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I Don'T Know Why

I really don’t know why of these poems that I write, come to me from the sky in the dead of the night? From the sky so it seems that these words come to me, not anyway in dreams yet somehow that’s the key. There’s a place in my mind a secret place I guess, of a poetical kind just like a game of chess. Is someone there I ask because these words distant, someone behind a mask a dead poet insistent? I’d no education only the street wise kind, a mind on vacation now going bloody blind. Then I found my refuge on the net poetry soup, just a wondrous deluge of comments from this group. Yet still I don’t know why of these poems that I write, come to me from on high or deep within my plight? © Harry J Horsman 2012

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Date: 9/29/2012 11:54:00 AM
Wow and I mean wow I have just read this for the second time and I think I now have an inkling as to why we seem to have talked to each other without ever having spoken. this has even scared me i must be honest xx
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Date: 8/9/2012 9:37:00 AM
I just love the flow... nice... Hugs Laila
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Date: 8/2/2012 8:01:00 AM
Love this one I am surprised I have not come across it before this is exactly how i feel, I don't know where the words come from xx
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Date: 6/14/2012 10:16:00 AM
Great poetry comes from places we often don't know why it comes from.great write Harry. :) & thanks for your comments. ~always&forever Lynette
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Date: 6/2/2012 3:45:00 PM
I guess you didn't do a sound rictameter yet. Hope to see you work on one!!
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Date: 6/2/2012 2:22:00 PM
I've always wondered where my thoughts come from too - "a dead poet insistent?" i've wondered too, then are these thoughts and poems really mine? or am i the vessel that just leaves them behind? loved your musings :)
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Date: 6/2/2012 11:30:00 AM
Wherever they come from, I'm glad they do. I enjoy your poems! Let's say, I like your style. :) Tanya
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Date: 6/2/2012 12:49:00 AM
2 thumbs up!!!
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Date: 6/1/2012 9:22:00 PM
This place where your poems is berthed is the best part of your soul, Harry J. I don't know if gerontologists have ever studied the benefits of writing poetry likening it to a foreign language and keeping the mind sharp...I bet if it were studied the results would be promising...Enjoyed this write of yours...Thanks for commenting on my work also...Not writing as much lately ...a little under the weather. Off to read another one of yours...Gwendolen
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Date: 6/1/2012 7:02:00 PM
A question of the ages,my friend. From whence does it all come?? I'll never know how I ended up a poet in my mid forties and onward into my 50's. I would never have guessed where I would be today back in the 80's!! But isn't it a marvelous ride we are on here? This says it all, Harry!! Great tribute to the spirit of poetry and this website. (sorry about your eyes. I hope you are doing ok?)
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Date: 6/1/2012 2:43:00 PM
you know harry, poetry just pops up in our heads and hearts.. and when it does, time stops!.. an endearing piece ,ohhh ohhh!..;) huggs!
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Date: 6/1/2012 12:10:00 PM
very nice one,i don't know where mine comes from either,i guess we are two of a kind,keep them coming,have a blessed day
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Date: 6/1/2012 12:04:00 PM
Hey guess what? I don't know where they come from either,but keep the amazing writes coming.Superb write....Just so you know,that comment came from my SOBER heart!!!
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Date: 6/1/2012 11:01:00 AM
Hi Harry! I really like your ponderings here and I find myself asking a similar question myself! I like that idea, of some kind of dead poet speaking their words to you but also I somehow also think that it's somewhere wonderful deep inside of you is the place your poems come from...you manage to bring those thoughts out into your poems and make us think with you-- no matter where these come from Harry, do keep writing and we'll keep reading with smiles :)
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Date: 6/1/2012 10:54:00 AM
Love it..your work is amazingly awesome Harry!! I just love the flow and the rhythm!!!
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Date: 6/1/2012 10:51:00 AM
Absolutely, Harry, It does happen to me too. I once did a 14-stanza poem in the course of a night. It was very strange. I would get up with some lines , write them down, go to sleep, only to get up again with another stanza, and getting up likewise for nearly as many times, I completed it. Still I am not able to make out what I wrote that night. Great job, Jag
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Date: 6/1/2012 10:43:00 AM
Hi Harry, I have so many good ideas and poems in my head right before I fall asleep. The next morning they are completely gone.You to??? - Very well written Harry. -oxox love Anne-Lise
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