Second Book Of Poems

I am working on a second book of poems. I have written so many poems over the years and they are saved in a folder. I noticed they were in alphabetical order when I saved them. How did I do that? Anyway, I’m down to the H’s and have 35 poems I feel are suitable for a book of poems, and my goal is 100 poems for a second book.

My first book of poems only had 27 pages. I published it through Amazon’s self-publishing site and it is available for purchase. It’s called Pet Poetry by Constance Barr Corbett.

If I can find 100 already written poems that I think readers would enjoy reading, I’ll publish this second book of poems on the same site.

I was surprised to find haiku. It looks like there was some kind of haiku contest that I never entered, but I did write 7 or 8 haiku poems. Some amused me, most were just thoughtful. That raised the number of poems quickly.

My daily goal is to find seven poems that appear well done to me and add them to the list. I stop at seven, because I’m usually tired of reading poems after seven. But then those short haikus popped up and they were good, in my opinion, so I’m up to 35.

What can I call a second book of poems that are about different things? Eclectic? Is that even spelled right?

I am tired. One of my adult children is coming to visit me tomorrow to see how I’m doing. I’m better. Maybe not completely well, but closer to it than I have been in eight months. I’ve been trying to clean this place. I can’t get it too clean, or she will doubt I really live here. Housework has seldom interested me.

So I found a good reason to stop that foolishness. I’ll work on my writing! The poetry book seemed most enjoyable.

The book of Public School Teacher stories still sits by my bed waiting for more editing. If I have to read that book one more time after this one (and I will, at least one more), I might set my brain on fire. I think the stories are good, but I’ve read them, and reread them, and reread them ad infinitum. Look at that. It’s gotten me talking in Latin. But when anyone else reads it, I want it to be as perfect as it can be.

Who likes to clean house? For free? I’ll sit and write a poem about you doing it, if you want to come over. Meanwhile it’s back to cleaning with a nagging whisper in my head “When are you going to finish editing that schoolteacher book?”

Another Book of Poetry

If the title of this blog doesn’t turn you off, good!

I have published a small (chapbook?) book of poems on amazon.com.

Today I wondered if I had enough other poems to publish them in book form?

The previous poetry book, titled Pet Poetry, contained 27 pages.

I would like for this new book of “Other Poems by Me” (working title) to contain at least 100.

I have found seven suitable poems so far and I’m down to the C’s. (Poems are saved in alphabetical order).

Some I do not want to publish, but I was surprised at how many poems I do have that I’ve written and saved in “my poems” folder.

On another note, I’m still editing the Stories of A Public School Teacher book and am on Chapter 19. I am going through the proof copy, reading each page and making notes of needed corrections When these are done, I will release that book for publication on Amazon.com.

My mind is full of grasshoppers that jump from idea to idea. I had thought about publishing a book of my other poems, but just started making a list today. Meanwhile I also continue to work on another book that I think will do well once published.

And of course, an idea for a mystery book has popped into my head as I acclimate myself to my new surroundings. I’ve been here 3 1/2 months, but the first two months I was still very ill and hid in my apartment most of the time. I am continuing to recover and back to writing/publishing part time.

I hope all your writing endeavors are going well. If anyone wants to leave comments about what they’re working on, I’d love to read them.

Constance

Who Gets Rewarded In America?

Since the time of that foolish “No Child Left Behind” policy, which equaled “No Child Goes Ahead”, the best and brightest of America’s children have been held back.
Now, many of these children, who foolishly believed the American Dream still existed, are struggling to both live and pay down student loan debt which doubles as they make their payments, because of the outrageous interest charged on the money they borrowed to better themselves. Meanwhile the ones who dropped out of school or invaded America and chose to breed children they could not afford to support, are being handed money hand over fist.
Make no doubt about it, America does not want the best and brightest to succeed, but they want the lazy and illegal to breed more children and be the docile Americans the politicians can control. They do not want thinkers. They want followers who follow the line of financial breadcrumbs right to the voting booth.
Meanwhile those who can and have tried to better their own lives are left struggling forever under huge student loan debt. How much student loan debt could have been forgiven with the money the American Government is handing to those who will never work again because they have hit the government lottery by doing as told and going with the status quo in which they were born?
No money for your tax refunds? The IRS being overwhelmed? Really?
Educated Americans might have angered the Government by trying to get ahead, but they still are the Americans with the ability to think and reason far more than those who shun education.
You’ve been shafted, successfully educated poor folks. You’ve been shafted by your own government. Get out of this country while you can. It has become a third world country with nothing of value but the poor and uneducated who breed more children than they can afford because they know their government will rescue them.
How many times did we hear during the Pandemic that the children were going hungry? How many requests for helping them did the rest of us get as the US Government found three different ways to be sure the children and their over-breeding parents were fed? There was no way any children were going hungry. Yet they asked those, who worked for their money and were already paying taxes to feed those children, to donate money for food as well.
I’ve had enough. I can see through the US Government. They do not want successful, thinking citizens. They want those citizens unknowingly enslaved to the status quo.