Reinventing Poetry: The Final Edition

By Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

Reinventing Poetry: The Final Edition, a collection of Poems, is designed to inspire the core of personal experience and initiate an inner exploration. My poems speak for the unheard and queries into, suggest alternatives with, and exist with their own creative individuality and magnetism. They explore and attempt to redefine conventionally held concepts and beliefs in light of the species improved and expanded awareness. They also aspire to influence the subconscious mind and conscious-reasoning processes to examine alternative methods of reasoning by utilizing and combining visualization, word association, and ideas from official and unofficial point of views. It also offers suggestions through the medium of poetry for achieving personal growth and transformation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524501952

Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

Franchot Peter Moore Sr. was born on the island of Trinidad, in the city of San Fernando, on September 25, 1954. He lived his adolescent life in the villages of Penal, Siparia, La Brea, San Fernando, and Diego Martin until the age of fourteen, when he migrated to the United States to join his parents and sisters. Over the past forty-six years, Mr. Moore has used his poetry in his discussions and lectures as a motivational medium and as a contribution to improving the quality of all life. Franchot is a disabled Vietnam-era veteran and feels especially inspired by his past work on behalf of veterans at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in New York City and Florida. He is also a former member of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Florida, and Washington State Boxing Association in the capacity of a professional boxing inspector, referee, and judge. He also takes great pride in his contribution in shaping the lives of young people over the past forty-plus years through his efforts in the USA Boxing Inc. Amateur boxing program as a senior (grandfather III), referee, and judge. Fulfilling a dream of returning to Trinidad to live in 2004, after an absence of thirty-six years, Mr. Moore became involved with the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur boxing program as a senior referee/judge. He was the founder and head coach of the Pleasantville Amateur Boxing (and life skills) Academy and also functioned as the technical officer / bout supervisor of the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control and former president of Friends of Boxing of Trinidad and Tobago. Over the past three years, Franchot fulfilled another lifelong dream of relocating from Trinidad to the Island of Tobago, where he lived for one year in the Village of Plymouth to edit several books he wrote since returning to Trinidad. Franchot returned to the United States in May 2014 and now lives in Miami, Florida, and is also the author of Understanding the Power of the Sub-Conscious Mind, Hypnosis, and other effective Healing Options and A Collection of Metaphysical Experiences. He is a certified clinical hypnotherapist trained by Dr. Gerald Kien of the Omni Hypnosis Institute in De Land, Florida, and feels inspired when utilizing the medium of clinical hypnotherapy in assisting others in bringing about meaningful changes to their health and quality of life.

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CONTENTS

-Saluting the Steelpan-

-THE TENOR PAN-

-THE "G-PAN"-

This Collection is dedicated to:

Seth Quotation

READING THIS BOOK OF POETRY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

FOREWORD

Each Word

IN LOVE AND LIGHT

(Metaphysical Poems)

PROSPECTUS

Never Give Up

The Failure to Try

Never Let Go

The Incurable Optimist

The Incurable Pessimist

An Alternative View of the Self

A Change of Form

The Point of Death

Enter Into the Light

The Light

The I Am Presence

Spoken Words

This Noble Discontent

Just Before the Dawn

Focusing

A Basic Question

I Am in Church

I Dodge Between the Lines

Untitled #1

Non-Coincidence

Reincarnation

Reincarnation

A New life

To Be

Spiritual Embrace

The Reply

The White Dove

Natural Influences

Invisible Information

Untitled #2

Why We Worry

Forgiving Others

Jealousy and Envy

Matter

Empower Me

Emotional Detachment

Fear and Worry

Forgive and Release

The Universe Loves Me

Emotional Intensity

Forgiving Myself and Others

A Suitor’s Lament

The Practice

Meeting Your Higher Self

I Am God

Gut Feelings

That Smile

Karma

Meditate Each and Every Day

A Moment of Silence

Accepting your own Imperfections

Losing yourself in the Wave

Devoid of Light

HYPNOTHERAPY RELATED POEMS

Prospectus

(Understanding the Power and Functions of the Sub-Conscious Mind)

Self-Therapy

Past Experiences

Conquer Bad Habits and Overcome Pain

The Power of Forgiveness

The Effects of Guilt

Some Major Fears of Men

Identification

Organ Language

Stuttering, Asthma or Allergies

What If

You Reap the Seeds

Thoughts are Powerful Things

Pains

Self-Diagnosis

Dreaming

His Own Shell

Visualizing

The Persistent Principle

Your Very Own Prison

To Myself

A Basic Question

Zero Balancing

My Prescription For Daily Living

Not to Lose Control at Any Time

What You Think

To Be Naturally Happy

NEVER GIVE UP

(Universal Poems)

