This document contains selected poetry by M. D. "Duke" Wadsworth, including several poems that utilize a unique 3-dimensional format. It also provides biographical information about the author, noting his career accomplishments in technical writing, publishing, consulting, and as the author of two books on project management. The poetry explores various themes through different styles and perspectives, while the 3-dimensional poems can be read in multiple ways to reveal different stories or perceptions.

1. Selected Poetry
By M. D. “Duke” Wadsworth
(Includes 3 Dimensional Poems)

2. Pinball
He stands
Legs Widespread
Feet Implanted
Firmly
Upon the Universe
He watches
Impassively
The Intertwining,
Steely
Traces of Existence
He flips
Some Upwards
Some Downwards
Whimsically
For his own Amusement
While we,
Unknowing and
Self-centered,
Mentally
Picture our Uniqueness
Our import
And Meaning
Until, we plummet
Finally
Down the ball-return

3. QUEST
Emboldened, not embittered, by the miles that have been tread
Creating, not berating, with the words that will be said
The cause must be the learning
Parents, teachers and the rest
Upgrading, not destroying, all the thoughts within the head
Enjoying, not desponding, from the things that come this day
Competing, not repeating, all the times that make nerves fray
The cause must be the training
Coaches, leaders and the best
Extending, not confining, all the moves in course of play
Performing, not rejecting, with the rules that make my heart
Expanding, not retracting, all the gifts that I impart
The cause must be the framing
Writers, models and the nest
Fostering, not embalming, all the love that I restart
Questioning, not accepting, all the dogma that defines God
Exulting, not repulsing, in the feelings of my bod
The cause must be the sayings
Pastors, rabbis and the rest
Cogniting, not reciting, till I end up in the sod

4. Curse of History
It matters not which war occurred
The details are the same
Some people crushed
Some people now in sway
For reasons most insane
It matters not what single word
Had started all the pain
Two small groups’ trust
In truths, to which they prayed,
Ignited intense flame
It’s after, when the blood ground’s toured
And details fall like grain
Of both groups’ lust
Destroying hateful prey
Committing acts of shame
This plants the seed of next rounds’ sword
This starts the next big train
New people crushed
New people now in sway
And what’s the final gain?

5. CHOICES
Wallow in self-pity
Shut out those
Who care
Curl up like a kitty
Feel that life
Ain’t fair
Live like Walter Mittey
Make each pose
A dare
Work at being gritty
Beat life’s blows
And share

6. Theory
Searching the world to be cheery
Powerful theories abound
When you have clamped on a theory
Feels like your feet are aground
Religion’s a network of theories
Race, now a theory unsound
When you inherit a theory
Loud you acclaim and propound
Countries are tiers within series
Each of them has its own sound
Baying like dogs that, it’s merely,
Theirs is the best one around
Others compete with their theories
Lawyers just turn them around
Making you sadder and teary
Filling your life with their sound
Cheery does not come from a theory
It comes from not being bound
Tight, in the past, by your theories
Living each day you have found

7. 3 Dimensional Poetry
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The following Poems are 3 Dimensional. They can be scanned/read three
different ways.
When Columns are scanned from top to bottom from left to right, the poem
tells a story/play that a person’s mind would put together.
When a stanza is scanned down, then the stanza in the next column is
scanned down, then the stanza in the last column is scanned down, and this
process is repeated for each set of stanzas across the page, another story/play
emerges.
When the poem is scanned across a row from top to bottom, the
disconnected perceptions (what a person would: see, hear, smell, feel, etc.) of
the person during the experience emerge. The other two dimensions illustrate
how the same perceptions result in different realities.
I believe that I am the only 3 Dimensional Poet. If you run across any other
3 Dimensional Poems, please let me know at dukewadsworth@netzero.net
Thanks!

