What I Feel Today

I read him... and I know now.
I am only as good.
Time and chance take the world by storm...
The prize is to the politicker,
The master is the one whom is bestowed graces.
As I realize, a certain politician
Was the only one my dad feared to criticize
As his voice cracks and he tries to sound tough
But I know it is dangerous.
Never were Americans afraid of a president like he were a king.
And eight years ago, the plague had not come,
And I say, "Listen to thy poets,"
But no one does,
As I made popuri out of yarrow
And diligently made sure it wasn't tansy.
The wall of computers now are our hell
And do our deepest thoughts.
The school is for teaching you how to prosper
Not to teach you eternal truths.
And I say, "When shall I be enraptured?
"This is not my America, where the small town must poke
"Rifles out their window, to shoot the mad men from the city
"Who wish to kill the farmer."
And the Country Boys sing of the stars falling
And the Black Boys sing of their father the thief.
I am told it was always so...
Yet Papa was a rolling stone
And there was poetry in our people at a time long ago.
Now the white nigger flashes his wads of cash and glocks
And the country star inartfully sings his war propaganda.
I say... it has not always been so.
For today, more than any other time,
There is no poetry.

The Question on My Mind

I think to rebel against good Jesus:
"You do not ever establish Your good law.
"No, Your flock now preaches sin is okay,
"And my poverty is proof of that. I'm
"Mocked and berated and called a fool by
"All Your people, and called a heretic
"For trying to live righteously." I sigh.
"Yet, will the world accept your law, though
"I know not even Your flock does? I love
"Your law, it is my whole meditation.
"Once again, will the atheist forgive
"My debt? No, they will never. Thus, only
"You have the power to forgive. Christians
"Will not love me, atheists neither. Yet
"You forgive all debtors. So I believe.
"Is there great reward for me on this Earth?
"None that I can see... for I love you LORD
"Yet why does Your hand not reach down and pluck
"Me from my desperate state? Why am I mocked?
"Why am I teased and called a fool by all?
"Ah, 'tis only consistent with Your Word.
"For the righteous suffer long in this life.
"Now I understand, my LORD, Your great truth."

The Reading Difficulty Scale on 1 – 1000, and Where Some of My Books Are in Difficulty

