Copper Carnation: A Collection of Poetry

By Radomir Vojtech Luza and Patricia Murphy

COPPER CARNATION is no ordinary book. It is a collection of poetry that excites, motivates and inspires the reader to be the best person he or she can be while helping society locate its very Heart.

Whether you enjoy or are touched and moved by Poetry, Philosophy or Metaphysics, this Ribald Rocket will help you see verse in a completely new light.

This is poetry that sings, dances and makes you come to terms with yourself.

After all, the metaphors mingle, similes stun and alliteration arouses to the point where you realize that this is not your regular Pot of Poetry.

This Prayer of a Path to yourself does not go through anyone else. Instead, it veers and careens towards love, romance, religion, psychology, spirituality and pornography.

This collection covers the human experience in words that are alive, rich, substantive and true.

If you want something light to read on the beach this Summer, this Bolt of Being is probably not for you.

But if you want a piece of literature that you will keep going back to for guidance and wisdom, you are reading it.

This COPPER CARNATION, then, is a Boulevard to Brilliance, a Jolt of Genius.

Never leading you to purgatory or hell, but always keeping its eye on Heaven, Nirvana and Utopia, COPPER CARNATION Showcases a talented Wordsmith dissecting humanity for the better, while leading you away from self-destruction and towards a more blessed, sacred, holy and meaningful Conversation, Direction and Position.

Do not believe the Negative Hysteria that Poetry is Dead. Instead, take into consideration the latest statistics that show the Written and Spoken Word to be making an unbelievably strong comeback to a place of deep admiration and respect among both readers and non-poetry lovers.

Therefore, the plethora of poetry you get in this Collection will meet your every Aspiration and Need for Substantive Art and a Journey to the Soul.

Enjoy with an Ounce of Pixie Dust!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665527699

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© 2021 Radomir Vojtech Luza. 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 06/02/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-2768-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-2769-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021911045

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Contents

Introduction

Dedication

Prior Publications

About the Author

Sherbet Shark

Morning

Car Lights

Gentle Rain

Seeking Silver

Patricia On Key

Sunlight Through An Open Door

I Will Always Love You

Role

Stole

Hole

Mole

Laguna at Dusk

Writing on Her Mask

Fiancé of Flowers

Thunderstorms like Long, Deep Tunnels

Porcelain Plague

Thrashed

Mental Mall

Flowers with No Sages

Downtown

I Cannot Fight What I Feel

Patricia

Mug of Dawn

Shaping Your Face Like a Green Garden

Lingering Latitude

Pandemic Party

Malignant Marble

Early Evening Mid-Autumn Los Angeles Laundromat Blues

Six Million Feet High

Empty Sky

Camouflage

Pieces of Myself

Grandfather Grace

Solace In The Cellar

Black Sunday

Eyes Like Red Apples

Creator

Birth Mother

Before Breakfast

Chasing Shadows

Blazing Rivers

Resurrected

Silent Solstice

Father’s Czech Accent

Holy Hands

Empty Set

After All

Ink

Barbara

Etching a Sketch

Olive Blue

Motel Mate

Sting Ring

The Valley’s Volatile Voice

At the Theatre Again

Women in A Flat

Tickle and Tattle

Bruised Like Bison

Through the Plastic of Your Soul

Tortured Tributary

Broken Bank

Bain Drain

Eel to Steal

Black Ink

Blaming Beelzebub

Ava

Concrete Breakdown

Black Turning Blue

Weeping Wall

Road to Death Valley

Mutilated Metaphors

Lucky Notebook

Box In The Jack Girl

Broken and Bruised

At the Target in North Hollywood, CA Again

Lymphedema Lost

Spring Slasher

Acknowledgements

Introduction

This is Radomir Vojtech Luza’s 33rd book (29th collection of poetry).

This is his brave and beautiful incarnation COPPER CARNATION.

Poem by poem, with precious few words, Luza’s amplitude is felt. His depth and breadth of life is experienced. His creative brilliance startles.

He writes with a passion and a poignancy of the sweet and of the bitter. At times it seems like insurmountable juggernauts plague Luza’s general well-being. InResurrected I do not hang on the cross/But bang on the box/Of patience and pause. In Bain Drain The powerfully evocative stanza: Please do not talk to me of depression or mental illness/But of a broken heart burning out/Like a matchstick in a lagoon. And in Lymphedema Lost Luza’s confidence is shaken: Staring at swollen gams/Like growing yams. His vulnerability and pain sear the page.

But a sparkling bouquet of lovelights, four or more Patricia poems appear. Luza’s beloved shining being, his fiancee Patricia. In the poem Patricia little rare jeweled stanzas: The knees on you caress/Like rivers. You kiss/By not kissing Like a fawn you run/Like a heroin addict you shoot/Like a lover you leap. In the poem Sunlight Through An Open Door (For Patricia) Stretching sin into storage bin/Like sunshine through a sewing pin. Luza’s child eye freshness amazes.

There are many marvels to behold in this book you hold. And last, but not least of the 78, comes the