Writings: Poetry - Play

By William (Billy) McIntyre

*** WINNER - BRONZE MEDAL - 2015 Global Ebook Awards ***

After a lifetime of living, William (Billy) McIntyre brings together his thoughts on love, life, sex, religion and playing the violin - all the things we were told not to talk about in high school debating class - and delivers these thoughts in prose, poetry and a play.

The Writings:
- Love
- Unite all People
- Humanity
- Health Tips
- Friendship
- Violin, Viola and Cello
- Education
- Jewish People
- Compress Time

The Poetry:
Sonnets about people and many other subjects - about 90 poems in all

The Play:
Act I - two families about 2,000 years apart - through daily lives
Act II - four garbos on the job
Act III - including a Jew, Christian & Muslim

Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Apr 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781925219692

William (Billy) McIntyre

I was born 1928 – the seventh child (son). Within ten years all five sisters and brother left home.I lived an only child life with very old parents that loved me, and who worked hard during the Depression. I guided myself through puberty and through teens, consequently resulted in being an abject failure.Violin lessons started in 1936 and I am still playing Violin 1 in late Beethoven Quartets now nearly 90. Fairly good performance in swimming, golf, bushwalking, bike riding, bowls, and most continue today.I have had ten years as a Life Line Counsellor. Eleven years at college – electrical, radio and management. Real joy – I had an affinity with the physics of electric heating and solved heating component problems of million dollar plant for several international companies.Married twice, two children, several grandchildren, some I haven’t met and a son that can’t stand me – that’s life.

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Writings – Poetry – Play

by

William (Billy) McIntyre

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INSPIRATION

My beloved daughter Mandy

My beloved wife Katie

DEDICATION

To all of you:

To my mum, Amy (nee Burton) (England), my dad, James (Scotland), my sisters Amy, Gladys, Marion, Violet and Maggie and brother Gordon; also my nieces Joan, Lorraine, Marion, Elaine and Christine.

I add one more person: Violet’s husband Kevin for whom I had much family love. A very fine artist in oils, Kevin once said to me, Billy, whatever you achieve, you’ll go out in a blaze of mediocrity.

BACKGROUND

I was the youngest, the seventh child. I vaguely remember being sent to St John’s, Church of England, Balmain until about 1936, when the verger at the church was convicted of being a paedophile in Balmain Court. I didn’t go to the church again unless Mum had a good win on the horses at Randwick Race Course and cooked for the church soup kitchen, to give the locals a treat during the Depression. I always went for Mum’s free soup even though I could have the soup at home most winter nights. If I remember rightly, Mum said the church gave the verger a dreadful punishment, worse than the death penalty: they sent him to a Queensland church.

I could read and write about from about four, going on five, years old. I can remember many times walking to Birchgrove School and crossing one road safely to sit on the boundary school wall to watch the kids in class. At some stage I must have collected an enrolment form, filled it in and, after telling Mum the school said it was all okay, got her to sign it. So I went to Kindergarten in 1933 and when I enrolled the next year Mum had to fill in and sign the form, showing age five, which I’d forgotten to change to six years. The school said I was too young and made me repeat.

Lesson: If you’re going to be a liar, you must have a good memory.

A couple of years later when I was about six I noticed the male teacher seemed to enjoy belittling the students in front of the class, which in my case was about my poetry and it made me feel a fool and worth nothing. He shouted, or it seemed loud, to me, You’ll never be able to write poetry! But what the dumb bastard didn’t realise was that I would find my way to the best poetry teachers of all time, teachers that money couldn’t buy, in William Shakespeare, John Keats and Robert Burns. They showed me the way and gave me the rhyming words.

There was a male teacher named Small

Who stood around class ten foot tall

Who made fools of the kids

Sent them downhill on skids

Poems!!! You’ll never write at all

When I arrived in high school I was forced to repeat second year because at eleven years old the school said I was too young. I look back on my school years as an exercise in human destruction: school teachers having pets and favourite pupils – I thought at the time they were supposed to be adults, and I thought saluting a flag each day just didn’t make sense – not a wise move for a belligerent and rebellious ten year old, as I ended up being caned on the hands over it.

