Once in a while I put Peter De Remigis into the Google box. Today when I did that a link peter deremigis poems appeared which I opened and saw another link: videos of peter deremigis poems. When I opened that link it turned out to be the first page online that I gave up searching … More
Gotta secret Maybe it’s too trite to write; Maybe nobody knows it but me Cares or’s even noticed in 2 millennia C.E. So I’m tell’n’ it. Cause it won’t go away; Who’d’ve guessed That Cicero says: “Don’t be afraid of Mark Antony’s lion.”
I’ve been thinkin’: with all the news reports that I’ve learned are just made up to attract attention and all Mr. Trump’s lies and the hundreds of thousands of books that have been sold because they were written by someone named in the news with a “political ax to grind”, my books contain nothing but … More My Books’ Contents
It’s difficult keeping track of the things I’ve written online. Before computers took over, while I edited one work all the others were at my finger tips. Online pages can not be flicked through and seen at a glance like those in a note book. I agree with the statement attributed to Steve Jobs founder … More Poems and Experience
Prose writings/novels like snapshots are pieces of history stopped in time and place.
We clatter past abandoned campsites Patches of color amidst summer’s desiccated foliage Left out like Tuesday’s trash. We dream human rights Poverty in Guatemala Injustice in China; Talking tenderly of puppies.
Poems in Selected Poems, though influenced by the sounds of everything I’ve read starting with John Milton’s Paradise Lost, despite my aversion to long poems other than The Iliad and The Odyssey, imitated by Virgil’s fanciful Aeneid that inspired Dante Alighieri’s pre-Raphaelite diversion in English verse, are all brief.
Snapshots are of a moment in time – time past. Poems are attempts to convey the totality of experience as ever-present.
Today I,ve been reading a book whose topic, survival, is illustrated by Canadian poems most of which depict suffering. Anyone who knows nothing about Canada on reading Survival might guess that Canada is a pretty depressing place and its poets isolated and despondent. It’s funny though, if I felt as they did I’d have no … More Selected Poems
Selected Poems by Peter De Remigis This soft cover book of 84 5″x 8″ pages and about 90 poems is being sold by Amazon.com for $8.25 USD . Though the title Selected Poems I’m disappointed to have learned gets lost in similar Online titles, my name Peter De Remigis does not. But the word ‘Selected” … More Selected Poems
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