Windows of My Mind: Sixty Poetic Expressions

By Christopher H. K. Persaud

The poems in Windows of My Mind: Sixty Poetic Expressions assume styles mainly in free verse and rhyming scheme formats. Further, those that rhyme exhibit a variety of rhyming positions within poems. A few of the poems (i.e., The Tortoise & The Hare, The Old Woman With One Eye, Once In Eden, and Nine Eleven2001) may be termed mini epics with rhyming schemes. A few poems, such as IsraelChosen of God and For My Names Sake are unusual hybrid types, with quotations at the beginning of each verse followed by lines that rhyme.

The poems touch upon a multitude of themes (e.g., various emotional states such as love, hatred, reminiscence, compassion, loneliness, joy, success, and topics such as nature, history, spirituality, marriage, family, oppression, and inequality, among others). The poems are of varying lengths.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 2, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512783452

Christopher H. K. Persaud

WINDOWS OF MY MIND: SIXTY POETIC EXPRESSIONS is Christopher Hugh Kawal Persaud’s first full length book of poetry. The selections contained in WINDOWS OF MY MIND: SIXTY POETIC EXPRESSIONS represent the poet’s work over many years, with some of them dating back to the nineteen seventies when he lived in Guyana (formerly British Guiana) on the coastline of the South American continent. Persaud’s poems encompass a myriad of topics and covers writings about joy, loneliness, tragedy, success, failure, death, life, philosophy, religion, family and eternity, among other themes. Persaud, in addition to being a poet, is a Christian Apologetics writer and has published seven (7) full length books to date. Four of Christopher’s books have won a total of nine international awards. Among the award-winning books are (a) Evolution: Beyond the Realm of Real Science (Xulon Press, USA, 2008, revised 2013); (b) The Da Vinci Code Revisited: A Conclusive Refutation of the Widespread, Sinister Lie (Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2010, revised 2013); Contending for the Faith: Twenty-Two Methodical Arguments for Biblical Truth (Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2014) and Blessings, Miracles & Supernatural Experiences: A Biblical Perspective, A Christian’s Story (Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2015). Vocationally, Christopher is an accounting and financial services professional. He has been engaged in the forgoing fields for over forty years. Christopher lives New Jersey, USA. He is married and with his wife Pamela, has three sons.

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LIST OF POEMS

At Dawn’s Early Light

The River

Little Joy

The Old Man and the Little Boy

The Old Woman with One Eye

Childhood Pleasures

Its Name is Terror

The Soldier

Darkness My Friend

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

They Tell Me

Eyes Of The Beholder

Spent Man of War

The Butterfly

The Storm

Perspective

Come On Down, Jesus

Israel – Chosen of God

The Rose & the Thorn

The Betrayal

John

A Smile

The Baby’s Journey

Forgive Me

The Baby In The Manger

For My Name’s Sake

Two Hearts

Once In Eden

A Caribbean Night

The Beggar

Peace and Love

Say No To Drugs

Past Times

Snowfall

The Tortoise & the Hare

‘Tis a Joy to Behold

Freedom

I Woke Up This Morning and I Thanked God

Left Alone With My Thoughts

Build-Up

Foul Bowman

Count Your Blessings

Ask The Rich Man

The Patter of Little Feet

Simple Things

Life

The Cursed Canal

When Imagination Is Folly

Poor Child

Mother

Slave

Twilight

The Greatest Of All Is Love

Who Is A Martyr?

Death by Murder

My Father

Nine Eleven, 2001

The Love of My Life

Time

Night

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my wife Pamela, in honor of our 40th wedding anniversary – September 4th, 2016. Along with our children, she has been the greatest blessing in my life.

FOREWORD

The sixty poems showcased in Windows of My Mind – Sixty Poetic Expressions represent a kaleidoscopic selection of contemplative thoughts and experiential deliberations, accruing in the main to the multi-faceted, sometimes complex persona of an individual who considers himself a writer, poet, artist, photographer and cruciverbalist. The fact that my vocational pursuits fall within the precincts of accountancy, finance, banking and income taxation, and have had for many years, serves further to engender a bewildering portrait of one given to a multitude of apparently contradicting proclivities.

Some of the poems in Windows of My Mind – Sixty Poetic Expressions were composed as far back as the 1970’s when I lived in Guyana on the South American continent. These early poems capture the roller-coaster experiences of a young man struggling through his formative years in a third world country in an environment that somehow accommodated an assimilation of multiple races, creeds