The Princess, the Process, the Peace, and Other Musings

By Robert Vincent Mallouk

This book is a collection of poems concerning inspiration from women of the authors adoration, political issues that demand commentary, airs of personal reflection, and honest regards of figures that have passed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490739694

Robert Vincent Mallouk

Robert Vincent Mallouk, forty-eight, is the thirty-one-year survivor of a head injury from a severe car accident from which he weathered a six-week coma. While pursuing aggressive physical and occupational therapy, he completed high school and college. He has been an accomplished volunteer serving in multiple capacities for such organizations as A. I. DuPont Children’s Hospital, Delaware Association for Adult and Community Education, and the United Way of Delaware.

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Contents

Selections from Volume I

Princess, Prayer, Process, & Pall

(1989 – 2010)

Adoration

1.     Princess

2.     For Joy

3.     Awaiting her Entrance

4.     Spellbound

5.     An Invitation

6.     Requesting a Blessing

7.     The Lure

8.     Ms Marks – the Muse

9.     Weathering Stormy

Reflections

10.   The Mirror

11.   Escape

12.   Praying for Answers

13.   Worlds of Truth

14.   Wisdom’s Crime

15.   The Moral Pass

16.   Peaces of the Page

17.   Mercy the Fouled

18.   Required to Learn

19.   Nowhere to Mourn

Politics

20.   Camping

21.   72 Years

22.   Flag Flying

23.   Clad in Faith

24.   Cost of Process

25.   Modern Mesopotamia

26.   Open Season

27.   The Clumsy Crusade

28.   Celebrated Fears

29.   War on Dissent

30.   Mercenary Justice

Respects

31.   Dining Prayer

32.   Zack’s World

33.   The Price of Troy

34.   Her Sin

35.   Pay Homage

36.   The Actor

37.   The Burmese Gem

38.   Silencing the Voice

Selections from Volume II

Beloved, Bestowed, Betrayed, & Begrudged

(2010 – 2012)

Beloved

39.   Her Heights

40.   The River’s Blessed Path

41.   The Shield

42.   Replaced with Roses

43.   My Mind’s Dare

44.   The Flower

45.   The Aim to Ease

46.   Chrissy’s Dreams

47.   The Harvest

48.   To Chase a Prayer

49.   Her Shadow’s Voice

50.   Epic Beauty

51.   Carry Me

Bestowed

52.   Kingdoms

53.   Clients of Disaster

54.   A Shared Service

55.   Breathing Space

56.   Command Party

57.   The Weapon

58.   Aside

59.   The Square

60.   The Season

61.   By Another Name

62.   In Excess

63.   Lines

64.   Generations

65.   Occupied

66.   From One Seat

67.   Seasons Now

68.   The Wise Ones

Betrayed

69.   Prophet or Player

70.   War on Her

71.   Christina Taylor Green

72.   Homeless Heroes

73.   Burning to Be

74.   The Ramble Goes

Begrudged

75.   Layered Lies

76.   Shelter Me

77.   Coddled Children

78.   Corrupting Kids

79.   Where Credit’s Due

80.   Piety

81.   Modern Man

82.   Eyes of the Game

Selections from Volume III

Regard, Remand, Reflection, & Respect

(2012 – 2013)

Regard

83.   Robbery

84.   The Start

85.   Gravity

86.   The Staggering Sight

87.   The Stunning View

88.   Dagmar’s True Reason

Remand

89.   Malala’s Message

90.   Lessons to Leaders

91.   Cat Claws

92.   The Path of Martyrs

93.   Answer Us This

94.   Asking to Absolve

95.   The Piece

96.   Center Stage

97.   See the Show

98.   Feeding the Fire

99.   Free Folly

100.The Bay

101.The Child’s Cost

102.Cowboys and Indians

103.Closed for Business

104.The Order

105.Fears from Above

106.The Truce

107.Claim the Cries

108.New Righteous Anarchy

109.Whose Realm?

Reflection

110.When Liberty looked away

111.The Choir

112.The Season’s Call

113.In School Today

114.Tears of the Sage

115.The Gate

116.The Dark Drama

117.Shining Shadows

118.Obedience School

119.Once and Again

120.Walled in World

121.Learn to Please

Respect

122.His Highness

123.Lie Strong

124.Robert Salim Mallouk

The Princess, the Process, the Peace, and Other Musings is an assortment of perspectives and opinions from a curious observer perched in Pennsylvania during the past 25 years to offer them to the public sphere.

These verses generally pertain to topics concerning the adoration of various captivating women, issues of political concern, personal reflection and reflective honor of individuals of interest. Such works regard issues and impressions that I believe demand creative concerns and respects.

I have written poetry most of my conscious life, but my output has demonstratively increased since my automobile accident from which I suffered a head injury that held me comatose for six weeks. The experience opened me to a dramatically altered view of life as and its liberties.

Dedicated to Mother Dear

Eileen Campbell Mallouk

Adoration

Princess

Her soul shines amidst the dark tone

Of her raven locks and deep eyes

To cast a pure and complete warmth,

Which might draw a man from desperate cries

To a world of new heights and hopes,

An air this boy has never known

Since he fell and has had to cope

With the twisted time he has spent alone.

Aye – a true vision to value

While most senses here are so subdued,

Her face had me heed all those thoughts

I had formerly feared and fought

So honest

Was I too bold to know to stop,

Or did I try to feel too much,

So sensitive

For I was told she reigned atop

As a Princess always to adore.

She’s called the Princess in her palace –

Duly so for her fine form soars

Through the minds of men whom be lured

To see the wonder of what she is.

The smile by which I was so graced

Helped me from my quite forlorn place

And altered the sense that chose the way

I led to bring me to this stage,

Which does little to soothe the rage,

That stems from my well guarded stay,

Despite the madness I’ve been told,

Donna gave me a sense so lovely to hold.

RVM      (7/21/89)

For Joy

I see the sea serve its role

What tide it takes

The waves will exchange so whole

What will it wakes,

But her sight and sound befall

What urges one speaks

Of man that cares just to call

What his heart seeks

Joy

I hear the waves crash the shore

To wash the sand

Of past and poor thoughts or lore

To let me stand

How she had approached and passed

To have me host

Great realms of regret amassed

To rue me most

Extending to touch the thought

Would levy cost,

Admitting the failure fought

Would embrace loss,