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

by Robert Sanders

Overview

Separated into ten subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting 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.

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ISBN-13:	9781490779744
Publisher:	Trafford Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2017
Pages:	490
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.09(d)

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An Appeal to Reveal Poetic Ideal Volume I

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By Robert Sanders

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2017 Robert Sanders
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-7974-4

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CHAPTER 1

2nd Edition Poems

Passing

A Genealogy Reverence

In a general reverence for one's primary forebears,
  The genealogy in tracing their past in partnership.
Other than the foregone property owned lineage with their heirs,
  It's to facilitate and advance the ancestor worship.

Of holding proudly the honor of our heritage affairs,
  To find in family tree a true line of descent kinship.
That inspires generational respect in purity theirs,
  And carry on in flesh and blood in record noted scrip. April 2013


A Love Kindled A. Dante 1265-1321

By creating the earthly species ideal,
  Our once to witness through the starlit window.
The cycle given in life's nature reveal,
  As time passes and your tomorrow's dwindle.
Now, capture this moment in righteous appeal,
  While rejoice our presence that love kindle. Dec. 2013


A Moments Death

A moment's precious endeared breath in life drawn,
  A granting of life in becoming was cast.
A lineage in heritage to carry on,
  A wakening gift possession to the last.
A season of aging spends time till it's gone,
  A surrender of my presence to a past. April 2009


A Poet's Death

My melancholy fate crystallized in writ art,
  My last faint exhalation of my fleeting breath.
My last feeble pulsation of my breaking heart,
  My hallowed pageantry of inspired posy death. Oct. 2007


A Retarding Myth

No belief has done so much to retard economics deed,
  In the mankind past social progress for in their future read.
As has faith in immortality of its heaven soul's need,
  Of sacrificing real wants to imagined wants of the dead.
  April 2007


A Shibboleth to Heaven

In peace one seeks a promise keep,
  Life is lost when vanquished of breath,
So feel not my hearts absence deep.

Time in precious moment its thief,
  All in the morrow bringing death,
As mine in faithful journey brief.

Of salvation will not I weep,
  Enter thus I say shibboleth,
A welcomed rest in heaven sleep. Oct 2007


A Time Given

In universal creation God bestow,
  All earth matter is nurtured across the lands.
Come my given life like rain from a rainbow,
  Shows lasting time lies upon your blessed hands.
For the days drift away as does my shadow,
  While passing in one's hourglass of sifting sands. Jan. 2014


Aging Stinks C. Jung 1875-1961

My head, whitened with frosts of ninety winters,
  And the mind so worn-out from heavy thinking.
My body roughly hewn of labored splinters,
  And the hands ever worn in friendship linking.

My legs without their strength no more the sprinters,
  And the mouth in sustenance had stopped drinking.
My eyes used overtime have become squinters,
  And soul toward the welcomed earth a sinking.
My life, never to change always as sinners,
  And death if not quickly buried starts stinking. July 2013


An Epitaph

My life was gentle and in the elements believed,
  So mixed in me that nature in its pride bereaved,
And say to the world she have giveth and received. Feb. 2007


Assess

For the sake of man's fears becoming vicious,
  The value of his begetting life comes,
Belief in a Goddess to confirm his deeds.

For the sake of woman's fears becoming bitchous,
  The value of her receptive life comes,
Belief in a God to circumspect her needs. Jan. 1998


Ava's Eulogy

I, a humble traveler over life's worldly sea,
  Only of late have I expressed myself free.
To enjoy the more each day that come to me,
  This gift of these moment's from the holy three.

