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NOTE TO BOOKSTORES: I have designated a dozen or so books I think would be initial good sellers with bolded purple ink. These are generally 100 page books. Except my book Eastern Religion as Poetry which is 468 pages. They are under Section TWO, THREE, FOUR & SEVEN of the Table of Contents. NOTE TO SONG WRITERS: I can help with lyrics. See Section 8 of the Table of Contents NOTE TO PUBLISHERS: With the number of poems I have published (6,000+), I suggest you consider putting together a group to go through all my poems (the COMPLETE Poem books have all the poems I have written for specific periods.) and publish a selection of poems along with commentary. The possibilities for many books are significant. I will be continuing to add about 125 poems per month as I have from October 2019 to the present. What I have created is something very unique and undefined at present. Also, each publisher knows its readers so a selection of 100/6000 poems would unlikely be the same outside a handful of poems one publisher to another. NOTE TO TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS OF POETRY: My Complete Poems is fertile ground for a semester class project. In 2020, the Pulitzer Prize was so intimidated by my 4000 poem submission they refused to even read it or comment on why they did not read it. Only a moron would suggest my ongoing Magnum Opus is toilet paper scribble scratch.
WHY HAVE YOU NOT HEARD ABOUT DR JOHN WORLDPEACE JD'S POETRY ??? I started writing poetry October 12, 1970; the night before I went into the Army after graduating from college. I did not market my poetry, submit my poetry, apply for grants, publish my poetry until June 2018 when I began to publish all my poems that were all written in cursive. In October 2019, I submitted all my poems in bulk as one entry (3500+ pages) for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. My submission was not read and I did not win. I continued to write and publish but not market my poetry and did not get involved in the poetry community on any level. In October 2021, I submitted 4 books (total 1400+ pages) for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. Then I began to market my poetry. So the short answer to the question is that I am not well known as a poet because I never made any significant efforts to market my poetry or myself as a poet. I am a high IQ, high energy, polymath with many significant projects and until the last couple of years my poetry received no priority other than the writing of it. See my flagship website at https://johnworldpeace.com . I have written and published 120+ poems a month since October 2019. This is more than the average annual number of poems written by even the best known poets in their careers.
Four YouTube videos on Dr John WorldPeace JD
Dr John WorldPeace JD vs The Pulitzer poetry Prize 2020, 2022, 2023 Date and ref No.230605I have submitted to the Pulitzer Poetry Prize for 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024. This video is about what was submitted.
The unwritten rules of winnng a Pulitzer Poetry Prize - Date and Ref No 230605I have submitted to the Pulitzer Poetry Prize for 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024. This video is about the unwritten rules of the Pulitzer Poetry Prize.
Dr John WorldPeace JD vs President Lee Bollinger of Columbia University & Pulitzer Poetry PrizeI have submitted to the Pulitzer Poetry Prize for 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024. This video compares the resumes of President Lee Bollinger of Columbia and Dr John WorldPeace JD.
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PROLOGUEDo you think you can read my six thousand plus poems like a kid skipping through a toy store?Do you think I have created a six thousand plus brick path of moronic lifeless word-strings side by side? If you sit down to read just what I have written so far, you will die before you reach the end ! What I have written about is a lifetime of diversions that stopped me in my tracks and relate to all aspects of my life in this dreamscape. Do you want to run through my poetic garden scanning for the best poems, the personal ones, the inspiring ones. You make me laugh ! I will lift you up. I will knock you down. You will smile and cry and close your eyes and fall into deep sleep, meditation, and prayer, and wake up in peace and then you will exit the golden pool cleansed. As you read, you will change. As you read, you will empty your trash, and gather a new perspective, a new philosophy, a new cosmology. You will release your corporate religion and embrace your personal spirituality. Sorry, I have to keep quickly moving. I have miles to go before I sleep. Come to me all of you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace if you seek and can find your truth in what I say. I will rip open your body and free your soul to purge your darkness and to remember the ineffable Light. Begin at the front, go to the end and come to the front again, in the middle and go both ways. Skip around but mark your path or you will go in circles and come to my circus and see only the elephants, tigers and bears. Worry not about catching me. I will be writing faster in time than you will be able to read to catch up. All your questions will be answered long before you catch me even if it is after my body is dead, but my soul not. I am calling you from far away to put on your dancing shoes, your magic slippers, and mount your magic carpet and ride. Read every poem. Some may not be for you ! "X" them out but know that many of those "Xs" will come to mean, "not now" as opposed to "not ever". I have released my salve upon the earth. You will begin to see my name (WorldPeace) everywhere within this dreamscape. This is no ordinary poet you are reading much less dealing with. Dr John WorldPeace JD 210321-1201 |
