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    The Heresy of Hearsay: One Hundred Poems 2005-2006
    The Heresy of Hearsay: One Hundred Poems 2005-2006
    The Heresy of Hearsay: One Hundred Poems 2005-2006
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    The Heresy of Hearsay: One Hundred Poems 2005-2006

    By Daniel Ontencgo Jr.

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    The following collection of poems touches on numerous subjects including perception, religion, power, and love. However, the central theme running through a large amount of the book is the concept of truth and how people come upon it and use it differently.


    In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published a famous pamphlet calling for the American Colonists to revolt against the oppressive British monarchy. His writings galvanized the people of the time. The subsequent American Revolution he helped to inspire led to the creation of the United States and its democracy. A few years later he published another book, but with that text he instead called for a revolt against the oppressive religious institutions of the time. He failed and his book did not have the same effect as his first offering. However, his writings did help to inspire some of the ideas advanced by this book, The Heresy of Hearsay.


    Through the examination of truth, several of the poems included here attempt to comment on the religious extremism that is tearing apart the world today with violence and intolerance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateSep 22, 2006
    ISBN9781467087001
    The Heresy of Hearsay: One Hundred Poems 2005-2006
    Author

    Daniel Ontencgo Jr.

         I have a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of South Florida as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Sociology. I am currently a civil servant with state government and primarily deal with investigating child abuse and neglect cases. My work in this field has exposed me to both the very worst and best of human nature.        This is my second offering of poems after having published the 2005 book,  Portrait of a View.

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      The Heresy of Hearsay - Daniel Ontencgo Jr.

      © 2006 Daniel Ontengco Jr.. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 9/5/2006

      ISBN: 1-4259-5929-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4670-8700-1 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      Contents

      Aside and Away

      To Save the World

      Tolerance Knows

      In the Name of Unreason

      Too Many Coincidences

      Obsession is the Impetus

      The Argument Is

      Might not be Right

      The Seed of Pain

      Where With One

      Believing in Both God and Evolution

      It Has Always Been You

      Nurturing the Goodness of Heart

      Deep Time

      Out of the Shade

      What Has Been Lacking

      The Unflawed Hero

      Let’s Remember Her Voice

      Tell Isabel

      Awaken Unmistaken

      Turn it Around

      The Control Meek

      The Control Seek

      Citizens not Customers

      Government Should

      Too Much Medicine

      Redemption Contemplation

      Like a Movie

      Hear the New

      Chapter Won

      What He Knew He Had Never Known

      Worth Word While

      Unless

      Watch Out for the Stick Men

      The Work Space Blues

      Lines of a Stream

      Numberless Feeling

      She’s Resting

      Live to Play a Little

      Too Convenient

      The Next Exit

      Vote Out

      Marginal False Profits

      The Cowboy Misadventure

      Something L’s

      Letting Stop Of

      The Problem Sayers

      Another Meeting

      Sort through the Extras

      The Half Way Plain

      The Loaded Answer

      The Prop

      The Seventh Contract

      Over Her Head

      Mayday to Stay

      Clear Eyes

      The Confronting Faces

      Why Pretend To Believe Something If You Don’t?

      Your Truth and What You Do With It

      Those who Tell the Tall Tale

      Truth with

      Talk up don’t Shut

      Volunteer Able

      The Lost Table

      Got To Go

      Knocking for Nothing

      Accelerated Pleas to Appease

      Phased In

      Amanda Blue

      Under the Spear

      In a Bad Way

      Hunkering Down

      Hits and Dishes

      Grasping at Thoughts

      Quotes

      I am Here to Say

      Without the Music

      Want What

      Save As

      Not Naturally

      No Wake Zone

      Hopefully only Butterflies

      Thirty Three

      Check the Message

      Score

      Under

      Care Expensive

      The Compartment Below

      Make Right Not War

      Fuel for Thought

      No Escape From the Beep

      Repetitive Inspiration

      Make it Last

      To Do Something

      Just Wanted To Say it Again

      For Sure

      The Word of Mouth

      Full In Sight

      What I’m Talking About

      I Hope They Say

      He Never Left

      Aside and Away

      A man walked up to the mountain.

      And was offered a mountain of wealth.

      If he just did that, which he felt was wrong.

      The man turned aside and walked away.

      A man walked up to the pedestal.

      And was offered a pedestal of fame.

      If he would accept all the glory, and none of the blame.

      The man turned aside and walked away.

      A man walked up to the face.

      And was offered the most beauty in the world.

      If he would betray all that he loved, and give in to fate and whim.

      The man turned aside and walked away.

      A man walked up to the establishment.

      And was offered a life of ease under the status quo.

      If he could change who he was, and believe what he was told.

      The man turned aside and walked away.

      He had everything that he ever wanted and needed already.

      To sacrifice it all for more.

      Was a temptation that was more than just petty.

      It was against his very core.

      So the man turned his back and walked away.

      To where he was meant.

      To where he should be.

      To where he never left.

      To where he would never leave.

      To Save the World

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