15 - The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss

50 - Aesop's Fables

100 - Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'dell

130 - Encyclopedia Encarta

150 - Maximum Ride James Patterson

167 - A Brief Space Opera

160 - 700 - My Collected Writings B. K. Neifert

162 - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

170 - Bitter Medicine, B. K. Neifert

170 - The Love of Another, B. K. Neifert

170 - Amelia Chronicles, B. K. Neifert

176 - The Riddle in the Sea, B. K. Neifert

178 - War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

182 - Grimm's Fairy Tales

180 - Wisdom of B. K. Neifert, B. K. Neifert

189 - Brothers' Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

200 - The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain

140 - 290 - Storyhouse, B. K. Neifert

230 - Dear Author, B. K. Neifert

250 - The Wizard of Oz Frank Baum

300 - John Carter of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs

310 - Horace's Odes and Epodes

340 - Hail Britannica, B. K. Neifert

350 - Consolations of Philosophy Boethius

200 - 370 - Bread of Harvest, B. K. Neifert

400 - William Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets

50 - 400 - Flirtations with A'te B. K. Neifert

420 - Oxford Guide to Philosophy

431 - Silas Marner, by George Eliot

440 - Princeton Encyclopedia of Literary Terms

450 - Baron Byron's Childe Harold

500 - Don Quixote by Cervantes

200 - 790 - Fruitful Years B. K. Neifert

550 - William Blake's Jerusalem

600 - The King James Bible

650 - William Shakespeare's Sonnets

700 - T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland

730 - Fairyland, B. K. Neifert

750 - Comedian as the Letter C by Wallace Stevens

760 - Young Shadows, B. K. Neifert

777 - The American Mythology, B. K. Neifert

800 - Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

850 - Ulysses by James Joyce

900 - Cantos by Ezra Pound

950 - Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

Midrash

Because He delivered them across the Red Sea. So I am pleased that He will utterly destroy my captors. That's a joyful thought to me. And He will. And all the time spent waiting, is just evidence before their faces, that my God reigns. And He does. He's very real. It's one of my favorite stories, how God delivered His people. They were bitterly enslaved, but God showed great and mighty signs and wonders, and delivered them right before their enemies' faces. But, they sinned in the wilderness, after having witnessed God's deliverance. Which shows human ingratitude. Just like yours. But when that generation perished, the LORD delivered them into the Promised land by Joshua and Caleb, and sent great shakings of the land, great and fierce wasps, and delivered Israel Canaan as an inheritance. Yet, they did not destroy the inhabitants of the land, and the religion of Sin prospered, and the Jews forgot their God, and worshipped Sin, but the LORD had a few who were faithful, and did not bow the knee to Sin, and those the LORD will deliver, after when Babylon and Assyria came down, and destroyed Israel and Judah, Cyrus returned that remnant to their homes. For the righteous suffer long and endure trials too, when a nation is wicked. And through forbearance and patience, they persevere, and are awarded fruit from the Tree of Life.

Godel’s Ontological Argument for God’s Existence

Godel has a good argument. I think the premise is proven. If God must exist, then God exists. It seems that God must exist, otherwise there's no substantial way for reason to operate. As we've seen a lot of regression over the years on even the barest and simplest facts. Science is doubting addition these days. That's not a good look for it. There has to be a concrete at which reality is real, and a place to stop reducing things to further logical operators. There must be a point where we have faith. As without reality, there is nothing real. God substantiates what is real, by holding it together. Without belief in God, reality begins to break apart for lack of faith--and that is hell, in a nutshell.

Midrash on Heaven and Hell

Immortality is free—you choose where you wish to spend your immortality. Either in Paradise, with Jesus, or in hell, with Satan.

In heaven, there will be the Book of Life, where every man’s story is told who is saved, and you’ll get to read it with an imagination more vivid than anything you can conjure right now. There will be highways of gold, and mansions made out of gemstones. There will be garments softer than any silk, and more ornate too. There will be a plateau of gold that raises a height equal to the distance between the Earth and the moon. There will be increasing peace, love and joy in measures, surpassing any earthly understanding. You will be married to Jerusalem—a great mystery, indeed. There will be trees, that will clap for you. Your pets you loved will be there. There will be milk, honey, living waters, manna from heaven, and fruit of life, and every tree will bear twelve kinds of fruits for each of the twelve months. And you will be free like Jesus to roam this entire eternal abode, that extends to all directions for eternity, with a mind like His, a body like His, and an unquenchable Spirit. And you’ll be a judge in this kingdom—so a Governor—able to judge the souls of the damned. There will be rivers in all directions, flowing from God’s throne.

In hell, it will be sandstone caverns with worms and darkness and eternal pain and torment and unrest. You will have no knowledge, no activity, no device, and it will be fiery and cruel. The satyrs and dragons will have wicked and needley faces, and evil countenances.

So, you choose between the two, by accepting Christ or not. All who call upon the name of the LORD that day will be saved, and His name is Jesus Christ.

As a Poet I Put My Heart to School

As a poet, I put my heart to school,
Listening carefully to my tutor's words.
They impressed upon me, though once a fool,
A wide girth of knowledge and no great curse.
I saw the hyacinth grow, tuft to bell,
And its sweet perfume was sweet to my nose.
For life without poetry would be hell,
So no snob of this age can turn me cold;
Though they write upon my gray epitaph:
"He was lame, and dull of mind and so dumb,"
I harmed, know this all, I harmed at the last
Through my heart's pleasing epistles no one.
For without my songs I would then turn dark
And never found God, I would not be smart.
And at last, with fortunes made I'd turn black;
And upon my good God have turned my back.
For with the knowledge of this shining craft,
I have made to God a divine road-map.
I have laughed, and shed many a clear tear
And written of peace, for two dozen years.

Autobiographical Info

Time Line of B. K. Neifert

July 23rd, 1989 – B. K. Neifert is Born

November 9th, 1989 – The Berlin Wall Falls

September 11th, 2001 – The Twin Towers are Attacked

October 7th, 2001 – The War in Afghanistan begins. A seminal influence in B. K. Neifert's work.

