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- * A Prose Quote From Walt Whit...
- :) Six Of Twelve Reasons Not ...
- 'It Takes A Village To Raise A... My red neck friends ...
- :) Firefly Firefly Small your light It takes the glow of ...
- :) God In Texas In Texas God once turned a street to ...
- Keep It Simple Keep it simple So the past can find you The ...
- :) Reflection On Three Rober...
'The poets have become the pastors of our time.'
Helmut Thielicke
AUTOBIOGRAPHY;
In 1976 an extremely modest chapbook of poetry was published titled 'The Halcyon Poems.' In 1996, 'Snippets of His Glory While I Wait' a second chapbook was produced. A third chapbook is planned which will be influenced by Poemhunter.com ... more »
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'''You know you are getting old when you pack a second pair of under wear rather than your gun.' Bill Grace copyright retained''
Bill Grace the Texas poet and retired Unitarian Universalist minister.
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''Frank Thon was correct - if you aim for the stars - and I would add - work towards your goal - you very well may crash but you will still find a better earth. Bill Grace copyright retained''
Rev. W. A. 'Bill' Grace Unitarian-Universalist Association
* A Prose Quote From Walt Whitman Appropriate To The Spirit Of This Blog (1855 Preface To 'Leaves Of Grass')
'Through the divinity of themselves shall the kosmos and the new breed of poets be interpreters of men and women and of all events and things. They shall find their inspiration in real objects to-day, symptoms of the past and future....They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall arise in America and be responded to from the remainder of the earth.'
Quoted from 'The Harvard Classics' edited by Charles W, Eliot copyright of 1938 by P. F. Collier & Son Corporation 'Prefaces and ...
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Hi Bill...read your poem 'Poetry As Prayer'...your words tell this so well...you are right...in so many ways writing poetry is so very solitude...but...rewarding...
Lare Austin