IN DISGUISE

Welcome to the COLLECTED LYRIC POETRY of

IN DISGUISE

by John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

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Drawn from several previous volumes, this collection of lyric poetry, comprised of rhymed poems and free verse, dates from the early 1970s and reveals the slow growth, out of a conventionally youthful romanticism, of a philosophical-cum-ideological approach to poetry which became characteristic of all my literary work in the 1980s, as though transitional to an uninhibitedly philosophical phase of writings to come which would leave even philosophical literature, including fiction, severely in the lurch. Therefore there is a sense in which these poems strain towards philosophy as though towards my true destiny in writing, while yet retaining certain poetic values and tendencies which I was not, at that time, in a position to wholeheartedly reject from a morally or culturally superior vantage-point, as from the standpoint of one who had ‘seen through’ poetry and its ‘right’ to certain limitations. In retrospect, I find many of these poems ideologically and intellectually specious or, at the very least, suspect; but I would not have got beyond this stage of my literary evolution without having gone through it in the first place, and some of them, I have to admit, still impress me with their boldness, imaginative flair, spiritual insightfulness, and sheer poetic insolence. They may not be the wings upon which I have since grown accustomed to flying, but at least they enabled me to get off the ground and intimate of places and states of being which no purely mundane or overly romantic approach to poetry would even envisage, never mind set out for in the first place! In that respect, they are an integral part of a steady climb to rarer and finer latitudes of the mind, and should therefore be read as a means to a higher end, rather than as a final statement on any of the subjects to which they purport to demonstrate some special knowledge. Yes, I took poetry pretty seriously in the early 1970s and then again, after the best part of a decade, in the early-to-mid 80s, but had that not been the case the results would not have been nearly so impressive or seemingly conclusive. – John O’Loughlin.

CONTENTS

GOD'S SACRIFICE

SONG OF THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER

UNREQUITED LOVE

THE LOVERS' DREAM

SOLICITATION

A VINDICATION

REGRET

TO A PAINTING

WISHFUL THINKING

DESIRE

THE UNIVERSAL SONG OF LIFE

SONG OF THE LONESOME DRIFTER

THEY TAKE THE LETTERS

TRIBUTE

COMPLAINT

CIRCUMSTANCES

DOSSHOUSE BLUES

FANTASY

CONFESSIONS

I ENTER SONG

HER SMILE

REQUIEM

DREAM POEM

PATOIS

CANDLE

SCENE FROM THE CONFESSIONAL

THE TRINITY

EVOLUTION

NO GOD

THE LEADERS

THE PEOPLE

MAN

TRANSCENDENTAL MAN

THE SUPERMAN

THE SUPERBEING

SPIRITUAL GLOBES

STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL

WHY THE STATE WITHERS

MAKING MORE EQUAL

POST-ATOMIC

POINTS 1-10

EVOLUTIONARY PRESSURES

THE HIGHER POET

ELECTRON FREEDOM

EITHER/OR

SELF-JUDGEMENT

THE ULTIMATE ESSENCE

BRIGHT AND DARK

MORE GOD THAN MAN

SYNTHESIZED VOICE

DISPELLING A FUTURISTIC MYTH

ILLUSION AND TRUTH

A TRUE FIGHT

THE DIVINE RIGHT

AN ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY

CENTRO-COMPLEXIFICATION

INDEPENDENT MIND

QUESTIONS

BLESSED COLD

MERITOCRATIC AFFAIRS

SELF-DESTRUCTIVE

MORAL JUDGEMENT

THE REAL OBSTACLE

SUPERSEX

ALTERNATIVE SUPERSEX

INDIRECT APPROACH

LAST-DITCH CONSERVATISM

SUPERNATURAL SYNTHESIZER

ANTINATURAL ART

SUPERNATURAL ART

SUPRA-NATURAL ART

REALIST ART

ANTINATURAL LITERATURE

SUPERNATURAL LITERATURE

ATOMIC DICHOTOMY

RELATIVE ATOMS

A RELATIVISTIC ABSOLUTISM

BARTER

VOUCHERS

MONEY

ABOVE MONEY

SUPERNATURAL PITCH

SPIRITUAL INTIMATIONS

BEYOND CHRISTIANITY

LAST JUDGEMENT

SALVATION FROM

THEOCRATIC CONVOY

NUCLEAR FISSION

THE MODERN DEATH

HIGHER VOICE

LITERARY AND PURE

IDEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONS

GODLESS STATE

CLASS EVOLUTION

POST-ATOMIC AND FREE ELECTRON

REPUBLIC AND CENTRE

LEADER'S THEOCRACY

FREE THOUGHT

EMOTION AND WILL

BRAIN AND MIND

RACIAL DICHOTOMY

IDEOLOGUES

MILLENNIAL EVOLUTION

A PROTOTYPE

WORK AND PLAY

FROM BALLOONS TO CHOPPERS

SHIRTS

SHAM OR GENUINE

SPIRITUAL WEALTH

TRANSCENDENTALLY CLASSLESS

CLASS ART

ART EVOLUTION

PARADOXICAL FALL

HYBRID ARTS

MAIN AND SUBORDINATE

TRUE AND FALSE

WAVICLE PROGRESS

COITAL DICHOTOMY

MORAL PARADOX

TRINITARIAN PERIODS

CIVILIZATION

PASSING PHASE

SIDECAR

LESSER AND GREATER

RADICAL ANTITHESIS

BEYOND MAN

THEORY AND PRACTICE

FROM EVIL TO GOOD

FATHER AND MOTHER

SUPER AND SUPRA

SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

TREES

LESS GOOD BUT STILL GOOD

LOVES

SUPERFICIAL PARALLEL

HISTORICAL VALUE

ULTIMATE CLASS

SMOKING POLITICS

DOPE SMOKING

DRINKING AND SMOKING

SMOKING AND SNIFFING

DUAL CELEBRATION

INTIMATION

FREAKS

DISCS AND TAPES

CENTRIST EVOLUTION

GIVE AND TAKE

TELEVISION AND VIDEO

SEASONS

THEOCRACY FULL-BLOWN

LITERARY PROGRESS

CENTRIST FREEDOM

ULTIMATE CENTRIST FREEDOM

ECONOMIC DISTINCTIONS

PROTONS AND ELECTRONS

OVERCOMING MAN

ALLEGIANCES

CHURCH AND STATE

CHURCH ABSOLUTISM

SPORT

OMEGA MILLENNIUM

BEHIND AND BEYOND

MARRIAGE

MONEY WEALTH

LIVING DEATH

SPENGLER

VISUAL ARTS

SOCIAL THEOCRACY

ANTI-LIFE

MEANS TO ENDS

CIVILIZED AND BARBARIC

CENTRIST ART AND SEX

SAVED FROM THINKING

ROBOT REVOLUTION

DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP

THOUGHTS

VISIONS

SUPRA-NATURALISM

THEOCRATIC AND TRANSCENDENTAL

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS

PLAYS

FILMS

TRIPS

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland after a lengthy marital absence with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot, Hants and, upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother and an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, Carshalton, Surrey. Upon leaving high school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues throughout Britain and ireland. After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but, due to a combination of factors, left the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer-cum-office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), Deceptive Motives (1981), and False Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has almost exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has accordingly penned several titles of a philosophical nature, including Devil and God (1985–6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth (2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).

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