To learn more about the books written by Tom Mach; select from the following:
Novels | Short Stories | Children's Stories | Poetry | Nonfiction | Plays
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Novels | Short Stories | Children's Stories | Poetry | Nonfiction | Plays
Also view and purchase on Amazon.com | Click Here To E-Mail Tom Mach
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While attempting to understand the sonnets of Shakespeare, I realized the need to put the Bard into the 21st century and write my own sonnets based on each of his themes, so here’s the book the world might be waiting for….
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets more than 400 years ago. How would he have written them differently today?
Well, my poetry book, A Shakespeare Sonnet Shakeup, shows possibilities. This 174 page book will compare each of his first 77 sonnets to the 77 sonnets I wrote. I’ve also included a sonnet I wrote called, Sonnet 155, which I created as a tribute to this awe-inspiring poet (not me, Shakespeare) |
As an example, here are two side-by-side examples of Sonnet # 8
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SHAKESPEARE:
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’ |
If you love music, why should it bring pain? Sweet melodies should lift, not make you weep. Joy’s recollection ever will remain, Why not embrace what’s beautiful and deep? Do you find pleasure in a mournful song? When perfect harmonies unite as one, The soul feels blessed, as though it can't go wrong. Why walk alone beneath the shining sun? To shun the joy that marriage can bestow, Is like ignoring music's richest sound. Hear strings together—how they weave and flow, Like wheels in sync that smoothly turn around. In harmony, sweet voices blend as four, But lone recitals leave us wanting more. |
Bio of Tom Mach, poet
His first poem, The Inheritance, published in the Appleton Sunday Post-Crescent, paid him $35. The Journal-World also published many of his poems. Having entered a national poetry contest sponsored by Writer’s Market, he placed 9th in a field of thousands. He wrote a monthly column called Painting with Words, featuring a noteworthy poet and he analyzed one of their famous poems. He won the Nelson Poetry Book Award for his first collection of poetry called The Uni Verse, and received numerous awards for poems in contests sponsored by the California Writers Club and the Kansas Authors Club. Mach did not believe in submitting his poems to literary journals, but he was invited to submit one to Blue Island Review, which published, Only Another War about a Civil War soldier worried about his “momma” at the farm.
His first poem, The Inheritance, published in the Appleton Sunday Post-Crescent, paid him $35. The Journal-World also published many of his poems. Having entered a national poetry contest sponsored by Writer’s Market, he placed 9th in a field of thousands. He wrote a monthly column called Painting with Words, featuring a noteworthy poet and he analyzed one of their famous poems. He won the Nelson Poetry Book Award for his first collection of poetry called The Uni Verse, and received numerous awards for poems in contests sponsored by the California Writers Club and the Kansas Authors Club. Mach did not believe in submitting his poems to literary journals, but he was invited to submit one to Blue Island Review, which published, Only Another War about a Civil War soldier worried about his “momma” at the farm.
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- His 30 funny additions to Pluggers cartoons have appeared in thousands of newspapers.
- Finally, he was a columnist for the Kaw Valley Senior Monthly for more than six years.
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