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Amazon Book Description

The poems show the poet’s daring imagination and spontaneous quality of language.

Sample Poem from Of Ether and Earth

Love Is Not Known

Love is not known, and
Can never be known.
Love cannot be weighed
Like bullion or flour.
Love cannot be roped—
A wild mustang running
Free, never tethered,
Never corralled—freer
Than the North winds.

Love has its own mind:
It comes when it comes,
Will not hear entreaties,
Will not beg its bread,  
For love rules all worlds
And love soaks all life.

Love is a gangster,
Obeying no laws,
Taking what it wants.
And love is a priest,
Making holy life’s dirt,
Redeeming then the
Wreckage of hope by
Pouring its holy water,
Quenching all longing

Love is a magician,
Appearing in two 
Hearts at once,
Transforming the
Beast into a man,
Girl into woman--
An alchemist
Changing lead 
Into pure gold….

And love can never die.
When the heart it holds
Beats its last beat, then
Love will soar with soul
To the next world, for
Love is the only key 
That can pry open
Heaven’s heavy door. 
© Nolo Segundo
                                                                        
                         
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Author Biography

Nolo Segundo, pen name of retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, the war zone of Cambodia, 1973-74] L.j. Carber, became a published poet in his 8th decade in over 240 literary journals in 21 countries on 4 continents and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for best of the Net. Cyberwit.net has published 3 collections in softcover: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE; OF ETHER AND EARTH; and SOUL SONGS. These titles reflect the awareness he gained in 1971 when he had an NDE whilst nearly drowning: that he has–is–a consciousness predating birth and surviving death, what poets since the Psalmists and Plato have called the soul.