Prospectus

The Tears of a Clown

I Ink

The Worm

The Invention of Fire

Chernobyl

Questions After Chernobyl

When Careless Spelled Disaster

His Own Dreams

The Workaholic

Foster Avenue Park

Grandmother

The Butterfly Exposed

A Thank You Note

An Overdue Poem

The Love of My Father

Children of the Dark

Diminishing Truths

Black Warmth

Environmental Heroes

Notes: To an Anthropologist

A Fanatic

148th St. Lennox Avenue

Central Park

Maya Angelou

Larry Moore

The German Cockroach

The Self Revealed

The Writing of a Beautiful Poem

Sons

An Apology to the Bird

Questioning the Bird

The Wounded Bird

Neville

In Defense of all Poets

The Strife of Tongues

Man’s Restlessness

Gone for the Summer

The Walls

The New Priests

Our Friend Aloma

A Thank You Note Revisited

Sunday Morning

Her Loving Father

The Tree

I Understand

The Planet’s Genocide

Out of the Ashes

Marcelina The True Queen of Costa Rica

Divorce When Love Turns Sour

The Training

Authority Versus Power

At the Burial of my Father

A Class Prayer

A Mother

A Father

Senior Citizens

Your Very Own Achievement

Your Uncle Franchot!

Therapy for the Soul

Words

Sounds

I LOVE MY NEIGHBOURS!

Dom Basil Matthews

9/11 Ten Years Later

Random Act of Kindness

Notes: Found near a Suicide

Losing the Battle but Winning the War

I Don’t Know

I Am Sorry

Please and…Thank You

Do Unto Others as You Wish Them To Do Unto You

How to Keep a Secret

Admit Your Past Mistakes

Say Not What You Think

Criticize Gently Praise Often

All of What You Hear

Expressions of Humanity

Your Free Time

My True Friends

Be Honest Earn People’s Respect

To Breathe Even Better

So Very Personally

Impeccable With my Words

Just Do Your Best

Return on My Investments

Rushing into Reality

The Sleeping Bag and Blanket You Gave Me

Random School Assassinations’

Brothers in Spirit Not by Blood

Wear Dem Pants My Lady Wear dem for Me!

The Spirit of Maluwa

The Promise Land

FOR THE LOVE OF MAVIS

(Love Poems)

Prospectus

The Man Without a Face

The Missing Link

Waiting in the Rain

Dearest Lover

Feelings of Love

Missing You

The Effects of Words

Understanding the Languages of Love

Riveting Raindrops

Her Office Day

A Midnight Serenade

A Beauty Undeciphered

Reflections

To Live Again

Between Fantasy and Reality

The Beauty of Sally

Inventory of Love

Love’s Gratitude

A Reminder

Life Perfect Sounds

Never Ending Quality

What Are You Giving Me

Rotten To the Core

Will you Marry Me?

Feelings of the Heart

This Declaration

I Love You Dearly

Our Love

Wishing You Were Here

The Echo of Love

Our True Destiny

Contentment

My Very Best Friend

Never Ending Quality

Rush Hour

You Are

Can’t Keep My Eyes off You

Those Eyes

With You

Untitled #2

My Weary Eyes

To Live And Love Again

Woman

Clandestine Walks

A Biological Love Poem

For All Mothers

Decent Memories

Reflection in the Mirror

The Awakening

We

Carol Claire Alleyne

Visions

Motivations

This Humble Apology

A Parting Question

At the End

You Make Me Live

Re-Acquaintance

Spiritual Melody

Loving You

Trusting Love

My Secret Love

Just a Lily Just a Lily

Your Many Blessings

My Own Free Will

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Somewhere Behind the Horizon

The Mental Lockdown

The Workaholic

Aprilla Worthy

The Wedding

A Simple Statement

A Sight to Behold

Does the Pen Know

A Good Pen

You Let Me Down

A Husband‘s Dilemma

I Give Up

That Night of the Storm

Promise Me

When Loneliness Sets In

My Beloved Idol

You Opened the Door

Romance in the Tomato Garden

Sophia’s Backside

Nocturnal Walks

You Never Reciprocate

Who shall be The One?

My Search Is O’er

In the Other

Tired of Being lonely

Hold Me Close

Hour after Hour

Are You Really Her

The Love of Celestine

In My Sight

You Inspire Me So

This Passion Fruit

Goodbye! And Goodluck!

