Field of Poppies

About the Book

This book is abut birth to death and everything between, about what matter in our daily living.

what drives our life and what changes our reality, what is consider as habit and how we choose to survive,

it is the survival kit, it the facts that we encounter in our existence, the believes and the moral understanding of our daily routine.

what do we do without thinking and what we should do without encouraging and reinforcing of others.

what is important and what not, who to listen, how to lead or follow and when do we use our God given intelligent, knowledge , education and experiences.

it is about life and living in the surrounding with design.

how far we should go and for what reason.

what matter and what they want us to mater. and the different.

It is reality that we should acknowledge, it is the facts that might not be facts..

it is the wake up call for all the people that living and doing the routine without thinking, without using the why's.

This book is the coach that sees the player's mistake , what they should do to win the life's game and win the trophy.

from start to end there is something we all have to know that no one teach us the game and life forces us to play the never ending cycle of the game.

how far we have to go and how much we need to know what is right and what is not, who is telling the truth and who is not on our side.

This book is the life experience of the the man that looking from outside and sees that reality that should be told, without consequences of being called the liar and trader .

in reality there are facts.

good and bad, the truth and the fiction.

this book speak from the heart of the known and unknown facts.

speak softy and judge not, that was the lesson ,

judge and find the facts and the reason comes.

what we need to teach so the future of our kids be much brighter that our generation.

this book is about the birth and death of the child,the abusive fathers, the pregnant young mothers , the heart breaking of divorce parents, the challenge of teenagers,

It is about God and his gifts to us , the small and big present that we receive in every breath of our being.

It is about religion and the end of our existence.

It is about The nature and the beauty of our surranding, the happy side of the relationship and the heart breaking of our falls.

we watch birds, we watch movies, we watch enemies to learn their mistake but never watch ourself to learn for more realistic and happier living.

watch yourself, watching you ,

you'll be happy you did.

About the Author

Mahmoud Tarokh was born in Iran, He came to the United states as exchange student for Iranian navy, in 1977 he graduated from "The Citadel" military college of SC. he left the country to serve as a naval officer in Iranian navy.Iranian revolution stared during his return and joining the Navy.

He and his family escape the new regime and reside in Charleston, SC

they are living there for the last 37 years .

Mahmoud has a unique perspective and draws subject matter from his experiences as a father of three boys, husband and military officer. He is deeply spiritual and taking the road of living in different angels .the uniqueness of his thinking process forced him to write his first book " field of poppies".

his believes in happiness in life and after taking him to different mine set that consider to be different and to be truth.

Field of poppies is the collection of life time experience of a young foreign man living and surviving all the diffences that engage him

as a abused child , as a foreigner, as a writer and as a family man , he always sees himself like a basketball coach that sees the players mistake from the sideline.