TABLE OF CONTENTS
02 Dark Velvet
03 Antarctica
05 The Stone Age and the Internet
06 Kaleidoscope
07 Black Hole
08 Arriving at Twin Peaks for an Exceptionally Bright Night View on San Francisco
09 Salivating Over a Still Life by French Painter Pierre Bonnard
10 Seeing a Map of Greece Across the Sky
11 Out of Darker Grace
13 Dark Night of a Soul
15 The Sun and I
16 An Alpine Panorama – The Creator’s Dream
22 Ode to Music
27 Poetry Dances, Olé!
30 My Creole Belle – A Cakewalk
32 Billy Belly’s Boston Big Brass Band – A Nostalgic Divertimento
38 Waltzing in Respectable Vienna
39 Olé, Bolero – A Fiesta in Sevilla
43 Calypso in Port of Spain, Trinidad
44 Fire Dance – A Tribal Invocation of the Light
50 Volcanoes
51 Claustrophobia of an Afternoon
53 Sound Barrier
54 Statue of an Enraged Lion
55 Downfall
56 Realms of Stone
57 The Bomb That Blew Up God – A Fable – The True History of the Big Bang
59 These Three Words
60 A Dove in Times of War
62 Bridge Under Construction
65 The Tool
66 Spring Pick Up
68 Birthplace
70 Affluence
71 A Marriage
73 On a Medieval Painting of the Fall of Man
74 A History of Sarcasm
76 Looking Out the Window in Autumn
77 Silent Question
78 Letters in a Drawer
79 A Bird Landing
80 Finesse
81 Sunset Blues
82 A Breakup
83 Night Secret
84 The Touch
85 Fireworks
88 Autumn in a Cemetery
89 Falling Tree Kills Sleeping Cub Scout
90 By a Pond
91 Run Over Pigeon
92 To the Sun
94 Crossing a Bridge During a Tidal Wave
95 Generations
96 Falling Down a Manhole
97 After a Swim
101 Three Trees in Central Park
103 STRANGE RENEWAL
104 The Language of the Future
107 Long-Lost Books
108 The Sahara – A Spiritual Journey
111 After Reading an Obscure Volume of Unusual Poetry
112 Nocturnal Squeaks
113 On Reading That The Atlantic Monthly Has a Backlog of Poetry Submissions
116 The Freight Train From Houston
119 Strange Renewal
120 The Chimes of the Clock at the Courthouse
121 In Sculpted Sentences of Verbose Prose
124 Wild Geese From Canada
126 Books
128 The New York City Zoo
132 Apples and Oranges – A Play on Words and Concepts in Five Short Acts
133 Your Face
135 Healing
136 Small Town Routine — One View
!37 Small Town Routine — A Different View
138 The Addressee
139 Tropical Jungle in the Amazon – A Lyrical-Dramatic Tableau
144 Eternal Source
146 The Doe
147 Awestruck at Niagara Falls
150 A New Dawn
151 Shell Song
154 A Reluctant, Little Ode to Snow
156 Ocean Song
159 Almost Summer
161 Flying to Miami
163 Pine Needle – Metamorphosis
164 Spring Is Like a Young, Wonderful Woman
166 The Quiet Way of Unforgotten Trees
170 The Tree of My Childhood
171 The Language of Trees – View video
173 Leafless Tree
174 White Blossoms
176 The Holy Mountain
178 Waiting Near the Throne
179 The Bond
180 A Brighter Side
181 A Summer Dream
I loved this vast, complex, yet simple book of wonderful poetry, THE BOMB THAT BLEW UP GOD!! Even the title is wonderful and startling… It’s filled with gems and myths, butterfly textures, fabrics that can stretch beyond expectation, even melt in your reading hands. It is a work of brilliance and honest perception and even more honesty is in the author’s presentation…Freddy Niagara Fonseca, a lover of language and a master-craftsman of the written word…of the beauty in language. I recommend this book of sublime intensity and devastating color of heart to any true reader, searching for the power and beauty of language that still exists today…
—Rudy Wilson, National Award Winning Author of several novels
Freddy Niagara Fonseca covers a lot of ground, literally and figuratively, in his book of poetry, “The Bomb That Blew Up God.” From haiku to narrative free verse, his exploration of form, rhyme and rhythm is almost a compendium of modern poetic style. The tone is varied too – from playful humor to earnest poignancy – but the poems are artfully arranged to lead the reader smoothly from one emotion to the next. And then there is the breadth of subject matter, which allows the reader a close-up view of the vastness of human experience, across the globe and deep within, through the poet’s eyes. Freddy’s poems are accessible on the surface, easy to read, yet layered with deeper meaning for those willing to spend more time with them.
