Six Ways from Sunday: A Collection of 42 Poems

by Russell Hasan

Overview

A short collection of poetry for your reading pleasure. Topics include gratitude, faith, forgiveness, fear, success, time, reality, and life.
The best way to demonstrate the quality of these poems is by providing you with one example. So here it is:

Nirvana
by Russell Hasan

Ignore Hell.
Pay attention to Heaven.
See everything.
Remember nothing.
Think nothing.
Be aware of nothing.
Know everything.
Enjoy everything.
Enjoy life.
Enjoy your life.
Enjoy being alive.
This is not to say
That you should satisfy
The carnal gratification urges of the moment
Without regard to punishment or consequences.
Sex, drugs, and music
The pleasure of sensations
Those things do not exist in Heaven.
Those things exist only in Hell.
The sins of the flesh are stupid
Stupidity belongs to Hell.
Intelligence and reason belong to Heaven.
If not those things,
Then what do people do
To enjoy life
In Heaven?
Read a good book
Or something of that sort.
Something where
You make use of
Your mind.
Not your body.
Free will
The soul
Is the capacity
To choose good or evil
Your mind, the capacity to choose good
Your body, the capacity to choose evil
Your mind, immortal
Your body, your mortality
So the stronger is your free will
The better is your ability to choose good
And the more powerful is your ability to choose evil.
Thus, the health of the mind
Is the health of the body
Is the health of the soul.
The health of your body
Reflects the sharpness of your free will
So the ideal is that
You should have a perfect body
And never use it.
To have a perfect ability to choose evil
And to never do so.
But to have a great mind
And to use it.

That is the type of poem in this collection. I hope that you enjoyed it and that you will enjoy reading the rest of them!
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Product Details

BN ID:	2940179332244
Publisher:	Russell Hasan
Publication date:	12/16/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	172 KB

About the Author

Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Muslim father—and that isn't the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafia—nope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is agender asexual—relatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?

He's a WRITER.

Yes, that's right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to write, so he writes. He's not into BDSM, yet for some reason he has chosen to punish himself by having a passion for writing and a need to write. Despite having made the huge mistake of choosing to be a writer, his books have sold over 10,000 copies, so perhaps it was not the worst mistake he ever made after all. He does not have one particular bestseller but has instead spread those 10,000 sales across many books he wrote. His magical journey of self-torture begins when he has the idea for a new book, and then continues when he wakes up at 6am to write from 6am to 8am before work every day (he has a day job—he's not insane! His day job is being a lawyer, the most boring, evil job in the world, by the way), and, after many cups of Starbucks matcha tea and Coca Cola (never Pepsi—yuck!) he somehow puts words onto a page. He has written 30 books, both nonfiction and fiction, but, as something of a twist on the traditional successful indie author model, he is known more for his indie nonfiction, not his fiction. But he does write fiction. Some of his fiction is good too, probably, he hopes.