The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly

By Arthur Lee Conway

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly
There is a lot one can learn from the matured butterflies among us. You know the ones who survived the perilous larva stage without being eaten alive and completed the metamorphosis bruised but stronger for the experience. There is profound beauty in the potential wisdom and inspiration available from those matured butterflies willing to share the lessons acquired on their journey. Their observations through the lens of experience and their testament to the survivability of the most harrowing of life’s trials should ensure they are never without an audience.

Arthur Lee Conway is one of those matured butterflies. He offers his poetic observations and parables here in three parts: Rites of Passage, Valley of Passions, and Philosophical Roads. Within these 100+ pages, this Charlottesville native shares his pithy ponderings on a variety of subjects, from the historical to the political, from the far reaches of the heavens to the innermost depths of the human psyche.

Join the author as he shares poignant poetry and prose along with the mesmerizing illustrations of the talented Mr. Hampton R. Olfus, Jr. Read The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly, and you’ll be inspired and invigorated by the experience. Purchase The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly today.

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The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly by Arthur Lee Conway is a collection of poems and short stories exploring a variety of struggles that humans face. The book highlights addiction, police brutality, pedophilia, rape, war, and hunger. The book also focuses on the suffering of the disabled as well as the physical and psychological violence of Hitler’s prisoners in the holocaust as well as how racism and apartheid influence the acquisition of opportunities. What intrigued me about this book was the breadth and depth of the topics covered, as the book also focuses on gambling and its relation to poverty, religious fraud and the political and economic colonization in Africa, Communist Europe, and Latin America and the effects of authoritarian democracies.

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly is a poignant collection of different societies’ strife expressed as relatable poems and short stories. The author clearly shows how violence is meted out on victims by perpetrators. In The Hunt, a man is hurled out of his car and violently battered. The book also delves into war, citing the bombing of the Vietnamese, Communists, and Latin America during their economic exploration by the superpowers. The author also writes of the followers of Moloch slaves to their masters every whim. A taxing religion, he implies, when they have to sacrifice to appease. The book is high in social commentary and will leave readers pondering the sheer diversity of human suffering.

The book left me with a feeling that knowledge is a key component to overcome the array of obstacles facing humanity. The setting of the resurrection of the devoured eagle in Dream II portrays the guarding character of God’s universe.
The poem and story lengths are accessible and are well paced, with a shifting of themes and tones that ensures readers will be engaged, emotionally and intellectually, throughout the book. This is an impassioned book with a potent voice.

Authors Reading

His verses convey feelings that stay with the reader long after the book is read. The emotional resonance is entangled with his weaving of origins of a people cursed today with scars of yesterday

Izabela

The collection is written in free verse with vivid and graphic imagery that will reward perceptive
readers. His original voice will ensure that the reader will keep turning the page anticipating more

Lesley Jones

The words flow off the page with eloquence and articulation

CinWin

I must rate this book 4 out of 4 stars for its originality. It made me see the world in a diffe

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthur Lee Conway
• Release date: Jul 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9780578251936

Arthur Lee Conway

Arthur Lee Conway is a native of Charlottesville, Virginia, and has attended the University of Maryland University College, graduating with an A.A. in Business Administration.He is the author of THE POETIC VIBRATIONS OF A MATURED BUTTERFLY: POEMS AND PARABLES. 2021 Literary Titan Book Gold Award winner for Poetry.

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The Poetic Vibrations of a

Matured Butterfly

Arthur Lee Conway

© 2021 Arthur Lee Conway. 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.

ISBN: 978-0-578-25193-6 (e)

ISBN: 978-0-578-95346-5 (sc)

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Printed in the United States of America

Illustrated by Hampton R. Olfus, Jr.

Dedicated

to my personal butterfly

Ollie Ervis Harris Conway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

RITES OF PASSAGE

VALLEY OF PASSIONS

PHILOSOPHICAL ROADS

Rites of Passage

The Consequences of

a Blackman Bringing Fire

A Blackman was found lying on a Memphis hotel’s balcony, his brains shattered like sand bursting in air, after being tossed from a child’s little hand. Some say he looked like Buddha resting in a grove of sandalwood trees; others claimed that he favored Jesus Christ on Mt. Cavalry, or was it, Lao Tse….

Yet, many people claimed they had never seen nor heard of those mystifying Civilers of centerness before.

Nevertheless, some people said, The Blackman looked like Prometheus, who was bound to the mountainside for stealing Fire and, sharing it with Mankind. And, as Irony would have it, the Vultures of the New World Order plucked at his liver viciously, feeding like a pack of wolves upon a warm lamb’s carcass.

But, the Vulgus never noticed the ravishment of the Blackman, as they continued to travel back and forth… up and down the mountain with torches of Fire; that would flicker out as if they had been doused with water; as the self-appointed Carriers of Fire got closer to the earth’s surface. The Carriers were like Sisyphus, the Stone-pusher of perpetual retrogression.

Though it did not seem to matter, as the Infinite Absolute released another