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Sechsundvierzig kurze Gedichte die auch einladen zum Nachdenken.

Mood and dream foreshadow the ideal effectiveness of our soul on behalf of ourselves and others. They indicate for us, each in its own way, that an operational soul is available for us and places in our hands the means whereby we may arrive at, or attain to, this greatest of all benefits within reach of every human being. It makes sense that once we have worked our way through this possibility a few times, we will be much less afraid of, and less vulnerable in the presence of, depressions and elations in ourselves and others, while images and symbols, as we accidentally produce them ourselves and as they crop up like weeds all around us, will cause us less anxiety and tempt us less frequently.

Keep in mind that not all poems are made to please.Some are cobbled together to afford you a little ease.Some are an amalgam of stuff and form,Carefully calculated to take your psyche by storm.Your psyche in any case you should try to amend.The best poems are constructs of world without end.A good poem is something different altogether.It steers a course for you through all kinds of weather.Then there's great poetry, it takes hours to read.Sometimes days, weeks; it harbours a creed.Most poems, let's face it, are occasional, for the day,To create a little order and make some headway.It there's no truth in it, it's a scam or a muddle,so it should be crumpled up and tossed into a puddle.

A play in five acts which explores in a lifelike manner the roots of modern drama in comparison to contemporary drama.

Eight Poems of a discursive style. Each poem is made up of several short poems that advance its evolving shape. So do all eight poems align in terms of the creative growth principle. In four pages at the beginning of the document the author explains his intention.

Das Schoenste von Allem. Neunzehn wohluberlegte, sinvolle Verse.

This is a fairly serious play along classical lines, based not on ideas but on creative thought. The title refers to the significant difference between modern and contemporary life and the play creates bridges from the former to the latter. The language is straightforward English and the action by and large is symbolic.

These poems were written between May and November 2018, during a time of breakthrough into a new stage of life. They represent a minor growth cycle.

These poems are gathered from three different groups that were written at different times during a one year period from July 2017 - December 2018. Those towards the end are composed in response to the needs of the day.

These short essays will be appreciated by those who like to contemplate some of the finer points of the practical human spirit's achievements. As mature human beings we are able to do much for our fellow humans by learning the power of compassion and using it to solve life problems for those not quite as advanced as ourselves. The great challenge for our century is the evolution- or resurrection-growth of those who are called or even chosen to evolve to the point of completion, however they have little or no understanding of what is involved. As a consequence they mistake the often painful challenges to their creative capacities for misfortunes and grief rather than perceiving them as means towards communal reality and eternal life.

An essay in the form of a symposium. Informal discussion of education mostly as chosen rather than as imposed, such as by the State. Education also viewed as not necessarily school education. A bridge from education by constraint to education by choice. The need of human beings to free themselves from prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Education that is further also in the sense of ongoing. Those who take part in the discussion are pupils, students, teachers and parents; also a banker, a philosopher, various scientists, a poet

These four short plays, written in succession, make a bit of a point of documenting our human evolution out of modernity into the contemporary realm of communal reality. They would therefore be of interest mainly to those who find within themselves a developmental tendency in that direction.

Rather than writing about poetry and poems, I make amends and pit myself against some time-honoured prejudices, especially in myself, as I show what can be achieved both poetically and philosophically, as I remain mindful of our human need for coming to terms with our existential impoverishment in view of available spiritual riches.

Poems written during a time when unexpected changes occurred in the author's life - which is not to say that misfortune necessarily produces better poetry - except if courageously borne and then at least expressed from the remembering heart.

Poems on the theme of renunciation surrender and loss, drawn from a period of several year.

The education of children with regard to growth takes account of growth as necessary and unavoidable. We either cooperate with it creatively and thrive or we ignore and resist it and suffer dire consequences. A true teacher remains aware of this necessity in his pupils and he introduces them to their own ability to cooperate with it once they mature. This essay is therefore for those who believe they are able to be true teachers, and of course also for those who are unhappy with what they are presently offering their pupils.

This poetry addresses itself to the changing visage of the past, specifically the 'modern' past two millennia, in terms of contemporary sensibility. The accent is on mystic perception and the meaning of it is transformational.

These two essays, although they were written separately, not even in the same year, are thematically related, in that they both pertain to the resurrectional process. 'They' describes what we wish to come away from and 'Jesus Today' indicates to an extent how we can manage to make our way to our goal and look back. 'Jesus Today' was originally written in German.

These essays were written over a period of several years and are not presented here in chronological order. They are research essays inasmuch as they break some new ground while they lean substantially on previous, larger works. The essay 'The Power of Purpose' was written as an exercise in response to an essay competition. The others were penned on the spur of the moment when there was need of extra clarity on some topic.

These two essays were originally written in German, along with twenty others on similar topics, in 1994, by the author and then translated by him into English in 2018. They contain much fundamental thought that is explored and expanded in other, longer essays. At times the reader may do well to keep in mind that creative thought is not as readily translated as, say, a story or a novel, because in the case of the former the language itself is depended upon to supply its store of vernacular truth, as during the creation of such research essays, which are more like artworks than like conceptual constructs