Publisher's Synopsis
NOTES: Dr. John WorldPeace JD
I was born a white male in 1948, in Houston, Texas. Since September 2011, have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico In October 1970, I wrote my first poem. Since then, I have written about 8,000 poems. Mostly in free verse, unmetered and un-rhyming and in my personal genre: Free verse Haiku. Most of my poems could be looked at as a supplement to my prose auto-biography; poetic snap-shots of what I was thinking or experiencing at a particular moment in time during my life in this earth dreamscape. In the beginning, I recorded the year of poems, then the year/month/day, then year/month/day/time. I have also published selections of my poems. In June 2018, I began to self-publish all the poems I have ever written to date in chronological order using Amazon's self-publishing software. There are over 110 poem books as of January 2023. I have been adding about 1500 poems a year since 2019, with new poems being published each month. My genetics and my current state of health make me confident, barring some accident, that I will live more than a few years past 100. I will continue to write poems and in fact, will probably increase the annual volume of poems I write over the rest of my life. I do not force my poems. I don't channel these poems unless I feel inspired. I have no desire to set a world record for the number of poems written in a lifetime. All my poems have a spiritual connect and I say that I channel them from the spiritual dimension as opposed to writing them. The poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder in chronological order. I have lost less than a dozen poems since 1970 when I began channeling them. Usually within a very few minutes after channeling a poem, I have no real memory of what I wrote. The edits I make after channeling a poem are minimal. Images of the original cursive of many poems are online: https: //DrJohnWorldPeaceJDPoetry.com. All but maybe 50 of my poems have been recorded in my handwriting. I do not channel poems that rhyme except incidentally. For me to try to force fit a poetic thought into a rhyming format or any format breaks the flow of the poem; more specifically, crashes the poem. I have, and it seems natural, significantly refined a method channeling poems. I am in truth a filter. A poetic thought that comes to me is skewed in the interpretation and recording by my personal filters; physical and spiritual (not religious doctrine and dogma dictates). The same poetic thought channeled by someone else would be skewed by his or her personal filters. Zen Petals I am not a religionist of any stripe. I believe in the teachings of Jesus but not in corporate Christianity. Zen for me is a generic metaphysical word. Petals in my poetry are a metaphor for mostly very short free verse poems. I keep two steno pads together for writing poetry. One for my standard free verse poems and the other for the shortest of poems. Sometimes I will take a line out of one of my poems and enter it in my Zen Petal steno pad. I am most impressed by poets who can in the course of writing or recording a poem have within it a free standing shorter poetic expression. Poems are never finished until the poet dies and can no longer edit them. It is my hope that various publishers will decide to go through my poems and publish a selection of about 100. If that were done, it is unlikely, due to the variety of what I have channeled, that any two selections would be even close to being the same. What I have channeled is a metaphysical enigmatic matrix of poetry.
