Poetry of the Mind: Vision of Heart

By Paul Farrugia

Paul Farrugia is experienced information technologist educated in Australia and has come across a kaleidoscope of technologies; some now antiques in the authors own life time. A technology career would seem at first far removed from any works poetry or even a literary career. Yet are not both means of capturing at the very least a message?


Poetry is the time honoured way of capturing vision and the thoughts of mind and heart throughout history. It also has become the authors tool of exploration just as wooden ships were in the past. My unfathomable ocean of discovery is the emotion of heart, love, vision of mind. I search in the mundane drudgery of everyday life, from the highs of loves peaks to desolation of self, in the windswept desert of lioness and everything in between. These are the familiar landscapes we all traverse in life, the very core of who we are inside. In essence this is very meaning of the journey in poetry I have begun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483642871

Paul Farrugia

Paul Farrugia is experienced information technologist educated in Australia and has come across a kaleidoscope of technologies; some now antiques in the author’s own life time. A technology career would seem at first far removed from any works poetry or even a literary career. Yet are not both means of capturing at the very least a message?

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Copyright © 2013 by Paul Farrugia.

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Contents

This Day, this Hour

Heat of Summer’s Day

Mind

Weather of Seasons

My Trees

My MP

Travels

Christmas Misery

Words

Wisdom

Truest Love

Today My Office

Time

The Gaze in Your Eyes

Lady Upon the Mountains

Words of Wonder

Printer

Oh, Poetry

   Pen   

Paper

   Mud    

Memories

Love Never Dies

Love Compass

Words of Sweetest Desire

Choosing Love

Loneliness

Life’s True Cause

Leopards

Journey

Jealousy

Ironing

Hammer

Glum

Fearful

Fear

Dictionary

Destiny

Desires of Love

I Gaze Upon a Smile

Ah, My Joy

Tiredness

Valentine’s Day

Life

Flowers to Speech

Passionate Love

Mystery of Deception

Forgotten

Fashion

Mysterious Woman

Alone

Reading Poetry

Aspirations Lost

Divine Call

Thoughts of the Day

Pain of Gain

Alone in the Day

Hope in the Visible

Good Friday

Separated Love

Love Awaiting

Mother’s Day

Bathurst Snows and Graduation

Modern Love

Happy Birthday

Waves and Tide

Love Bus

Looking for Love

Internet Love

Tongue

Shadows

Hope

Worry

Hands of Time

Internet Mystery

Truest Destiny

Distant Lady

Future Paths

Distant Lover

True Wisdom

Beginings

Life’s Choices

Lady in the Sky

The Chair

Silent Aspirations

Love Chemistry

My Adore

Cold

Experience of Life

Victa Helper

Rains

Solitude of Love

Dreams

Calculus and Calculation

Collage

The Kettle

My Photographer

Prost

My Love

The Joy of You

Thy Desire My Love

The Dwarf

Prayer

The Barber

Couture

Revolving Face

The Stage

Joyous

Lost and Yet Found

Words Two

The Beckoning Call

Wanderer

Velvet Green

Lioness and Hunter

A Tissue Day

Greenery

Harshness

Island in the Forest

The True Lover

Half Century

The Prize

Cyclists

Flab

Pursuits

Qiuet Thoughts

Windows

Summer’s Day

Fearsome Foe

Joyous Chorus

The Call

Nite Nite

Refreshing Rains

Reflections of Desire

Rich in Poverty

Coffee

Mobiles

With the Eyes of Love

The Judge

The Poem

True Love Never Dies

Hidden in Me

Ah, My Love

Leaping Joy

Christmas Tree

Expectations

In Time and Distance

Christmas Ledger

Thine Eyes

The Ring

Breathless

Chapel Bells

Dearest One That I Love

Harbour’s Day

Bones

Thy Voice

Lips of Delight

My Lady of the Plains

Sleeps

Lip of Romance

The Spoilt One

Love’s Inquisition

My Smile

Paths of Love

Love’s Clarity

Spoken Tenderly

Bubbly

What Do I Proclaim

Secret Revelations

Hidden Joy

Slippers

Of You in the Morning

Shaking Earth

The Winds of Change

Of Chosen Paths

Face of Youth

The Wails of Pipes

Ah, Noir Lips

Friendship

Hearts and Hands

The Soil of Love

The Photo

Upon a Cliff

Wedding Dress

Shadows and Dust

Wishing Well Poem

Dream’s Surprise

My Cheeky Pumpkin

Hug Bank

Unquenchable Fire

Torture of the Night

Clouds of Love

Rouge

A Desire of Our Time

My Darling

My Cupcakes

Night Lights

Parcelled Love

Passionate One

Energetic Delight

Silent Nights

Whispers of Innocence

Anzac Day

When I Say I Love You

Brides in Love

Whispering Trees

The Word Love

Shadows of Life

Send and Receive

