The Joy of Poetry and Short Stories: From Love Poems to Grotesque Demons

By Kenneth R. Taylor Sr.

Author Kenneth R. Taylor Sr. has faced many struggles, both in his current life and in his previous existence lived on a faraway planet. Now he shares reflections upon these battles in the form of poetry and short stories.

In his earthly life, at the age of six, he witnessed the horrific death of his father in a motorcycle accident. He then contracted pharynx polio, which left him unable to speak correctly. Prior to coming to earth, Taylor lived in the system of the star Kolob, past the Andromeda Galaxy. There he was a one-star general in the midst of a civil war. His loyalties were torn, and his hesitation in choosing sides led to his banishment to Earth, where only through dreams and visions is he able to understand his purpose. What’s more, while living an earthly life, he has been burdened with visions of female demons who tortured him and dragged him to the dungeons of hell—introducing him to the unseen world of spiritual warfare. He has turned to God for help, struggling to do right and to find love and affection along the way.

In this collection of prose and verse, one man reflects on his journey through life not just on this planet but also in a distant galaxy and in the realm of the spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781480834866

Kenneth R. Taylor Sr.

Kenneth R. Taylor Sr. was born in Los Angeles, California, and as a child moved to El Paso, Texas with his family. He experienced tragedies at age 6 with witnessing the death of his father and suffering from pharynx polio. He joined the army at seventeen years old. After leaving the army, nine years later, he went to college and earned his AA and AS degrees. He also earned his BA and MA Degrees in Technical Writing. He is now retired from the Gates Rubber Company, Denver, Colorado after 35 years and Frontier Airlines after 14 years, he is now continuing his career in published writing. He now lives with his wife Sasita Jhum Montathong from Thailand in Denver, Colorado at their home.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-3485-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-3487-3 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-3486-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016912272

Archway Publishing rev. date: 06/23/2022

Dedicated to my first wife

Linda White Taylor

Leicester, England

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Ghost, Family, and Love Poems

1. Little Yellow Bird

2. The Spirit Returns

3. Woman Ghost in Pure Black

4. Tractors Are Dangerous

5. A Moment in Time

6. A Future Dream

7. A Call from Paradise

8. Peaceful Valleys

9. A Star of Love

10. Loneliness

Chapter 2 Foreign Love Struggles and Poems of Love

11. Love Has No Foreign Barriers

12. Oh England, My Homeland

13. Across the Ocean

14. Across Those Bridges

15. May You Know

16. Neither Am I

17. I Thank You the Most

18. A True Wife

19. There Are Many

20. Our Youth Is Gone

Chapter 3 The Pain of Lost Love, Brothers, Japan, and a Lonely Girl

21. My Last Request

22. Three Brothers of the World

23. A Cold Graduation

24. Santa’s Bad Day

25. Rainbow across the Pacific

26. Have You Ever Dreamed of Places Far Away?

27. The Girl in the Newspaper

28. Hurt Must Die

29. The Girl I Lost

30. Love Is Only Next Door

Chapter 4 Seeking Love, an Accident, and Love beyond the Universe

31. Girl from a Distance

32. Words of Love

33. My Best French Friend

34. The Girl I Once Loved

35. Aunt Venita

36. The Accident

37. Sound of Music

38. Universal Love

39. Just Lying on a Hill

40. Life Eternal

Chapter 5 Happy Times, One Together, Past Lives, and a Baby Again

41. Thanksgiving Day

42. The Old South

43. Starvation of the Heart

44. We Are One

45. One with Nature

46. Beyond Reality

47. The Fight for Right

48. Time Is Precious

49. Be True to Yourself

50. Mother

Chapter 6 A Plea, Book of Life, an Ancient Calling, Butterfly, and a Colorless Soul

51. A Son’s Plea

52. My Father Beyond

53. A Father’s Plea

54. The Grasp of God

55. The Great Book of Life

56. The Ancient Is Calling

57. Malachi 4:5-6

58. The Butterfly Letter

59. A Shadow of Death

60. The Soul Has No Color

Chapter 7 Africa, Clouds, African Love, Sea, Former Life, and the Red Flags of Armageddon

61. Black Heritage

62. Waiting for You

63. Families Are Forever

64. Hard Times Are upon Me

65. The Loss of African Love

66. The Sea

67. On the Land, on the Sea, and in the Air

68. Military Service

69. The Heavens Above

70. The Battle of Armageddon

Chapter 8 German Pride, Trapdoor, Woman of France, and the Fox

71. Boots Are Clicking, Men Are Dying

72. The New Order

73. The Pride of a German Soldier

74. The Trapdoor from My Past

75. The French Woman from My Past

76. The Fox in the Trap

Chapter 9 Revelations, Weakness of the Body, and Sin

77. A Revelation, January 9, 1984

78. A Rare Revelation through a Friend, January 17, 1984

79. A Revelation Given on June 9, 1986

80. Weakness of the Body

81. A Sinner I Am

Chapter 10 Grotesque Demons, Dark Shadows, Conjugation, and Gehenna

82. Grotesque Forms

83. Visions of Dark Shadows

84. Satanic Conjugation of the Flesh

85. Celestial Conjunction of the Soul

86. The Return of Gehenna

Chapter 11 Effeminate, Death, Reflections, and the Choice

87. The Effeminate Heart

88. An Illusion of Grotesque Love

89. Gallows of Death

90. Reflections of Pain

91. The Choice of My Heart

Chapter 12 At Least One Soul, the Covenant, Dark Glory, Military Obsession, and Mission Revealed

