How To Write Poetry

If you write to please others
Then you write without heart
Then your pleasures are for another
Sound travels though time
Shakespeare did not write 
For our ears to hear
His words traveled through time
His poetry came within his heart
None can copy or write the same
Poetry lays within you
It’s the Spirit that guides you
Some you read with pleasure
While another will bring a sour note
Each uniquely created by one
A Rhyme may jingle in your ear
While it may sound like a drum 
to another.
Place not the heart for others to hear
But place it within your Soul
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Wolf Avatar
November 28, 2022 at 3:13 PM
Sage advice, Swami! Agree wholeheartedly... Nice to your avatar again. Season's Greetings, Gershon
May Avatar
November 28, 2022 at 3:17 PM
Thank You GW I have missed writing too that darn W.W. had to go and die on me, that broke my heart! It took a while to get back into the grove. Love ya my friend!
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