I completed and passed the five year higher trades electrical certificate only because I had a Jewish teacher, Mr Kaplin. He didn’t have favourites. He was there to teach and explain clearly, which gave me confidence in the understanding of the subject of electrical phenomena. Mr Kaplin also showed me the way to pass any future exams by memorising and understanding all the electrical formulas: write them down at the beginning on the test paper because all the questions can be answered correctly through the pertinent formula.

Next to me in the family line was Maggie, who was eleven years older. By ten years of age I was really an only child as my siblings had all left home, and I was living with what seemed very old parents: Mum was in her middle fifties and Dad was in his early seventies. I left school at 14 in 1942; there was a war on and the Naval Dockyard needed apprentice electricians. The employer was kind enough not to issue a sixpenny mask so that we could get dusted asbestos lungs for free. What nice thoughtful people.

I studied violin with Mischa Dobrinski, Polish Jewish concert violinist trained in the Leopold Auer School in Russia. I was taught all the relaxation violin playing techniques, which I assumed Heifetz and Milstein were taught. That’s why today, at over 85 years of age, I can play, in a fashion, Violin 1 in the late Beethoven Quartets.

My education was a five year Electrical Higher Trades Certificate, a two year Radio Trades Certificate and a four year Management Certificate. The most enjoyable years were working solving industrial problems in electric heating, as a broadcast studio technician and solving audio problems in communications systems in churches, supermarkets – you name it.

MY VIEWS

I don’t mind how you think. Please don’t mind how I think.

Recorded history clearly shows men have destroyed the human race and planet earth in the past, and are continuing to do so today.

God forgives, Billy doesn’t.

I don’t do birthdays, Christmas, Easter or New Year.

DISCLAIMER

Please note that this book may contain concepts, descriptions and/or language that could be considered mature or robust in nature. No offence is intended.

Writings

CHAPTER 1: LOVE

The real meaning, duty and sublime friendship

I’ve thought about this and expressed these ideas for seventy years. However, it didn’t all become clear to me until I was about eighty-two. I read in a dictionary once that axiom meant a self-evident truth; another dictionary said a recognised truth.

EXAMPLE

It’s dark at night because planet earth has turned away from our light source, the sun. Consequently, for those of us who have sight, we can see the light around us in the daytime because our planet earth now faces the sun.

The ancient Greeks said there were different kinds of love. I say they didn’t get it right.

The Apostle Paul in the Christian Bible didn’t get it right. He wrote about people’s actions and called it love: love is patient and kind; love does not insist on its own way. (First Corinthians Ch.13 v. 1-13 etc.)

To say love is this or that or actions of any kind he would have to define love, but he didn’t. Perhaps being single he didn’t experience a mutual sexual life. The ancient Greeks saw love as platonic, agape and erotic, which included sex. Most male adults know about erotic sex but believe me, there’s no love in it. Mutual sex is individually personal and directed only in achieving the individual’s orgasm and is as selfish and self-centred as it sounds. During intercourse a woman has to focus on her own orgasm like a man focuses on his. The realisation of sexual satisfaction is individual and self-centred.

Paul believed in the actions of God’s love (whatever that means – I don’t think anyone ever met God face to face to discuss love). The Jewish Bible, Tanakh, states in Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 26: we are made in God’s image so we could meet God face to face if God decided.

Regarding the meaning of love, the Apostle Paul apparently didn’t understand what love is and I believe got it wrong if that’s what he was trying to define. By way of interest the Jewish Bible Tanakh was written in Babylon about three hundred years before the appearance of the Jew Jesus of Nazareth, regarded as the anointed one by the Christian church.

