Reinventing Poetry: A Collection of Poems

By Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

"Sometimes in our private and passionate search for meaning some of us embrace various art forms as a medium for the souls expression. Examples of this form of spiritual expression could be found in the highest level of creativity employed in the creation of the variety of masquerades, related artifacts and effects associated with the production of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. My poems speak for the unheard, queries into, suggest alternatives, and exist with their own creative individuality and magnetism. In my view poetry like painted art, sculpting, expressive music and the expression of art seem to exist as a form of liaison or a type of messenger of spiritual correspondence between those inner felt undercurrent of existence and its external manifestations.xplore and attempt to redefine conventionally held concepts and beliefs in light of the species improved and expanded awareness. They also aspire to influence the subconscious mind and conscious reasoning processes to examine alternative methods of reasoning by utilizing and combining: visualization, word association with foreign rhythms and ideas from official and unofficial point of views. The poems comprising this collection make a brazen and sincere attempt to manifest these very characteristics.

Through each poem I make a sincere and deliberate attempt to urge each reader to question the very nature of your existence and particularly those ideas and beliefs about reality in general and human existence which you have come to know and accept as the absolute or gospel truth. In this new-age period of heightened awareness I implore you to question and pay attention to the nature of your gut feelings your haunches and your most basic inspirations. Embark upon a personal adventure through the inner space of life with the same tenacity and enthusiasm with which we explore the outer space of physical reality. As we continue to evolve spiritually each of us should make a sincere attempt to sense the very uniqueness of our god-like being, self-worth and our natural alignment with the source of all which exists, universal intelligence or God. Additionally, we must allow our ambitions and expressions its natural freedom as they attempt to assist us in our search for meaning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467007955

Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

Franchot Peter Moore Sr. was born on the island of Trinidad, in the city of San Fernando, on September 25, 1954. He lived his adolescent life in the villages of Penal, Siparia, La Brea, San Fernando, and Diego Martin until the age of fourteen, when he migrated to the United States to join his parents and sisters. Over the past forty-six years, Mr. Moore has used his poetry in his discussions and lectures as a motivational medium and as a contribution to improving the quality of all life. Franchot is a disabled Vietnam-era veteran and feels especially inspired by his past work on behalf of veterans at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in New York City and Florida. He is also a former member of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Florida, and Washington State Boxing Association in the capacity of a professional boxing inspector, referee, and judge. He also takes great pride in his contribution in shaping the lives of young people over the past forty-plus years through his efforts in the USA Boxing Inc. Amateur boxing program as a senior (grandfather III), referee, and judge. Fulfilling a dream of returning to Trinidad to live in 2004, after an absence of thirty-six years, Mr. Moore became involved with the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur boxing program as a senior referee/judge. He was the founder and head coach of the Pleasantville Amateur Boxing (and life skills) Academy and also functioned as the technical officer / bout supervisor of the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control and former president of Friends of Boxing of Trinidad and Tobago. Over the past three years, Franchot fulfilled another lifelong dream of relocating from Trinidad to the Island of Tobago, where he lived for one year in the Village of Plymouth to edit several books he wrote since returning to Trinidad. Franchot returned to the United States in May 2014 and now lives in Miami, Florida, and is also the author of Understanding the Power of the Sub-Conscious Mind, Hypnosis, and other effective Healing Options and A Collection of Metaphysical Experiences. He is a certified clinical hypnotherapist trained by Dr. Gerald Kien of the Omni Hypnosis Institute in De Land, Florida, and feels inspired when utilizing the medium of clinical hypnotherapy in assisting others in bringing about meaningful changes to their health and quality of life.

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THIS COLLECTION IS DEDICATED TO

The memory, spirit and integrity of my Mother

Mavis Judith Moore

And for

My daughters, my son and my grandchildren

All of whom

I adore dearly…

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Reinventing Poetry A collection of Poems by Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

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Contents

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THIS COLLECTION IS DEDICATED TO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

Each Word

Tradewinds Galore

Pan Reach Brooklyn

First Trinidadians

O

Island in the Sun

In Trinidad

The Trail Continues

Images

Images

Ato Ran for You and Me

This Calypso Beat

Trinidad Carnival

Our Son

Caribbean Anthem

The Aged Runner

NEVER GIVE UP

I Ink

The Worm

The Invention of Fire

Chernobyl

Questions after Chernobyl

When Careless Spelled Disaster

His Own Dreams

The Workaholic

Foster Avenue Park

Grandmother

The Butterfly Exposed

A Thank You Note

An Overdue Poem

Children of the Dark

Diminishing Truths

Black Warmth

Environmental Heroes

Notes: To an Anthropologist

A Fanatic

Above and Beyond

The call of Duty

The Burial of

George J. Foose, Jr.