October 26th, 2001 – The Patriot Act is Signed, which brings a decrease in United States' Freedom, and influences Neifert's earliest works, when he notices the decline in American prosperity and freedom.

May 20th, 2003 – The Iraq War is initiated, which Neifert's dad was a heavy critic of, and influenced Neifert's disdain for American overseas interventions.

2005 – Neifert, in the summer leading up to his Junior Year of High School, begins his first attempt at serious writing, as he pens an erotic science fiction novel, and head ways about 50,000 words into it. He never finishes it, and deleted all source copies of the work. But, some of its themes feature in Neifert's earlier works, such as idealized romance; and the “Necromancer” from this early work makes its first appearance in what is possibly the beginning of Neifert's doppelganger theme.

2006 – Neifert begins the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, which was originally from a game in his child's play.

2008 – Barack Obama is elected the First Black President of the United States.

2008 - 2009 – B. K. Neifert is arrested and convicted of two counts of simple assault and two counts of reckless endangerment, spurred by a psychotic episode where he vehicular assaulted two teenagers. He receives treatment for mental illness his entire life, and makes a successful recovery.

2010 – Neifert pens Utopia and 316 of the maxims found in The Wisdom of B. K. Neifert.

2011 – Neifert is inspired to write flash fiction from a Writer's Market Magazine, and does substantial work on A Brief Space Opera. He also pioneers his style which he will use for The Riddle in the Sea, A Brief Space Opera and Solomon's Romance.

2012 -2013 – Neifert has written several unsuccessful essay pieces and quasi cultish pieces, which he never attempts to publish. He also attends college courses at Harrisburg Area Community College, where he takes a fruitful Creative Writing Course and learns about Existentialism and Platonism in Philosophy – He also receives a comprehensive Humanities education, being exposed to the world's most famous art. He also is inspired to write Prestor John and the Children's Crusade when they are mentioned in a Western History Class, which the same professor also assigned reading to Neifert's brother which would later become highly inspirational to Neifert's work.

2013 – 2014 – Neifert makes a full confession of his entire life's history and criminal behavior to a police officer. While awaiting his trial, and the time he'd spend in York County Jail, he finishes The Fifth Angel's Trumpet. How to Write is started.

2014 – Neifert spends 5 months in jail, where he writes the narrative poems which will appear in “What is Poetry” and additional stories for A Brief Space Opera.

2015 – Donald Trump reveals he will run for President, and Neifert, through his political leanings, stays skeptical. Even at some points calling Donald Trump the Antichrist. Neifert also composes his first poetry album, “Bitter Medicine.”

2015 – The Baltimore Riots break out, foreshadowing racial tensions within the United States, over the death of Freddie Grey.

2016 – Neifert is left off his strict probation, and begins writing The Amelia Chronicles. Neifert also watches Yale Courses Online, lectures by Paul Fry, about Literary Theory and develops a comprehensive literary method, which he uses to interpret many of the world's most famous works of literature.

2017 – Neifert writes what is possibly his most significant piece, Hail Britannica. He dreamed the plot, and wrote the entire epic over the course of 2017, using an Encarta Encyclopedia from 2004 as a base for the factual details, and also an Encarta Dictionary to help him look up Etymologies and find German rooted words for his Fairy Tale.

2018 – Neifert composes most of Fairyland, especially the Odes of Brittos, The Ballad of Maddok, Prestor John and The Tale of Subang. He also begins to create the mythology of the Thirteen Kings, compiling them into two early works, one of which is called "Young Shadows".

2019 – Neifert writes The Elf in Manhattan and The Most Bitter Thought which will appear in his third draft of “My Collected Writings.” Neifert also Hand Writes The Tragedy of Joan of Arc (Having severe Dysgraphia from when he fell and hit his head as a four year old, he overcame the disability and hand wrote some of his major pieces).

2020 - 2021 – Covid19 Pandemic brings the Entire World to a Screeching Halt. Neifert uses this time to comprehensively edit his work, and begins “The American Mythology.”

January 6th, 2021 - Protests erupt at the Capital after civil unrest through 2020's Covid Lockdowns, deeply dividing the American public across party lines, and their opinion on Donald Trump.

August of 2021 – The U.S. officially announces Combat Missions end in Iraq, for the second time, and the Taliban regain control of Afghanistan after the U.S.'s disastrous withdrawal under Joe Biden.

