Advice To The Aspiring Writer Poem by Denis Martindale

My word! You really haven't got the full measure
of how privileged you are!
To have so many artistic desires within you
is living proof of great expectations!
Can you contain the wonders of the Universe within you
and yet without writing about them?
I'm startled by the stars of Heaven,
the delicate notes of a piano,
the playing of a guitar,
the beauty of a woman.
I'm amazed at the power of the human mind
to calculate and to assess information.
I'm impressed by computers and computer programs
and the Internet and its resources.
I love the changing of the seasons
just as much as the winsome flight of a butterfly.
I'm thrilled to be able to write
and music has helped me just as much as art,
and the studying of such skills as these
has meant so much to me as each year passed by.
I'm able to write poems to create that sense of wonder
and to ignite it in others.
I can write parables and hymns
and create crosswords and puzzles.
I can tell jokes and recite stories.
I'm amazing! And so are you!
So never let anyone tell you differently!
Grab hold of every divine blessing!
Keep what you can! Share what you can!
You can change the world for the better!
These are my great expectations!
And I won't let them go!
So ask yourself, just how blessed are you now?
And how blessed will you be in the future?
Keep praying! And you'll find out!


Denis Martindale. August 2020.