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I will take my poetry raw My pleasure is in the creation first and always and forever I am what I am; My poetry is not just for today I cast my poetry This is a much different metric 210617-1316 |
I WRITE ABOUT EVERYTHING
The Poet's WindI disgngagefrom my routine chores and sit down at my antique oak writing table in my spiritual chair ~ my creative cockpit Like my hand entering a familiar glove I put on my poets's mantle and escape to my joy my bliss of welding words into poems and then into books of poems This is my ultimate peace in my sanctuary of bliss of old and disembodied poets who surround me Their surrogates stand on bookshelves to my right The old poets' presence on my right The spiritual teachers on my left and the grace of God - my gentle wind - blowing me out of my safe harbor and onto the ineffable infinite sea Dr John WorldPeace JD 211012-1817 |
Lotus Petal 3264The moon spillsrepeated/continuously over the waterfall but creates only one rippled reflection in the pool below Dr John WorldPeace JD 210929-2053 Ivory Box Red HeartOnce the ivory boxis broken and the sacred love is attacked ~all that is beauty begins to disappear As the red heart of love erodes away as it is discounted by the monetary god of man we all begin to die Dr John WorldPeace JD 210929
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MysheIf I am aliveMyshe is holding me in If I am a bird Myshe is the wind If I am an old man Myshe is being born ag'in If I am a body Myshe is its soul If I am blood Myshe is water If I am the sun Myshe is the moon If I am a fish Myshe is the ocean If I am a star Myshe is the galaxy If I am the male Myshe is my she Dr John WorldPeace JD 210923-0235 |
Too Many Too MuchToo many leadersnot worth following Too many clouds that bring no rain Too many words not worth repeating Too much dying from random violence Too many beautiful songs never sung Too much art without any beauty Too much living without any heart Too many children born and starved for love Too many clowns not enough fun Too much life not worth the living Too much blindness among billions of eyes Too many zombies not enough dying Too much corporate religion not enough personal spirituality Dr John WorldPeace JD 210615-2208 |
Layered integrated intense mystery visionsI wake eyes wide to mannequin mendancing frantic around a ferocious fire snapping at their wooden frames Their masters the red and white harlequins in pantomine speaking mutely the incantations of the diamond King giving life to the dancing firewood that are being called home and to smokey ends The Great White Owl circles round the Red Mothmen streaming in The Big Black moon of June The rituals on the millennium's eve at noon The apparitions of hell play out their spells as I fade behind memories closing epic mystery doors Dr John WorldPeace JD 210402-1423 |
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PREFACE Below are all the poems that I have written and published from Oct. 1970 to date. About 55 books. I have degrees in Political Science, Accounting and Law. My career has been in self employment in insurance, accounting, tax, law and web design. No degrees in English literature. There are some original poems missing (less than 10). I have been attentive to keeping all my poems together for 52 years. I was born in 1948. I have always considered the cursive originals as works of art. Handwriting experts can interpret the changes in my personality over time if they are so inclined or inspired. I don't know if any other poet has made his or her originals public. I think they do not want to reveal how much or little work they may have put into writing a poem. On September 9, 2019, I finally accomplished publishing all my poems from October 11, 1970 to September 9, 2019. They have been self-published on KDP Amazon. Go to Amazon.com - category "books" - search Dr John WorldPeace JD. There are 82 books in total. Starting in 2020 I published a book of poems each month and a 2020 Complete Poems book. There were about 4021 pages which amounts to about 6000 poems because there are a lot of very short poems. I have also begun to publish the poems for 2021. What you will notice is that poetry is not a struggle for me. It never was. A thought comes and I write. I never try to write when I am not inspired or not called by the muses to write. The poem will not flow if I am not in that creative space. The only corrections I make are typically