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Bad Dreams of a Hungry Dog
Poems of Spiritual Odyssey and A Quest For Enlightenment
Jere Truer
About the Book
My poetry book, Bad Dreams of Hungry Dogs, is my meditation on my spiritual journey and my dialogue with the divine. As a poet, I see my job as one who stands in the midst of the world and reports what he experiences from the point of view of the soul. And so these poems are my soul reactions and responses to outer events in the world in which we live, and also my responses to my own yearnings and questions. Sometimes my responses are angry and confrontive, and sometimes they are beatitudes of grace.
Like most people these days as I face the challenges of life, my attitude is more spiritual than religious per se. And yet I do delve deeply into religious traditions of which I have partaken and honored. My relationship with God is personal and intimate. And like all relationships, it is comforting, discomforting, challenging, and often baffling.
The title refers to a remark said to me years ago, “The search for enlightenment is like the bad dream of a hungry dog.” Hungry dogs whimper and nudge. They whine and pant. They desperately seek something out of privation. Such is our plight as humans in relation to the divine.About the Author
Jere Truer is a poet who has published widely in various journals in Canada and the U.S. He has given many poetry reading and also participated in writing labs and group performances. Jere considered a career in the ministry when young and has pursued a study of spiritual and metaphysical matters most of his life. He has a previous book of poems, “The Art of Dying”, Austin Macauley Publishers, in which he works through his grief regarding the death of his wife Tamara from breast cancer.
In both his spiritual pursuit and his professional work, Jere has sought ways to bring deep healing for often traumatic wounds. In this current book of poems, he converses with God in very intimate and sometimes confrontive ways. Jere’s own beliefs respect the Abrahamic tradition, as well as Buddhist and Asian thought, trying weave together a conversation wherein all faith is, if not the same, a seeking for goodness, grace, and peace.
As in his previous book, the issues raised are universal and express thoughts and feelings that lie hidden in the human heart. He lives in Arizona but grew up and had a private psychotherapy practice in Minneapolis. For the past fifteen years, he has been on the faculty of Adler Graduate School. He has several grown children and grandchildren. His other loves include composing music and collecting instruments from around the world. He is also a gifted storyteller, accompanying himself with a hand drum and telling ancient folk tales. -
The Almighty Goat and Poems
Dr. N.S. Lajevardi
About the Book
This book is fiction but has some basis in reality. It is rooted in the symbolism and manifestation of my “trinity philosophy”: microcosm, macrocosm, and platonic worlds. The second part of the book especially reflects parts of this trinity.
There is no need to describe in detail the reason why my book of poetry was 100% censured. In addition, my book written about the relationship between environmental science and philosophy was more than a third censured and my book on comparative philosophy was somewhere around 20% self-censured.
Poems within the second section of the book are of the “mystic genre”, some of them translated from the poet and philosopher Rumi.
About the Author
Dr N.S.L. born in Tehran Iran and residing in Virginia USA, since 1987. PhD. in Soil Physics and Chemistry and Post-doctorate in Environmental Sc./ Ecology. Retired Prof. of the Univ. of Tehran and former research fellow of Univ. of London, UK. and Univ. of Penn. USA. Writer of more than 100 scientific articles in the area of Ecology/ Environmental Science-Human Ecology. He allocates an ontological “Trinity” for the Human Being. He is married for close to 50 years and has three daughters and 3 grandchildren.
