In Other Words

By Douglas Owens

In Other Words is an epic journey of poetic verse that reflects the artist's vision of his dreams and personal experiences. Compiled, revised, and edited during the summer and fall of 2022, it is a culmination of a lifelong collection of ideas and writings, and the result of an intense rebirth of creativity.

 

This coincided with the author's recent battle with throat cancer, which while extremely difficult, finally gave him the time he needed to put forth the effort needed to put together such an important work. Poetry fans will delight in the author's ability to intersperse the simple with the profound, providing works that will appeal to both the casual reader and scholars.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Studio O Publishing
• Release date: Dec 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215712689

Douglas Owens

Douglas Owens is an emerging poet, struggling musician, and incurable globetrotter. Having spent his career in humanitarian response, he has served as an emergency manager, logistics expert, and various other roles in public service. His focus is now on pursuing his passions in literature, music, and travel.

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In Other Words

Douglas Owens

Copyright © 2022 Douglas Owens

When life in all its savage and beautiful forms present, it is incumbent on the artist to interpret these forms through their preferred medium. The written word has for me been an equal struggle to life itself; thus for me the perfect vehicle to capture some of its moments, splendors,  and challenges.

Douglas Owens

Fall 2022

Owensbard.com

Table of Contents

Balladry

Fervent Elegies

Odes in Piety

Eminent Pastorals

Enter Soliloquy

Balladry

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Stories in any form are the gift of life; they give us

a sense of wonder and escape, if we let ourselves see.

THE HISTORY

A king had come along

He sang the peasants’ song

But woe to their joyful glee

In his heart was larceny

As the evil bursar oversees

Those raped by poverty

He scrapes their bitter toil

Until they lay under soil

The lords of the manor sing

As the servants’ pie will bring

Joy to them and their ilk

In their finery and their silk

And the power of dynasty

Which is the true infamy

Is the law of the land

As they take out their hand

Trouncing on the gilded beach

On whose bevy they do leech

Guilt is levied as peasant’s sin

They but victims to the wind

Blowing hard like a gale

Yet is unseen, a stealthy veil

Wrapping up the society

Dressed as a gift of piety

PERU

Walking the ancient paths

that the Inca once strolled

the women in their bowlers

and men in woolen clothes

The nod of the alpaca

as they meander on

the fields in the foothills

past the chiseled stone

Patterned blankets hang

along the Andean slope

as the winds snap hard

above the winter snow

The verdant rivers murmur

flecked in gleaming gold

teeming like the eternal

banks of hanging boughs

The condors of the Culca

ride the hallowed winds

as the ancient cultures

till in the far andenes

In the sacred