Insights in California

By Maria Theresa Pantaleon

Insights in California 2003 is the authors way of thinking about the future, recording memories, and coping with the daily stress of adjusting to her new life in America as a newcomer from the Philippines.

Culture shock, social adjustment, widening perspective on different subjects, deepening reflections, heightened faith and convictionsthese are some of the topics in this book of poems. Some of them are addresses to real people whom the author got acquainted with or talked with.

The style is a marriage of free verse and blank verse though sometimes there is still the attempt to construct patterns of rhythm and rhyme and to follow structure and metrical patterns such as in Haikus on November. In general, however, the writer set herself free from the norms of conservative poetry. And she enjoyed the liberating experience as she did in journalism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546223375

Maria Theresa Pantaleon

Maria Theresa Pantaleon is the daughter of Marino Pantaleon, a lawyer, and Natividad Baltazar, a nurse, in the Philippines. Her lawyer father inspired her whenever she would sit at the back of the courtroom hearing him speak of some familiar lines she would relate to some poems she had read. In college, she had the experience of having her poems published in the campus paper where she served as news reporter at first, then as literary and features editor. She finished AB. journalism and took up M.A. in English literature, M.Ed. and Ed.D. major in educational management. She worked as high school journalism teacher and school paper adviser for 22 years and wrote for different publications while teaching journalism and English grammar and literature in different colleges and universities in the Philippines before coming to California. She passed the LongRidge Writers Group writing aptitude test and was published in Todays Famous PoetsOn the Wings of Pegasus, an anthology by the Famous Poets Society of Oregon and also in another anthology by the American Poets Society of Maryland. She served as the editor of Exult Business Journal based in Anaheim, California. She is a Distinguished Member of the International Society of Poets, an Editors Choice Awardee of the International Library of Poetry with her poem published in its book. Colors of Life. She is also published in Our 100 Most Famous PoetsBrief Chroniclers of Our Time, by the Famous Poets Society based in Oregon and the International Whos Who in Poetry by the International Library of Poetry in Maryland. Insights is her first book of poems and its coming out in print is one of her dreams come truea fulfillment of her fathers dream, too. As well as the completion of her late husband Jans graphic work.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/15/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2338-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2337-5 (e)

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Contents

Foreword

#1 How to be Great

#2 Where Does the Time Go?

#3 Point of No Return

#4 What Is Death?

#5 Gardener

#6 Propinquity

#7 Shower

#8 Summer Sun

#9 What You’re Good at

#10 Talent

#11 How Fragile Life Is

#12 Mama’s Boy

#13 Papa’s Girl

#14 Dream, My Dear

#15 Mother and Sons

#16 Human Stream

#17 Slave Driving Master

#18 Questions to Seniors

#19 The Sweetest Things

#20 Save Tomorrow

#21 Life Coming, Life Going

#22 9/11 Remembered

#23 9/11 Aftermath

#24 Three Years after 9/11

#25 The Fortunate Stranger

#26 My Muse and God’s Spirit

#27 De Javu

#28 Constant Change

#29 Resurrection

#30 Paranoid

#31 Love Breaks All Barriers

#32 In Search for Meaning

#33 Education from Above

#34 Passion Poetry

#35 The Child Is Father to Man

#36 In Praise of Music

#37 Hurry Up and Wait

#38 Haikus on November

#39 Composing

#40 Driftwood

#41 Interface

#42 Proems

#43 Glimpses

#44 Soul for Soul

#45 With Pen in Hand

#46 Serendipity

#47 Illusion

#48 Citizens of the World

#49 Paradigm Shift

#50 Words of the Dying

#51 Platonic Lovers

#52 Fair Enough?

#53 Embrace

#54 Sun and Men

#55 Delusion

#56 Celebrate Life

#57 After the Rain

#58 Going to Work on an Early Foggy Day

#59 S A D

#60 Urge Is Gone

#61 Love Birds

#62 Gray Hair

#63 Radiation ???

#64 Seeing a Movie

#65 The Opera

#66 One, though not the Same

#67 Insured in Heaven

#68 From Babylon to Armageddon

#69 Clean Thoughts, Clean Deeds

#70 A g a p e

#71 I Cry No More

#72 Changing Teenager

Foreword

Inspired by the Free Poetry Contest in New Jersey,