David George 
Sonnets from the New World [EPUB ebook] 

BEAUTY


Sometimes unexpectedly, unbidden,
Beauty comes. Not a downpouring of doves,
Not a Venus, sheathed in an ivory shell,
Not even the lenses of Stonehenge in its season—
Stones aligned to catch the sun as it moves
Mystically, majestically, through holes
And crevices.
Not even these spectaculars—
The light against the dark, the white ecstatic,
Stars falling and setting the sky on fire—
Take possession, or let the moment take
The horse high over the hedge with an unseen rider.

It comes when least expected, when the dark
Opens a crack to let light filter in—
A word, a look, a sudden realization.

— David George



Step into the timeless world of the poetry of ideas and humanity, art and nature, history and beauty.

Sobre o autor

Widely published in Europe and America, David spent 25 years in Western Europe, Africa and the Middle East, domiciled mostly in Spain, but also in Morocco, Egypt and Turkey.

A US Army veteran of the Cold War era, he served as a member of the Counter-Intelligence Corps in Germany and Austria, plus duty in Asia and Washington, D.C,

He lectured at various European and American universities on art and anthropology, and exhibited paintings and photographs in London, Munich, Madrid, Venice and elsewhere.

An award-winning poet and prolific writer, David George’s work has been published in over one hundred literary magazines and anthologies, including The Anthology of Magazine Verse and The Yearbook of American Poetry. He is the author of Things of the Sea Belong to the Sea, a collection of his sea poetry. David has written more than 6, 000 sonnets and several books are in different stages of publication.

He received the Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission’s Works in Performance Award plus publication of his book Lamentation for Emmanuel (Wooden Angel Press). His book on gypsies and asuntos gitanos, The Flamenco Guitar (Society of Spanish Studies) was one of the many products of his years living among the gypsies in Andalucia, and is widely regarded as a ground-breaking work in what was at the time a non-existent field.