Listening To Poetry

Poetry is warm and friendly,
nice to hear, healing,
with room for everyone
great and small.
Even writers of anonymous verse,
those great anodynes for the faithful,
are remembered from time to time
in rhyme if not in name.
A name is only a temporary bit of cloth
we put on to cover our naked self,
but  a word from god translated
by the poet’s hand, is a word from god.
God likes poets and doesn’t abandon them
in times of strife or need, the word
is always there to be heard
by the active listener.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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