Ignite the Sun

By Dr. Charles B. Cooper III

The Journey Home series concludes is the masterful book "Ignite the Sun". The entire journey has been one of discovering not just who this author is, but also who he should be. The Truth he has stumbled on and so carefully put down on paper should give us all cause to reflect on our own lives and become better people.

During this book, the poet reflects on his time working for a government agency in Washington DC, What life is like inside the city, The comedic poems offering relationship advice to the next generation. He then takes on his characteristic reflective tones considering artwork, feelings, and emotions.

The title poem of the book, "Ignite the Sun" is one for the ages, grabbing the reader by the mind, pulling her through life, and ending with the simple expression, "I Love You."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9780359292035

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Ignite the Sun

Ignite the Sun

By Dr. Charles B. Cooper III

Ignite the Sun

By Dr Charles B Cooper III

Electronic Edition

Catalog in publication data is on file with the Library of Congress.

Copyright © 2018 by Charles Cooper All rights reserved. 

Printed in the United States of America. 

Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form, or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author or the publisher. 

Author: Dr Charles B Cooper III

Editor: Stella Samuel

ISBN: 978-0-359-29203-5

Poetry

This book is dedicated to

Ray Hyde,

a man to whose character and stature, I aspire.

The Song of Ray

Ray was strong,

A man of metal,

A steel man from the iron age of America.

He braced himself against

The silent waves of rejection…

To do more.

A man’s man, there was nothing he had,

Which he had not earned…

Three times over.

In one of his tales, he would regale his friends

With stories of loves lost

And the fortunes which went with them.

His third wife,

He described one time,

As the triumph of hope over experience.

For twenty plus years they loved each other

Held each other in the throes of life

And the pain of the lost child.

With Margaret,

Ray went from Sailor to Farmer.

He worked just as hard

As a man who never knew anything else…

Farming was his second job.

He understood the world

Like a data processing wizard

From Silicon Valley,

Went home at night,

Rose each day

And worked the in-between:

Maintaining an estate,

Running a farm,

And building space craft…

In every world that Ray lived.

He did his best

To provide

The horsepower and intellectual leadership

To those who earned his attention.

In every world that Ray lived,

Those who knew him respected

His thoughts but more so,

His investment

In achieving the goals

We all shared.

I knew Ray a short time,

But how can a person

not gain your respect

When his only thought

After his part was done,

Was: what else can I do?

How do you not love a person

Who shares your goals

And drive and works

Harder than any man

Before or since?

I miss you Ray.

I still want to know,

Is there one more thing I can do?

What else can I do, Ray?

What else can I do?

The Mobile Phone Poems

Relationship Advice for Millennials

Roaming Charges

Phones are growing larger.

Plans are being simplified.

Bills will be sent monthly

Via email, paid electronically

For a single fee, a lot…

Plus tax…

And fees…

Roaming charges…

are the provider’s path to apologizing

for poor coverage.

People talk all the time

I remember planning conversations,

Imagining what would be said.

If I said this,

The other soul would say that

And round and round it would go.

Now, all the conversations are had…

Anywhere, anytime…

But in some spots, there is a fine,

A roaming charge.

"A conversation with your wife and lover

Should never take place in the same bathroom stall

At the same time." 

This is a very Italian form of phone etiquette. 

I’m old school, however,

I hang up after the first flush

No matter who it is.

I have no desire to hear people

Defecate, urinate… or flush it all away.

This is also why I don’t watch politics anymore.

Women are From Apple, Men are From Samsung

It takes a lady to bite the Apple.

It takes a man to configure the galaxy.

I really shouldn’t have to explain this, But I will…

The Apple, the iPhone of Eden.

The GUI hides everything we see.

The code behind the machinations,

All the testing, the brutality of GUI, gooey, sticky…

Is all filtered away by such precise control

And pretty packing.

Behold the flat white Pandora’s box

Like temptation itself,

Like the Apple in Eden,

Once tasted, there’s no way back.

Samsung S8, S9… S infinity…

Google is a really big number

But not so big when compared

with the egos of its creators.

Perhaps, this explains the complexity of android.

A user… can set… literally, every…

Variable in this system…

Before it can be used.

iPhones were made

for ladies who like things, which work.

S-infinity was made for men,

Who want power and control.

In this post-modern internet age,

Every account you own,

Can have its own gender,

Who