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All Parts Matter
Percy Kleinops
June 2025 9780999680384DESCRIPTION:
Prelude
Most have heard or
read declarations like what Rabbi Rami Shapiro said in an interview
posted June 23, 2020 on www.awaken.com "To know yourself is to know
God" and "to know God is to know yourself"; in Luke 17:21, we read
that the "Kingdom of God is within you.” Socrates summed it up
simply, "Know Thyself.”
I recognized late
in my life that I had played many roles, except the role of who I
truly am.
While others may
describe who you are, rarely do we fully take account of who we
are. We often describe ourselves by revealing those parts we want
people to know and avoiding other parts. And the parts we
reveal very likely have been sourced from what others say of us or
from whom we wish we were.
It is my
hope that your journey reading my series of All Parts Matter poetry
chapbooks will lead you to take your Journey to finding,
identifying, retrieving, recognizing all your parts and the Process
to “know thyself,” “love yourself,” “love God,” “find great
empathy,” and become your “authentic true-self.”
The format
for this series includes quotes from various sources relevant to
the subject of my poetry and followed by my comments.
EXCERPT:
All Parts Matter
My bottle is empty
Once it was a bottle of plenty
Parts I have lost
At great cost
One at a time taken from me
Some I gave of me
Some I was told that part was not for me
Some I did not recognize as belonging to me
Now I am near collapse
Trying to survive with less than half
I have nothing left to give to me or another
All I do is continue to suffer
Oh I want my parts back
Reclaim what I lack
To live and thrive
To feel alive
I need all of my parts to see
Who I am and meant to be
To fill myself with love of me
To understand and give empathy
All parts matter
REVIEWS:
"I read it cover to cover and quickly realized that I'd barely broken the surface. I'll need to read it again and again and again..... It's richer than a Venetian tea cake (medu kuka to you). I envy your need to search, but not your agony. But that agony will lead you to that brightest of lights, as you make your discoveries. The cover art is genius. Well done my friend. I'll continue to read it until I discover my hidden parts that you've woven into this tapestry." Brooks Fountain
"Very good read and the format made you look at what is written and how the author hopefully intended it." Jerry R