24th February, 2022 - The Ukraine War escalates, which began in 2014. For two days the United States people are unified on the War, but conspiracy theories and politics divide Americans on it based across party lines, creating even more fractures within the American Politics.

2022 – How to Write is finally completed. And Neifert also finishes The Amelia Chronicles. And he writes the Prose Mythos. He also writes The Master Key.

2020 – 2025 – Neifert composes thousands of his poems – which he will become known for – including The Odes of Strangers series, The Trilogy of Sonnets, The Three Hyperion Themes and starts to compose his wisdom literature. He also consolidates his smaller, random publications into more comprehensive and polished volumes.

October 7th, 2023 - Hezbollah and HAMAS invade Israel, putting babies in ovens and murdering and raping Israeli citizens. They take captives. The United States people are unified pro Israel, until Conspiracy Theories and Politics divide the people. College campuses begin to form sympathies with HAMAS, Hezbollah and even Al Qaeda, as anti-semites divide with Pro Israel elements in the conservative party, and radical Liberals unify and start to support Terror Organizations.

Late Summer - Mid Fall 2023 - Neifert writes Artemis XX, The Third Reich, Theseus and Brittos, Ayin and Athrin and Cyrus Versus Julius Caesar.

February 2024 - Neifert writes his Manifesto on all his beliefs, beginning to structure a theory about applied language through the study of mathematics.

October 2024 - Neifert reorganizes his books into more polished volumes, and unpublishes half his work, while compiling the other half into more mature, and better crafted manuscripts, also reverting Fairyland and Young Shadows to their original forms, and publishes Hail Britannica as a stand alone work again.

January 2025 - Donald Trump regains office, and begins making many Executive Orders. Also tensions around the world seem to de-escalate, but Neifert stays Skeptical.

February 2025 - Neifert writes Anthem Louise Alcott, and publishes it in a new draft of Bread of Harvest with The Master Key and Prose Mythos.

June 2025 - Neifert rewrites Il Tema, and begins putting together a more polished version of Flirtations with Ate.

June 22, 2025 - Tensions start to escalate across the world, as Iran and Israel engage in escalated warfare; Trump begins combat missions in Iran. Zelinksy is welcomed in Canada, but Trump isn't, showing brewing hostilities across the world, as alliances start to break, and war is almost immanent.

2020 - 2025 - Neifert starts to study Geometry and Geometric Proofs, and begins to apply his skills to develop visual demonstrations of basic maths concepts and also does work on understanding and visualizing Euler's Identity. And uses his knowledge to put forth an argument from design.

2023 - 2025 - Neifert compiles 70 pages of hard evidence proving the Bible's historicity.

2022 - 2025 - Neifert writes thousands of short essays on a Question and Answer Website called Quora.

B. K. Neifert is an autodidact who's honed his craft since 2007. He's written everything from dramatic Space Operas and Chronicle Novels, to Essay Collections and Neoclassical Poetry. He has a firm grasp on literature, which helps shape his stories into finely woven masterpieces. In his repertoire are many epic poems; and a Trilogy (The Fifth Angel's Trumpet) involving conspiracy, romance and hardcore action. Relevant to the day, his books are a critique of modern culture, an exploration of Democratic Socialism and often a scathing critique of The Self. His Essay collections include an attempt to create a universal theory of literature and also a short discourse on how to read poetry. A polymath, Neifert has touched every subject under the sun with his works, and has many visions of tomorrow for readers to discover. His sole labor under the sun is to enlighten readers to the power of a story.

Author's Bio

Brandon Neifert is the author of books including In Defense of the Story, a crowning achievement of autodidactism; My Collected Writings, a medley of various writings on diverse topics; and, The Love of Another, an epic novel starring a rowdy maverick colonel caught between a devastating, fifth world war and the love of his life. Neifert is a self-educated, self-published writer, who, much like his characters, strives for the moral best in both himself and society. A devoted Christian, Neifert was born-again when confronted with a sin from his adolescence that ultimately led to his confession and incarceration as an adult. Neifert has a colorful past, but makes up for it with his scrupulous observations of the human condition, framing both good and evil in ways that even the most skeptical can agree.