—Monica Hadley, entrepreneur and host of the podcast Writers’ Voices with Monica and Caroline
This collection of works is distinctive — certainly original, but eclectic, deeply sobering and uniquely stylized. The author’s voice is that of a “thinker” …his inner world far more important than his outer …and there is something appropriately secretive and vulnerable about the artistry of the writing. Freddy Niagara Fonseca lays down a travel log scenario, with awesome professionalism, and knits his own naturally funny philosophic demeanor, with wit and wisdom, into phrases that just make you laugh out loud — THE BOMB THAT BLEW UP GOD.
—Rodney Charles, author of the bestselling Every Day A Miracle Happens
I very much enjoyed Freddy’s poetry because of his light touch. By this I mean it is playful, fascinated with life, cultures, and experiences. And, while his language is often casual, his poems are so carefully constructed, pristine really, that the experience of reading is superfluid. Here is a highly educated mind, taking from a thorough familiarity with the forms of poetry only what fits most fluidly to his purpose. Underneath the lighthearted journeys in time, place, and spirit there are whisperings of more formal beauty of phrase and a depth of comprehension of the wholeness of life. I stopped. Reread. Read it out loud, and was delighted with the skill of construction.
—Karla Christensen, poet, muralist, illustrator
I am still salivating over these poems, these rich, very diverse moments from the intimate inner life of the author. From the seductions of dance to the secrets of creation, Freddy Niagara Fonseca has prepared a banquet of verse, in which each dish is perfectly spiced to linger in your awareness and you simply lust to have more. Some poems are sweet, some are salty. All the flavors are present, as are all the subtle tones of emotional experience. And underlying the spices is a transcendent explosion of creative joy and wry humor at his divinely human condition.
—Debra Smith, Educational Kinesiologist, Watercolorist, Potter, Poet
Here is the collection of poetry I have waited for all my life — Freddy Niagara Fonseca’s The Bomb That Blew Up God. At last, poems that satisfy both critical mind and longing soul. Bold exquisite, rich language and brilliant awake treatments breathe life into worthy themes — nature, seasons, home, memory, dance, death, music, poetry, contentment. The great triumph of Fonseca’s poetry is sustained momentum blending image with observation to inexorably open the reader to unbounded awareness, where every reader wants to be. These poems entertain! Allow me to direct you to a singular masterpiece among masterpieces, “The New York City Zoo,” which delivers the reader from the ridiculous to the sublime.
—Burton Milward, Jr., retired attorney, author, radio show host
I have recently had the joy of reading Freddy Niagara Fonseca’s “The Bomb That Blew Up God“ and cannot extol it highly enough. If you have the slightest shred of happiness within you, no matter how deeply it may be buried, reading his poetry will unearth, amplify and galvanize it till you are flying on the wings of his euphoria. The book includes seven engaging sections. One section is comprised of poems which are like a paean to dance and music, creating in the reader an irresistible call to dance. These poems express the power of swiveling and swinging to music; the power that carries you and your partners to realms of ecstatic freedom and exuberance. Other sections are equally revealing rhythmically and full of delights and inspirations. Many poems are surprisingly thought-provoking. For a good time, read Freddy Fonseca. Take a walk on the wonderfully free and wild side. Your soul and heart will be dancing from the first verses to the last.
—Carol Olicker, bereavement support group facilitator, retired hospice social worker, certified teacher of Transcendental Meditation, poet
This impressive volume is one that we can pick up at bedtime and open any page for mind travel. Freddy takes us on visual journeys through time and through places we can hear and smell. We swim in the sensual experience he creates and we return to our own thoughts reminded that we are part of the world of nature. His personal voice comes through…we see through his eyes. Caught up in the swirling imagery of his flowing words we feel the twinkle in his eye on every page.
—Gretchen Langstaff Schaffer, dancer, teacher, governor of the Age of Enlightenment; BA Fine Arts, Dance Dept. The Juilliard School; MA in Human Movement Potential and Dance, New York University
This poetry is so affecting, its rhythms and lyrics so compelling, I become a better person and appreciate living more than before.
—George Foster, Book cover designer