On the backs of seahorses' eyes
My poems and writings have been an archetypal and spiritual/soul journey through the passions and bold dramatics of youth to the later poems of self-restraint, openness, and equipoise. Beginning with the section "Remembrance of you / Journey to Greece," my writings shed their intense symbolic and sometimes surreal speech for a more direct, personal, and intimate voice. The best of my poems contain simple, timeless expressions of ongoing consciousness.
As a poet, I live in two worlds simultaneously. I live in the everyday, ordinary world: the illusory, social, man-made world of fear, survival, struggle, pain, pleasure, death: a world of descriptions and measurements: a stagnant consciousness of good and evil, right and wrong: all the components and manifestations of earth consciousness. At the same time, as poet and human being, I exist in the forever world of sprit: a dimension of love, light, joy: the dimensions of thought. Desire, imagination, intentions: these create the shift, the road, the pathway, between the world of illusions and the world of isness. The world of light and the world of shadows.
As a ray of sunlight is to the sun, the best poems—The ones that move us, the ones that awaken us to the wisdom of the heart, the ones that allow us with fresh eyes to share in the great mystery that's within and all around us—These poems bring to us a ray of light that reveals who we are in relation to each other, to the earth, and to our greater identity in the universe.
Carla Perry, publisher, Dancing Moon Press, Newport, Ore., has this to say about Don Cauble's work:
"The poems are splendid, unique, inventive, emotional, true.... The commentary is brutally honest, raw, believable, a life fraught with many of the myriad fraughts in the world. The people are interesting characters because they are living real lives and are involved with real-life issues – lovers, children, searching for home, seeking spirituality, trying to understand what happened when things go wrong. Trying, or not trying to do the best they can. The sex is well-portrayed – lusty, direct, but never offensive or embarrassing (to the reader), which is a fine line. The narrator speaks lyrically, using abundant metaphor and simile, disclosing his flaws as he finds them. The poetry covers similar territory to the novel excerpts, and is told by the same narrator, but from a different set of tools and this adds to the book's overall development. The words in the poetry are polished, pared down to their essence, their "aura." Cauble conveys feelings well, and by reading his words, we touch those feelings."
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As a poet, I live in two worlds simultaneously. I live in the everyday, ordinary world: the illusory, social, man-made world of fear, survival, struggle, pain, pleasure, death: a world of descriptions and measurements: a stagnant consciousness of good and evil, right and wrong: all the components and manifestations of earth consciousness. At the same time, as poet and human being, I exist in the forever world of sprit: a dimension of love, light, joy: the dimensions of thought. Desire, imagination, intentions: these create the shift, the road, the pathway, between the world of illusions and the world of isness. The world of light and the world of shadows.
As a ray of sunlight is to the sun, the best poems—The ones that move us, the ones that awaken us to the wisdom of the heart, the ones that allow us with fresh eyes to share in the great mystery that's within and all around us—These poems bring to us a ray of light that reveals who we are in relation to each other, to the earth, and to our greater identity in the universe.
Carla Perry, publisher, Dancing Moon Press, Newport, Ore., has this to say about Don Cauble's work:
"The poems are splendid, unique, inventive, emotional, true.... The commentary is brutally honest, raw, believable, a life fraught with many of the myriad fraughts in the world. The people are interesting characters because they are living real lives and are involved with real-life issues – lovers, children, searching for home, seeking spirituality, trying to understand what happened when things go wrong. Trying, or not trying to do the best they can. The sex is well-portrayed – lusty, direct, but never offensive or embarrassing (to the reader), which is a fine line. The narrator speaks lyrically, using abundant metaphor and simile, disclosing his flaws as he finds them. The poetry covers similar territory to the novel excerpts, and is told by the same narrator, but from a different set of tools and this adds to the book's overall development. The words in the poetry are polished, pared down to their essence, their "aura." Cauble conveys feelings well, and by reading his words, we touch those feelings."
