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    Real World Poetry Book Two: None
    Real World Poetry Book Two: None
    Real World Poetry Book Two: None
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    Real World Poetry Book Two: None

    By Norris Peery

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    Real World Poetry Book Two is a continuation of the style of poems, of my first poetry book, Real World Poetry. Some few of these poems have appeared as prose embedded within the text of my other writings. The mood of these poems is intended to address the lack of objective truth within many of the world's major philosophies, and to call attention to hidden seeds, which will eventually determine both our near and distant future. Some of the poems may seem to some few readers to be overly grating, but the purpose is to awakening those few readers to the perils of worshiping forever, without reflective thought, those philosophies and mythologies, whose messages should have long ago crumbled from lack of any supportive substance and from their old, very old, age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 12, 2006
    ISBN9780595843794
    Real World Poetry Book Two: None
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    Norris Peery

    My formal educational background is in Mathematics, Digital and Analog Electronics, Computer Design and Programming. I have extensively traveled the world, particularly through Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East and have resided in many countries. At the age of ten years I began writing for my own pleasure, of course those earliest compositions have been somewhere lost along that trail, which is forever leading away from the past. It was not until much later in life that I began a sustained regimen of writing. Today I write as a means to awaken an expanding curiosity within hungry minds.

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      Real World Poetry Book Two - Norris Peery

      Real World Poetry

      Book Two

      Norris Ray Peery

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      Real World Poetry

      Book Two

      Copyright © 2006 by Norris Ray Peery

      All rights reserved. No part of this book 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.

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      Contents

      The Song of Truth

      Our Traits

      How Democracy Dies

      God Protect Us

      Noble Creature

      The Greatest Deep

      The Times

      Mother Nature

      Blind Faith

      YOUR VOICE

      CLIMBING

      Out of The Past

      THE NEED

      AT FIRST GLANCE

      Right and Left

      Conjure up a Dream for Me

      The Computer

      Sweetness

      Awaken from Delusion

      HURTS

      The Pool

      My Beloved

      Voices of the Night

      Our World

      Every Answer

      War

      Mythologies

      Say unto Nations

      The Future

      Out Ancient Trail

      Nothing

      Kisses

      Barriers

      Your Ancestors

      The Gates of Heaven

      For

      those very special persons who have

      Inquisitive

      And

      Hungry

      Minds

      Note: Whenever it is convenient,

      this book should be read aloud.

      The Song of Truth

      Wandering within a magical dream,

      the universe was not

      as it might seem.

      The galaxy’s stars

      seeped into mind,

      from long past eternities,

      they speak out to our kind.

      Through oceans of space

      and distant times,

      their mesmerizing voices,

      speak, like crystal chimes.

      A message,

      that’s clear and strong,

      a message that’s waited

      so, so very long.

      From out of the past,

      It’s their song of truth,

      that only time,

      can last.

      Our Traits

      Our traits,

      in every respect,

      are quite common

      to us all,

      but out of

      some bitter nature,

      we see only

      those marks,

      that away from

      common do fall.

      A chorus

      of ignorant voices,

      self-righteously

      complains

      against any marks

      of difference,

      which they call

      by nasty names.

      A mob of ignorance

      musters up,

      its righteous

      angry dander

      against those marks

      of no substantial

      consequence,

      which now,

      they loudly slander.

      We make too,

      too much a due

      of what can be seen

      by any rational being,

      as mere mole hills

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