Lengths and Breadths of Wonder

By Gerald Weeks

I now introduce my second Anthology: " Lengths and Breadths of Wonder " as a follow up to my previous:
" Heights and Depths of Wonder " published in 2017.
I have again compiled wisely to glean the quality
therein from my 2018 - 2020 collection of eclectic poetry of many themes to interest both esoteric and generic taste for my readers digest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664122703

Gerald Weeks

Born in London, England. I was a shy, sensitive child; as one of four brothers and, the least keen for school life! School zeal was limited for only: English and Art, Showing aptitudes for English composition and abstract painting to win successive Art prizes at end of school terms. I wrote my first poem of any note at 12 yrs of age and, at the same age, received my first Art prize - a book! Whilst self-educating and maturing, I seldom focused my creative energies until middle-age therein writing a sci-fi novel moreover Art sales and single poems published. Sharing to facebook poetry groups during the last decade, I now share within this book a gleaned compilation to create a unique, imaginative and fact based, eclectic anthology: ‘Heights and Depths of Wonder’ of personal muse, reveries, emotions, moreover profound empathic links with creation and nature, to link with you the reader.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction: Mind Relates

POET’S MUSE

My little Muse

Partners in Rhyme

Loved and Gloved

Love in Arts

Intro-Flow

When my Light becomes a Star

Circumvention

Love Defined Divine

Risen from the Yeast

Imagination

INSPIRATIONS

Inspiration

I am in I am

To Come to Above

Music to God’s Ears

A most graced testimony [confessional]

A Man for all Reasons

What do I know ?

Wisdom of a Fool

Marriage of Colour

Verification

Decontaminate

So it was sown because….

I will not

Dune Delight

Elicitations

Cross of Love

Soon

A date with change

The Sandman

Atomic truth

Way, Truth and Life

In lightning colours

SONNETS

Sonnet to a full moon

A light sonnet

Sonnet to friendship

A Spoken Sonnet

Sonnet to God

Sonnet to a New Year

Sonnet to the only way

Sonnet to Love above sense

REVERIES

Feelers

Adrift to Sift

Besotted

Worldly

Ant-Recant

Classic Tranquility

The flip-side of Love

Seaside flash-backs

A Missing Missive

The Sound of Music

Twin Shadows

Be it such

Below the Rainbow

Shadow of a Man

Out of the many the one

For whom the Heart tolls

To a Mermaid

The Scream

One flew over the Eagle’s nest

AB OVO

Daisy Hill

Ghost Ship

Doing the Burgundy walk

Visualisations

An Odd Odyssey

The Troglodyte conscience

CREATIONS {OF THE HUMAN CONDITION}

Ode to The Rise and Fall of an Eagle Wing’s Feather [narrative]

Who speaks to me from Mother Earth ?

Moon over Cadillac

It Arose in Arizona

A brief observation that lasts

Raising a Point

Coming in the Clouds [humour]

Where all is [humour]

Ups and downs [humour]

Worst scene scenario [humour]

Fools Paradise (to ponder)

Dynamo or Volcano ??

Requiem

Clarity of Vision

Adrift

Cloud Mine ?

Emerald Green

Sea Invasion

Humble Victory

The Tree and the Bell (Extra-Terrestrial, festive humour)

Sensorium

To a Nightingale (Florence)

Special Delivery (humour)

NATURE

The time of the Aging Rambler

Fall Gently Autumn

Autumn Leaf

Wherever Leaves Tremble

Natural Sensitivity

A Winter’s Mail

Sheep may safely graze

Daisy Hill

Solstice

High mountains for low fountains

Dignity in Red (Of the Orang-utan)

Country Fables

A Higher Moon

Above the Length and Breadth of curiosity

To a Seagull

To the Great Crested Grebe. (Mate Dance)

To a Salmon (the real Royals)

Ice Stupa

A peek-view into human shame

I spy: Geothermals

Riders of the Florida-storm

Flights Arriving

Lord of the Dandelions

The Igloo

Micro-Snow

Will-o’-the-Wisp

The Bench

To a Rainbow of Dyed vapour

GOD AND LOVE

Humanity Glorified

Our Nazarene

Glory of Love

Advent

Amazing Grace

Worship

To Love

If Love

The Space-race in human minds - not of the truth

Elegy to the Preacher - Gleaned from Ecclesiastes: chapter: 1 vs 1-1 1

Soon

Board the Love Train

A little bit of Wisdom

Mentions

Goodness Gracious

The Antitype and the Ant-Lion

Heavens Will

Back of the beyond

Light of the World

Palms held Palms

Love in Definition

Love among the ruins

The A-level of Love

In my own I was known in confession

The Clown of Love

Love Skipper

Suitor

Thoughts and Sayings

Epilogue: A New Psalm

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Foreword

Gerald Weeks - a born Londoner is a creative poet of great observation and perception. He has a global appeal because of his eclectic poetry celebrating wonders of this Earth and beyond. His second Anthology titled -’Lengths and Breadths of Wonder’ of is a sequel to his first Anthology - ‘Heights and Depths of wonder’. What I love about his poems that his themes are varied and his muse is the beauty of his imagination inspired by his own personal experiences of God, the human spirit, life and all living beings with elements of Nature. He is classic in his taste and very well read with exhaustive vocabulary at his disposal. His love for the deity and Nature is evident in all his poems. He is spiritual to the core and believes in the serenity of virtues and extols universal values.His poems are a journey of his own thoughts and philosophy of life observing the scents of time. It is a meeting point of his observation and reflection at an intersection of his wandering emotions and feelings with a higher goal of an enlightened mind. Most of his poems are an affirmation that human souls are connected at a higher level like a metaphysical poet.His endeavour is to exemplify and seek sublimity in his own unique poetic expression.