8. Singles Play/Scene
Don Juans and
daubs of loser gray
amidst all this
Juannas too
besmear the scene
true stars emerge
perched like vultures
garbed in multi-hues
alone for reasons
on their stools
raucous plaids to dowdy blacks
that are theirs
beaks dipping into
figures gross to pencil thin
and through unwanted
alcoholic fantasies
emit pretentious noise or
cause their presence
dummies posing with
silent-soft inanities
drifting, coursing
their practiced smiles
through laughing rictii
in this firmament
warm look-stares
tentative or brash adagios
when two stars meet
like icy lasers
all wrong keyed, repulsed
a rose-filled glow
precede the moves
before they’re played
lights all the scene
choreographed by rote
recreate, reiterate
and babble stills
with babble chanted
the previous scene
to frame their words
pirated from talk-shows
in different combinations
about their lives
if this scene plays
till soul-borne despair
the aches, the thoughts
more rote to follow
pollutes the air
that true selves know
the setting shifts
the final scenes
and final scenes
to “hers” or “his”
are played within
in churches, synagogues
each move more involved with
the decorated barrenness
and city halls
critiquing their performance
of practiced solitude
or just plain beds
than living, sharing
on scentless beds
at times, just parting
giving, caring – empty
in clammy sheets
warm with knowing
final, monosyllabic lines
intoned alone
souls have met and
absorbed by counting coup
as multiple soliloquies
mingled in good time

9. War Play/Scenes
Out Patrolling
hundredth recon
why are we here
Not just strolling
try to be calm
what is so dear
Neck a swivel
don’t remember
why’d I join up
Whispered drivel
mind a blender
what a fuck up
Point is stopping
something not right
palm down, swung down
Palm up, Palm in
prep for firefight
quick flop onto ground
Spin to outside
set my vector
barrel sweeping
Weapon up-glide
cover sector
trigger squeezing
Sight-scan tree line
jungle too dense
bullets ripping
Listening so fine
body too tense
claymores tripping
Sweating double-time
memory flashes
muck erupting
Breathing half-time
prior clashes
mortars crumping
Nothing Moving
bodies lying
helos clacking
Bugs just grooving
good men dying
rockets smacking
Birds not squawking
chest wounds sucking
jet noise tearing
No one talking
neck hits hawking
napalm flaring
Palm turns backward
mind pushed outward
barrel sliding
Arm swung upward
calm flows southward
chin up-riding
Back patrolling
hundredth recon
no more please
Still not strolling
all for freedom
finger’s last squeeze

10. In the beginning, Creation occurred.
History
An American Perspective
Universes expanded. Galaxies swirled.
Pre-Recorded History
Stars attracted. Earth was born.
Insignificant speck, within the whole;
Insignificant thing, among all life;
Insignificant groups, upon the earth;
A whirling blob, of molten magma
An upright form, of bone and muscle
Enlarging sets, of human beings
Rotating and revolving around a star
Wandering and foraging around a cave
Selecting and collecting around just one
That we call sun
For survival
Who led them all
Gradually cooling, atmospheres forming.
Sexually bonding, family growing,
Hungrily looking, skills now defining.
Plate-shifts rending. Land mass shifting,
Elders leading. Stronger hunting.
Strongest leading. Hunters killing.
Mountains soaring. Rivers coursing
Weaker farming. Fishers catching.
Crafters shaping. Fire enslaving.
Oceans swelling.
Shapers arming.
Lore collecting.
Elements: combined, refined
Families: defined, co-joined,
Syllables: uttered, re-tried
Mutated, swam, crawled,
Competed, fought, cleaved,
Repeated, said, sketched,
Slid and flew
Died and grew.
Cried anew.
Processes repeated. New life emerged
Old leaders unseated. New groups are forged
Old sounds now deleted. Language is formed
And Man was born
And Clans emerged
Among the clan

