Collected Poems |
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| Author:
| Mundahl, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5467-1943-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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I was a child of the Sixties, reading Kerouac, Ram Das, Castaneda, listening to Allan Watts on Sunday mornings, studying Zen, visiting India, living with the yogis, talking about land of my own somewhere, believing that a new age was dawning, a kinder world, less grasping. Fifty years have passed since then. I went on to lead a respectable life. I got degrees, wrote books, taught school, joined the Peace Corps, had children, a mortgage, grandchildren, a yard, but there was always a...
More DescriptionI was a child of the Sixties, reading Kerouac, Ram Das, Castaneda, listening to Allan Watts on Sunday mornings, studying Zen, visiting India, living with the yogis, talking about land of my own somewhere, believing that a new age was dawning, a kinder world, less grasping. Fifty years have passed since then. I went on to lead a respectable life. I got degrees, wrote books, taught school, joined the Peace Corps, had children, a mortgage, grandchildren, a yard, but there was always a voice telling me not to get lost in things, to remember "thou from whence you came" and this voice is reflected in these poems.