AXIOM

THE DEFINITION OF LOVE IN HUMAN TERMS AND UNDERSTANDING

Love means honour, respect, admiration and loyalty, and what I think you are looking for in the love offered to you, above all else, is loyalty.

Loyalty gives absolute confidence and strengthens the trust between each of us forever. Love has nothing whatsoever to do with sex, that’s why with men masturbation, prostitution, sexual predation, sexual molestation of children and paedophilia are so popular. In addition, none of the males’ behaviour above has any love in it. The men’s actions desperately crave their own orgasm to end their actions. But when two people have an orgasmic bond through a sexual relationship and love each other with honour, respect, admiration and loyalty then they are transported to the high plateau of sublime friendship which is beyond love and encompasses much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

The Macquarie Dictionary states: sublime means (3) supreme or perfect.

My meaning is supreme and perfect friendship.

Definition: Sublime friendship

Supreme and perfect friendship: its fundamental motivation is help and giving and it does not have a sexual relationship component. It is derived from the most noble, pure, clear and clean thoughts in the mind of the beholder and always motivated by the actions of help and giving.

EXAMPLES

(1) The soldier who gives his life to save the lives of his mates is experiencing and giving sublime friendship beyond love, and encompassing much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

(2) The mother and fathers’ sacrifice and gifts for their children is sublime friendship beyond love, as it encompasses much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

(3) Mother Teresa, St Francis of Assisi and other Christian achievers recognised and credited by the Christian Church Authorities for their good deeds and gifts to mankind in Jesus’ name from the heart are examples of sublime friendship beyond love, encompassing much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

(4) The Christian Bible (Revised Standard Version 1954 (RSV) or Jerusalem Catholic Bible 1968) says that Jesus the Christ sacrificed his life for all sinners who believe in him as the way the truth and the life so that then and only then would they gain eternal life after their death. So the action of Jesus the Christ is sublime friendship beyond love, again as it encompasses much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

(5) God’s relationship with the Jewish people and Christians is sublime friendship beyond love, encompassing much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

To all other religions that believe in a God at the centre of their individual lives, then God’s relationship is, I believe, sublime friendship beyond love, encompassing much bigger and broader horizons of future human life.

CONCLUSION

Duty comes before love.

Duty carries out the responsibility of welfare.

(1) Duty to your country and family

(a) To pay your correct annual taxes and not one cent more

(b) To protect, help to build and defend your country and your family

(2) Duty to your children, the innocent bystanders you decided to bring into this world. You have the duty of their welfare before the love between you

(a) To pay the rent or mortgage, to give them a roof over their head.

(b) To see the children are cared for.

(c) All other aspects of their lives.

(d) You have this duty until they can stand alone.

(3) Love is the subjective virtuous thoughts of honour, respect, admiration and loyalty you feel about people, animals, birds, fish, religion, places, happenings and many more: subjective thoughts in the mind of the beholder.

Friendship is the help and gifts, given or received from one to another; sublime friendship is the gift of gifts, the ultimate unbreakable bond.

SUGGESTION

While reading, listen to Beethoven Symphony No 4 2nd Movement at a low, background level.

CHAPTER 2: THE HUMAN RACE ON PLANET EARTH

1. A child’s personality is cultivated from Day 1

Take two healthy babies, each about one month old, boy or girl, of any race/religion, but from opposing backgrounds. For example, one from a well-to-do English aristocratic Catholic or Church of England family and one from an Aboriginal family in Arnhem Land Australia.

1. The babies in their original location would have lived:

a. the good life and enjoyed

b. a happy childhood

c. living in a safe and secure environment

2. Swap the babies and in their alternative lifestyle they will learn the local language and traditions and the way of life of that race and religion but will still live as per (a), (b) and (c) above.

3. Allow the babies to live in the alternative life until several months after puberty, then explain to them the experiment they’ve gone through, hope that they are not too offended, then return them to their original parents.

AXIOM

The babies/teenagers will remain within