My Sister’s Wedding

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

(Revolutionary Poems)

PROSPECTUS

The Reconstruction

Reply to South Afrika

Nelson Mandela

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Welcome to Sarajevo

Poem Found on the Remains of a Slave

War is not the Answer

A Limited State of Emergency

Jack Must Go, Jack Must Go

Red White and Black

Shackles off the Afrikan Mind

The Refugee’s Voice

The Cry of Haiti

VETERAN’S RELATED POEMS

(Victims of Political Decisions)

Prospectus

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

The Burial of George J. Foose, Jr.

The Veteran

The Vietnam Veteran

The Paralyzed Veteran

The Homeless Veteran

The Disabled Veteran

The Widowed Veteran

The Mother of the Veteran Killed in Action

The Father of the Veteran Killed in Action

The Children of the Veteran Killed in Action

The Death of Joe Dowd

Could You Write a Poem About That!?

Audie Murphy The Ultimate Veteran

BOXING RELATED POEMS

(An Exercise of Free Will)

PROSPECTUS

The Boxing Referee

Grounds for Suspension

Kennedy McKinney

Scenes from the Gym

Scenes from the Gym

In the Gym

TRADEWINDS GALORE

(Caribbean Poems)

Prospectus

Pan Reach Brooklyn

Steelpan Practice

First Trinidadians

O

Island in the Sun

In Trinidad

The Trail Continues

Images

Images

Ato Ran for You and Me

Keshorn’s Olympic Gold

The Temple in the Sea

The Sacred Gates of Waterloo

Visions from the Cane Fields

This Calypso Beat

Trinidad Carnival

The Last Ripe Mango

Caribbean Anthem

Tobago

St Vincent & the Grenadines

Grenada

My Darling St Lucia

Jamaica

The Rock We call Guyana

The Island of Barbados

Nicaragua

You de dae De dae

The Obeah Man

Dane Gulston

Adrian Chandler

Our Son

The Aged Runner

Tobago Exploration

Flights of Three

The Dive of the Pelican

A Tobago Sundown

The Soul of Me

Brian Lara

This Magnificent View

Is Trinidad Sinking?

Observe the Sunset and Sundown At Least Once or Twice a Week

The Elders of Woodbrook

Look She Man Commin Again

A Lime and a Pommecythere

Mr. Elder’s Hands

My Death Certainly was not in Vain

Still Anticipating Your Passionate Commentary

Bites of the Caribbean

Hurting for Haiti Once Again

I Wish I Had A Friend Like Me!

Each Word

REINVENTING

POETRY

(Final Edition)

-SALUTING THE PANNIST-

A

Collection

Of

Poems

By:

Franchot Peter Moore Sr.

© Copyright, 2015

ALL RIGHS RESERVED

-THE TENOR PAN-

Arranged in the cycle of fourth’s and Fifth’s

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T he Steel Pan is the only musical instrument invented in the 20 th century and the most recent edition to the category of musical instruments. In its most basic form these instruments are typically made without the use of any conventional scientific instruments or technology.

-THE G-PAN-

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T he G-Pan is the highest evolution in the category of Steelpan musical instruments. It is also the first scientifically actualized Steelpan Instrument and was developed at the University of the West Indies by Professor Albert Mackey in 2010.

THIS COLLECTION IS DEDICATED TO:

The memory, spirit and integrity of my Mother,

Mavis Judith Moore

And for the wisdom and ignorance of my beloved Father

Beresford Moore…

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(04/13/1935-08/06/2006)

"Franchot!

Always Let Your Yes, Mean Yes!

And Your No Mean No!"

Mavis Judith Moore

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A grateful acknowledgement is made to Prentice Hall for permission to quote Seth from: The Individuals and the Nature of Mass Events

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Permission is hereby granted by the author of this book for the duplication and dissemination or quotation of any poem which the owner of this book may determine to be for the greater good of themselves or others. Permission is denied for the reproduction of any aspect of this book designed to generate revenue for any program or individual.

