Poems About Art, Science, Love & Life

By Ronald J. Yadusky

These poems came out of the love Dr. Yadusky has for his wife, Margaret, and his children. The will to create and the will to love are one. Poems make love visible, and by doing so they uplift and heal, because in the presence of love everything is healed. Poetry at its essence depicts a spiritual world, because the mind seeks truth, the heart seeks love, and the spirit seeks goodness and God. Poems awaken something in the readers heart that is beyond knowledge. We can define poetic creation in the same way that we define art itself, namely, spirit expressed into matter. Poets say tangibly what they feel intangibly to give finite form to the infinite. When Dr. Yadusky depicts this creative spirit of love, he shows us the face of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 22, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452085579

Ronald J. Yadusky

Dr. Ronald J. Yadusky is a retired surgeon, who did general and throacic surgery at a Veterans Administration Hospital for over 27 years. His other books are "The Truth Collector" and "Poems about Art, Science, Love & Life." His books are full of love, wisdom, sensitivity, inspiration, and creativity.

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© 2010 Ronald J. Yadusky, BS, MD, FACS. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 10/21/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4520-8557-9 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-8556-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-8559-3 (hc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010914421

Printed in the United States of America

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Note

Introduction

Art

How to Unblock and Unlock

Using your pen like a brush or a bow

Poets Are This

When Love Reaches Critical Mass

A Poet’s Poem about Poetry

It’s More than Words or Rhyme

A Secret Muse

What Do They Use?

One Painter to Another

Reversal of Fortunes

Symbolize

Other Names

You Know What Art To Work Upon

Switch Your Life To On

Movement In Art

Noticeable

New Collaboration

What Fulfills Needs?

Artists With No Paint

We all Are Artists

Describing Artist’s Work

Spend Your Time With Intelligence

Please Say Something (1)

Point It Out By Paint (1)

Please Say something (2)

Point It Out By Paint (2)

Many Classic Genres or Themes

Being versus doing

Include Don’t Exclude

Movies And Me

What Stories Show

Unique Kernels

Don’t Paint Any Movie Genres

Be opposite of opposites

Science

Above Ground Rock Hound

Heavenly Rock Hound

Found At A Rock Show

One Thing Leads To Another

A Field-Trip

Like an Easter Egg Hunt

Go This Way

Always Share With Friends

Without A Clue, One Thing To Do

This Class Rocks

Footprints

Topographic Paleontology

An Old Rockhound

Gold Is Where You Find It

Rock Bound Rockhound

All Shook Up

Gold Fever

Keeping Secret Is Hard To Do

Jewelry (1)

Making a Statement (1)

Jewelry (2)

Making A Statement (2)

Look In The Piedmont

The Placer Place

Science And Art

Rockhound

Beauty Inspires Us to Know

Minerals And Crystals.

Minerals Are Not Alive

Crystals have a lot to say

Classic Colors

Unique Minerals

The Mohs hardness Scale

Test Hardness By Scratch

Crystal Symmetry

Shape helps With Identity

Solar Flare

You’ll Need Somewhere

Differentiate

Greed or Seed

Emeralds

A Loving Heart Must Be Your Cue

Caving

Safety Comes First

Museums In Transition

Rare Costs More

Love

It’s Special Where Two Rivers Meet

A Symbol Of Two Lovers Sweet

Love

Think Again:

A Swashbuckler

Action Adventure

Bikini

First Date

True Love

What Saves Us All

Gifts From God

Grief

True Love’s Team

The Culmination of A Dream

You Can’t Fake Enthusiasm

Combined Completeness

What’s secret stays secured

When We Might Meet Again

Intriguing

There’s No Such Thing As Real Goodbye

The Future Can Be Poetry

Beauty and What Ought To Be

The Speed of Progress

Change

Life

Automobile or Auto Mobile

A Dozen Dozen

or

Go there By Car

Hot Dogs

Tube Steaks

My TIA

Expressive Aphasia

Express One Vote

‘Til Your Next Chance Appears

V for Victory

Dot, Dot, Dot, Dash

A Parent’s Lament

(It’s not my family in this poem!!)