to clarify the words I have scribbled (literally). I write all poems in cursive and then type them. I have written some poems on the computer but this sterilizes the poem to me. The cursive writing adds a mood to the poem. I use very little punctuation. I use spacing between lines and spacing within lines to indicate punctuation. My poems flow all over the page. I don't think a poem is ever really finished until the poet dies. I go back constantly and reedit my books. This is very easy to do with KDP Amazon. So what is for sale is always the latest edit. I have been writing a long time and I know how to connect to the source of these poems. This ability has flowed over into my art. I see the art in my mind, dreams, visions and then I draw, then paint. Sometimes the art is crystal clear and sometimes foggy and I have to work at bringing it into reality. But like with the poems I don't try to move the art forward until I am clear on what is to be done. Sometimes I have waited years to finish a painting: not due to a creative block but due to the fact that I have many other interests and self set objectives and goals in this life. Poems are written usually within a few minutes and I never go back and add on to it other than minor edits and to make sure my words are legible. I almost never add additional content, maybe a word or phrase, but very seldom. If one does not have a passion for creating something, quilts to poems, houses to paintings, then what is created I think will be flat. I am passionate about poems, haiku, writing, art, my web design business and my WorldPeace Advocacy. I am riding all these horses at the same time. Maybe they are riding me. I have opened up my creative process to a public view, defects and all, for the purpose of allowing other would be poets to see the perspiration and passions and long term commitment it takes to hone ones creativity. Some years I wrote hundreds of poems. A few years nothing. I had no desire to create some kind of world record in poems written even though I could do that. Right now I have published more poems than any American or English language poet. I am 72 and writing over a hundred poems per month consistently. I have written about life. My life. My thoughts. And as a result I have created something unique with my poems. Not great and not trash. In some ways my poems are like an autobiography. I have no organization. No followers, no disciples. I am just one man living his own bliss. My greatest ongoing bliss is dancing between this physical reality and the spiritual side which is a knowing but at times an undeniable miraculous tangible event where those spirits from the other side who are the very necessary helpers assigned to every single incarnate human being, make their presence known; actually their love known. I only very seldom write poems that rhyme. I channel poems. I cannot hear accented syllables in words. I have to look that up in a dictionary. I know nothing about music and cannot distinguish anything but the most extreme high and low notes. I think this is a handicap that makes rhyming poems difficult for me to write. For me to try to make a poem rhyme puts a straight jacket on me and ends up taking a clear smooth inspiration and putting it into a straight jacket and destroying it. I enjoy poems that rhyme but it is not something I want to work at. Sonnets to me are just mind boggling in the sense of form and rhyme. All my poems are published in chronological order. The dates are there and for the last 10 years the time in 24 hour military time when I wrote them.. Confusion in the manifestations of this reality (dreamscape) exists when one believes that this finite mortal existence is the true reality as opposed to the infinite immortal reality of God. This is what the poet and artist and other creators bring to this earthly party. A glimpse of our infinite home made of indescribable beauty and love. I changed my name on April 1, 1988 to John WorldPeace. So the poems prior to that date are signed in some variation of Ken. April 1, 1988, was both April Fool's day and Good Friday. Interesting. To the right of the various years I have recorded where I was living. I never entered any contests or submitted poems to magazines. I did in the early 80's create some chaps of poems for family. Consequently, I have this huge volume of poems that no one has seen. Yes the poems have been on the internet as I wrote them but I never tried to market or advertise my poetry.My art is much the same. I have been painting for 60 years but never sold my art or lived off my art. Gallery owners like my art but but it does not fit into a genre so it is hard to sell. John WorldPeace 190910 1135 ABQ, 210228-1620 I write dates as year /month /day. 190910
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TWO - BOOKS OF DR JOHN WORLDPEACE'S SELECTIONS OF THE ABOVE POEMS
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THREE - INDIVIDUALLY PUBLISHED POEM BOOKS
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FIVE - COMPLETE POEMS 1970 TO 2020 The poems found in this 5 book set of Complete Poems (4 volumes and Supplement) can also be found individually by years on Amazon.com.
