Reincarnation Blues, and other Poems, is a collection of 50 poems and sonnets, all a product of the fertile mind of Frank Thomas Smith. Also included are translations of other author’s poetry made by Frank. Most of the contents of this book are Anthroposophical in nature, but they are done in such a way that everyone can understand and enjoy living in the verse.
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Table of Contents
Reincarnation Blues. ………………….. 1
Canto I ……………………………………… 1
Canto II …………………………………….. 3
Canto III ……………………………………. 4
Canto IV. …………………………………… 7
Canto V. ……………………………………. 9
Canto VI …………………………………….11
Canto VII ……………………………………13
Canto VIII …………………………………..15
Canto IX (The Brothers Karamazov) 17
Canto X. ……………………………………. 19
Canto XI ……………………………………. 21
Canto XII … Love’s Lament …………. 22
Christ Comes to Skopelos. …………… 24
The Three is One. ……………………….. 26
Forward. …………………………………….. 27
The First Circle. …………………………… 28
The Second Circle. ………………………. 29
The Third Circle. ………………………….. 30
The Actress. ………………………………… 32
Bad Advice. …………………………………. 34
Midnight Christmas. ………………………. 36
The Initiation. ……………………………….. 38
Carioca Crack. ……………………………… 40
Chess and Cheese in Crete. …………… 42
Found and Lost in Crete. ………………… 44
The Daughter of the Sun. ……………….. 46
Exile’s End. …………………………………… 49
The Expatriate. ………………………………. 50
Falú in Zurich. ………………………………… 52
The Return of the Gauchos ……………… 54
The Last Judg(e)ment ……………………… 57
Libra. …………………………………………….. 58
Mireya. …………………………………………… 60
The Oak. ………………………………………… 62
Occult Science. ……………………………….. 64
Old Friends. …………………………………….. 66
The Parting. …………………………………….. 68
The Pickpocket ………………………………… 70
The Professor of Philosophy. ……………… 73
Sonnet to Love. ………………………………… 75
The Tall Trees of Brooklyn. …………………. 76
Missing The Point ……………………………… 79
The Return of the Magi ………………………. 80
Celestial Traffic Jam.. …………………………. 82
The Working Stiff ……………………………….. 85
Ultimate Questions. ……………………………. 87
Twin Pillars of Wisdom. ………………………. 88
The Drone Cometh. ……………………………. 90
Translations. ……………………………………… 93
Credo. ………………………………………………. 93
Prologue in Heaven. …………………………… 95
from FAUST by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. 95
About the Author. ………………………………. 101
Other Books. …………………………………….. 103
Over de auteur
James D. Stewart is the founder (in 1980) of, and emeritus e.Librarian at, the Rudolf Steiner Archive & e.Lib. Now he is the Executive Director at The e.Lib, Inc., a conglomerate of Anthroposophical resources on the Internet. Mr. Stewart has 60 years’ experience in the Computer and related Industries.