On the backs of seahorses' eyes
My poems and writings have been an archetypal and spiritual/soul journey through the passions and bold dramatics of youth to the later poems of self-restraint, openness, and equipoise. Beginning with the section "Remembrance of you / Journey to Greece," my writings shed their intense symbolic and sometimes surreal speech for a more direct, personal, and intimate voice. The best of my poems contain simple, timeless expressions of ongoing consciousness.
As a poet, I live in two worlds simultaneously. I live in the everyday, ordinary world: the illusory, social, man-made world of fear, survival, struggle, pain, pleasure, death: a world of descriptions and measurements: a stagnant consciousness of good and evil, right and wrong: all the components and manifestations of earth consciousness. At the same time, as poet and human being, I exist in the forever world of sprit: a dimension of love, light, joy: the dimensions of thought. Desire, imagination, intentions: these create the shift, the road, the pathway, between the world of illusions and the world of isness. The world of light and the world of shadows.
As a ray of sunlight is to the sun, the best poems—The ones that move us, the ones that awaken us to the wisdom of the heart, the ones that allow us with fresh eyes to share in the great mystery that's within and all around us—These poems bring to us a ray of light that reveals who we are in relation to each other, to the earth, and to our greater identity in the universe.
Carla Perry, publisher, Dancing Moon Press, Newport, Ore., has this to say about Don Cauble's work:
"The poems are splendid, unique, inventive, emotional, true.... The commentary is brutally honest, raw, believable, a life fraught with many of the myriad fraughts in the world. The people are interesting characters because they are living real lives and are involved with real-life issues – lovers, children, searching for home, seeking spirituality, trying to understand what happened when things go wrong. Trying, or not trying to do the best they can. The sex is well-portrayed – lusty, direct, but never offensive or embarrassing (to the reader), which is a fine line. The narrator speaks lyrically, using abundant metaphor and simile, disclosing his flaws as he finds them. The poetry covers similar territory to the novel excerpts, and is told by the same narrator, but from a different set of tools and this adds to the book's overall development. The words in the poetry are polished, pared down to their essence, their "aura." Cauble conveys feelings well, and by reading his words, we touch those feelings."
As a poet, I live in two worlds simultaneously. I live in the everyday, ordinary world: the illusory, social, man-made world of fear, survival, struggle, pain, pleasure, death: a world of descriptions and measurements: a stagnant consciousness of good and evil, right and wrong: all the components and manifestations of earth consciousness. At the same time, as poet and human being, I exist in the forever world of sprit: a dimension of love, light, joy: the dimensions of thought. Desire, imagination, intentions: these create the shift, the road, the pathway, between the world of illusions and the world of isness. The world of light and the world of shadows.
As a ray of sunlight is to the sun, the best poems—The ones that move us, the ones that awaken us to the wisdom of the heart, the ones that allow us with fresh eyes to share in the great mystery that's within and all around us—These poems bring to us a ray of light that reveals who we are in relation to each other, to the earth, and to our greater identity in the universe.
Carla Perry, publisher, Dancing Moon Press, Newport, Ore., has this to say about Don Cauble's work:
"The poems are splendid, unique, inventive, emotional, true.... The commentary is brutally honest, raw, believable, a life fraught with many of the myriad fraughts in the world. The people are interesting characters because they are living real lives and are involved with real-life issues – lovers, children, searching for home, seeking spirituality, trying to understand what happened when things go wrong. Trying, or not trying to do the best they can. The sex is well-portrayed – lusty, direct, but never offensive or embarrassing (to the reader), which is a fine line. The narrator speaks lyrically, using abundant metaphor and simile, disclosing his flaws as he finds them. The poetry covers similar territory to the novel excerpts, and is told by the same narrator, but from a different set of tools and this adds to the book's overall development. The words in the poetry are polished, pared down to their essence, their "aura." Cauble conveys feelings well, and by reading his words, we touch those feelings."
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940016576503 |
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| Publisher: | Dancing Moon Press |
| Publication date: | 04/08/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 340 |
| File size: | 776 KB |
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