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SIX - THE REASON I WRITE POETRY A. WorldPeace Metaphysics Definitiion B. The Conscious Influence of Poetry on Dr. John WorldPeace JD C. What is a poet? A. WorldPeace Metaphysics Definition I consider poetry the metaphysical language. I define metaphysics as it relates to the connection between Intangible Spirituality and Tangible Physical Reality. There are two concepts of God. The all-inclusive God and the personal God. The personal God is a subset of the all-inclusive God. I define the all-inclusive God as the Infinite Potential from which all things materialize and back into which all things disintegrate “There is no place God is not.” I call the Tangible Physical Reality the Earth Dreamscape. It is not really tangible. It just seems more tangible than the Spiritual Dimension. There are infinite dimensions of the Spiritual Dimension. The apex of the Spiritual Dimension does not distinguish time or space. There is only the Now. The Earth Dreamscape is all about duality. Everything is defined by its opposite. Light and dark, bad and good, high and low. The human vehicle mind is not capable of imagining a non-dualistic reality: without darkness, there is no light or without light, there is no darkness. The nature of this reality is change. All things that manifest in the Earth Dreamscape in time disintegrate back into the Infinite Potential. The Spiritual Dimension is infinite and immortal. The Earth Dreamscape is finite and mortal Poetry and Art if emphasized, will disengage the attachment to the Earth Dreamscape which all religions says is the path to hell using the current metaphor for hell. The Earth Dreamscape is a darkness that can be experienced without descending into darkness and confusion if a human being remains focused on the fact that the Earth Dreamscape is a mirage; a mirage that according to Jesus can be manipulated with focus. A mirage that can move toward a positive more expansive human being experience if the world human society understands that it has this power. Every highly successful human being in any field of endeavor has used the power of visualization to reach the apex of their career. But that process is not understood as being the core of Spirituality. Spirituality is the channel to access information to increase success in any earthly endeavor; bad or good. As the Tao te Ching says, the Way, can be used for any purpose. B. The Conscious Influence of Poetry on Dr. John WorldPeace JD The following is about how poetry has driven my life. It has been my “guide on.” I am a follower of Jesus but not a corporate Christian religionists or a religionists of any kind. I belong to no organizations that are not imposed by law. As I said above, all homo sapien organizations are elitist and exclusionary and WorldPeace is all-inclusive and democratic cosmology/philosophy of life. 1) I have a distinct memory of waiting somewhere in the universe without a body in front of a wormhole guarded by two Roman soldiers. I was having a conversation with other souls, and when it was over, I was pulled into the wormhole and into my mother’s womb at the moment of conception. I tell people I came into this reality with God and I have never lost my faith. I am not a reborn Christian. I have preachers say they don’t believe anyone who says this. My mother insisted we go to church 49-50 Sundays a year. Church and Sunday school every Sunday. Nothing much on any other days. I did that until I was 18 and started college and was working full time. 2) At 8, I was a happy little kid who loved playing alone with is toys. Then I heard someone say that everyone dies. I thought WTF. I am going to die. If that is true, why did I come here? I put away my toys and began my quest for metaphysical answers even though I did not use that terminology. I very quickly realized I had some kind of global involvement in my future. I began to ask the kinds of questions to which Christians give the fall back response. “God only knows.” I never believed that. I knew someone or someones, alive or dead, had or have the answers. And I began to realize I was going to have to look at other religions for answers. But I did not tell anyone this. I did not want to deal with the negative attacks especially from Christians who classify all knowledge outside the Bible as inspired by Satan. 3) I loved the poetry of some of the Psalms and certain Bible verses which were like poetry. 4) I was a C student at every level of my education because of boredom. Were I a kid today, I would have been out of high school by 10 with a computer and home study. My IQ is in the top 1%. I would have registered even higher but I had a small vocabulary because I did not want to talk over the heads of my family and extended family. The lack of vocabulary caused me to miss at least 3-5 logic questions on the Mensa test because I did not know the words. I have 10 years of college, 3 degrees and from kindergarten, to graduating with a law degree, I was bored in every single class. All the classes went too slow for me. This may seem strange, sometime in the first year of college, I realized that what I was forced to learn, was not really learning for me but remembering. 5) When I was about 14, I saw an article in the insert in the Sunday newspaper about a kid who was playing baseball with one arm. It was a watershed moment for me. I thought what could a person with good health, a higher than average awareness and ability to learn and unlimited energy accomplish with a focused distant run through life? I went to work for my uncle in the Summers at 14; half the Summer I went to Summer school to catch up. Fine with me. There was nothing to do at home. My second-grade teacher told my mother I was retarded. My mother would not accept it. I went to Summer school every Summer I was in school from 2nd grade until I graduated from college with my law degree in 1984. 6) In high school, I was profoundly influenced by Emily Dickinson: If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. This gave me a perspective that it did not matter what I did; the only thing that mattered is that I tried my best. And I guess the hope that one day I would be worthy of Jesus saying to me. “Well done, good and faithful servant.” About this time, maybe the same class I read Edwin Markham: “ For all your days be prepared and meet them ever alike When you are are the anvil bear when you are the hammer strike.” This opened my eyes that a life of pacifism was not a realistic way to increase the level of peace in the world human society. 