His poetry has the power of sympathy with the poetic truth and beauty by modifying colours of beauty by imagination which has a magical power with the proportionate reconciliation of sameness with differences. Gerald Anthology offers a panoply of poetic forms, themes, images,and delights.The book offers a range of poetic vision and insight; a mastery of words and forms, and an array of subjects into a kind of verse with a little of something for every lover of Poetry.His subjects range from banality of urban life ; to man-made calamity ;the intimacy of love and affection to the inevitability of change ; the interaction of culture and creation, and the immensity and the wonder of the cosmos.

I am confident that this Anthology shall reach out to readers in the length and breadth of wonder with all its enormity of style and panache.

JyotirmayaThakur - poet and reviewer.

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Introduction: Mind Relates

Relatively speaking, I am thinking as I ponder my written input for both esoteric and generic audience; one can think or sound awake to listen to that which echoes as an alarm yet harmless ; a deliberate attempt to dissuade myself from being half-full, if a pot of ponder fails abjectly of total comply - I often wonder why this is so, if not so immeasurably extensive if being pensive; one cannot store ponderings in data-banks that are left to taint and render faint; such is the ado that no end will ensue if I don’t accrue them as renewed anomalies, or fireballs to extinguish; I therefore filter out somewhat if I believe the sieve is to conceive of it ;

I figure if I reckon so intently, I will tire of wondering if pondering is wired to repress or suppress, or just another process I have to monitor; by the way, no relatives are speaking - only objectivity and subjectivity - it was me all the time ! And it follows as inspired or from my imagination - at least as my original after-thought - it’s all quite eclectic, varied, and ongoing.. If a mind relates to the following : Lengths & Breadths of Wonder.

-GW

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Poet’s Muse

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My little Muse

M y little angel, my pretty little evangel, I co uld

see you fly under the tree’s petite leaves as living

underlings; inaudibly you flap, imperceptibly you clap;

so gentle, so pretty, so elemental, just to inspire me.

M y flight of fancy-free in the gentle breeze , a

little missive will please if you just message me.

M y little fairy, my flirty little contrary; I should see you

wearing wings as elegant as fragrant gossamer; fly above

me sweetly to rise and dive as a tiny heart beating for me;

do so keep nectar for me, replete to arrive in my hive alive.

M y sprite of light mobility, in the rays of

sunlight to energize; my little Mr or Miss,

deliver a prize of sun-kiss to me.

M y little delicate canvas that I picture, as my little ne xus

of scripture, I stood in awe of your art- palette and your

words:; my miniature, my diminutive, my lad or ladette;

my demure alluring air-cadet; my butterfly-filigree in forest

or field, my little nectar-merchant, selling words to me.

Partners in Rhyme

T ime for a dime in fine-fettle to find a slot thro ugh

a tangled web; a brain- nettle leaves no leaf unused

of sting in a poet - full of burning as poignant

kindling; a primed bomb of mind applied, supplied

as an oil for a kind of barmy mind- metal;

Hindering somewhat, but not of telling prose; it’s not that

which knows the plot of the unrolled - the ongoing, it’s

more a flowing verse of back-tide in reverse, waves that

settle a calm before the serene in metaphor dream of

REM-sleep - blinking words that scatter to reassemble and

pretend to tremble in reveries prize-kettle - boiling over

the point of sounding sublime, to anoint wordy inking;

Only then the holy- smithy emerges ere other pens daft

needle that surges as a vessel, injecting into a mind that

thinks in ink; methinks in poems blind-song that hums like

a hummingbird’s need for nectar- curd, as it stabs the hub

of a petal in spirit, and complicit with all bards adored, for

they plead assonance and innocence of sublime inking.

Loved and Gloved

F ingered kindred, be they as gloves - a multi-finge red

holy-warming; loves each day, week, month or year - I

weave friends until the ensue accrues a thousand score;

warming hearts with words in prayer, healing human-

extends as digits being covered by word-stool adore.

M y knitted-needles penned woven words, looped or

blended in coloured balls, endless extends of length

and breadth - from which I knit my multi-prong gloves;

my little, factual, fractional-strength, my love-gloves be

thermal-gliding doves, woolly-feathered, carrion birds.

N or do I tire of knitting rows of rainbows that bef its

friendships - uniting hearts woven as one golden

knuckleduster; my sheep-skinned units fingered into

notions, my ink-emitting probes become interlocking,

deft, finger-stockings, as the rest of the ladder exits.

L eft and right, two-prong growth stretc hes

and grips as gentle talons outreach; heart-to-

heart, love extends as love equips fingers; together

adjacent, inseparably apart, my spool has miles

of war-pen, and from an ink-well it ever sips.

Love in Arts

M y love in words is music to me from one deity of verse I sprinkle on strings taut - to dust with innuendo that which reaches high or low intense sensitivity; tension varies in crescendo as the licensee trembled on a web that a spider weaves spinfully; real or imagined colour - piano keys - ebony and ivory play stereotypic ally.

M y love in words is from some laity-stanza of bust or bonanza - speculatively; I groom to brush the gloom or boom productively, I am tactile or crude in pictionary credulity; I am fertile of palette with brush-strokes inking lyrical; inspiring lush rainbow-bands of capricious capacity, produced from basic mush paint erly.

M y love for words is poetry