Compositions of Light and Literature – JMH

Misty Woods in Morning

There is a bit of the divine in each of us.  This spark could possibly be a soul.  I like to think it is not dormant; but unleashed through my creativity.  The fates did not assign me the straight and easy path, or I have chosen Everests for my intellect.  I choose the latter, nothing is written, to be human is to create.  Smash your false idols of what you are told to be with a fist of defiance and become what you are.

Dearest, should we meet, I think it in my best fortune to ask you what your parents named you.  If I find you sweet you might make me smile and warm the knotted marrow of my heart.  My eyes will see you but my eyes cannot know you.  You are as beautiful as the first shoots of flowers from volcanic glass hidden in the bitter cracks of the earth.  You are beautiful in your soul.

My path is windy and unknown but I choose to walk with you.  Nothing is written, but my blessings are abundant.  I do not believe this is only circumstance or a lucky happening.  If you cannot see a path ahead, or you are fearful, abandon me to my wandering.  My meanderings dot my time and make up the landscape of my loneliness.  I hope to fill in the margins with my good works.  I have imposed my own limits on the fruitfulness of my mind.

If you take the easy road – my journey is not with you.  If you stop for a respite, even brief, I will trudge onward up the jagged slopes of mortality.

We are two wanderers, you and I.  We will search our whole lives to end where we began.  On a hilltop.  Facing the winter wind.  Fearless.

REVIEW OF BROKEN UNDER INTERROGATION by gentleman from Jamaica, NY.

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The main protagonist is John Powers, a young recruit who joins the army. Through his POV we lears about the military basic training as well as the war in Iraq. We also get to learn about the underhanded, deceptive and atrocious tactics that one must employ in order to get the job done. The story doesn’t stop there. John returns to train vets to fight against drugs in the neighborhood. But as expected this operation doesn’t go down as planned.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. At certain moments it reminded me of movies such as Apocalypse Now, Rendition. It’s not for the faint of heart as the author paints a very bleak and disturbing picture.

Jeffrey M. Hopkins is the author of Broken Under Interrogation, a novel set in the near future of rot belt America.  He chooses these words, because the factories and empty warehouses there serve as gravestones for American Industry.  If the United States wants to see a way out of the current economic crisis, they will invent the industries of the 21st century, and employ the hardworking men and women of this rot belt as labor in a building the new American dream.  Broken Under Interrogation is the gap that fills the periphery between the American Dream and an American Nightmare.  It was published 2008 by the Author Jeffrey M. Hopkins.