Private Escape: Sometimes I Think!

By Christopher Duke

This collection of poetic themes, philosophy, and personal thoughts is provocatively written to excite the reader’s mind. Duke’s journey into the realms of spiritual redemption and to establish a footing in the truths of reality will stimulate your mind. The romantic ensemble is tasteful and pushes the envelope of erotica, while the prisoner’s pastime section is both sad and rewarding. Written during the first six months of the pandemic, it is emotional and thrilling. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Apr 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781649792587

Christopher Duke

Christopher Duke is a recovered alcoholic who enjoys writing, poetry, music and dirt bikes. He is currently at work on his first novel. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys his dogs and horses. He calls Canyon, TX, home.

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Curious Assumptions

Can a man really conceive asking wistful mercy from the creator of these realms? Who pardons the prey in an eagle claws noose while it screams with terror? Do the lions, kings of the jungle, beset requests for intermission in bloodletting battles so that their enemy might slip the needles eye? If a man’s will betrothes him a judgment for his own plight in sanity, why must he petition the great court for leniency and be plucked from free will? Do we not reap in abundance from fields we do not sew? Has formidable opportunity truly been forbidden to make your acquaintance? Don’t heroes also have closets?

If the great creator can confound the wise, is it not a bit insulting to believe acquiring a wealth of knowledge from mere mortals can relieve us from our debacles.

Clarity at Last

In late maturity, I have found it of great importance to choose equal or perhaps even superior achieved minds for friendships!

To choose someone who will provoke venerable thoughts from our minds gives sustenance to a world; we would otherwise never catch a wink of solid and proven wisdom that does not come from a miscreant’s mind any more than evil deeds derive, from a deacon of solid faith!

If we do not choose wisely in our choice of comrades, then the wives we ask to share our bedroom and enlighten our lives with will probably not be of sound mind or character either. Nothing can compare the loyalty of a proven friend, for even his harsh recourse on our foolish thinking is welcomed!

Watch Your Step

Allowing ourselves unmitigated projectional assaults against our fellow man unbeknownst to them only displaces peace from within us and invites self-judgment along with character torment! If we are the sum of all of those who have intrigued our thoughts or had a direct influence in shaping our behavior and social etiquette it would seem to be more advantageous on our part to give reasonable doubt and humility a fair chance! Let us also not be deceived by age or the origin of our heroic mentor because the brightness of a shining star is usually dictated by our own desire.

Blood Curse

A mate who will allow their confidant to compromise their weakness instead of promoting their candid strength is not a gift but a burdensome anchor!

Self-adulation can disguise itself in an assortment of deceitful tricks. Surely the goose and gander must be promoted and esteemed as equals, lest there be misguided assumptions, dictating an unavoidable character demise!

Will the offspring not succumb to this tragedy of warped thinking if not recognized and expelled from their tender cognition? Generational curses can only be alleviated if the perpetual victims bring recourse to the violations by choosing strategies that proven individuals have found strong favor with!

The shoe of mistrust can be worn by either foot but has to be scorned by the incumbent, altogether, or the disease continues without reform!

Surely I am

Shall we give elasticity to our fellow man’s mental constitution as we do for ourselves? Or might it reveal questionable integrity allowing them to be cast as comparables? The notion of humility practiced is rather alarming if we are to be promoted as heroic victors! After all, who is to say our counterpart is capable of conquering the raw