The Author welcomes any comments or suggestions

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: Reinventingpoetry925.com

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Cover design: Caribbean Tranquility

Tony Ryals

Jacket Illustration by: Tony Ryals

(See inside back flap)

Artwork

Dione Christopher

Nazim Jazz Aziz

Darryl Carter

Eddie Brown

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READING THIS BOOK OF POETRY

When we think of someone reading a good book of poetry it conjures up images of the individual sitting in a reclined chair, maybe a smoothie at the side, resting under a coconut tree on a beach on some tropical island. You may find yourself in the corner of a public library, under the covering of a bus stop shed, the upper pool side deck of a cruise ship, seated on a train crunched between two individual’s whom you mentally accuse of reading over your shoulders, in a classroom, in a hospital bed or in a prison cell. My personal perspective suggests that in whatever environment you presently find yourself, cuddled with a copy of Reinventing Poetry, the emotional exercise of reading my poems could serve as; an aid for pleasure, an understanding of alternative principles, a medium of enlightenment or as a tool to be used for the healing of hurt souls.

Poetry has historically been a sort of complicated subject whether it is read aloud, associated with music or used as a religious recital. All songs begin as a poem and to some people that form of expression of poetry suits them just fine and is more palatable to them. There are others who appreciate poetry speaking to them from a typewritten page and there are some who appreciate it best as an audio presentation. In whatever format you are currently inclined to appreciate poetry this book will serve your purpose and meet your most basic expectations.

Poetry is the refined, radical and unpretentious use of words in whatever language it is presented. The words of the poet are normally used with an unrestricted license and tend to cut deeper than the normal words used in the same context. A much greater appreciation of this book will come when the reader decides where each poem belongs within their own mental framework, emotional reference and personal experience. Having done that, I give you permission to claim ownership of the poem and extract the inherent healing properties from within that particular poem.

No one poem in my book could be edited or refitted to fit the perception of what an individual may perceive to be a most fitting ending or a better word, verb, adverb or pronoun. The end product of these poems is final in its own essence as are the works of all other poets. As artists,’ we gain our independence this way! The poet’s ability to form or create lifelike mental images and engage the imagination of the reader, listener or observer has always been a major inspiration to me since beginning writing poetry at the age of four.

In reading this book of poetry, I also take you upon a personal tour through a part of my own emotional experience and personal philosophy which I have used to overcome all my personal challenges. Within the context of my words; you may sometimes feel my hurt, rejection, feelings of abandonment, deceit, betrayal and disappointment but you will always detect a trail of forgiveness, regeneration, illumination and healing. In sharing my experiences offered to you through the medium of my words. I bid you an enjoyable reading journey and an emotional and inspiring experience of self-realization and transformation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(The people whose names are mentioned below are those whose life works, world view

and positions taken have touched my life and inspired me in some special way)

I Will be forever grateful to each individual I have ever had the opportunity to see with my physical eyes and to meet both in and out of the flesh. Regardless of the extent of someone’s achievement no individual could truly say that he or she achieved it without the assistance or motivation of one or a group of individuals. Therefore, special thanks are extended to my parents: Beresford and Mavis Moore. My grandparents: John and Nora De Silva, Drucilla Paul and Cyril Moore. My most beloved Schoolteacher Mr. Titus A. Gordon who over a period of (35) thirty-five years as an educator and in his capacity as principal of San-Fernando Boy’s R.C. School nurtured and shaped the minds of generations of young men and women, including my own.