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YOU
Vane Lashua
About the Book
For the past 50-some years I have been threatening to write a book. I’ve written poetry, political essays, lettersto-the-editor and stories about my life. Some of these are included here. Originally I wanted the title to be “Accidental Tourist” until I found that there is a play and movie by that title. Because I’ve often found life events and direction somewhat random, it came to me as a good description. Then, because of a need for a new title, “You” emerged. As a young teen, I read the prologue poem by Auden from a Look magazine page. At first reading, it assigns life’s negative influences to another. As I “matured”, I came to realize that my “Overfamiliar Dense companion” is me — each of ours. I preserved and reflect often on that original page.About the Author
Working in a family print shop as I grew up led to my career, first in education and then to publishing and dramatic technology development — with R.R. Donnelley, Readers Digest, and Sothebys over 50 years. While working at Columbia University for 5 years “at the turn of the century”, I became fascinated with geothermal energy technology and have since attended conferences and visited geothermal energy sites. (http://thnktnk.net/drill.html) is a paper I wrote on the subject. Presently I am involved in several community organizations (Library, Park, Arts, Downtown, Bird Sanctuary) in my hometown where I moved five years ago from New York. I live there with my fiancée whom I re-met at our 50th high school reunion. We have enjoyed Europe, China and US0 travels together. -
Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love Volume 1
Nanassy Estera
About the Book
When I first decided to try publishing my poems and art, I knew nothing about the literary publishing industry. I take great pleasure in presenting my favorite poems and the art designed specifically for this book, which is published under GotoPublish. I thought of writing quality poems, which is why all the texts and illustrations in this assemblage are all original works of mine intended to reach a wide audience.This book is a collection of fifty impressionistic pictures, one hundred fifty lyrical poems from the Garden of Nature and Love in English, and one hundred fifty similar lyrical poems in Romanian. Author and artist: Estera Nanassy.
About the Author
Estera Nanassy was born in Bucharest, Romania. On March 5, 1981, she permanently settled in Portland, Oregon together with her husband Zoltan and their son Oliver Zoltan Nanassy. They worked hard to rebuild their life in their new country USA. Raising and later on, helping their son to graduate from Reed College in Portland Oregon, University of Washington Graduate School and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Harvard University. -
Riding The Waves During A Pandemic
Will Your Family Survive Shelter in Place Again?
Meril R. Smith
About the Book
Do you believe in magic? In the best of all worlds, the Covid-19 virus will disappear just as suddenly as it appeared. If the Covid-19 Pandemic disappears, there is no reason to read this book. However, if this is not the best of all worlds and the Covid-19 Pandemic continues, Riding The Waves During A Pandemic is a book you need to own and to read. This book will help you and your family plan ahead and survive the daily social and emotional challenges of living through the next waves of the Covid-19 pandemic and survive it well.About the Author
Meril Smith grew up at the end of World War II with children of migrant farm workers, children born in the Japanese internment camps, and children of day laborers and blue-collar workers. Poverty, recessions, and helping each other were all basic parts of surviving. Living through the times of the Berlin Wall, the Salk polio vaccine, economic recessions, the space race, the development of Silicon Valley, and the Vietnam War fueled Meril’s passion for understanding people and events. His training, life experience, and career provides an excellent backdrop for writing Riding the Waves During A Pandemic. -
Lessons from Life
Phoolmatee Dubay
About the Book
The book is about the adversities the author experienced resulted from using and abusing drugs and alcohol which led to a diagnosis of a mental illness. The author explored her darkness from using drugs to experiencing her nervous breakdowns. If overcoming meant not using, she didn’t know or realize this until years later. She would go on to discover the support of friends and family members through their love, care, concern, and compassion for her. As the author accepted help, she learnt to give help to others as well. The author experienced changes, and it is her aim to share in these experiences as learning experiences. She found out that the effects of using and abusing drugs and alcohol caused addictions, nervous breakdowns, and led to a diagnosis of a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder. After her diagnosis, it took years for her to realize that using wasn’t right for her because it destroyed her mental health, but she did change by quitting the abuse of drugs and alcohol so to improve her mental health and well-being. The author didn’t do it by herself because she had the support of friends and family members that held her up even when she was down and picked her up when she needed their help. And this will be shown in the poems she has written for her potential readers.About the Author
Phoolmatee Dubay, born February 14th 1968, migrated to the US during 1992. She attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College and York College where she pursued her career educational goals in Human Services and Social Work respectively. The author’s poetry became a way of coping with her mental illness and coming to grips with reality after learning about the harm and dangers from using and abusing drugs and alcohol. As the author wrote in her poem “A Dark Place In My Head”, “As dark as an abyss in the mind where no light shines, even in the presence of light.” explored the dark side of using drugs and/or alcohol. While she discovered how to deal with life as she wrote in her poem, “I Deal With Life”. You may wonder how and why because as she wrote, “I couldn’t see life for what it was; therefore how could I accept it for what it is?” She would go one to state, “When I didn’t know I had doubts but now I have answers. This doesn’t mean that doubts are gone because I still need answers. Even while looking at life differently.” -
Freedom’s Wall
Bruce Robertson
About the Book
This book is dedicated to all veterans who have served in the military. This book is a book of poems that shows my love for the veterans!
