Aeternum Vale: Poetic Fantasy

By James Hicks

Ethereal beings, angels, fairies, non human creatures winged feathered and free...

Aeternum Vale is a mystical collection of poems and short stories.

The book is not afraid to envision the most far reaching of definitions and imagery that words can possibly achieve and reach. Bold and daring metaphorical poetry reaching its fullest potential in colorfully illustrated scenes of everyday life that readers see through a kaleidoscope, humorously and with tolerance for the indubitable realities of life

There are many stories. Aeternum Vale ranges from fantasy, horror, sci-fi and poems of social commentary, peppered with transcendental pastoral poems and romance. But everything trickles down to the final poem when the god of the book’s universe breaks down in the tempest epitomic of the title Aeternum Vale which means “farewell forever”.

You’ll find an unexpected road beaten by words. And you’ll see more than pictures could capture. So I invite you into this tempest swirled in rainbow.

Aeternum Vale may become one of the most significant books of poetry of the early 21st century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781546269786

James Hicks

Together, Lydia Hicks and James Hicks created “The Simpsons Theory”, the largest YouTube channel dedicated to The Simpsons. Over their careers, they have interviewed writers, showrunners, animators and artists of the show to produce videos to educate and entertain Simpsons fans around the world.    The duo discuss the most poignant moments in the show’s history, piece together in-depth character timelines and are well known for their series: The Treehouse of Horror Kill Count. They also wrote the book The Simpsons Secret: A Cromulent Guide to How The Simpsons Predicted Everything and have even been rumoured to appear in an episode of The Simpsons!    James Hicks holds a Bachelor of Arts in Media Production from the University of Lincoln.  

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© 2019 James Hicks. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse  01/10/2019

ISBN: 978-1-5462-6979-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-6978-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018913928

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Contents

Taxon of Disquisition

SLEEP PARALYSIS / THE GOOD DREAM

First Half: "Eheu fugaces labuntur

anni" (Horace, Odes II.14)

Faith

If I Close My Eyes Forever

Where Do You Bleed when Others Hold You

El Fin

Chloroformed Arms through Bated Flight

In Memory of Revolution

Dream Drop Distance

Dedicated to God

The Polity of Picasso

The Last Enlightenment

Pyrolysis of the Cerulean

Fertility Endangerment Act

The Invisible

A Voice without a Throat

Enter Female

The Heiligenstadt Reality

Destroying the World

The Titan and the Thimble

Metempirical

The Era of God

Wandering Deities

Birth of Destruction

Brain of Metal

And to a Stop

Second Half: "Pulvis et umbra

sumus" (Horace, Odes IV.7)

The Hour of Destiny

Only Through Introspection Do We Intuit the Mind and Through Analogy Do We Assume There are Others

Lethargy

An Account on Urban Turnout

Were it All to Disappear

I Will Destroy This World

Van Gogh, Chatterton, and the Tortured Horror of the Romantics

A God’s Wine

The Great Wide Open

To What Hides ‘Round the Corner

Unsustainable

Queer +

The Master of Poems, Cards, and Letters

The Poem of the Generation

Did You See the Moon When it First Rose

Two Ways to Sedate the Emulsion

The Honeysuckle Snow of that Unsung New Year

The Last Week with the Woman He Loved

The Working Hands of Tick-Tock

The Millennials

If There Were Nothing, It’d Look Like This

Inhuman

A Journey into the Depths of Human Pain

And God Regretted All that He had Made

About the Author

Dedicated…

To

My Mother and Her Mother and My Many Ancestral Mothers,

What is this power a mother has that she can consider someone else’s life as if bearing their pain is her privilege?

And to

Brock, my most precious friend I love, and Sotoku, my friend I care for dearly, no matter how far from us his career might take him,

Si dicen que del joyero / Tomé la joya mejor, / Tomo a un amigo sincero / Y pongo a un lado el amor

[If they say I have obtained / The pick of the jeweler’s trove, / A good friend is what I’ve gained / And I have put aside love].

José Martí, Yo soy un hombre sincero (41-44)

Sincerely Yours,

James

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First Half: "Eheu fugaces labuntur anni" (Horace, Odes II.14)

Faith

Once you’ve sworn to a dream, you become skeptical of paved roads.

The moon tries to compose itself while the stars cackle up a frenzy.

The earth curves at eight inches a mile, so sometimes it’s hard to see

that each of us

is already standing on the world.

Fluorescents reflect