Plastic Bags And Medical Melodies E-Book

Tim Truzy

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

This book of poetry is truly uplifting in paying tribute to people and God.

-- The author

This book is reminiscent of T.S. Eliot. The imagery and format are modern.

-- Erin Bernstein

Leseprobe

Tim Truzy

Plastic Bags And Medical Melodies

I dedicate this book to writers, painters, and composers -- and all other creative people. I also dedicate this book to B.J. DeCoeur. BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Introduction: Our Roles

We are constantly faced with duties and responsibilities within our personal and professional environments. For example, we are family people. We work with schools and clubs. Our communities require our skills. It is a ceaseless sea of demands and compromises.                

In essence, our roles are a part of being human. As a writer, I am acutely aware of the roles I engage in daily: I am a writer who writes novels, short stories, and poetry. I am also an essayist. As a future blogger, my roles will again be displayed and redefined. In writing, I cannot separate my roles in being a human from my interaction, interconnection, and interdependency on my fellow man. I believe we are fundamentally full of faults but have the nobility to rise above them and be more than the sum of either flaws or royalty through our engagement with one another. To obtain dreams is the property of all mankind and not a right of one race, group, religion, or nationality. Some will disagree, but I would defend their option to do so with much fervor, which is, again, my right.

It is also my obligation to recognize the power of poetry in transforming lives. This is because poetry can reach the deepest hurts of us all and provide healing in some ways. One organization which recognizes the transformative power of words is SplitThisRock. It is an organization which understands poetry can transcend the individual and be meaningful in impacting change.

How can we write poetry and not realize the value of language in redirecting, correcting, and rejecting negativity in our collective history? To reject such a notion is to suggest sermons, lessons in classrooms, and family experiences are meaningless. Language is potent in creating oppression and resolution. Poetry is a language of its own; thusly, it has the same ability to uplift or to cast down. To understand this powerful reality pertaining to labels and the strength of words, visit Jane Elliot’s Blue/Brown Eyes Exercise at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqv9k3jbtYU.

It is not a matter of complexity. Nor is it too simplistic for those in positions of leadership to comprehend. Use power and influence to keep those with less of these things thinking they are not valued in what they do. Power and influence demand more, and since these intangible products are in short supply: those who got it don’t want to lose it.

Without question, words build and mold societies and civilizations. They provide the motivation to climb mountains, swim deep waters, and change the world. It is not only speeches which bring out the best in us, it is the poetry within words which brings out the best in speeches and make us better.

For instance, shortly after the tragedy of 9/11, the sale of poetry increased significantly. Perhaps, there are many reasons for this. But I suspect the collapse of the towers set off universal emotions. Speaking of the incident could only catch a mere glimpse of the tragedy – poetry honed in on those feelings with more precision.

I do not have contempt for poetry but question the awareness of those who treat poetry as a useless endeavor. I must also ponder whether those in their high places truly understand how words can injure.

Poetry is not sound full of nothingness: it is what we make of it and what it is used for to make you. Likewise, one poem cannot speak for the entirety of mankind, but classics are born because they speak to some universal timeless theme of humanity. There is universality which rises above the coloring of scholars who would label them as belonging to a particular category. I suspect such people are justifying their position and pay grades by showing why their degree matters by smacking down the less worthy in their view. However, this is consistent with those in the death throes of losing control over something they once thought belonged only to their crowd. I call it: the “Boo-Hoo Syndrome.”

For these reasons, I composed my fourth book of poetry. I wrote poems about situations and people who set their own standards. By doing so, they enlightened all of us. The next chapter is filled with a few musicians who I admire for creating their own image in the face of challenges.

Nonetheless, there are numerous such creative people and I could fill twenty volumes writing about them, but I chose a limited few of such individuals.

I am also a musician, having directed choirs and played in a variety of bands. By far, playing gospel music was one of my most rewarding life experiences. In Chapter 3, I wrote poems which are songs to Him, who is the Standard we are measured against. Chapter 4 is filled with poems concerning our stay on this planet.

Enjoy: “Plastic Bags and Medical Melodies.”