Poetry
From whence cometh poetry?
Where do the roots of word spreadeth
While above
Fruited limbs gather
Unto the Son
In the celebration of wits end?
Is it not from the wellspring of reverent fear
Abiding precariously
Within each poet's awareness of God?
Or
Is poetry born out of a deeper
More profound awakening
Devoid of fright
Wherein there is no night
Or reason to write
Save the love one holds for another
Who seeks to know
Love
And be loved
Through poetry?
Or
Is it both?
John Christopher
1985
12-04-2009
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
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| "Lips" | 0 | 01/23/2010 |
| "Waterfall" | 1 | 01/17/2010 |
| "Genesis" | 0 | 12/31/2009 |
| "Rainbow's Visitation" | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| "The Best" | 0 | 11/27/2009 |
| "To Be" | 0 | 11/27/2009 |
| "To" | 0 | 11/25/2009 |
| "Together" | 1 | 11/25/2009 |
| "Wake Up" | 0 | 11/24/2009 |
| "Way Back Then" | 0 | 11/24/2009 |
| "Wishful Thinking" | 0 | 11/23/2009 |
| "Another Miracle" | 0 | 11/23/2009 |
| "Signs and Wonders" | 0 | 11/22/2009 |
| "Still" | 0 | 11/19/2009 |
| "Our Father Who Art In Heaven:" | 0 | 11/17/2009 |
| "Fallout" | 0 | 11/16/2009 |
| "Inches" | 0 | 11/13/2009 |
| "Intense City" | 0 | 11/13/2009 |
| Gone South | 0 | 11/05/2009 |
| Going...Going ...Gone |
0 | 11/02/2009 |
| "Teachers" | 1 | 10/19/2009 |
| "The End of Sorrow" | 0 | 11/13/2009 |
| Straight To Hell | 2 | 09/21/2009 |
| "Lamps" | 1 | 09/20/2009 |
| "Forever" | 1 | 09/20/2009 |
| For Heaven's Sake | 0 | 09/19/2009 |
| Flying Sources | 0 | 09/19/2009 |
| Holy Days | 0 | 09/18/2009 |
| History Lesson | 0 | 09/18/2009 |
| Kings and Priests | 0 | 09/17/2009 |
| Kingpins | 0 | 09/17/2009 |
| Life Guard | 0 | 09/16/2009 |
| Led To Bless | 0 | 09/16/2009 |
| Linking Up | 0 | 09/15/2009 |
| Love Cuts | 0 | 09/15/2009 |
| Mustard Seed | 0 | 09/13/2009 |
| The Castle Keepers | 0 | 09/12/2009 |
| The Inner Outer Limits | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| The Inner Limits | 0 | 09/09/2009 |
| Rhyme and Reason | 0 | 09/08/2009 |
| Prayer For the Left Behind | 0 | 09/08/2009 |
| Unforgetable | 0 | 09/07/2009 |
| Perfectly | 0 | 09/07/2009 |
| Pencil Pushing | 0 | 09/07/2009 |
| Paper Trail | 0 | 09/06/2009 |
| Palm Trees | 0 | 09/06/2009 |
| Painstaking | 0 | 09/05/2009 |
| Pain | 0 | 09/05/2009 |
| Overflowing | 0 | 09/05/2009 |
| Dream Team | 1 | 09/04/2009 |
| Out | 0 | 09/04/2009 |
| Day In Day Out | 0 | 09/04/2009 |
| Crop Circles | 0 | 09/03/2009 |
| Coming Out of Warp | 0 | 09/03/2009 |
| Millennium | 0 | 09/02/2009 |
| The Watchmen On the Wall | 0 | 09/01/2009 |
| The Turtle Who KNew | 0 | 09/01/2009 |
| Love's Vigil | 0 | 09/01/2009 |
| The Only Way | 0 | 09/01/2009 |
| Madness | 0 | 08/31/2009 |
| The Fools | 0 | 08/31/2009 |
| The Hood | 1 | 08/30/2009 |
| The Harlot | 1 | 08/30/2009 |
| No Matter What | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| New York Head | 0 | 08/30/2009 |
| Holy Paper | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Holy Days | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Dying To Live | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Saints and Heroes | 1 | 08/28/2009 |
