Book of God: Poetry

By Terry Jacobus

Chicago poet Terry Jacobus takes us on a delightful trip through the byways of the universe where God can be "cosmic music/ resonating in continuous harmony/ throughout hyperspace" or more literally, playing baseball with the planet, "sending spirit angels/over immortal fences." A master of the aphoristic form-the lines are centered and sho

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Jan 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798822913196

Terry Jacobus

Terry Jacobus is a writer and poet. He is the author of The Simple Ballad, Fine, Souvenir as well as Lotus and Poems, which was written in collaboration with Swiss artist Petra Blum. His writing is featured in the bestselling textbook Spoken Word Revolution. A former correspondent for the University of Colorado's literary magazine, Rolling Stock and poetry editor for Strong Coffee magazine, he was instrumental in the creation of poetry bouts, a style of poetry competitions in Chicago. As an adjunct professor at Northeastern Illinois University, he has lectured at universities across the country. He received his degree in secondary education and creative writing from Northeastern in 1971, where he studied with Gwendolyn Brooks and was mentored by Ed Dorn. He lives in Chicago.

Book preview

SAYINGS 1

I DON’T WANT MY GODS TO DIE UNKNOWN

1. You Will Take it with You

2. A Thousand Million Perfect Poems

3. On Your Way

4. The Smile on God’s Face

5. Cybercola

6. Patience

7. One and the Other

8. The Model of God

9. Pray and Fight

10. Life Begins at 40

11. Haiku American

12. Off Line Symmetry

13. For One Day

14. God Gave Us the Sun

15. God Asked

16. On the Other side

17. The Magnificent

18. Hollywood God

19. For Those Who Give God Time

20. The Death of the Living

21. The Dream Factory

22. Two For One

23. Everyone’s Standin’ On Someone’s Shoulders

24. The Breath of My Grandmother

25. Everyone’s Their Own Hero, Baby

26. Where Are My Angels?

27. The Joy

28. A Place That is Known

29. Death Can Be Funny that Way

30. This is the Religion of Earth

31. The Anti-rapture

32. Axium Spiritatus

33. God in the Wrong Place

34. From Eternity to Here

35. Have a Nice Life

YOU WILL TAKE IT WITH YOU

you can’t take away

from yourself

what you have truly

given yourself

even if you think

you lost it

it’s still there/somewhere

and when you find it

you will take it with you

even if you lose it again

you will take it with you

wherever you go

whatever you do

while you live

and when you die

you will take it with you

A THOUSAND MILLION PERFECT POEMS

you could write a thousand million perfect

poems and

it still wouldn’t matter, the bad god whispered

in my ear

the good god immediately responded

I don’t know

let’s see the poems first

ON YOUR WAY

breaking hearts may be

a gift from God

healing hearts

a greater gift

sacrificing your own

heart

the greatest gift of all

THE SMILE ON GOD’S FACE

sometimes sons and daughters

are fathers and mothers

to men and women

who want to expand their souls

it is the way a child

showers light into this world

healing from the other end

of lightning

putting the smile

on God’s face

CYBERCOLA

even when I’m dead

I will write poems

crossing the beginning

and the end

of the