Personified: Volume 2

by Willy Thorn

Overview

A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life, form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts.

Pieces include — the Fertile Ground of the Unknown & Frustration as a Wasteland; Traveling thru the Valley of Fear; Love’s Leap & the Landfall of Faith; Hope as Strong Liquor; the Circle of Worry; How Time is Always Fresh; Being Prisoner to Pain; the Future as a Friend; Belligerent Courage & Carving Will; Keeping Reins Tight on Hope; Uncertainty like Wolves; the Shield of Faith; Pain as the Greatest Teacher & more.

Includes 32 individual poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck & Leonardo da Vinci.

Includes quotes from:
C. S. Lewis
Rumi
Jim Morrison
Khalil Gibran
Charles Bukowski
Joseph Campbell
J.K. Rowling
Margaret Atwood
Deepak Chopra
Oscar Munoz
Richard Paul Evans
Psalm 23:4
Jack Canfield
George R.R. Martin
Miguel de Cervantes
Hunter S. Thompson
William Shakespeare
Rosa Parks
a Japanese proverb
Robert Frost
Soren Kierkegaard
Chinese proverb
Pema Chödrön
Ruth Gendler
Richard Eberhart
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Ernest Hemingway
James Ellroy
Ephesians 6:16
George MacDonald
James Russell Lowell
Anton Chekhov
Plato
Mahatma Gandhi
Marcus Tullius
Martin Luther
George W. Bush
J.R.R. Tolkien
Madeleine L’Engle
Elbert Hubbard
Michelangelo
Robert Hillyer
Kenji Miyazawa
Matshona Dhliwayo
George Bernard Shaw
Marco Aurelio Antonino
John Lennon
Fernando Pessoa
Victor Hugo
John Green
Jackson Pearce
John Sterling
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Julius Caesar
Jim Rohn
Wm. Paul Young
Emily Dickinson
George Orwell
Raymond Reddington
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mary Tyler Moore
Maxime Lagacé
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charlie Chaplin
Don Ingall
Woody Hayes
Rabindranath Tagore
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A.W. Tozer
Lao Tzu
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Henry Ward Beecher
John Keats
Carl Jung
Robert Gary Lee
David Richo
Frida Kahlo
Lionel Trilling
Marilyn Manson
Coretta Scott King
James Baldwin

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164774653
Publisher:	Willy Thorn
Publication date:	12/26/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist.

He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok.

Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio – as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter.

He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok.

He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography.

Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy.

He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand’s renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute’s English Foreign Language subcommittee – where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures.

He proudly notes a Master’s Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome.

His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects — including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur.

His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Amazon // Apple iBooks // Android Aldiko // Barnes & Noble // Sony // & Smashwords.

His Milwaukee-centric column of sports poetry & prose — Run of tha Mil — can be found at Milticket.blogspot.com