7) In the 11th grade, I was sitting in the counselor's office and she was setting me up for some aptitude tests off-premises. While she was away from her desk, which was an old 40s oak desk with a glass top, I saw 2 or three lines of some quote under the glass. Robert Frost: “ Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” This was the third watershed moment in my life. I realized I was going to basically work twice as hard as anyone I knew or would probably ever know. Good. Life goes pretty slow so I can speed up and expand. 8) Some time in my teens I latched onto Jesus’ saying, “Ask receive, seek find, knock enter.” I did not fully understand that until about 20 years ago. But I never stopped meditating on it. A couple of years ago I put it all together. I am a Spiritual Christian, not a Corporate Bureaucratic Christian. I absolutely believe in the Resurrection. I absolutely believe in the following words of Jesus because I believe in Hebrews 8:10-11. “Ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds and to those who knock it will be opened.”Mt 7:7 “If you have the faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to the mountain move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Mat 17:20. “Truly, truly I say to you, if you believe in me you will do the works I do and greater works will you do because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name I will do it for the greater glory of the Father through the son. Whatever you ask in my name I will do it” Jn 14:12 We write our individual and group scripts in life. When God through a prophet appointed a king, God owned the bad acts of that king. In a Democracy, the citizens appoint a king and they own the bad acts of that king. So when Donald Trump denies health care to the poor, Christians own it personally. And Christians believe in Jesus who said you own every negative thought and deed and these will be judged. So when a woman is legally denied an abortion by laws which do not simultaneously provide for entitlements for that unwanted child, Christians own all the abuse that unwanted child bears in life. That is the reality of the true message of Jesus that radical Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians refuse to discuss. It is a metaphysical issue. It is why Jesus said few get into heaven. The Book of Revelation is a false book of a doom and gloom future set in stone and I reject it because it is contrary to the teaching of Jesus I have quoted above that we script our reality individually and as a group and because in my day to day life all my life I have been a witness to the truth of the above scripture. We are presently living the beliefs and actions of the world human society in the past; and in our personal life, the choices we have made and the things we have believed all throughout life. Through art and poetry these issues will have a better chance of being discussed. 8) After college in August 1970, and before entering the Army two months later in October 1970, I went to work selling life insurance. At that time I heard for the first time Success is a journey, not a destination. This helped me see that all my shortcomings on my path were just part of the path. In 1993, I read the Tao te Ching and saw this repeated in the framework of don’t get into dualism. Just do you work and move on along. And the same year I saw another collateral from Zen, Chop Wood, Carry Water. Meaning just do your work. 9) In 1986, I bought a book “101 Famous Poems” and I saw William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus” ... In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeonings or chance My head is bloodied, but unbowed ... It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. 10) In 1993, my second wife and I moved to Denver, Colorado to get away from my first wife who abandoned our marriage and a year later our children in 1988. I had been an attorney, accountant, tax preparer, insurance salesman and had been self-employed in all those areas as well as having the formal education. In order to keep my first ex (who I relate to as the Snake since 1987; I needed to keep myself reminded of what I was dealing with) from creating chaos in mine, my second wife and my children’s lives who were living with me, I took a menial job in warehouses at $7 an hour so the Snake would not file some court action to take back the two remaining children my second wife and I were raising. They had been traumatized enough. I was not going to let 3 years of my life go by with nothing to show for it. So, I decided to re-interpret, not translate, the sacred books of the world’s major religions. It took three years. I put a WorldPeace spin on those sacred words. I reinterpreted the Bhavagad Gita, the Tao te Ching, Analects of Confucius, the Buddhist Dhammapada, the Koran, the saying of Jesus that were quoted in two of the 4 gospels and the Gospel of Thomas. I looked at and wrote about Zen Koans and Haiku and the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Book of Job. I was amazed to find that the Tao, the Dhammapada, the Book of the Dead, Zen, the Bhavagad Gita were basically poetry. I acquired a lot of knowledge about poetry in reworking those sacred texts. 10) The point of the above is that not only have I learned something about writing poetry, I have what I consider an unofficial Ph.D. understanding of world religions and spirituality. And that understanding has dramatically expanded my world view and given me another huge reservoir to draw upon in writing poetry. 