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    Introspection
    Introspection
    Introspection
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    Introspection

    By Peter Kaufman

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    In Introspection, Peter Kaufman, changes focus and starts out by giving readers a major volume of his poetry concerning the ever changing variety of communication, thinking and philosophy, of all kinds, in human life today; included is the assistance of an exceptional artist who again adds her illustrative talent to the printed word. C P Snow, a great writer, wrote in Th e Realist, Preface, 1978, ----a writers life is not just connected with his work; it cannot be separated from his life. Introspection illustrates Snows thoughts dramatically.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 24, 2016
    ISBN9781514471395
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    Peter Kaufman

    Peter Kaufman is an eleven year Air Force veteran, active and reserve service, as a Special Agent in the OSI, and is a graduate of Yale and Southern Cal. He writes mostly about emotions, relationships---positive, negative, and tragic; intrigue; crime; and the critical kinds of choices people make. He lives in Oceanside, California.

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      Introspection - Peter Kaufman

      INTROSPECTION

      Peter Kaufman

      Copyright © 2016 by Peter Kaufman.

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5144-7138-8

                      eBook           978-1-5144-7139-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 03/21/2016

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      CONTENTS

      Poems

      Balancing Fate

      Transient

      Acknowledgments Introspection

      In Introspection, Peter Kaufman, gives readers a major volume of poetry concerning the ever changing variety of communication, thinking and philosophy, of all kinds, in human life today, with the assistance of Cynthia Kostylo, an exceptional artist, who adds her illustrative talent to the printed word as she did in Peter's: Agendas and Choices, Autumn Leaves and Other Events, and now Introspection. C P Snow, a great writer, wrote in The Realist, Preface, 1978,'----'a writer's life is not just connected with his work; it cannot be separated from his life.'

      Hourglass

      I cannot love you

      As a young man

      For it is today, and sand

      Through my glass

      Has flowed

      So now I go

      At another ardent pace

      That only youth can give

      It's time to glean.

      Nor green, dear, you be

      Poised in sexuality

      At that edge of genesis

      Where all newness grows,

      And grows, and grows

      Until you know

      Our sifted sands

      Make still more levels

      On which we stand

      To love

      And see the stars.

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      Tubalcain

      Nascent bonding temper tests

      The mettle from which every member

      Of a budding duet is formed

      As the blacksmith, Fate,

      Forges trial sculptures

      And shapers imperfect petals

      For passionate blooms

      Which we,

      As lovers, companions,

      Rings of gold,

      Hammer, finish together

      Until the anvil's smooth

      And the hearth turns cold.

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      Yesterday's Wind

      'Once upon a time,'

      The fable begins

      Then weaves, spins

      A tale of Princes,

      Knights, Squires:

      Those who dare

      And perform such deeds

      As we call, 'Untrue.

      Simply impossible to do!

      So, cautious, hesitancy bound

      We mistrust our opportunity

      Our cause our goal,

      But then gathering spirit

      Reflecting anew,

      We posit possibilities pondering

      Yet again, again, and again

      But a ship doesn't sail

      With yesterday's wind.'

      6%20-yesterdays%20wind.jpg

      Equality

      Who can contest,

      Candidly, with courage

      And not in fear,

      Like those obsessed

      That Loss must always

      Subtract from Gain

      So that nullity exits

      Between plus and blame,

      And triumph

      Is sought

      At any humiliating price;

      By tempering

      Obsession,

      So that every ego

      Might attain

      Some enhancement,

      In the exchange?

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      My Architect

      As a Master Designer,

      Dear,

      Please engineer

      Using all your talent

      An edifice of sorts:

      No, not a tower

      Nothing perfect,

      Simply instead,

      Something easy

      Like a pyramid.

      Make it permanent,

      Perpetual

      Never out of date,

      Something quick to create,

      And as you have

      A flair for style,

      Use the blue of the Aegean

      And the sun of our smiles.

      5%20-%20My%20Architect.jpg

      A Vacillant Aggressive

      She practices deception

      Posing Master's questions

      In clever Happenstances

      Until, she says, "suasion

      Is the source

      Of total persuasion,

      "Until ultimate cooperation

      Is the key

      To secure success

      That insures

      Her goal:

      Wild participation

      "By a female,

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