Dust and Dragons
Dust and Dragons by Rob Jacques, published by Barclay Press, Incorporated on March 27, 2023, is a collection of seventy-five poems that delve into the human experience of navigating life’s challenges and transformations. This edition, comprising 160 pages, presents a thoughtful exploration of the contrasts between the mundane aspects of existence, referred to as “dust,” and the sudden, often daunting changes symbolized by “dragons.” The poems reflect on the interplay of innocence and experience, faith and doubt, as well as love and loss.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of themes that address death, grief, and the complexities of human emotions. The poems articulate the relationship between consciousness and the physical body, tracing their journey from birth through the trials of life to the eventual separation at death. This collection invites contemplation on the transient nature of existence and the cyclical return of both body and consciousness to their elemental origins. Dust and Dragons offers a reflective space for those interested in poetry that engages with profound subjects and the human condition.
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Since their inception on Planet Earth, humans have had to deal with meaningless, dulling, repetitious, man-made wastes of time (dust) and sudden, frightening changes (dragons) that create both calamities and opportunities, depending on a person’s abilities and wisdom. These seventy-five poems explore events involving dust and dragons as well as our very natural human reactions to them that are caused by our innocence and experience, faith and doubt, and lust and love.
Consciousness and the body cooperate with each other as well as oppose each other as they move from their union at birth through the dust and dragons of space and time to their separation at death. In the end, the body dissolves, and consciousness returns to its origins in oblivion, both perhaps having enjoyed their very brief partnership in a physical world. The body takes its place returning to the table of the elements as material for further combinations, while consciousness is reunited with absence. After all is said and done, not a bad ending for either.
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