Real World Poetry: None

By Norris Ray Peery

Real World Poetry contains a group of individual poems, which I wrote over a very extended period of time. Some few of these poems have singularly appeared in some of my other writings. The mood of these poems is intended to address the lack of objective truth within many of the major philosophies of the world's cultures, and to dress those wounds, of cognitive dissonance, with a dressing of hope and guidance towards a more reasonable outlook upon life, and of life's struggles to discover a meaningful perspective, which can be embraced by reasonable peoples, allowing them to find a guiding path to peace-of-mind, and some form of contentment within a world that everyday waxes and wanes between its self proclaimed ancient morals, which have grown so crumbly with time's passing, as to be without any substantial or meaningful substance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 19, 2004
• ISBN: 9780595786602

Norris Ray Peery

My formal educational background is in mathematics, analog and digital electronics, computer design and programming. I am deeply in love with all of the arts and sciences.

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Contents

History And The Individual

Know Me

Science

Art

Impossible Dream

Time’s End

Discovery

Communication

Education

Creature Of Creation

Despair

The Song Of Fate

The Forever Dream

God

Ignorance

The Individual

Leadership

The Military

Rosealee

The Arts

The Nest

Time

Hell

Life

The Future

Ritual

Dreams

The Call Of The Future

The Beginning

Brown Curves On White

The True Revelations

Convictions

Life’s Dream

Gods Of Earth And Sky

Bonding

Meaning

One And One

Empire

Biological Forms

The Future

Deception

Anarchy

The Dream

The Conquerors

Upon The Heap Of Time

Mike, Mikie, Miker, Mike-a-Rooney

For

those very special persons who have

Inquisitive

And

Hungry

Minds

Note: Whenever it is convenient,

this book should be read aloud.

HISTORY and the INDIVIDUAL

In all of nature’s life,

throughout all of time,

in every species,

in every family,

in every genus,

it is the individual,

who bears the lonesome stamp of uniqueness.

It is an individual,

who is inevitability,

and ultimately,

the survivor beyond its mother’s kind.

It is the genotype,

the individual,

whose subtle differences,

like some artist’s gentle brush stroke,

a mere blush of color,

a slight bend of a line,

the hint of a different texture,

that takes the new higher step up

on nature’s subtle multifaceted staircase

that leads to a new tomorrow’s sunrise.

Nearly hidden in the ruckus drive of human history,

not noticed by those who can only see the main over-bearing

and exploding blaze of it all,

is the struggle for the individual to be free.

The gross show,

is the ups and downs of tyrants and their empires.

Amongst the never-ending theatrical clamor of history,

where new tyrants in new disguises always occupy center stage,

in the background of this,

as a sweeter melody

that refuses to be lost,

is the continuous,

never ending struggle

of the individual to be free,

and this struggle,

although buried within the ramparts of history’s onward march,

is what the progress of history

is secretly all about.

KNOW ME

If you could miss me,

as much as I miss you.

Then you could love

as much as I do.

If you could feel

my feelings true,

Then you could know

the depths of my love for you.

If you could know

the height of my hopes,

then you could know

the best of them