curl, this squirrel's tail unfurl,
To and fro its high tail scurry. July 1994


Card Playing

Pinochle is our past's noble fable,
  To rival Kings and Queens they say.
So enjoy card playing as you're able,
  As telling cards fly all which way.

From bidding that should be stable,
  Gain power in tricks as you play.
Seeking to win with across the table,
  From a great hand that makes your day. Dec. 2001


Challenge of Morals

In life the ever challenge of true moral's stood,
  On virtuous contention to create one's soul.
But experience reveals in this searching could,
  Be expressed 'tween right and wrong a confusing role

Though human reasoning carries evil and good,
  So decide what is best in life's struggling goal.
Treat equally in expectation as you would,
  In maintaining your caring heart in conscience whole.
  March 2008


Charity A. Pope 1688–1744

As its object from this gift of charity,
  Be not reduced to subject by full purses,
    For who can sever love from a recompense.

As favor bestowed harms not your dignity,
  Be faith that abides blessing from all curses,
    For a good Samaritan honors providence. April 2002


Civility in America A. Lincoln 1809–1865

American citizens are brothers of common relation,
  And dwell together in natural bonds with fraternal feeling.
Seeking equality that justifies the life of one's station,
  Throughout the country progressive time's to promote ideal
  dealing.
That in earth's cornucopia gift from heaven of creation,
  To advance tomorrow's world in its struggle in civil healing.
Where partisan thoughts yield to patriotism a greater nation,
  Came then, the sanctified blessing through our almighty
  appealing. April 2016


Cogitative Advancement

Isolation can be therapeutic to the mind,
  Creating insight, wisdom, and understanding.
Extrospection can gather in experience find,
  Imagining in dreams to further our life's standing. Jan. 2013


Compassion W. Faulkner 1897–1962

Of trouble times where sympathy lie,
  Sharing your pain from my heart flow.
Comes caring language of the eye,
  Shedding tears in the ease of woe.
And confessing hope in your last cry,
  Shaking in sorrow till calm lay low.
To face life together as tomorrow's fly,
  Shaping our world in compassion know. Oct. 1997


Compatriots

Of our hill and dell,
  Throughout concord tell.
We mass at cracked bell,
  Where doth liberty dwell.
To honor those that fell,
  From past, we knew so well. Aug. 1996


Conscious Imagery of Love

This wanton psychic path to the unconscious thinking,
  When our dreams are most profound hold passions dividend.
Of those nurtured beliefs of expressed gendered linking,
  What has garnished an acceptable thought that transcend.
To give a loving life a taste of mutual drinking,
  Where unconscious to conscious imagery comprehend. Oct. 2012


Cornucopia

In America I wish to immigrate,
  To their open markets of opportunity.
A life free to seek wealth did they create,
  Through fair labor and its property.
Of accomplishment comes a happy fate,
  Where there's nourishment, there's my country. Feb. 2008


Cornucopia Spectrum

From wishing upon a prismatic sky,
  Throughout the colors of a rainbow cling.
Come resulting rain in gossamer fly,
  In poetic mystery on angel's wing.
A life in fulfillment on earth rely,
  Bring bushels of plenty in nurtured spring. Aug. 2007

(Continues...)

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