My Wife and I visited the wall that houses all Vietnam Vetrans have been killed in Vietnam. My first thought was “my God, how many names are on the wall”. Later I found out roughly 60,000. God told me to honor them, so I wrote “Freedom’s Wall”. I hope you enjoy these poems! Bruce RobertsonAbout the Author
I was born in White Memorial Hospital Nov 2, 1941 to Paul and Mary Robertson. I’m the oldest of four boys, Doug, Donnie, and Itigth my three other brothers.
I started writing songs at the age of eleven. I’ve always had an interest in writing. My mother was a poet, and I kind of took after her.
I married my first wife when I was twenty five and had two wonderful boys off of her. Donald Paul Robertson and Blake Dennison Robertson. I am a father and a grandfather and soon to be a great grandfather in September.
I married my wife Karen in 1996 on Sept. 6, was married to Karen 24 years before she passed away May 4th 2019 I really miss her and love her more every day. I will see her in heaven when God chooses to take me.
I have written two books, Freedoms Wall and Santas Christmas poems, they’re both on line on Amazon. -
Poems of Me
Stephen Perez
About the Book
These poems I wrote are just poems of happenings in my life. Some are more personal than others, but they are all special to me.About the Author
I am a 63 year old professional truck driver. I started writing poems after I met a very special lady, about 4 or 5 years ago. We are no longer together but I kept up with my writing. -
Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love Volume 4
Estera Nanassy
About the Book
The poems from volume #4 were widely praised by me with great pleasure, presenting my favorite poems and art specifically for volume #4 which is published under GotoPublish.
“”Lyrical Poems and Art from the Garden of Nature and Love”” Volume #4 includes the collection of twenty nine impressionistic pictures, one hundred fifty Lyrical poems in English and One hundred fifty similar Lyrical Poems in Romanian.
Author and artist ESTERA NANASSY.About the Author
Estera Nanassy was born in Bucharest, Romania. On March 5, 1981, she permanently settled in Portland, Oregon together with her husband Zoltan and their son Oliver Zoltan Nanassy. They worked hard to rebuild their life in their new country USA. Raising and later on, helping their son to graduate from Reed College in Portland Oregon, University of Washington Graduate School and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Harvard University. -
The Seasons
Poetry of the Heart
Keri McLeroy
About the Book
I chose “The Season: Poetry of the Heart” because of the different types of poems there are. There are poems that talk of love, friendship, pain and self-doubt. Poems that just talk about life, or the natural beauty that there is in life. Poems that even talk about Christ.The poems themselves can help with many cases because though they are my writings the thought behind poetry can always be the case for anyone and everyone. I know because I’ve gotten feedback on quite a few of these poems that they can hold different meanings. All hold a special place in my heart, though I would have to say “Strength to Surpass” is probably one that holds the most due to it being for me, my battle with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome but can stand for all sorts of health issues.
About the Author
My name is Keri M. McLeroy. I’m the oldest of 3 girls and I’m a Georgia native, born and raised. I’ve been told for many years now that I should publish my poems. I’ve been writing for at least 18 years and though it’s taking me this long to actually do anything with what I’ve written, I’m now giving it a shot.
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