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    The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano: BestIndiePres Poetry like Water and Air
    The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano: BestIndiePres Poetry like Water and Air
    The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano: BestIndiePres Poetry like Water and Air
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    The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano: BestIndiePres Poetry like Water and Air

    By Joseph J. Charles

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    This poetry collection will help you reconnect with your guidance system or inner GPS through a combination of prayer, hymns, meditation, and balance with your community and ecology.  You will be able to focus on the things that uplift your soul rather than spending time on temporary or temporal and material matters.  In so doing, you will be able to cut through the uncertainty, drama, chaos, confusion, and disruption in your life.  This way, you will be able to integrate and align with the 'Hidden Law,' also referred to as 'Divine Blueprint' or 'Universal Intelligence.'  By staying in touch with your inner GPS, you will be able to remain healthy and anchored.

    This poetry collection will help you develop a drama-free personal restorative practice.  On a personal level, you will be better equipped to deal with the issues and meet your needs in our demanding modern world of family, work, and fast-paced society linked and always connected by technology, internet, and social media. 

    This poetry collection is also a tribute to the dedication and hard labor of the US farmers, growers, field workers, Fresno State Agricultural Programs, and the various organizations advocating on behalf of California Agriculture.  The Central Valley of California remains the 'fruit basket and bread basket of the world."  This poetry collection is a tribute to the sustainability and stewardship of everybody who is involved in agribusiness.  I have learned that to better appreciate California, one has to engage in outdoors activities and appreciate the various ethnic groups from all over the world living in the state. Think about the sun, sea, sand, mountains and snowfields, deserts and dunes, wildlife and marine life, wine country and wildfires, and the vast expanse of farmland covering the Central Valley of California. 

    If you enjoy the fruits of California's Central Valley, the shorelines of California, places and cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Sacramento, Weed, Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks etc, then this book is for you.  Mr. Charles never forgets his Caribbean roots.  He takes his readers to places of extreme beauty as well as the ordinary streets inhabited by homeless and addicts to opioids, fentanyl, and crack cocaine.  He also writes poems about recovery and addiction aftermath from California to West Virginia.

    In "A Dream Deferred:  all that glitters is not gold," the poet writes about things that keep us chained to debt, joblessness, and addiction.                                 

     

    "Joseph J. Charles's poetry is brave, genuine, and full of joy and hope.  His poems deal with what it takes to live in California with all its societal issues, wealth, and politics," wrote reader, Balthazar Bacon. 

    "This book is a love letter to the people of California, specifically the men and women who continue to build and shape California's Central Valley, California's agribusiness and Ag land.  It is also a tribute to the farmworkers who labor to raise their sons and daughters for a better tomorrow," wrote Tiffany Padilla.

    "I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in inspiring and necessary poems for our times," wrote Jessica Garcia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCD Laferrière
    Release dateMar 31, 2018
    ISBN9781386538691
    The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano: BestIndiePres Poetry like Water and Air
    Author

    Joseph J. Charles

    Mr. Joseph J. Charles is an American author of fiction, poetry, business, and language textbooks.  He is a father of 3 children.

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      The Last Dance Performance on the Volcano - Joseph J. Charles

      The last Dance Performance on the Volcano

      Hymns of Hope, Chants d’Espérance: Poetry as Medicine and for Healing

      Dancing and singing on the Pit Crater and Volcano of life

      Dedicated to my brothers and sisters, my daughter, Cass, and sons Caleb and Colby! 

      This poetry collection is a compilation of several poems by poet and performer, Joseph J. Charles.  It is for everyone who loves hymns, beauty, poetry performance, mindfulness, and grace.  It is also for anyone who appreciates our land, ecology, beaches and shorelines, California’s agribusiness and agriculture.  It is dedicated to all of you! 

      This book is a love letter to the people of California, specifically the men and women who continue to build and shape California’s Central Valley, California’s agribusiness and Ag land.  It is also a tribute to the farmworkers who labor to raise their sons and daughters for a better tomorrow, wrote Tiffany Padilla.

      I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in inspiring and necessary poems for our times, wrote Jessica Garcia.

      Table of Contents

      What is Poetry for me?  Page 9

      The last Dance on the Crater Pit  page 10

      Menopause and Valley Fever’s hot Flashes  page 11

      A good mother is never Dead  page 12

      In the Kingdom of Empty Bellies and Unhoused People  page 13

      Worshipping AR-15 Style Rifles  page 14

      A Collective Homage to our Contemporary Heroines   page 15 

      Arise and Shine  page 17

      Poema / Poème / Poem / Poetry:  Si je te disais...   page 18

      Journey to Happiness  page 19

      Poem Vignettes  page 20

      The Hotline Volunteer  page 21

      A marvelous and healthy Baby  page 22

      Randy’s Trip to see the World   page 23

      Bridges of Hope and Faith    page 25

      Tumbleweed   page 26

      Haiti Chérie – Home Sweet Home  page 28

      Glorified and Justified   page 30

      Epitath for Haitian Quake Victims and Survivors  page 32

      Roofless Camp Life  page 33

      New York’s 9-11, Haiti’s 1-12-2010  page 34

      Death, what are you worth?   page 36

      The Haitian Grandmother   page 38

      Life is a Dot  page 39

      Soot and Blood  page 40

      For Grace and the Love of Spring  page 41

      Hello Grandma, it’s me, Skyler  page 43

      Refined Lard for a Divorcee  page 45 

      Thieves do not Like Poetry  page 46

      The recalcitrant Bees of the blooming Trees  page 49

      The Nakedness of Autumn, The Central Valley’s Bare Limbs  page 51

      Cry over Manzanar  page 53

      Poetry like Water and Oxygen  page 55

      The Other Side of Eden, Fall Transition in the California Garden  page 57

      Lost Meditations  page 59

      Roosting Marvels, Roosting Headache  page 61

      Spirit Fog  page 64

      Blooming Orchards  page 66

      Prophecy and Revelations  page 67

      Pastoral Delights  page 69

      Water and the Blossom  page 71

      A few Words  page 72

      To you, my Inspiration  page 73

      A Dream Deferred – All that glitters is not gold  page 74

      Young Man, Go West  page 75

      What is poetry for me?

      Poetry is where I begin every day.  It is the tool with which I travel the world and the spaceship transporting me to my final destination.  Poetry is a deep conversation with loved ones, friends, family members, colleagues, and society at large.  It is the history of my ancestors from the African and European continents in the Americas and that of my own life.  It is my conquered fear, my security in a world of fear, anxiety, and danger, my lit path in the valleys of pain, desolation, death, and tribulation. 

      For me, poetry is my faith and good sense, my prayer of consecration, an incantation I use to bind myself as protection before I step into the ups and downs of the waiting world.  My best poems come early in the morning, when it’s quiet.  As I am alone, I feel like the only person awake on the face of the earth.  Poetry is a manifestation of a life.  It is a form of prophecy, a prediction, a foretelling of the future.  Writing poems is like building a future and a space where I can slip into a temporary trance, an amazing and curative place.  I write poetry to find deep truths for myself and for other people who are seeking enlightenment, spiritual growth

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