John WorldPeace: a brief poetry bio

Below are all the poems that I have written and published from Oct. 1970 to date. About 124 books.

I have degrees in Political Science, Accounting and Law. My career has been one of self employment in insurance, accounting, tax, law and web design. No degrees in English literature.

There are some original poems missing (less than 10) out of 8,000. I have been attentive to keeping all my poems together for 55 years.

I was born in 1948. I have always considered the cursive originals of my poems 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 all of his or her originals public.

On September 9, 2019, I finally accomplished publishing all my poems from October 12, 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 157 books in total.

Starting in 2020 I published a book of poems each month and in 2020 a Complete set of books of all my Poems. There were about 2400 pages which amounts to about 3500 poems. There are a lot of very short poems.

I have also begun to publish the poems for 2021.What you will notice is that writing 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 into a book. I have written some poems on the computer but for me this sterilizes the poem. 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. A reader of one of my books is free to punctuate the poems. This kind of punctuation keeps a person from speed reading my poems.

I do not 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 for 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 significantly 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 my creative process to 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 78 (b 1948) 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.

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