11. History
An American Perspective
(Continued)
Clans to Tribes
Insignificant still, upon the earth,
More significant sects, taking more space
Now significant size, tribes now claim lands
Many more clots of smaller clans
Absorbing clans of smaller size
Merging the clans of weaker chiefs
Traveling and settling in places where
Slaughtering and enslaving each smaller clan
Rustling and kidnapping from other tribes
They all could live
That would not yield
As strong as them
Cleverly slaying men and fierce beings
Lustily mating, women just serving
Collectively making new rules for judging
Some, now sowing plants for healing,
Crops are growing. beasts now taming.
Tribal speaking. Women equaling.
Others crafting, tools designing,
Groups are hunting. Craftsmen rising
Infirm leaving. Heroes praising.
Events drawing
Leaders scheming.
Gods creating.
New job roles: defined, assigned
All Headmen: assigned, combined
Everyone: resigned, aligned,
Hunted, caught, gathered,
Ruled, judged, punished
Lored, schooled, counseled
Shaped and taught.
Led and fought.
Minds are caught.
Mysteries debated. Shamans chanted
Everyone competed. Treaties are pledged
Loyalty rewarded. Dual leads emerged.
And Lore became
And Chiefs rule all
Shamans and Chiefs

12. History
An American Perspective
(Continued)
City/States to Nations
Most significant Tribes build City/States
Magnificent Empires claim lands and seas
Powerful Nations now claim all the earth
Kings, Lords and serfs, with armies bold
Absorbing kingdoms; whose Kings do fold
By planting flags on lands untold
Absorbing and protecting, laws enacting
Contriving and surviving, all are bowing
Exploring and devouring, most are warring
With each a Creed
To their own King
For God and King
Deities rising. Royalty preening.
Royalty taxing. Common man toiling.
Far East revealing. Nations/Churches growing.
Merchants trading Doctors leaching.
Merchants lending. Navies rising.
Armies warring. Navies fighting
Artists thriving. Kings now ruling.
Men exploring. More Gods finding.
Banks investing. Arts enlightening.
Prophets swaying.
Two Creeds growing.
Christ’s Church splitting.
Eastern Tribe: traveled, settled
Jews in East: traveled, rambled
Newfound Lands: claimed, explored
Worshiped, sought, conquered
Enslaved, taught, guided
Annexed, taxed, warred
Vied and slew.
Tried anew
Lost and grew
Religions debated. Jews/Islam formed
Judaism restated and Christ adorned
Each man’s vote is counted and States are formed
As One God foes
As Son of God
With Churches freed

13. History
An American Perspective
(Continued)
Great Expansion
Constitutional rights for every man
As older Nation fights to rule us once again,
While Nations fight for King and Church.
Attracting those with personal goals.
An anthem’s pledge in song unrolls.
Dissension here, a death knell tolls.
Purchasing and transporting, people coming
Conscripting and retraining, flag still waving
Conflicting and dividing on slaves true roles
From lands of birth
O’er U. S. A.
Leads to Civil War
Immigrants spreading. Companies growing.
Crops abounding. Industry flowing.
North/South warring. Brothers fighting.
Shipyards keeling. Tribes’ lands stealing.
Canals digging. Cowboys herding.
Blockades running. Empires wooing.
Trails unfolding. New lands showing.
Merchants dealing. Farmers sowing.
Merchants thriving. Graveyards filling.
Rivers flowing.
Genius inventing.
Nation grieving.
Common men: labored, voted
Nation now is: powered, seated
North/South re-United: scarred, fleeted
Cheated, stole, punished
Directed, famed, schooled
Dissected, mined, ranched,
Lied and slew.
Tied by view
Vied and grew
Religions feted throughout the land.
Religions decry they are the best.
Families unite within their Church.
This Nation grew
Tribes lands we take.
The U. S. rules

