All my poems have a spiritual connection and I say that I channel them from the spiritual dimension as opposed to writing them. The poems are written in a couple of minutes, 2-10, then put away in a binder in chronological order. I have lost less than a dozen poems since 1970 when I began channeling them. Usually within a very few minutes after channeling a poem, I have no real memory of what I wrote. The edits I make after channeling a poem are minimal. Images of the original cursive of many poems are online: https: //DrJohnWorldPeaceJDPoetry.com. All but maybe 50 of my poems have been recorded in my handwriting.

I do not channel poems that rhyme except incidentally. For me to try to force fit a poetic thought into a rhyming format or any format breaks the flow of the poem; more specifically, crashes the poem.

I have, and it seems natural, significantly refined a method of channeling poems. I am in truth a filter. A poetic thought that comes to me is skewed in the interpretation and recording by my personal filters; physical and spiritual (not religious doctrine and dogma dictates). The same poetic thought channeled by someone else would be skewed by his or her personal filters.

Zen Petals

I am not a religionist of any stripe. I believe in the teachings of Jesus but not in corporate Christianity. Zen for me is a generic metaphysical word. Petals in my poetry are a metaphor for mostly very short free verse poems.

I keep two steno pads together for writing poetry. One for my standard free verse poems and the other for the shortest of poems. Sometimes I will take a line out of one of my poems and enter it in my Zen Petal steno pad. I am most impressed by poets who can in the course of writing or recording a poem have within it a free-standing shorter poetic expression.

Poems are never finished until the poet dies.

It is my hope that various publishers will decide to go through my poems and publish a selection of about 100. If that were done, it is unlikely, due to the variety of what I have channeled, that any two selections would be even close to being the same. What I have channeled is a metaphysical enigma matrix of poetry.