The Nature of Life: Volume 2

By J.P. LaRue

This book entitled The Nature of Life is meant to be a sequel to the book A Beautiful Tragedy. The author J.P. LaRue takes the reader on a journey through all the seasons and moods of Mother Nature, with some added life lessons along the way. The Nature of Life describes the exquisite beauty and stark cruelty that is found in all of nature. The poems in this book portray many of the contrast that are found in life and in nature, along with powerful imagery and deep meaning. This book reflects the authors love of the outdoors. The author J.P. LaRue is blind. This book, The Nature of Life along with his other titles, was written entirely by using Morse code. It is a testament to his creativity and to his appreciation of life and nature that inspired this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477257333

J.P. LaRue

J.P. LaRue died at the age of seventeen as the result of a fatal asthma attack. With a second chance at life he would overcome multiple disabilities to become an author, inventor and poet. He grew up in the Lake Country of Northern Minnesota but now resides in Ohio. For more information visit www.virtualmorse.com

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© 2012 J.P. LaRue. 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.

Published by AuthorHouse 9/27/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-5733-3 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-5734-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-5735-7 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012914402

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Contents

Forward

Alaska

Beauty

Black and White

My Minnesota

Black Sun

Blind Man

The River

Bones

Bounty

Cold Outside

Day Dream

Dew Grass

Diamonds

Dog Days

Eagle Eyes

Falling Off

Fire and Ice

Hidden Words

Into the Night

Leaves

Lonesome

Lost Soul

Naked Limbs

No One Hears

Northern Lights

Old Men

Moon Dreams

Once Again

Outside

Petals

Fine Line

Sacred Nights

Sand

Seasons

Secrets

Shadow and Light

Silent

Special Place

Spring Day

Spring Time

Stop

Stories

Seasons of Life

The End of the Road

The Fight

The King…

The Living Rock…

The Race

The White Rose

The Road of Life

The Song of Mother Earth

Thin Air

Water Falls

Today

To See

Twist of Fate

Window

Visions

Voices

White Crow

Without

Woods and Water

Woods

Rocks

Mirrors

The Lake

Never Give Up

Ocean

Stormy

Common Ground

The Old Man

A Walk in the Woods

Island

Castaway

Night and Day

Lay Me Down

The Wings of the Night

God Did

Forward

The Nature of Life is meant to be a sequel to the book A Beautiful Tragedy. The author J.P. LaRue takes the reader on a journey through all the seasons and moods of Mother Nature, with some added life lessons along the way. The poetry in this book reflects the author’s love of the outdoors as he depicts the beauty and cruelty that is inherent in all of nature.

The author opens this book with a passage from the book

Dante’s Inferno

"Midway through the journey of my life I found myself lost in a dark forest, having wandered off the main path. It is hard for me to express in words how savage, rough, and stern this forest was to me. The very thought of it renews my fear. It was so bitter that death could not be worse; but in order to show you the good that I eventually found, I must first tell you of the other things I saw. I cannot remember how I entered the forest; my thoughts were full of other things when I wandered off the path. But then I had