I Didn’t Have To Worry

The Two Sides Of learning

Straight From A Bard

Superstars and Snack Bars (1)

Glamour Girls and Gluttony (1)

Superstars And Snack Bars (2)

Glamour Girls And Gluttony (2)

Split Vision

Double Talk, Double Vision

Surgery is A Miracle

Incision Decision

America’s Ballad

Unseen Hands of Debt

Symbolic Lessons

Memorable Points Real and Ideal

Haircuts

Tonsorial Artists

Gun Safety

Green Means Go, To Shoot

Dedication

I dedicate this book to God, and to my dear wife, Margaret, who is a cherished gift of God to me. I love her dearly and always will, and similarly I love my five children, living and dead: Mary, Ann, Joseph, William and John; and their families, as well as mine and Margaret’s.

Acknowledgements

Isaac Newton (English physicist, astronomer, 1643-1727) said that the reason we see so far is because we stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank all the giants on whose shoulders I stand—namely: my wife Margaret, family, teachers, preachers, authors, mentors, and examples that have guided me to this point.

Many thanks and heartfelt gratitude to my proofreaders for their caring interest and help with this work:

Mary Galligan, Claire Galligan, Craig and Ann Barta, Christina Barta, Jessica Barta, Jonathan Barta, Joe and Laura Yadusky, Sally Yadusky, Megan Yadusky, Sarah Yadusky, Jacob Yadusky, William (Will) Yadusky, Kaye Yadusky, William and Katie Yadusky, Aleksandra Yadusky, Catherine Staton, Donald and Joan Yadusky, Katie Gold, Kit and Stephanie Cessna, Rachel Cessna, Hunter Cessna, Dan and Julianne Brunson, Anna Katherine Brunson, Peter Yadusky, Scott Yadusky, John Patani, Charles Frederick IV (Chip) and Kim Colvin, Charles Frederick V (Charlie) Colvin, Andrew John Colvin, Grace Margaret Colvin, Sherri and Sabrina Dodd Tumicelli, Nikolas Devon Dodd, Mikhael Gavin Dodd, Catrina Van Diest, Mary (Pete) Troy, Brenda and Joel Clayton, Barnwell Ray and Emma Stone (Rocky) Beard, Cindy and George Patrick, Fay Crouch, Rita Brunson, Marcelo and Nina Alvarez, Gia Alvarez, Jane Black, Paul Bartley, Tom and Grace Hughes.

Special thanks and gratitude, also, to my Pastor of St. Mary Magdalene Church, Reverend Father Donald Staib, who thought this collection of poems was quite an amazing collection and wonderful, and a reflection of my insights into life and nature and all God’s good works.

Note

Let me explain the letters after my name:

B.S., for graduating from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science degree in pre-med.

M.D., for graduating from Jefferson Medical University.

F.A.C.S., for going through a surgical residency program and Becoming a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

My internship was one year at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.

My residency program was four years of General Surgery at Lankenau Hospital in Overbrook, Pennsylvania, and two years of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Berthold S. Pollak Hospital of Chest Diseases in Jersey City, New Jersey, followed by a year of Cardiovascular Surgery Research Fellowship.

I’m Board Certified in both General Surgery and Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Contents

Introduction

       Poems awaken something in our hearts that is beyond knowledge. When ink is used to print words, a drop of ink may make millions think. Poems tell us about our world as it is, and how it can be. Just as a tiny drop of ink can change the color of an entire glass of water, one poet’s words, or another artist’s painting, can change the world. For example, a piece of cloth with a few dollars worth of paint on it can sell for 50 to 80 million dollars, if it is a painting by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter, 1853-1890). That should send a message to us all that art objects, including poems, are what human beings value the most, because they allow spirit to reach us. The essence of poetry and art is spirit.

        Poems bring us into personal contact with that creative spirit, which is divinely beautiful, noble, honorable and true. Such contact gives us a chance, not only, for self discovery, but for collective change as well.

       Poems mirror our world, or tell us of new worlds, as poets express themselves. Their poems show to us our spiritual potential, our ability to be transformed, and the sacredness present in life.

       I was aware of all that when I self-published my book The Truth Collector, through Authorhouse publishers in 2009, in honor of my beloved wife, who died in 2008 from cancer. The subtitle of my book is, Being Transformed, because the truth, love and goodness shown in my book through its many truisms and aphorisms, plus the many illustrations from personal incidents in my memoir, were transforming for the reader.

        After that, in tribute to my wife, Margaret, I wrote a poem entitled, Above Ground Rockhound. I followed that by revising an old poem of mine on page 211 of The Truth Collector, and I gave the poem a new title, Automobile or Auto Mobile. From there I became very prolific and creatively driven until I had completed 67 poems, which make up this volume.