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SELECTED POETRY, Book I, THEMES AND VARIATIONS is a book of poetry by Paul Shapshak, PhD. There are also 10 photographs and a cover photograph of paintings and sculptures by the poet’s father, Sir Rene Shapshak. Several of the photographs were taken by one of the poet’s sons, Dag Shapshak, MD. (For additional information, see the poet-author description from the back cover.) This book divides into eight sections, Pastoral, Mythology, Cosmology, Theology, History, Social, Economics, and the Arts. Poetic forms that appear in the book include Sonnets, Cantos, Epigrammes, and Haikus. There are themes and variations on the themes in the book. A point is never completed, but builds and stretches examining time shifts, time drifts, and geographical climes, explored with surprises, and some balls hit out the ballpark. Some are paintings done at the beach by cliffs or in fields by streams, every hour on the hour that vary in chiaroscuro, color, and overtones. The poet enjoys and hopes that you will as well.
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Selected Poetry Book I
Themes and VariationsBy Paul ShapshakAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2012 Paul Shapshak, PhD.
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4685-4209-7
Chapter One
HEARTH PROTECTOR
Hearth protector principled, harvest kind
Heath embers glowing last evening tides
Kindnesses on air-laden breezes, branched
Bower, roses at summer riverbanks.
Day's flower now peeking through sunrise shy
Blooming throughout the green summer day's glow
Arms outstretched to anticipate the sigh
Unfurling gleaming spring placid pools flow.
Expecting, changing, and gathering storm
Time protects against shifted dimension
Lake, moon, erstwhile blush, reflect ocean calm
Stars awakened, ponder lost horizon.
Slender feet push ahead anticipate
Slumber softly wintry dreamed snow carpet.
SUNSET
Hazed air smote ash tree
Swayed estuary swollen
Falling tide away
MOUNTAIN
Vista perspective
Invisible walled cities
Moated dimension
MOUNTAIN AIR
Air breathe told story
Viewed emblems profiled above
Chilled crisp snowy gaze
MICCHU PICCHU
Rock present sky-domed
Cascades future ocean-sloped
Paths passed-by stone-heaped
WINTER SCENE
Frozen island ice
Geysers steamed flying stones spewed
Darkening streams culled
SPRING
Congressed hidden blooms
Confiding Spring leaves beneath
Winter's snow eider
DAWN
Ocean by dawn's rise
Each season wakes not alone
We, never parted
DAWN'S SECRET CLOUDS
Dawn's secret clouds, awning surreptitious
Special messengers and invisible
Before ibis, sparrow, hawk, egret, tides
Amulets, sandy, ebbing, and playful.
Examine today's plays, with internet
Cereal, yogurt, berries, coffee, milk
Before dolphin's water-clicks, an egret
On heels, stalks everglades frogs, silt, and silk.
Palms sea-breezes stalking iguana saw
Coastal crawfish oasis, time drifting
Outgoing tide, rain, frogs, natural law,
Riverbank, heron, leaves and grass swelling
Warm, silent, awakened startled heron
Glass flashes, glares into the rising sun.
MORNING HAIKU
For Madeleine, Sophia, Annika, and Evelyn
Cranes awake, daybreak
Storks preen white wings, Egrets blue
Eagles widened gaze
MID-DAY HAIKU
Verse shadows mid-day
Invisible divide crossed
Afternoon disperses
AFTERNOON HAIKU
Sloped meadows larks skim
In fragrance humming birds stay
Soar starlings, kestrels
TODAY
Sunbeams softly broke
Awakened light clouds rain pooled
Beckon us look down
RESTING
Shaded grove branches
Merging bringing down shelter
Here doorway seasons
PAST FIELDS
Past fields oxen ploughed
Ducks rising splintered silence
Swans' sphinx phoenix sways
EPIGRAMME 39
Working the garden, debris debrided
Busy bees, no sloth
Busy beavers, no loss
Busy frogs, no fight
Unweary mowers, day earned
Growers, day gained
Light, bright
Earning their daily sight
Planting sods to spring
Forth fully on the half-shell
Radiant all is right.
And on the one hand
Ye seek
And by the hand of the unseen
Unknown
Unthought
Universe of tranquility
Universal truth
Conquests
Bravado
Bravura
Hardened wooden fences
Now resting, overworked
Practising practiced plan
Catcher in the rye
Prussian nights
Unbeknownst
Clinging like ivy-coated walls
CANTO LXVIII
Midsummer's day,
A day
Another day
Tomorrow, still another
Remembered as it were, a gardened tree.
A reed representationally
Precision, gestured peace
Faithful flock, another field, other folk, delusional
Demi-notes as quiet ash and elms resurface for 100
Years of solace, too. Seldom, do such questions reach
The golden ladder
Stairs, stars, slowed.
CANTO XV
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