Yet, know through faith, a sacred end do I see,
  My time to depart with the heaven bound key.
And grateful of my stay, 'tis my prayer to thee,
  To come not again made my life sweet to be. April 1997


Baby's Passing

Our fresh little bud in kindness given,
  In sweet mercy to bloom in God's throne.
Of pure innocence in cherub livin',
  Where this tender and caring love has flown.
On angelic wings remembered in heaven,
  Comes the passing in the gospels shown. Feb. 2003


Be Bygone

One must close the eyes to look within,
  For the heart need to be looked upon.
In a worthy self-appraise of sin,
  That will tempt the soul as a come on.
Of which the devil's approach begin,
  So make the dare demon be bygone. Oct. 2015


Being Forgiving M. de Cervantes 1574-1616

Came nature of life from organic womb,
  In the gift of love when interest bloom.
At the comfort where happiness groom,
  For ever as the hearts romantic plume.


Then life a daily tragic sacrifice consume,
  The mind and body forges to its doom.
Of heavy years that bend us to the tomb,
  Yet, the gracious smile disperses all gloom. Dec. 2014


Brave to Grave P. Henry 1736-1799

Mother nature finds the beginning minutes for life,
  Beings, a fresh becoming to face what's given brave.
Like shadows that respond to form and echo's to voice,
  As love creates love to complete in life cycle save.
In chance that existence continues forever, but
  Father time too, reacts in moments end to the grave. April 2013


Breast to Rest

O death, I sought to hear a godly voice,
  Thru his passionate call upon thy breast.
Where the Lord has giveth a sacred choice,
  As cometh I as his heavenly guest.
And has worthy followed him in rejoice,
  I rise upon his lofty clouds to rest. May 2013


Breath's Closure

To embrace this world where lives have begun,
  Full, one needs a love that comes homespun.
While times of struggle lays heavy on one,
  Our whole task of living has been hard won.
For now I must take leave when life is done,
  Of breath's closure, please accept my pardon. May 2001


Cannibalism

To survive in nature where lives have occurred,
  In world where one creature is to eat another.
Can't fathom, "Thou shalt not kill," which seems absurd,
  When sustenance for life depends on the other. Sept. 1999


Closure of December

Our promised existence is full with inspiration,
  A glorious stay on planet's course to remember.
To fulfill this gift of chance in life's expectation,
  Across time's spectrum to the closure of December.
For eternity is our once in a life revelation,
  Death do we part to heaven where the soul dismember. July 2013


Come and Go J. Mill 1806-1873

On earth's changeable domain,
  Here does animate attain.
From our behavior humane,
  We not refuse to abstain.

Yet days resistance contain,
  A feared sacrifice obtain.
Tho I suffer to complain,
  Where this existence remain.

Does one's submission explain,
  What drives inhabit insane.
Through attendance to maintain,
  Till death's solution arraign.

This gift inherence sustain,
  As faith's religion ordain.
Pray we're heavenly germane,
  Die righteously not in vain. Nov. 2008


Consciously Aware C. Jung 1875-1961

You ever thought beyond heaven in its founding act,
  This sailing debris-matter where in gravity trod?
In an admixer of residuals of the big-bang fact,
  Did create from natural elements of earths sod.
As time engaged space particles forming a covenant pact,
  That in self-awareness of our presence in question we prod.
Our sole purpose of why we are here in faith we backed,
  With approved acceptance to give ourselves a meaningful nod.
  Yet, our last performed tragedy role on life's stage tract,
  We consciously perish to find out that there was no God.
  Sept. 2014


Coup de Grace

For in our next togetherness, only one will visit,
  As the knock on the door is father-time a calling.
It is not you in wishful greetings that will miss it,
  But I into mother-earths return will be falling. April 2009


Cremation

Rather not be exposed when being disposed,
  As one's life change in composition when taketh.
Rather be distinguished, as being extinguished,
  As our life is in completion when baketh. June 2014


Crying Hearts Simile (From Whence I Came)

While those there were smiling as I was crying at my birth,
  This special gift of one's life of reverse feeling's do claim.
When lived dull life, others were crying when leaving this earth,
  Now count life's blessings making others happy be your aim.
Where one's brightest presence presents a created worth,
  As you return on your journey to the stars from whence you
  came. March 2009


