Of Reason’S Course: A Book of Poems

By Raymond Triplett

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462877140

Raymond Triplett

Raymond Triplett was born 25 December 1945 in Oklahoma City. His father gained his custody when he was about 7. As a young boy boy, they moves around a lot. In 1957, approximately, the last 6-weeks of school , they moved to Mineral Well, Texas. He was in the 5th grade during this period. Raymond graduated from high school in Mineral Wells in 1964. Upon graduation, he got a job and became the first catering waiter in Mineral Wells. On 26 August 1965, he joined the Navy. During the four-year tour, he served in Viet Nam aboard the U.S.S Ticonderoga. He received his discharge from the Navy on 1 August 1969. He went to work for the downtown IHOP in San Diego. On 1 July 1971, he met his wife. The franchise IHOP he worked for sold out in late 1983 and, not being able to find work in San Diego, he and his wife moved back to Mineral Wells. To start, he got a job as a truck washer; went through several different jobs, before settling down in production work for Butler’s Ventamatic, which he started working steadily in 1994. He has been writing poetry since he was 16. The dates on some of his poems represent the date or its approximate that he actually wrote them. His dream is to be a popular writer.

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God’s Love

We speak of love as if it were an emotion,

And in God’s love do we find faith and devotion;

When the time is right and al is in season

I find that love is the love of reason.

Raymond Triplett

1963

The Eagle

Where the eagle twines

And t he eagle dares;

High on the cravens

The cliffs astare.

Marks t he lofty cliff divine,

Eternally watchful of heaven and earth,

Tenderly feeding its children in mind,

Carefully watching its young of new birth.

Young eaglets twirling in frolicing play,

Ever-bursting in men’s esteem;

Ever-caressing in energetic glee;

Frolicing with its radiant beam

While climbing alert and free

Heavenward found from the land;

Trailing the coast and majestic sea,

Alert to motion near cliff, water and sand.

Eternal vigilance by its watchful eye

Traverses a motion with gleem,

Swooping its prey to its death so nigh,

Gaining respect in man’s esteem;

Eternally careening skies sirene,

Ever-alerted to the tiniest lair,

Vibrantly gliding the heaven’s lean

Apart as eagle’s dare,

1977

Raymond Triplett

The Patriot

0, patriot of America, thou dost stand true

To thy country under skies of blue,

Guiding thy people in kindred song

That they may stand for freedom strong.

Thy leadership, dynamically folds

As a shepard brings his flock to the holds

Of God’s mercy and loving care,

So, must ye, also, lovingly bear.

0, thy patriot of many years,

Let us bear with thee the tears

Of America’s men of hold

In countless tales untold.

For thee, O patriot, there is no shame

In the land for which you claim;

Thy bounty stands in majestic pride

As thy leadership is at our side.

Bequeath, the spirit of the patriot true,

For h e, his enemies slew;

For America’s freedom was his call

And humanity’s freedom and justice for all.

23 March 1978

Raymond Triplett

The Great Plan

The rays of light,

Behold the night;

All lies still

Upon