| Thus Far | 0 | 08/28/2009 |
| Omega | 0 | 08/27/2009 |
| The First Eternity | 1 | 08/26/2009 |
| May Flower | 0 | 08/26/2009 |
| Space Case | 0 | 08/26/2009 |
| Rainy Days and Mondays | 0 | 08/26/2009 |
| Seventy-Five Cents A Minute | 0 | 08/25/2009 |
| Love's Couples | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Love's Vigil | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Knock-Knock | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Career Choice | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| My Cup Runneth Over | 0 | 08/23/2009 |
| Beyond Recognition | 0 | 08/23/2009 |
| As We Knew It | 0 | 08/23/2009 |
| Art Forms | 0 | 08/23/2009 |
| A Tap on the Shoulder | 0 | 08/23/2009 |
| Love is Also A Word | 1 | 08/22/2009 |
| Madness | 0 | 08/22/2009 |
| Life Times | 0 | 08/21/2009 |
| When the Poetry and Pros Stopped | 0 | 08/21/2009 |
| Details | 1 | 08/20/2009 |
| Faces | 0 | 08/20/2009 |
| Holy | 1 | 08/20/2009 |
| A Kiss | 0 | 08/20/2009 |
| Love Is | 1 | 08/20/2009 |
| Nature's Prayer | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| My Pleasure | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| My Cup Runneth Ove | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| My Best Friend | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| Inside | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| Jots | 0 | 08/19/2009 |
| Be | 0 | 08/18/2009 |
| Being | 0 | 08/18/2009 |
| Catharsis | 0 | 08/18/2009 |
| Thunder | 0 | 08/17/2009 |
| There | 1 | 08/17/2009 |
| Shine | 0 | 08/17/2009 |
| Poetry | 1 | 08/17/2009 |
| Intercessions | 0 | 08/16/2009 |
| The Valley of Decision | 0 | 08/16/2009 |
| The Quest | 0 | 08/16/2009 |
| The Seed | 0 | 08/16/2009 |
| The Now | 0 | 08/16/2009 |
| Writers Anonymous | 1 | 08/15/2009 |
| Writer's Cramps | 0 | 08/15/2009 |
| Inter-Office Memo | 0 | 08/15/2009 |
| The Best | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| AngelEyes | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Proof Positive | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Wail Away | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Star Crossed | 0 | 08/13/2009 |
| It | 0 | 08/13/2009 |
| The Calling | 0 | 08/13/2009 |
| Life Guard | 0 | 08/13/2009 |
| I Pray | 1 | 08/13/2009 |
| Threads | 0 | 08/12/2009 |
| Synchronicity | 1 | 08/12/2009 |
| The Spoken Word | 0 | 08/12/2009 |
| Caterpillar Wisdom | 1 | 08/12/2009 |
| Wrong Number | 0 | 08/12/2009 |
| Wings | 0 | 08/12/2009 |
| The River Hope | 1 | 08/12/2009 |
| Remembering | 1 | 08/11/2009 |
| Just Me | 1 | 08/11/2009 |
| Premonition | 1 | 08/11/2009 |
| On the Stand | 1 | 08/11/2009 |
| At Last | 0 | 08/11/2009 |
| Photographs | 0 | 08/10/2009 |
| This Place | 0 | 08/10/2009 |
| A Higher Heaven | 0 | 08/10/2009 |
| Lost Horizon | 0 | 08/09/2009 |
| Having A Ball | 2 | 08/09/2009 |
| Con Test | 1 | 08/09/2009 |
| Black Mountain | 0 | 08/09/2009 |
| Act of God | 1 | 08/08/2009 |
| Open Mike | 0 | 08/08/2009 |
| A Poem | 0 | 08/08/2009 |
| Flux Capacitor | 1 | 08/08/2009 |
| A Time To Die | 2 | 08/08/2009 |
| A Higher Heaven | 1 | 08/07/2009 |
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