11) Somewhere along the way, probably 1976, I discovered Rudyard Kipling and “If” My life has been this poem. I have lived all of it in spades. I reject the last line as being gender specific and did not reproduced it below. If Rudyard Kipling - 1865-1936 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it 11) In 2002, I ran for governor of Texas in the Democratic Party. I found them to be corrupt just like the Republicans, and I seriously significantly challenged them. I told them if they pursued their plan Texas would go Republican (It had been Democratic since Reconstruction ). That is exactly what happened. Texas will never again be a Democratic state. For payback, the Texas Democratic Party put the State Bar on me to take my license to practice law, which I was sick of after 20 years anyway. In 2003, I was illegally disbarred (The judge lacked jurisdiction over the individual complaints because he was not appointed to hear but one of them AND the State Bar only plead for monetary damages, not disbarment.) I appealed to the Supreme Court of Texas, which was a joke. I was being punished and being made an example of. I was about to go into the Federal Courts when others things took precedence. (Lack of Jurisdiction has no applicable statute of limitations.). I have not had the time to get vindication, and in 2008, I pled to a sentence of resisting arrest and knocking down and kicking a U S Deputy Marshall, trying to serve me with a CIVIL BENCH WARRANT to appear in my mother’s Bankruptcy. I have never had a fight in my life. Even in the Army. But no one can overcome the lying testimony of a cop in court. That is why I pled guilty to a misdemeanor and accepted the max sentence of a one year. They then tried to overcome the plea and could not. A felony could have cost me 20 years in prison. You never gamble for more than you can afford to lose. So I plead out. 12) When I entered jail December 23, 2007, I expected the worst-case scenario that I would have to serve the entire sentence day-to-day. No good time. They put me in South Texas in a substandard (illegal) contract prison instead of sending me to the Federal Prison in Oklahoma which would have been like a cakewalk. In the last 5 and a half months of my sentence, I was in solitary confinement. I was out of my cell 13 hours in 5 and a half months. They were trying to break me. It did not work. Like in Colorado in 1993, I was determined not to come out of jail with nothing to show for the time. I did not. I wrote a 1200 page novel, Reorganized the four gospels including the Gospel of Thomas to delete the repetitions. You can see that at http://www.thepurpleorderofspiritualchristians.com/thegospel.asp I have responded line by line to Rich Warren's “The Purpose Driven Life”, written a biography of St Francis, kept a prison journal 572 pages, Wrote a 100 poems, Wrote my autobiography which will be published in a couple of months about 600 pages. All in all about 3000 pages of 250 words each. Being in solitary gave me solitude to do this. I also read 55 novels. 13) I would say at this point that until June 2018, my life had much PTSD associated with it. I wrote a lot and processed a lot and painted a lot and had no time to market anything I had done. I have 82 books on Amazon, mostly poetry. I have not tried to market any of them. I am running for President as the Independent Maverick write-in Candidate for President 2020. At http://impeachpresidenttrumpusa.com/ you will find my Commentary on Donald Trump since he was elected. That is already about 3200 pages after I edit it down. I also have my notes on the 2002 Governors race in Texas to be published. 14) Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” 15) Helen Keller: Life is a daring adventure or nothing. 16) The Eagle Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1809-1892 He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt, he falls. 17) I have lived my life by poetic inspiration from many sources. Poetry is in decline and quite frankly it needs a champion to bring it back to the forefront of the world human society. I know its power. That is why I can write so much. All great men and women have a large body of work from which maybe one percent or less is well known as inspiring. But that one percent has dramatically changed the world. 18) My flagship website https://johnworldpeace.com has 15,000 pages on it. The above is just a very shorthand rendition of those 15,000 pages. Thanks for your consideration. Dr. John WorldPeace JD C. What is a poet? A poet is someone who can see behind the façade of something, no matter what, to the spiritual essence of that thing. Seeing God in everything as part of its essence. The poet does not have to seek it out, that essence is always there. Then a poet writes what he or she is experiencing in an abstract language, a poetic language. A poetic language unique to him. A language that he has developed over his career as a poet which began with the first poem written. I think someone who does anything for 50 years creates an internal spiritual beauty in his work. His unique art that cannot be copied by anyone. Imitated yes, but not copied; his spiritual signature. I cannot recite you one poem of mine. I do not recognize them until I read them. I read my poems often but when I close the book, I cannot tell you what I read after 5 or minutes unless I intended to remember it. I think of what I have written as nothing. unworthy. trash. And then I open my book and read and then I say “oh yes” I remember that poem. Or maybe I do not remember. But as soon as I shut the book, I again forget it. Writing a poem becomes a natural act. I feel a calling and I sit down and write. I say thank you God for this insight, for this gift. I say thank you to the muse that brought it to me. It is a blissful experience. I write and stack up the poems and then joy in seeing that stack; joy in mentally feeling that stack. It is a precious thing. The pen and the paper are precious in that they allowed themselves to be used to record that moment or those moments of bliss as the poem flowed out of me. I really am beyond what anyone thinks about what I have written. Some of my poems are ugly children. But I love them. They chose me as a channel at the time I needed the experience. I wish I could have connected with my children the way I connect to my poems, or my art or anything else I engage. But children are incarnate souls with their own agenda. Children are of your body not your soul. And the human body is dust. Something my children, or anyone gives me, that they made, is a bliss greater than the one who gave it. The thing given has a life of its own and it is a single purpose life of a connection between me and whoever gave it to me. I could never value a store-bought gift. A make-do