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Over thirty (30) years ago, in 1992, I was a sixth grader at Hermosa Vista Elementary School in Mesa Arizona.
It was the year prior to the beginning of junior high and the onset of clinical OCD, which made 7th grade one of the worst years of my life. However, the year prior—sixth grade—was one of the happiest and most peaceful, pleasant, and enjoyable years of my life! It was a quasi-utopian existence for me—a true "calm before the storm."
During that school year, my sixth grade teacher, Nell Jean, required us to create a comprehensive poetry project. It was one of the most enjoyable assignments I ever received throughout all my years of formal schooling.
This project involved compiling a personal anthology of famous poems we loved as well as original poems we penned with our own little sixth grade hands, hearts, and minds. It was a wonderfully satisfying experience, further fueling my lifelong love affair with verse.
Later on, during my middle and high school years, I composed several more poems. But it was not until my mid-twenties that my prosodical pen grew prolific. Spurred on by my passion for Personal Leadership and Romance, my Muse—a very real phenomenon which comes and goes—touched my heart, mind, and pen scores of different times, leading me to eventually compile my best work into an anthology entitled, Psalms of Life, which I published eleven years ago, in 2012. This explosion of poetic composition also triggered the establishment of my nickname, Jack.
Click HERE to read: From Whence Cometh Jack?
The title of my personal poetry anthology was derived and inspired by the famous nineteenth century American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who once wrote a poem entitled: A Psalm of Life, that, like its author, became world famous.
A Psalm of Life
WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MANSAID TO THE PSALMIST.
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With the four months we have remaining before beginning this landmark online publication, I am going to do something similar with my poetry anthology: Psalms of Life. This will provide readers with access to the bulk of my poetic contributions to date—for FREE!
If you'd still like to access the entire work in one place, you can, of course, still purchase a hard copy of the book by clicking HERE.
Publishing this poetry collection serially will provide me with the unique opportunity to not only grant my readers with easy and affordable access to my poems, but will also give me the chance to continually refine and polish my work—something I will undoubtedly continue to do for as long as I am living.
I am a tireless reviser of my own work. I'll never be fully content until my work is PERFECT; and as a college English Professor of mine once told my fellow students and I: "You never finish a document; you stop writing." That is really true; however, I never really stop writing either—I continue to edit, revise, hone, proofread, and polish indefinitely in a never-ending quest to make my writing as good as it can possibly get.
This online serial publication will also give me an opportunity to add relevant commentary to these poems, something the hard copy currently lacks, and that I hope proves enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring to my readers.
So... tune in next week as we begin an exciting journey through Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection, in which I will present the psalms of my own life and career journey through poetry and prose. You can count on receiving piecemeal portions of this book each Wednesday morning for the next four months, followed by the serial publication of the SAL Textbooks, Volume 1 and Volume 2 each Wednesday after that for as long as it takes.
In the meantime, additional articles on other subjects will be published on other days of the week in between the regular, weekly Wednesday serial publications.
If, while reading these poems—and later the SAL Textbooks—you experience even a fraction of the joy, insight, and pleasure I experienced while writing and revising them, then I assure you it will be time well spent!
Poetically and Prosaically Yours ~
—Dr. JJ
Author's Note: This is the 319th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 145th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.
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Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL POEMS
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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.
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