Coming Home

Directions

Emotions of the Soul

Moving In

Silent Expectations

Smiles and Joy

Sunshine After Rain

Family

This Is Our Day

Winter

Tastes

Thine Beckoning Eyes

Seeds

For a Time

Rose

Shell

Anniversary in Time

Words of Thought

Caliginosity

Love’s Meaning and Destiny

Trail of Trials

Rose Beauty

Futility

Creativity

Outcasts

My Kitchen

Branding

Butterfly of Napean Beauty

For Those in Pain

I Have a Prison

Deep Is the Well

Without Vision in Endless Night

My Teacher

Hope of Dreams

I Am At the Tip

Thy Taste a Bitter Vile

Oh, Brevities of Brevities

Experience Required

Adventure Within

Youth And Beauty Never Fade

Vision of Heart

Right Thinking

A Vrigin’s Love

Boxing Day

Resolutions

Music

Walk Upon the Early Morn

Foreword

Poetry for me started out as an experiment of expression, and publication was the furthest thought on my mind in much the same way as those distant galaxies which astronomers peer at with telescopes in the darkest night, perplexed and elated to unravel a mystery of profundity. In essence, poetry was something to be pondered over, longed for, but never truly reached. Yet this faraway light came closer as I took to keyboard and began to share my typing with close family and friends. Many offered encouragement along this perilous journey and some just suggested that it was a foolhardy venture. Perhaps like any artist one was too self-concerned with what others might think and hid them away from the light of criticisms. Let us keep them safe. But are not gifts to be shared? The very essence my poetry is like effervescent lemonade, it wanted to be tasted, listen to, and not contained. So here we both are ready to begin and to share!

It is my humble hope that whatever you find with each little and sometimes simple verse will illuminate you to search beyond, just as the astronomers do. In this instance to discover perhaps what is in you and to realise that it is not far but already in your heart and mind. May it rekindle the beautiful light within you. At the very least some poems may provide you with enjoyment. In many ways you are peering through my telescope and lenses!

My journey in life has been graciously blessed through silent giving love of others. To the one whom I love the most I thank you for your steadfast loving heart, my dearest Brigitte. To my parents, Charles and Luigina may God bless you for your tireless encouragement through the years of patient love. To the many silent others let us go forth and enjoy each moment, the precious gift of life given to us this day.

PF

This Day, this Hour

I have often sought you,

But never have I captured you!

You have remained aloof, elusive,

Yet my desire for thee,

Has remained unchanged!

Yearning intensity,

Like a flaring pain,

Gnawing, biting, and festering,

What must I do to escape thy lot?

In the midst of this city

So full and fair

With beauty, grace

I am alone

With only my thoughts

None to share.

No prison have I,

Of bars, stone, and steel

Mine is made of loneliness,

Of emptiness and rejection

Of love’s true desire!

Where art thou,

Oh, true friends?

Where have thou gone

What hath I done,

When shall you come?

Am I to be sentenced to,

Solitude and unending pain,

Like the abandoned street dog,

And not to live and be?

Yet much I have to offer thee

Love and person true!

Will you lend your hand to me,

Your heart and your love too?

And though time may pass,

The walls of my prison encompass me,

They grow higher like the incoming tide,

They extinguish all hope and desire.

Yet you who are the source of life,

You who behold all that heavens are,

You bend your ear to this troubled one,

You who listen,

You hold me, yes, you even love me!

Remain with me and forget me not.

For I do not wish to seek the dark abyss!

You bring light, joy, gifts untold!

Awaken me now to life’s true meaning!

Let not this day

This moment,

This hour pass

Oh, blessed Lord

Come, come, come!

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Heat of Summer’s Day

Furnace of the Sun,

You come into my day,

You beat not as drum,

But in the silence of the day.

I see you rise,

At the break of dawn,

Red and gold,

The clouds unfold

They proclaim you, Lord!

No voice or sound is heard,

At the break of day,

But the cry,

Of a newborn swaddling!

Bite you have,

Sharper than any fang,

Upon my brow,

The beads of thy work begin!

You love all equally,

You care not,

Who enters your view,

All feel the power of your radiant gaze!

Yet at thy setting,

As darkness unfolds,