Just to be present is a blessed event,
Arguments about form are just chatter,
The hour it arrives always filled with portent,
No competing high purpose will matter.
For writing a poem's like creating life,
An honor to just assist in its birth,
To battle with muse, fight with clarity's knife,
What could there be more important on earth?
The paper we write on is like Holy Ground,
Our ink honors life, its fragrance like myrrh,
To grind mental gears is a world shaking sound,
Images form, suggest God's passing blur.
As rainbows crown rain that brings life to the plain,
So does new poetry honor its source,
Heals the soul, mends the heart, abolishes pain,
Moves emotion along God's refined course.
Poems that all of our emptiness purges,
Poems like river banks guide our essence,
Until, at long last, humanity merges
With the vast sea of God's exuberance.
poems guide our essence, poem is the soul of our life-body. It is the absolute truth, very fine sir, I am grateful for your comment. I respect you always.
I simply loved the poem, there is nothing like poetry to resemble life in words, to capture beauty, to walk in insecurity and to list the uncertainties in life and cradle life's charms.
For writing a poem’s like creating life, An honor to just assist in it’s birth, To battle with muse, fight with clarity’s knife, What could there be more important on earth? This is my favourite stanza, it is extremely evocative and ends in open lines as if to evoke a response in the reader. Take a bow Mr Johnston
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Hi Brian, Thank you first for your comment on my poem. I loved the revisited Impossibly High Standards even better than the previous. There were some additional change to the previous which only complimented the poem further. How lovely to know that you were once teaching physics? ? in one of our schools. I'm sure the students there would have appreciated your teaching. Thank you once again and yes I shall keep on reading you as time permits me.