Vanishing Point

By Peter Biro

Here you will find a veritable garden of verse, with variety extraordinaire. These poems are sometimes serious, at other times silly. Some are profound while others are a bit perverse. But the glory of this volume, the 24 Sonnets after Shakespeare, plumb the heights and depths of the emotions of love and hatred, and touch on the themes of loyalty and loss. A collection of verse not to be missed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649797230

Peter Biro

Painter, poet, musician, composer, educator, instrument builder, and occasional theologian, Peter Biro pursues many interests. Born in Connecticut of Hungarian descent, he is a graduate of the UCLA School of Fine Arts, as well as of the University of Colorado. He resides in Colorado Springs. This is his first book of poetry. 

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Vanishing Point

Peter Biro

Austin Macauley Publishers

Vanishing Point

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24 Poems

1. La Femme la plus belle

2. Page Two

3. The End of the World 20??

4. Immensity of Time

5. The English Channel

6. Mourning Upon a Toenail Clipp’d Too Tight

7. Fish-Smack

8. Tracy La Bellezza

9. Ode to My Daily Cup of Coffee

10. Autumnal Equinox ’17

11. How Come a Tree Lives Two Hundred Years and I Don’t?

12. Estimate of a DC Swamp Drainer

13. An Author’s Gratitude

14. GRAMMATICA DRAMMATICA

15. Autumn

16. Winter Grief

17. When I Die, Please Don’t Say I Passed

18. The Rain in Spain

19. Tampa Bay Is Not a Town

20. Alphabetica 1– Collage: Fall Foliage

21. Mustang, Mustang

22. Equal Zero

23. Understandings

24. Alphabetica 2 – The Sign of the Age

48 Sonnets

24 Sonnets after Shakespeare

25. A Sonnet for Thy Love

26. My Love Hath Comely Attributes

27. Thy Spirit, Thy Soul

28. Thou Art My Universe

29. Thou Wast the Dawning of My Brightest Day

30. Grievous It Is When We Must Part

31. Fiercely Do I Envy Thy Perfections

32. Questions, Questions…

33. Root, Stem or Leaf?

34. A Sonnet for Pity’s Sake

35. Longing for Her Touch

36. Thy Loving Ways

37. A Cautionary Prescription

38. Death’s Deep Dive

39. Take Care with Thy Choosing

40. No More Vain Pursuits

41. Upon Releasing a Doomed Butterfly

42. Unheralded

43. LAUDAMUS TE

44. Advice to a Sinner

45. A Sonnet of Anguish – My Lover Lies!

46. Recognition of a Venomous Hatred

47. Pleading for Heartfelt Change

48. THOU ART MY POETRY! I NEED NOT WRITE!

24 Modern Sonnets

49. Sonnet 1: My First

50. No Rules Today

51. The New Modern Sonnet

52. A Flower Sonnet

53. RAVEN’S HAIR

54. The One I Love

55. Sea-Sink

56. an e.e. sonnet for y. lee coyote

57. I Really Need a Long Vacation

58. Ode to the Climate Change Champions

59. Please Consider My Pleadings

60. No Stomping Ground

61. Why Can’t You See It My Way for Once?

62. A Bottle of Happiness Is My Gin!

63. Unmasked

64. These Dank, Dark Days

65. Homespun Hell

66. An Annually-Reoccurring Fall Sonnet

67. How the Play Should Be Played

68. The True Meaning of Love

69. A Love Sonnet Paraphrased

70. Modern Sonnet No. 22

71. A Modern Sonnet of Marital Woe Expressed in Terms of Sour Cream Gone Sour…Really Sour

72. Congressional Resources

12 Final Poems

73. Glimmerings

74. Absence Makes the Heart Grow… Fonder?

75. I Want to Die with Not One Penny to My Name

76. How You Came to Me

77. Taken ‘en Passant’

78. Full Disclosure

79. Violent-Red; Threatening-Skies Blue

80. The Cheatin’ Poet

81. My Sweet Italian Girl

82. A Funny Sort of Love Poem

83. HESPERIDES IN CORINTH

84. Vanishing Point

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Biro, Peter

Vanishing Point

ISBN 9781649797223 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781649797216 (Hardback)

ISBN 9781649797230 (ePub e-book)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021918404

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Acknowledgment

To Tracy

24 Poems

La Femme la plus belle

Your beauty exceeds that of a thousand whispering winds

And it shall be whispered: Your beauty comes from within

Then may it be blazoned forth: You are more beautiful than all the winds!

Your beauty exceeds that of a thousand fields of flowers

As a flower’s bloom opens, so blossoms your quiet inner power

Then shall it be shouted: You are more beautiful than all the flowers!

Your beauty exceeds that of a myriad straggling streams

As it’s the essence of many a dream

Then shall it be said: Stand Proud, Thy Beauty! For it cannot be Unseen!

Your beauty outshines us all as the brightest of suns!

In your presence we are mere worshipful