Author’s Insights
Welcome to the official website for everything related to our poetical philosophy series of books, where you’ll find all our books, see updates on our upcoming work, and find more information about our future plans and author.
On this website you’ll find a collection of poems (that we like to call poetical philosophies) composed by a young man from Africa studying in the United States, as he journeys through early adulthood and navigates his faith on the way. Through this collection our author aims to take some hurt out of this world, and by expressing it in rhyme, he hopes to ultimately put some good back into it.
With a slightly spiritual essence to most of our writing, we believe that sharing insight and perspective in a rather informal, unforced, and lighthearted form (for the most part), is essential to creating a world in our modern times where people can better understand what goes on in other people’s minds and hearts, without feeling confronted, humiliated, or intimidated. We aim for our poetry collection to provide some sort of valuable alternative insight that can be shared in a hopefully enjoyable and educational form too, hence all our poems are merely partially copyrighted.
The Personal Aspect
“ I have a slightly irrational fear of one day forgetting all the simple and strange thoughts, feelings, and joys that I experience now as a young man, and instead of just keeping me from forgetting, I have decided to write them down and bind them together, so the old can remember, the young can anticipate, and both can enjoy them too.
Whilst these works are by no means intended to be award-winning poems, they do serve a special purpose to me, as I just had to satisfy this itch of mine to release my work for others to see, in what can now be considered as a tangible archive of the fruits of my mind throughout this key part of my youth. I do have a personal goal though of publishing a new edition of this series every year in book-form, and as long as there is hurt in this world and enough words to turn them into rhyme, I am sure to have enough material to accomplish it.
I am also no professional author, poet, philosopher, or anything else which my books or compositions might suggest, and as for what my future holds in writing I have not even considered yet, as I wouldn’t want the prospects and possibilities of authoring obscuring my vision from the main focus of these poems, and likewise these books, which is to bless as I have been blessed. For now; just with thoughts, and eventually; with who knows what else. I am merely a young man who has had a tremendously interesting journey with God thus far, in the form of thousands of little conversations and events, which I hope to give a glimpse of to anyone who wishes to see, throughout this series of annual editions.
I also intend to dedicate these poems of mine as a thank you to everyone who has contributed to who and where I am today, no matter in how minute or sometimes even strange a way.
The Spiritual Aspect
Some of these poems have a very strong spiritual appeal to them, as poetry and Faith have simultaneously become some of the few healthy escapes that allow me to rid my mind of the challenges of this world that press so hard on all our hearts.
Now I have to absolutely, blatantly and abundantly disclaim that I am not wishing to teach anyone anything in relation to Christianity through my work, as I am a young believer myself, and I already regret that we so often see believers of any and every faith run right by each other or even bump into each other, due to some believers who might only have seen the light at the end of the tunnel from a distance, trying to explain to others who haven’t even experienced that much at all, what the world looks like on the outside— which neither have ever truly even seen.
Just as unfortunately; we scare off non-believers who rightfully do what we all as humans do, and that is characterize a whole by the sum of its parts, meaning an entire faith gets stereotyped as, in the example that I aimed to work at dismantling in my books: being boring, stressful, restricting, tormenting, or even depressing— whilst it is in all reality so incredibly exciting, reassuring, and fulfilling, that it honestly breaks my heart like few other things can, knowing that most people never choose to experience this life for themselves.
Nevertheless, no-one can claim innocence from merely falling to their natural tendencies of being human, and we all have a right to be young and make mistakes, whether in social circles or in spiritual matters.
Final Notes
I want to thank you for taking the time to explore this collection, and I truly hope that you will find reason enough to keep an eye on our work, and anticipate the arrival of all the next books still to be published in this Poetical Philosophy series. “
– Henning J. Krüger