Enid and Solomon Lewis, Neville Reece, Sidney Poitier, Sandy H. Sevier, Adrian Chandler, IanTropitoneGilchrist, Ecliff Randy Greenidge, Habib Tiwoni, Emelda Tantie Patrick, Steve Edwards, Joan Hospedales, Gerald Thorpe, Brian Cox, Jim Herren, Arden O’Garro, Ronald Lamy, Harry Belafonte, John and Sahara Noël, Theophilus Stroddy Figaro, Wendy Figaro, Gilman T. Figaro, Charles Charlie Roach, Emile Griffith, Bernie Griffith, Gil Clancy, Vincent Killer Hadaway, Johnny Garcia, Andrew E. Helenese, Ronald Taitt, Sam Modeste, Anthony Mc. Eachnie, Dr. Jack Ostling, Sherman Samm, Beatrice M. Alleyne, Carol C. Alleyne, Grace Alleyne-Russell, Thora Alleyne-Cooke, Colin Mauger, Michael Amora, Jeanette Auguste, Rawle Gordon, Walter Peters, Marcelina Cummings, Rommel Monro, Augusta and Eulalie Julian, Stanley Oliver, Lionel Codrington, Mr. Jinks, Narse Low-Hoy, Akim, Iyow, Quiwong, Conghan Low-Hoy, Francis Law-Hue, Patrick Alfred, Yasmin Armstrong, Deborah Cruickshank, Dennis De Silva, Raymond De Silva, Jammal Shabazz, Harold Richards, Peter Mitchell, Brian Britto, Noland Daniel, Stephen Oliver, Willan Douglas, Michael Pierre, Shelton Williams, Steve Kinsale, Danny Harrison, Crow, Hawk, Keith Davis, Curtis Melton, James Yoh, Roger Walters, David Singh, Henry La Foucade, Patrick Julien, Roger Walters, Anslem Walters, Anthony Walters, Angela Bassett. Prince Rogers Nelson, Carlton Zanda Alexander, Donrick Funny Williamson, Coach August Cha-Cha Wooter, Jan Steadman, Abba Paul, Mother Theresa, Shelley Williams, Holly&Jenny Errol Stalk St Hill, Lokenath Bhattacharya, Tom Hanks, Dave Joachim, Wayne Joachim, Vernon Joachim, Joseph Elroy Fitz-Allan Dopwell, Hanson Malcolm, Terry De Fretis, Jane Roberts, Robert Butts, Joseph Joe Farrell, Anim Allette, Cornell Jones, Hazel Burgan, Louie Boph Johnson, Ron Bon Jovi, Quincy Jones, Winston Spree Simon, Eric Roach, Aggri Johnson, Lori Johnson-Brown, Stephen Spielberg, Angelo Bissessarsingh, Peter Minshall, Brian Mc. Farlane, Larry a.k.a.Leary, Louis Nizer, The Lord Kitchener, The Mighty Sparrow, Lionel Belasco, Dr. Carlton Minerva, Dr. Walter Merrick, Dr. Gerald Clark, Massie Patterson, Hazel Scott, Dr. Wayne Kubalsingh, Billy Reece, Nigel/Cecilia/ Rowena Scott and their Parents, Tommy Joseph, The Mighty Dynamite (Carlyle Alexis) Calypso Rose, The Roaring Lion, The Lord Pretender, The Mighty Chalkdust, The Mighty Duke, Black Stalin, The Mighty Shadow, David Rudder, Robert Nesta Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Clemmy George, Leah Colette Clandening, Cecile Chase, Gerald F. Kein (Omni Hypnosis Institute), Robert (Bob) Brenner, Leslie M. Le Cron, Dave Elman, Dr. Bruce Goldberg, Milton Erickson, Noble Khan. Sandra Honore, Dianne Mahabir, Chanka Maraj, Tracey Chapman, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, Gene Fullmer, Jimmy Carter, Roslyn Carter, William Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Eveline Kopachkov, Paula Nicholson, April Castellano, Jessica Phillips, Geoffrey Holder, Boscoe Holder, Aaron Swartz, Beetan Sudubar, Viola Liuzzo, C.T. Vivian, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Julian Bond, Lt. Joe Kenda, Andrew Young, Dianne Nash, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Paul C. Brennon, Robin Roberts, Gwen Ifill, Cicely Tyson, Dianne Carroll, Barbra Walters, Ed Gordon, Travis Smiley, Rachel Maddox, Ellen DeGeneres, Tamron Hall, Don Lemon, Lisa Joyner, Aphrodite Jones, Paula Zahn, Joy-Ann Reid, Wendy Williams, Queen Latifa, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, The Wayans Family, Tyler Perry, Shemar Moore, Will Smith. Lennard Kenny Joseph. Chris Rock. Wendell Jacobs, Steven Williams, Alfred Hitchcock, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Glyn Thurman, Jackie Taylor, Eric Monte, Sundar Popo, Morgan Freeman, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Jordon, Diana Ross, Condolezza Rice, Ava De Vernay, Joel Osteen, Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Stone, Shelia Jackson-Lee, Clive Davis, Pearl Harris, Charles Bronson, Shirley Temple-Black, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Phyllis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Georgina Douglas Johnson, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Lucille Clinton, Angelina Weld-Grimka, Samuel King, Johnny Crawford, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes. David Susskind, Merv Griffin, Flip Wilson, Hollis John, Aaron Duncan, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, Derek Walcott, Ophelia Egypt, Rea Dragonea, Dr. Maya Angelo, Debbie Allen, Medga Evers, Merlie Evers, Rosa Parks, Spike Lee, Nathan Mc. Call, Toni Morrison, President Barak and Michelle Obama, V.P. Joseph R. Biden, W.E.B. Dubois, E. Franklin Fraser, Dr. Carl Ofari Hutchinson, Dr. Eugene Chen, Les Brown, Laura Postell, Brian Aguelleria, Rep. Mervyn Dynamally, Kwame Toure, ‘aka’