gift. An obligatory gift. If you gave me a mud pie with a smiley face on it, I would cherish it. You could give me a Rolls Royce and I would have some connection to it but not like the mud pie you made for me. Made with an intention to give it to me. Made with your energy contained in it, on it. I have found no one that could get that loving energy off the things that I made and gave to them. That is really sad. Incredibly sad. It is the reason the world is so predatory and there is so little love in the world human society and the accumulated love of the world human society is so low. I went to elementary school with a guy named Bobby. And to his mother he was an awesome gift. Bobby really hated her for the smothering. He discounted her love because it was total. I was sad when I witnessed his abuse of her which was always. He was a very precious gift and I am sure she could not really believe that he hated her. Surely there were times when he gave her some love and that was enough for her. I was in that position with wives and lovers and my children. Even the smallest amount of love was adequate. But I would not allow myself to be like Bobby’s mother. There was a limit as to how much I would give to an unloving person who would not or could not return it. I was never going to live my life, this life, totally for someone else. I had things I committed to do before I was born and nothing was going to subordinate that; which made me unloving. Love is complicated. And I doubt many people are ever successful in creating that experience. Just too many distractions in life. My father’s parents had it and I saw it every time I was around them. If you want to be a poet write. Never push that energy off or away. Stop what you are doing and record it. Or make enough notes about it that you know you will be able to flesh it out later. Read spiritual literature. Not religious but spiritual. Spiritual literature is something between you and God, with no intermediaries critiquing. You make that connect and you feel the bliss. And move on. Jwp 200426 0633 210228-2003
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SEVEN - OTHER BOOKS BY DR JOHN WORLDPEACE JD
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EIGHT - DR JOHN WORLDPEACE JD - Four Videos
Personal Photographic Profile of Dr John WorldPeace JD
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NINE - COMPARISON: DR JOHN WORLDPEACE JD and AMANDA GORMAN
Amanda Gorman & Dr John WorldPeace JD, Poets It is necessary for me to make a clear distinction between myself and the very gifted poet, Amanda Gorman. She is young. I am old. She is Black. I am White. She is female. I am male. I am a veteran. She has not served her country. I have 4 children. She has none. I ran for political office (Governor of Texas 2002). She has no political experience. I have been a political prisoner for a year. She has not. I have three university degrees. She has one. I worked full time through 10 years of college. She did not. I started 5 businesses. She has started none. I have self-published 70+ poetry books (6500+ poems) with no help. She has published 3 poetry books with significant professional and non-professional help. I channel poems. She is a wordsmith poet. I have self-published 35 non-poetry books on religion, spirituality, politics, WorldPeace, etc. She has published only poetry. She is a corporate Catholic religionist. I am not a religionist of any stripe but a spiritualist. I believe in the spiritual words of Jesus not the Protestant or Catholic church doctrine or dogma. I have written 7 books on Christianity and 7 more on world religions. She has written none. In 1988, I chose my name to define me and my life purpose. She does not have a poet's name but the name her parents gave her. She has a very significant support group for her poetry (per the Gratitude section of her book "Call Us What We Carry"). She has been very involved in the poetry community. I have never had anyone to read, critique or help me with my poetry that I have been writing for over 50 years. I am in the process of hiring editors. I have to date had no connection with any poetry community. I am working on it. I began self-publishing my poems in 2018. I began writing poetry in 1970. Ms. Gorman began writing poems somewhere around 2014 and published her first significant book “The Hill We Climb and other Poems” before 2020. After her appearance at President Biden’s inauguration “The Hill We Climb and other poems” was republished as “Call Us What We Carry” and rushed to publish in order to meet the 2022 Pulitzer Poetry Prize deadlines. Ms. Gorman and I both began a serious effort to publish our poems in books in the last 3-4 years. However I have been writing poems since 1970 and have written 6500+ poems and she has written a handful in the hundreds. Since October 2019, when I submitted my complete poems for the 2020 Publitzer Poety Prize, I have written and published about 125+ poems a month. I am first and foremost an Advocate for increasing the peace in the world human society. She is primarily a young stellar poet with no significant activism in politics, religion, the law, education, global corporation or democracy the foundations of global nations. My flagship website johnworldpeace.com has 15,000 pages regarding these areas. I have a plan of action. She has none. She will not go head to head publicly in politics, religion, the law, education (primary and college) global corporations and democrary because she does not have the education or experience and will not jeopardize her new found growing wealth. I believe Ms Gorman is already the poet of her generation and she will remain that unless she burns out or flames out with regards to her poetry or life in general. No doubt her career has gone ballistic (an understatement) since her reading at President Biden’s inauguration. Ms. Gorman looks to me to be the poetess heir to Louise Gluck who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her poetry. What Louise Gluck has accomplished as a poet has no recognized peer. This is the highest praise I can give Ms. Gorman and have no doubt about my sincerity and my respect for Ms. Gorman. (Louise Gluck quit writing at 72.) Louise Gluck has never been well. Louise Gluck never became the media star Ms. Gorman has become.