92. Brings at Least One Soul

93. An Official and Binding Covenant

94. Pathway to Dark Glory

95. Predestination, Foreordination, and Reparation

96. Raise Up a Man

97. A Spiritual Statement

98. The Mission Revealed

Chapter 13 Final Testimony and the Four Roads of Life: Celestial, Terrestrial, Telestial, and Perdition

99. The Four Roads of Life

100. Road One: The Glory of the Sun

101. Road Two: Glory of the Moon

102. Road Three: Glory of the Stars

103. Road Four: Kingdom of Perdition

104. Ten Steps to Enlightenment

Epilogue

Appendix A: My Masonic Achievements

Appendix B: Photographs

Appendix C: Documents

About the Author

PREFACE

I started writing poems and stories about my life when I was a young man. My poems are very different from what you may read in other poetry books. In this book, there are many poems and short stories. They are very personal tales about my many loves, my many sufferings as a result of them, and my struggle as a child after having pharynx polio, which made me unable to speak correctly. I was placed in an iron lung for several weeks in order to help me breathe, because I had polio in my throat.

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The iron lung that I was in as a child

And of course my life was affected when I witnessed my father being burned to death in a motorcycle accident before my eyes at the young age of six.

Some of these poems and stories are very unusual and will take you to a place you have never been before. Some poems and writings are very spiritual. My life started long before I came to this earth, from a planet near the system of the Star Kolob, past the Andromeda galaxy, and beyond. On that planet, a civil war broke out. Many of these writings are about my life in that civil war. I was a one-star general, and I was addicted to power. I almost accepted the position of a four-star general in the rebel forces during that civil war, that Lucifer, the Rebel Leader, offered to me, but I hesitated. I finally chose to fight on the side of the monarch.

This displeased the legitimate sovereign king. I was stripped of my rank and reduced to a corporal. I lost my ability to speak and was sent to a faraway planet in another galaxy, called Earth.

I had to overcome the lust for power and all my other weaknesses. My effeminate feelings raped my mind and caused me many guilt feelings. They camouflaged my real life with delusions and the loss of a verifiable reality due to the overbearing memories of my past lives. These poems reveal how I was able to overcome my obsession with the military and my other weaknesses. Most of my life, I lived in a world of illusion, burdened by visions of female demons that tortured me and dragged me to the dungeons of hell. The poems also show how I battled with these spiritual beings my whole life and how I was able to turn to God for help.

These poems will open up your eyes and guide you to the next eternal world. It will give you a better understanding of the unseen world of demons and the coming of a new kingdom upon this earth.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With a thankful heart, I acknowledge my first wife, Linda White Taylor, who is shown in the photograph below at the time I married her in England in 1963. She divorced me in 2005. She died in 2021. She helped me so much in the writings of this book, without even knowing she was doing it. Our marriage lasted forty-two years. During that time, I gave her nothing but heartaches, as she endured what she saw as an illusion life due to a past that was controlling my every action. Most of the poems in this book are about our life together, my struggles with the military, and my weaknesses.

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Linda White Taylor

December 28, 1963

I was sent to this world to overcome my obsession with the military, but my mind was covered with a veil of forgetfulness, so I could not remember my past lives. The evil forces that came from that other world did all they could to make sure I did not overcome any of my weaknesses (Revelation 12:9). They did all they could to drag me to the depths of hell. Only through my dreams and visions was I able to understand my purpose here on earth. The veil was taken from my eyes and my understanding was open. (Doctrine and Covenants 110:1)

I lived through a past life wearing the uniform of a one-star general on another planet, fighting in a civil war there. Because of my hesitation in choosing sides, I was banished to this earth. I was placed in the German army of World War I as a corporal and was killed in the Battle of Verdun. I was returned to my original planet but was sent to earth once again to complete the task I was told to do.

In my true or imaginative world, I put on many uniforms, first of a corporal chief of the French Foreign Legion. I fought with the French army in the civil war in the Republic of Biafra against Nigeria. I was given knighthood in the Knight Templar by the queen of France. I also became a member of the Knight Templar in the Masonic Lodge. I wore the uniform of King Solomon in the Master Mason third degree ceremony.

I also became a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in Louisiana, although I did not believe in slavery. I wore the uniform of the Colorado Army National Guard. I also wore the uniforms of the US Army Corps of Engineers in France and of a scout master in the Boy Scouts of America. I ended up as a petty officer in the US Navy (Seabees) in Vietnam and finally as a sergeant in the Colorado Air National Guard at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado. I put on many uniforms during my life to satisfy my obsession with the military. It was a craving I could not control.

It really wasn’t my fault. I was driven almost to madness by female demons who knew me from my past life. They tortured me day after day for many years within many visions. They worked on my mind even when I was awake. I fell into many temptations because of my desires for the military and my other weaknesses. Only after many years was I able to overcome them all.

The King, who we call God, sent me into this world to overcome this obsession for the military, but I knew I would not be able to do it alone. In his almighty wisdom, he sent to me the only woman who could help me to complete this task. She was a powerful woman, with a determined mind and a strong will to have things done the right way. She was chosen to come to this