The Vietnam Veteran

148th St. Lennox Avenue

Central Park

Maya Angelou

Cockroaches

The Self Revealed

The Writing of a Beautiful Poem

Sons

An Apology to the Bird

Questioning the Bird

The Wounded Bird

Neville

In Defense of all Poets

Gone for the Summer

The Walls

The New Priests

Our Friend Aloma

The Death of Joe Dowd

A Thank You Note Revisited

Sunday Morning

After the Separation

The Tree

The Planet’s Genocide

Out of the Ashes

Your Very Own Achievement

Dom Basil Matthews

Random Act of Kindness

Notes: Found near a Suicide

Titus A. Gordon

An Old Man and the Sea

America Will Rise Again!

Behind the Mask

All I Am

The Steelpan

Y America

The Coconut Vendor

From the Cell

Compare yourself to Me

Self Therapy

Past Experiences

Conquer Bad Habits

And Overcome Pain

The Power of Forgiveness

The Effects of Guilt

Some Major Fears

of Men

Identification

Organ Language

What If

You reap the seeds

Thoughts are powerful things

Pains

Self Diagnosis

Dreaming

His Own Shell

Visualizing

The Persistence Principle

Your very own Prison

To Myself

A Basic Question

The Boxing Referee

Grounds for Suspension

Kennedy McKinney

Scenes from the Gym

Scenes from the Gym

In the Gym

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

The Reconstruction

Reply to South Afrika

Welcome to Sarajevo

Poem Found on the Remains Of a Slave

War is not the Answer

A Limited

State of Emergency

For the Love

of Mavis

The Man without a Face

The Missing Link

Waiting in the Rain

Dearest Lover

Feelings of Love

Missing You

The Languages of Love

An Office Day

A Midnight Serenade

A Beauty Undeciphered

Reflections

To Live Again

A Lover’s Statement and a Dream

The Beauty of Sally

I Understand

Inventory of Love

Love’s Gratitude

A Reminder

The Impulse

What Are You

Giving Me

Rotten to the Core

Poem on a Lonely Night

Feelings of the Heart

This Declaration

I Love You Dearly

Our Love

Wishing You Were Here

The Echo of Love

Contentment

Rush Hour

You Are

Those Eyes

With You

Untitled #1

My Weary Eyes

To Live and Love Again

Woman

Clandestine Walks

A Biological Love Poem

For All Mothers

Decent Memories

Reflection in the Mirror

The Awakening

We

Visions

Motivations

This Humble Apology

A Parting Question

At the End

Notes of Interest

Re-Acquaintance

Spiritual Melody

Loving You

Trusting Love

My Secret Love

Just a Lily . . .

Just a Lily

Your Many Blessings

My Own Free Will

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Somewhere Behind

the Horizon

The Mental Lockdown

The Workaholic

Aprilla Worthy

The Wedding

A Simple Statement

A Sight to Behold

Does the Pen Know

A Husband Dilemma

I Give Up

That Night of the Storm

IN LOVE

AND LIGHT

An Alternative View

Of the self

A Change of Form

The Point of Death

Enter into the Light

The Light

The I Am Presence

Spoken Words

This Noble Discontent

Just before the Dawn

The Incurable Optimist

The Incurable Pessimist

Focusing

A Basic Question

Notes from the Dream State

Untitled

Non Coincidence

Reincarnation

A new life

To Be

Spiritual Embrace

The Reply

The White Dove

Natural Influences

Invisible Information

Untitled #3

Why We Worry

Forgiving Yourself

Jealousy and Envy

Matter

Relationships

Emotional Detachment

Fear and Worry

Forgive and Forget

Emotional Intensity

Forgiving Myself

and Others

A Suitor’s Lament

The Practice

Meeting your Higher Self

I Am God

Gut Feelings

That Smile

The Failure to Try

Never Give Up

Each Word

. . . "I am—in my own way, more rambunctious and playful . . . I do not put labels on my own theories and I explain—or try to explain, my most profound statements by adding a dash of zest, a smidgen of humor, an egotistical touch of humility.

I consider myself an exuberant psychological explorer; finding myself at my own request happily set adrift amongst universes, able to shout with a loud and hearty voice from the hypothetical shores of one to another, news of what I have found and am still finding . . ."