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At 71, I published all 4000+ of my poems and then I dramatically increased my poetry to 125+ poems a month and maintain that pace to date (25 months). I had a 30 minutes from death heart attack in 1997, prostate cancer in 2010, a second near heart attack in 2016 with a bypass and pacemaker. I am 73 and feeling like 50. I submitted my 50 years, 4000+ poem Magnum Opus for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer never read it and has never denied not reading it. A month after the 2020 Pulitzer Poetry awards, Dana Canedy was fired as the Pulitzer Administrator. The official word is she got a BETTER job at Simon-Schuster. Ms. Gorman is what I would call a wordsmith writer of poetry. That is just a statement of fact not by any means a negative opinion. It is what she does by her own admission. I am not a writer of poetry. I am a channeler of poetry since 1970. I am a spiritual poet. Every one of the 6500+ poems that I have channeled to date, each has begun with a word or phrase I psychically hear or see or read in other poets poems. I sit down and record immediately. As I begin to record, the rest of the poem comes to me. Generally, it only takes a couple of minutes, between 2 and 10, to complete the poem. If I follow (play out) the poem in my head, I will lose it. I very seldom change the words or the way it is laid out on the page except now and then to keep it from being bunched up on the page. More than very minor changes will crash my poems. I do go back and rewrite a word that I have not recorded clearly. All my poems were originally recorded in my cursive handwriting. I have all my original poems. Five minutes after I channel a poem, I can only vaguely remember it. This process began in 1970 and continues to this day. To teach how I channel poetry would require someone to read and study religious and spiritual writings, practice yoga, meditate (Hebrews 8: 10-12 / Jeremiah 31: 33-34) and pray and read spiritual and religious writings as a life style. (I took one 19th century poetry class in my second year of college. I almost never read other poets until 2019. I have never connected with any poetry community.) then the poems will come if one desires that to happen and works to make it happen. Ms Gorman's word smithing poetry can be taught. Not the quality or depth, but the methods and techniques. I am a spiritualist not a corporate religionist. Poetry is the language of spirituality. Poetry is the language of the Third Millennium and the rest of the Age of Aquarius. My poetry is similar to Zen Haiku and Zen Koans. I realized this after about 35 years of writing poetry and happened to begin reading about Zen sometime in the early 1990s. I am not a Zen religionist or a corporate religionist of any stripe.
With all due respect
Two Poets Amanda Gorman and Dr John WorldPeace JD by Dr John WorldPeace JD |
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Dr John WorldPeace JD Complete Poems 1970 - 2019
Dr John WorldPeace JD
Dr John WorldPeace JD has written 6000+ poems between October 1970 and December 2021. He has writtem more poems than Carl Sandburg, E E Cummings, Louise Gluck, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, and Walt Whitman in their combined careers. Dr WorldPeace continues to write 125+ poems per month. In January 2022, 6 more books will be added for 900 pages. Over 2022 I will continue to add 125+ poems a month and I will edit selections from the complete poems for 1983 to 2021 as well as write a series of Best Select Poems from the Select Poems. And then begin to write a Collections of poems from all my poems. There are already some Collections (Love is Forever in Bloom, Variety, Reflections and Poems from 1970 to 1990 that were published as chaps in 1990. I am also writing an Epic poem about Jesus based on my reorganization of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John which has already been done and is located at https://thepurpleorderofspiritualchristians.com/thegospel.asp. |
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