Don Beukes Ordre des livres

The book talks about a trip, in all its dimensions. It is a book that talks about wholeness, about Humanity and its interaction with themselves, with others and with Nature. It becomes clear that Beukes is trying to explore every trace of human experience. Joy and loss, hope and despair, individuality and completeness. Everything fits and has a place in this book, as it entirely mirrors the innermost core of vital experience. So, little by little, the reader realizes that the poems begin to be narrated from an "I", but then they go to a universal "we" and from this to a cosmic conscience. The vision widens and it comprehends the entire vital transit.

In Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Beukes sets the sights of his moral compass straight at the corrupted systems and institutions that control the global levers of power. His poems pour out with laments that decry the injustices perpetrated against everyday citizens by governments, financial oligarchs, big tech monopolies, and military adventurists who have upturned modern civilization through their craven lust for complete dominance over the earth's terrain as well as in the minds of its people. In other selections, Beukes journeys into the spiritual realm, pondering about God, exploring the meaning of faith, spiraling with the DNA of generations past, and tuning into the echo communicated by lost loved ones that reverberates back beyond the veil to comfort those who carry on in memory of their cherished legacies. Throughout the pages of this collection, no matter the daunting nature of the problems detailed, there remains a persistent will to shine ever brighter despite the dark forces that seek to dampen the spirit of humanity and its collective destiny of awakened ascension. - Scott Thomas Outlar, author of Abstract Visions of Light and Of Sand and Sugar