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  Short Poetry Collection 076

  Various

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  This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

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  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The...

  Omar Khayyám

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  The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a specific type of two-line stanza. Omar's Rubaiyat is a beautiful anthology of Islamic wisdom literature: originally penned in medieval Persian during the late 11th century AD.  
  The best known English translations are those by Edward Fitzgerald: his fifth (and last) translation includes a mere 101 quatrains - a fraction of Omar's original work. Fitzgerald's selection loosely groups quatrains by theme; rendering quatrains into English as four-line, rhymed stanzas.  
  Omar's writings are pervaded by the consciousness of the transient quality of life. In his Rubáiyát, the author ponders the limits of human knowledge and morality: and confronts his readers point-blank with the difficult questions that challenge every generation:  
  - what is the ultimate benefit derived from human knowledge?  
  - given human mortality; is is best to guide our lives by the dictates of reason, or sensuality?  
  - what happens to my soul when I die?  
  - why did God - the Creator - give me existence?  
   
  (Introduction by Godsend)

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  Spring (Rossetti)

  Christina Rossetti

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Spring by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Fortnightly Poetry Poetry project for March 25, 2012.Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. (Summary by Wikiperdia )

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  The Kyoto Protocol

  Roger G. Trow

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  Roger Trow's first novel deals with the impact of an amazing discovery in the early 22nd century. Two doctors discover an amazing protein that has the effect of expanding human intelligence and imparting telepathic abilities. This comes at a time when the world is divided into two superblocks: Europe and Asia, following the seismic cataclysms that literally shook the world.Europe is a dictatorship and the Asian superblock are dominated by a China that is aggressively expansionist, and an uneasy state of peace exists.Three exceptionally gifted young children flee the secret services of China and travel from Kyoto, Japan to the home of their biological father, Dr Jim Stewart, who is an international security expert living in Avon, England.Who could have thought that the dramatic chase across the continents would result in the overthrow of the dictators and the beginning of a new age of peace and progress for mankind?

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  A Time To Live And A Time To Die

  Ron E. Hignite

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  Ronald E. Hignite demonstrates in A Time to Live and a Time to Die his poetic skills and gives greater understanding and meaning to God's seasons for man as revealed by Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes. 
  Listeners will be inspired by the manner in which Hignite presents the contrasts of the ever-changing seasons of man in poetry and rhyme. 
  Ronald E. Hignite was born in North Carolina and grew up in Connersville, Indiana. He returned to North Carolina with his family after high school and attended East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. There he earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Following college, he taught English at Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, VA. 
  After two years in Fork Union, he moved back to northeastern North Carolina where he spent most of his educational career in the towns of Washington, Camden, Murfreesboro, and Ahoskie. His interest in writing poetry was sparked while in college with his readings of the English poets, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. 
  ©2013 Ronald E. Hignite (P)2013 Ronald E. Higniite

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  ROOMS - Rock Novel

  Wilson Sherman

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  Introducing ROOMS, a new kind of audiobook, a poetry musical, or even... rock novel! Join POETRY BAND, on a visionary voyage into the imagination, traveling mystical rooms to the end of time... and eternal beginning! ROOMS, the poetry novel, is the second book in the poetry novel trilogy by Wilson Sherman, that also includes EXIT and PSALM. All three books in the trilogy, have a musical version recorded by POETRY BAND, poetryband.net, now available here as an audiobook... rock novel. "By means of sounds of spiritual music, and its accompanying expressions of spiritual speech is a bold, and daring, and most masterly conception that the public has embraced and approved with avidity." - William Blake A ROOMS video, and full-length movie versions, are slated for production. Former President Clinton wrote the band, "the new album is great!" https://www.poetryband.net/Clinton_Letter_2007.htm. The best art is novel and new..." William Blake

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