Mitchell Issac Friedman's Books

A picture is worth a thousand words. But, words can evoke vivid pictures in the mind. As a painter uses his colors to create images that touch the soul, the poet uses his words to achieve the same effect. The poems in this volume, it is my hope, will create images that touch the readers heart and soul. They are the product of the poet's observations of the world around him. Several of these images reflect his perception of the world as he is out and about, some are the images he perceives when awakening in the morning--that point when dream and reality seem to merge. The poet hopes that these images will provoke thought, and will bring the read some measure of enjoyment.

The unexamined live is not worth living." Socrates in The Apology by Plato. Reflections is a collection of short stories in which the characters engage in examining their lives.

A second collection of meditations. This is a continuation of my previous collection, Serenity Meditations. Like its predecessor, Volume II presents ideas that flit through my mind as I sit during my daily meditation. Observed, but not examined, the ideas here presented reflect feelings rather than thoughts.

The mind is a steady stream of thoughts and images. These poems represent the steady stream of thoughts through my mind.

I set out to write a poem in which Virgil is finally, after seven centuries, rewarded for his role in the salvation of Dante, by leading through the landscape of eternal damnation, to the Earthly Paradise and into the hands of Beatrice, during Easter week of 1300. "Virgil in Paradise" was the result. As I progressed in the work on "Virgil in Paradise" I started thinking, "Why not an entire collection of poems that tell stories?" The response to that questions is Stories in Verse.

MEDITATIONS is a collection of poems that reflect my efforts to quiet my mind, and my search for inner peace. These poems are the results of thoughts that I observed, without getting involved. As my meditation guide puts it, I allowed any thoughts to pass by like a leaf floating past in a gentle stream. However, some of those thoughts stayed with me when my period of meditation ended. Those thoughts ended up as the poems in this collection. So, take a few deep, cleansing breaths, and enjoy my meditation.

This volume is a continuation of poems of meditation. They are expressions of the serenity that comes from my practice of mindfulness meditation.

What if you were charged with delivering the eulogy at the funeral of a parent with whom you had a strained relationship? What truth might you discover about yourself, and your relationship with your parent?

Glen Oaks and Other Ruminations is a compilation of thoughts and images present themselves to me as I am in the car driving, or just sitting with nothing much to do.

How to Read a Poem is a hodge podge of the ramblings of my mind. The pieces range from thoughts and images that come to me during my daily meditation, or when I take my morning walk with my wife. There are also my reflections on the events of a very stressful two years in American current events. And, of course, I could not resist a bit of whimsy.

The poems in this collection were written over the course of twenty-seven years. They represent the ramblings and obsessions of an otherwise unoccupied mind.

How will you be remembered, by the people you love, when you are gone? Did you do right by them? Did you provide them with the kind of life they deserved? How many lives did you touch, that you did not know about? This is what goes through the mind of a man who sits waiting, after a long life, as Death slowly approaches. "Icy Fingers" is a little taste of a collection of short stories that I have been working on, inspired by quote: "The examined life is not worth living." Hope you enjoy.

The poems in this collection were written over the course of twenty-seven years. They represent the ramblings and obsessions of an otherwise unoccupied mind.

Glen Oaks and Other Ruminations is a compilation of thoughts and images present themselves to me as I am in the car driving, or just sitting with nothing much to do.

The unexamined live is not worth living." Socrates in The Apology by Plato. Reflections is a collection of short stories in which the characters engage in examining their lives.

Book's by Mitchell Issac Friedman

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