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Poetry: February 14, 2024 Issue [#12414]




 This week: Loving to write; writing to love
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~~W. H. Auden


Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~~Plato


A poet’s work … to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. ~~Salman Rushdie



Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~~Khalil Gibran



What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. ~~G. K Chesterton



Always be a poet, even in prose. ~~Charles Baudelaire




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Love. Something we do without holds, without bars, and do it whole-heartedly. I love my husband: undisputedly, uncompromisingly, and unalterably. I feel the same way about my kids, my dog, my home, and my friends. I also feel this way about writing.

Writing is the very air I breathe. It is in every cell of every bit of blood running through my veins. It defines me to the point that when I die, I don't want photos of me scattered about--if you don't know what I look like, you wouldn't be there anyhow. What I do want are my words. I want people to be able to pick up my words, thoughts, ideas, and take one of my poems home with them.

Why? Because my writing defines me. It is my way of interpreting the world around me. My poetry gives voice to my loves, my disappointments, my frustrations, and my triumphs. It is how I reach out and touch someone far away and they sniff or smile.

Writing is so integral to my life that I can't imagine not writing. If I go too long without writing, Hubby will tell me to go write because I'm getting cranky and need to write. He knows and supports me so well!

My kids have told me I often speak (when in regular conversation) in poetry. Or use poetic phrases. I was trying to describe 'how' it was snowing today. I said it was 'anemic snow.' My daughter knew exactly how the snow was coming down then and said 'There's a poem' in there. She's right, and I expect it will pop out in a day or so!

One of the best things about being a writer IS writing. Sometimes what comes out is brilliant; other times, not so much . . . even still, I have (at that point) been writing and I am happy.

As writers, we have such a gift. Our shared and read works reach out so far. Especially here, at WDC, we can touch the entire world. How special is that?




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One a day.....
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