Death

I'm going away from you,
  From all is to adjourn.
Please grieve me caring thro',
  For past loves do concern.
Life is short lived true,
  Of future's life sojourn.
Your time exist come new,
  But I shall not return. Dec. 2008


Death Awaits W. Shakespeare 1564-1616

Man's life on soaring earth would
  be most welcomed as to all.
The tide in his affairs should
  like ample sea rise and fall.
In privilege his homage stood
  to praise his existence tall.
He stays as long as he could
  on natures revolving ball.
That gave him this living good
  and last until God's call. July 2009


Death Do Ye Part

Have throughout many generations a breath of life gived,
  It is in continued faith into the future sending.
Growth to deterioration resulting of having lived,
  Death is body's natural unavoidable ending. Aug. 2014


Death Transcending

Suffer ye to the loss of one in endurance,
  Solemn is the emotion of grief's attending.
Subtle without the attention of appearance,
  Sorrow regards in the passing of befriending.
Serene, this moment in heavenly adherence,
  Sacred is the faithful worship in transcending. April 2013


Death's Burden G. Herbert 1593-1633

Come our given life with a blessing to each with love,
  A chance to express faith tho everlasting uncertain.
As destiny's true gift of breath rise on earth from above,
  Knowingly our presence will end as time draws the curtain.
Through offered time in cosmic space and free as winged dove,
  Yet, pardon my dust, for wish not to become death's burden.
  Feb. 2016


Death's Existence

From cosmic atom's in nature strife,
  Gene's generate the existence bent.
Birth predestined to serve on earth,
  Make fruitful beings for lasting peace.

Stress when all breathing comes to life,
  Went full all-out through energy spent.
Fast does death consume what's worth,
  Pass when pumping of the heart cease. May 2006


Death's Life

Waft; on winds of time we borrow,
  Weal; as it giveth of the 'morrow,
Woe; doth aging taketh in sorrow. Nov. 1991


Death's Reprimand

A gift of life experienced in privilege shown,
  Come but once does nature's cosmic scheme give.
For the value of life is in impermanence known,
  As death a reprimand in the attempt to live. May 2002


Early Advanced Society 1421

A millennia of experience in human activity,
  From the commercial a nd cultured lands of the early centuries.
A vast advance society through this nation's creativity,
  Where China's Fleet Admiral He's naval footprint sailed the seas.
A legacy of their Golden Years of terra discovery,
  When through nature's wisdom of its exploring in all degrees.
A propagating of plants and animals spread in productivity,
  To settle and integrate with other people as far as one sees.
A closure time came subjected to the introvert motivity,
  After the fire of 21, the Mandarin controlled the country keys.
And forever close heaven's gate of the Forbidden city,
  Stop all adventuring, turning into itself as absentee's. March 2013


End Like This T. Gray 1716-1771

And think I spent those sixty-five years,
  In matrimony with the promise of bliss.
With many people watching in cheers,
  By sharing married time with a miss.

Came this moment in life without fears,
  Wed together and sealed with a kiss.
Was the journey worth the trip one hears?
  Now this living had passed in a whiz.

From sacrifice when most problem clears,
  Must all life suffer in hell's abyss?
To find that death await among tears,
  My God! Just to get to end like this. Feb. 2014


End of the Road

I have traveled many years from the start,
  On one's road in world of the fantastic.
Treading down through trial and error so smart,
  But, taking chance in gambled life's mystic.
Tho, I continue to drive young at heart,
  At foolish age I must be realistic.
As death awaits this testy old fart,
  To become an accidental statistic. Feb. 2014


End Thinking

We are here to add what we can to,
  Not to get what we can from as lived.
We must live giving as we think to,
  Our end thinking as we should have gived. June 2012


Eternal and Immortal R. Raymond 1840-1918

As one's life is eternal and love is immortal,
  The horizon is for all, gain the blessing of sight.
Of the nurtured sailing planets in revolution,
  Unto the gracious mother sun come its family bright.