14. History
An American Perspective
(Continued)
Greater Expansion
Some revolutions reign in Nations old
Insignificant spark, in all the world
Magnificent growth, of industry
A rising mob of common people
A single shot, kills Ferdinand
The moneyed class begins to rule
Resisting then revolting against their Czar
Rearming and aligning around a cause
Suppressing and head-breaking the working class
Or only King
Of World War
Until the Crash
Nationally spreading. Industries booming.
Fatally killing. Grievously wounding.
Industrially swelling. Real estate scamming.
New jobs forming. Classes shifting.
Soldiers charging. Airplanes bombing.
Bubble bursting. Workers seeking.
Barons robbing. Workers cursing.
Boundaries rending. Nations shifting.
Dust bowls spreading. Farmers moving.
Hatred swelling.
Church bells knelling.
Brokers diving.
Bolshevists: defined, refined
America: defied, allied
Government: confused, abused
Imported, born, killed,
Enlisted, sworn, fought
Elected, sworn, thought
Hid and flew.
Shot and slew.
Dealt anew.
Suppression repeated. New groups emerged.
No Nation defeated. Armistice signed.
Public works created. New Jobs emerged.
Class wars are born.
False Peace returned.
And Hunger reigned

15. History
An American Perspective
(Continued)
Latest Expansion
International stress, among a few,
Obliteration threat, of all life forms,
U.S.S.R implodes, leaving One Power
Expansion needs are land-line bound
By Russian Bear or U. S. power
While terrorists begin attacks
Conscripting and re-arming for nation’s rights
Rearming and alarming to dominate
Destroying and slaughtering for their “true cause”
Cause World War
Give us Cold War
And search for Power.
Blitzkriegs slashing. Boundaries falling.
Nations aligning. Superpowers growing.
Iraq invading. Coalition winning.
Nations warring. U. S. sitting.
China arming. We’re “peacekeeping”.
Islam chaffing. Terror basing.
Japan bombing, .Axis forming.
Not retreating. All stalemating.
We’re invading; and invading
U. S. Warring.
World is fearing.
Two wars “winning”.
Battle groups: combined, defined
Cuba: armed, espied, defied.
Government: confused, abused
Air lifted, rode, crawled,
Russia: backed, bluffed,
Self-centered, spun, fought
Sailed and flew
Stalled, withdrew.
Defied by few
Slaughtering continued. A-Bomb is Born.
Vietnam erupted. Nation divided.
Groups are splintering. Anger the norm.
This War did end.
And war is lost.
Repeats the past.

16. About The Author
M. D. “Duke” Wadsworth
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After beginning his career as a Technical Writer for United Technologies, Duke obtained
positions (and produced results) that:
- Vaulted him to the level of Vice President of a major publishing company within 6 years
- Fueled a meteoritic rise from Project Leader to Manager of Consulting for the northeastern
United States in just six more years
- Allowed him to run his own, highly successful, consulting company for 15 years and gave him
the experience required to write these books.
Duke’s specialties are Education/Training, Management, Information Technology, Systems
Development and Out- Placement Services.
He has won a wide variety of awards for his work and has written two books on Project
Management that were published by Prentice-Hall.
His BA in Education is from the University of Michigan; and he resides in Jacksonville, Florida.
He is the owner of Get THAT Job.
You can find more information about Duke at Linkedin.com and at Facebook.com. His print
publications, and his poetry at thejobseekersedge.com, His print publications include Beginners
and Advanced Manuals and Exercises in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
His e-mail address is dukewadsworth@netzero.net. Let him know what you thought of
these articles. If you found any errors or omissions, please let him know.
His Smashwords Interview is at:
https://www.smashwords.com/interview/MDWadsworth

17. My E-Books 6 Short Articles + 1 Manual
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The direct links to my E-Books appear below.
Two books are Free. You can sample about 20% of the others for FREE.
Duke’s Tips For Finding Functions in Excel - Version 2007 and Later
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/365127
Duke's Tips For Finding Functions in Word - Version 2007 And Later
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Duke's Tips for Completing an Employment Application
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/361312
Duke's Tips For Staying Young (Book is Free)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366506
Duke's Tips For Purchasing A Personal Computer
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/360615
The Job Seeker's Edge (How To Get A Job - Manual)
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/358963
Truth Is In The Mind Of The Beholder (Book is Free)
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/367838