From Whence Do Poems Come

From whence do poems come? Some say-- they're children of the heart, others say-- they're born in the mind's maze but I say-- poems come from deeper than any heart and from somewhere far more vast than any mind.... I suspect they come from that part of us that lies under the unconscious, so quiet, so subtle many never sense it-- but there, in the soul (the endless mind, the imperishable self) are found the words to percolate through the blind and dense unconscious to appear sudden, unbidden, unexpected in the daylight mind.... But their journey is still only half-done: when read by a stranger those poems transcend disparate worlds, making their return journey from a daylight mind through the unlit unconscious until the reader's own soul feels brushed by Wonder... yet from where do the poems come? They come from Eternity.