For the mind in imagination, gain ye promise,
  In heaven beyond offers tomorrow's given right.
With time, the carrier of faith into the hereafter,
  When the religious soul's seek its salvation flight.

This precious gift of life our presence forever be,
  To express belief in given path with all our might.
Come the God send benediction in sacred passion,
  Our passing in answered call is his delight. March 2016


Eternal Passing Cry J. Von Goethe 1749-1832

In the battle of our brave gender fraternity,
To wage the heroic heart in its survival strife.
We join here in the presence of all eternity,
For man's sacrifice in the protection of a wife.
And her honor of begetting in maternity,
With her dear precious breath to continue human life. March 2014


Eternal's Infinity

Life's infinity believed persuadable,
  Tho, our time's fate pass so hurriedly.
While eternal space seen available,
  Yet, death awaits us assuredly. April 2012


Eulogy, Thurgud Marshall Proem

Praising what's lost makes remembrance so dear,
  His love to minister law in words of testament.
Praising what's fulfilled makes conscience appear,
  His rising above to suffer in reformed ascent.
Praising what's gained for nation to persevere,
  His justice for mankind in honor God's present.
    In Heavenly Volition
In faithful passing thru valediction,
  Of life's brief and accepting interim.
In blest prayer a devoted conviction,
  Of Christ's salvation a call from him.
In one's sins of forgiven affliction,
  Of soul's last breath a worthy anthem.
In grace of his silent benediction,
  Of thine everlasting vaulted empyrean. Feb. 1993


Faith Carries On

Precious life come but once as a festive jamboree,
  To thy own self be true in happiness and sorrow.
As death taketh away life, but not its memory,
  Like our faith it carries forever in the 'morrow. Sept. 2012


Fate Above J. Schiller 1759-1805

Came our past grave thoughts of what's above,
  With a hopeful worship in the sky.
From guiding stars tells stories thereof,
  For earth's fate continues is his cry.

Come to us in search for mankind's love,
  To secure for all his sect not die.
That our peace holds not of a white dove,
  Found through the science a religious lie. July 2008


Fate to Reunite

A creative achievement that fate expedite,
  With its universal time and space thus borrow.
As mother nature in transition underwrite,
  All species of their special arrived supreme laurel.

Yet, will go by the way of the past trilobite,
  Of being here one day and gone in the 'morrow.
Tho, all planet life in passing must reunite,
  And return to matter in natural sorrow. May 2015


Father Time

Life extended hope carries as wind-blown storm,
  That gave our existence its lifelong powers.
Come human knowledge of extinction the norm,
  Though we live on the fast-track in future hours.
Where our survival is the exceptional form,
  Pathetic conceit, that the universe ours. Aug. 2008


Fool's Paradise

One's faith may come as free or swayed, devicely,
  With or without a given consideration.
Or licensed by forced submission, precisely,
  Because it can require no justification.

A passing Christian's spirit rise, upward nicely,
  That offers apparition in reincarnation.
Through dogma and superstition, concisely,
  On one's soul in purgatory's qualification.

At the kneeling alter of myth that lures, sufficely,
  As life enters heaven through canonization.
For demise cost of commitment, come pricely,
  In the after-world realm of imagination. Sept. 2014


Forever Sing Auld Lang Syne R. Burns 1759-1796

Like waves pounding toward the battered shore,
  As do our given moments hasten more.
To life's promised end in its fasting roar,
  Sing this bygone song Auld Lang Syne of yore. April 2012


Forevermore J. Whittier 1807-1892

Death is where peaceful and dreamless sleep begin,
  Graven on stone is the blest image of men.
Now rest thy faults gently upon my coffin,
  Cause grave is for all, those faithful and of sin,
To bear my soul evermore, from heart within,
  Where angel of death gather her harvest win. Dec. 1997


Forgotten Death

A sweet memory of, is all that's left,
  Until there's no more in remembrance be.
Come that time of end on earth of death,
  That last not ever in eternity. July 2015

(Continues...)

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