Poetic License
Reaching Out for the Courage to Speak My Truth
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Feel the Free! Do you feel it? Think about it! Right now! Let it all go! Feel the feeling of freedom wash over you! Smell the roses, see the roses, study the shimmering diamonds of life’s juices masquerading as dew that can make your life sparkle. Get some perspective on the longer run-what really matters. Why did i wait until i was old before i let myself let it go? I was so full of all the things i had to do-must do-right now and there was no time. I couldn’t do it, wound up like a spring. What if i had been able to let go-let release wash over me and get a new perspective on my life, on my World? Would i not have done even better-been better-a master of the universe? Why did it take me fifty years to get it, that it all doesn’t really matter that much? Not as much as the smile of your bride, not as much as the laughter of your child- Hey! That’s the big deal, the thing you will remember all your life- and at the end of your life. I know everybody says that stuff, but it is really true! I remember! Easy to talk now-why couldn’t i do it then, all wrapped up in my urgencies? I can look back at my losses- the wouldas’, shouldas’ and couldas’. Do better than i did while there’s still time to salvage the losses. Can you do it? You can do it! Lighten up and feel the free’
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Author Max Roytenberg’s newest collection of verse, Poetic License, draws on his life experience of nearly eighty years of living, work, travel, death, losses, and triumphs in the public arena and in private life. In this new work, he sums up his perspective on life. He shares his views of our current world of the twenty-first century, identifying his hopes and fears and demanding the freedom to express his views, some of them not politically correct. In works written over the last fifty years, in prose and in verse, he contemplates the extraordinary changes we are facing in nearly every aspect of the future we face, technology, faith, demographics, world governance, medicine, and relations between men, women, and nations. He calls us to account and to action in the face of prospects he feels many are not too happy about. This collection presents both cries of protest and remedies, along with consultations and exhortations. Poetic License is not an offer of comfort, but rather an appeal to our courage.
About the Author
Max Roytenberg, a Canadian, was born in the prairies almost eighty years ago. An economist by education, his career was centered on the food business in Canada. His life was transformed when he married his childhood sweetheart in 2005, and, retiring to Ireland, took up again his interest in writing. This is his sixth collection of poetry.