A POETIC PROLOGUE

Do 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