To Poets Past and Present

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    To Poets Past and Present

     Unite brethren
    we are the world that knows
    the gift of language,
    the beauty of prose.

    We are cameras
    our eyes, cool as any lens,
    take in the world at a glance
    and relate it to our friends.

    And such a world it is!!
    The portraits we draw can't do it justice
    though there have been millions of us
    not one can grasp the subject.

    We each just fumble with a little piece
    like the blindman with his pole
    in the hopes that if we make the ends meet
    we'll understand the whole.

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    MorsetBillie commented on To Poets Past and Present

    10-11-2010

    So true,we poets seem to live in a world of our own.A world in which every word is like a pawn.Small but vital like dew for plants at dawn.Like consoling words to those who mourn.People like Robert Frost,MorsetBille and SingingHeart are never appreciated until they're gone.
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    SingingHeart

    10/12/2010

    Wow I would say our words were like raindrops in a flood of emotion we create, like every tick of the clock for the minute we're late, like every crumb in the loaf of bread we bake, our words are the tools with which we make beauty for beauty's sake! It is an honour to have my name tossed in with a sentence containing yourself and Robert Frost

    Poetry is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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