Author Description

NOTES RE: POETRY: Dr. John WorldPeace JD I was born in 1948, in Houston, Texas and lived there most of my life. Between 1970-2, I was in Louisiana, Georgia, and Italy in the Army. 1993-6 in Colorado. I have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 2011 and it seems unlikely that I will have a home base elsewhere in the future.In October 1970, when I was 22, I wrote my first poem. Since then, I have written about 4000 poems in various poetic genres. My poems could be looked at as a supplement to my autobiography; one-page snap-shots of what I was thinking or experiencing at a particular moment in time.In June 2018, I began to self-publish all the poems I have ever written in chronological order using Amazon’s self-publishing software. There are about 40 poem books in total. I have lost less than a dozen poems over the years.Along with my free-verse poems, I have published one line (not one sentence) poems and Haiku, which are 3 line poems with 5, 7, 5 syllables per line. My genetics and my current state of health make me confident, barring some accident, that I will live more than a few years past 100. I will continue to write poems and, in fact, will probably increase the annual volume of poems written over the rest of my life. 1) I do not force my poems. I don’t write unless I feel inspired. I have no desire to set a world record for the number of poems written in a lifetime. 2) My poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder in chronological order. Usually, within a very few minutes after writing the poem I have no real memory of what I wrote.. This is the way it has always been for me. The edits I make after writing a poem are minimal. Images of some of the poems in the original cursive are on my website: https://drjohnworldpeacejdPoetry.com3) I do not write poems that rhyme except incidentally. I would say that I channel poems from muses in the spiritual dreamscape. It is like I am taking dictation. To force a rhyme would collapse th