Seth.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I will be forever grateful to each individual I have ever had the opportunity to see with my physical eyes and to meet both in and out of the flesh. Regardless of the extent of someone’s achievement no individual could truly say that he or she achieved it without the assistance or motivation of one or a group of individuals. Therefore, special thanks are extended to my parents: Beresford and Mavis Moore. My grandparents: John and Nora De Silva, Drucilla Paul and Cyril Moore. My most beloved schoolteacher Mr. Titus A. Gordon who over a period of (35) thirty-five years as a school teacher and in his capacity as principal of San-Fernando Boy’s R.C. School and as an independent tutor nurtured and shaped the minds of generations of young men and women. Enid and Solomon Lewis, Neville Reece, Sandy H. Sevier, Joan Hospedales, Gerald Thorpe, Brian Cox, Charles Charlie Roach, Johnny Garcia, Andrew E. Helenese, Ronald Taitt, Sam Modeste, Anthony Mc Eachnie, Jack Ostling, Sherman Samm, Beatrice M. Alleyne, Carol C. Alleyne, Rommel Monro, Augusta and Eulalie Julian, Stanley Oliver, Lionel Codrington, Mr. Jinks, Narse Low-Hoy, Akim, Iyow, Quiwong and Conghan Low-Hoy, Francis Law-Hue, Patrick Alfred, Yasmin Armstrong, Deborah Cruickshank, Dennis De Silva, Raymond De Silva, Harold Richards, Peter Mitchell, Brian Britto, Stephen Oliver, John and Sahara Noël, Abba Paul, Mother Theresa, Shelley Williams, Errol Stalk St Hill, Habib Tiwoni, Lokenath Bhattacharya, Dave Joachim, Joseph Elroy Fitz-Allan Dopwell, Hanson Malcolm, Jane Roberts, Robert Butts, Quincy Jones, Winston Spree Simon, Eric Roach, Aggri Johnson, Adrian Chandler, Peter Minshall, Larry a.k.a. Leary, Louis Nizer, Gilman T. Figaro, The Lord Kitchener, The Mighty Sparrow, Dr. Carlton Minerva, Dr Walter Merrick, Massie Patterson, Dr. Wayne Kubalsingh, Nigel, Cecilia, Rowena Scott and their parents, Steve Edwards, President Barak and Michelle Obama, Dr. Gerald Clarke, Tommy Joseph, The Mighty Dynamite (Carlyle Alexis) Calypso Rose, The Roaring Lion, The Lord Pretender, The Mighty Chalkdust, The Mighty Duke, The Mighty Stalin, The Might Shadow, David Rudder, Robert Nesta Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Clemmy George, Hazel Scott, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lea Clandenning, Gerald F. Kein (Omni Hypnosis Institute), Leslie M. Le Cron, Derek Walcott, Dr. Maya Angelo, Spike Lee, Nathan Mc Call, Toni Morrison, Dr. Carl Ofari Hutchinson, Dr. Eugene Chen, Rep. Mervyn Dynamally, Kwame Toure, ‘aka’ Stokely Carmichael, Judge Bruce Wight, Ulric Cross, Mark Ratner, Dr. C.L.R. James, Dr. George Padmore, Dr. Sylvester Williams, Dr. Paul Roberson, Muhammad Ali, Rev. Rita Rosalind Pierre, Jocelyn Merle Nicholas, C.J. Ivor Archie, Stephan Biko, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Dom. Basil Matthews, Dr. Rudranath Capildeo and the most Honorable Dr. Eric Eustace Williams.

A particular declaration of love and sincere appreciation is extended to my most beloved friends and former neighbors of the Point Dor housing scheme in La Brea, the Roy Joseph Housing Scheme in San Fernando, the Winnie Mohammed Road community in Diego Martin and the Foster Park Community in Brooklyn, N.Y.

A very special measure of love is always maintained for that still unknown East Indian brother who absorbed all of my unnecessary racial insults yet never responding to me verbally or by way of a facial expression. It was this same individual who then risked his own life to save me from absolute death by drowning some forty-eight years ago. By his actions in the face of my ignorance and racism taught me then to never discriminate or judge another human because of their cultural background, ethnic identity, or beliefs.

-A most loving spiritual embrace to Seth.-

INTRODUCTION

The idea of a collection of poems came to me as a burst of inspiration at quite a young age while seated on the back steps of the old board house my parents rented on San-Fernando Street in the south of Trinidad. This idea became an exclusive aspect of my day to day thinking and mesmerized me right up to the point of my migration to the United States at the age of fourteen. During the first few months in the United States I became exposed to and influenced by a much broader scope of poetry. This influence was primarily by way of a variety of Afrikan-American Poets and writers. As a result of this renewed inspiration I became even more motivated to complete a collection of poems. By the time I was seventeen, a soldier and stationed at Ft Knox, Kentucky during the Viet-Nam era I had completed what I considered a compact and meaningful collection.

At exactly that time my life took on an abrupt and radical philosophical change. As a result I spent the next two years reinvestigating all my personal beliefs and reassessing all of those ideas and concepts which I had come to know and believe so far in my life as the absolute or gospel truth. On account of this change the desire to publish a collection of poems became somewhat relaxed while immersed in the process of eliminating and modifying some of my established views and practices. Those poems which reflected obsolete ideas were removed therefore; my original collection became highly disorganized. During this same period I made a personal resolution to begin a new collection with the original intensity with which I initially began as a youth in Trinidad. This time I