by Dale C. Frederickson
I got a new book in the mail today, and as is the case when I'm excited to get a book, I opened it, took it out at began to read. I was especially excited for this book because it speaks my language: poetry. I often use it to express myself when prose or speaking just won't work and I find it extremely emotionally evocative.
Now, unfortunately, some of the poems didn't sit right with me today. But that could be more telling of my own emotional state than the quality of the poetry. I can read a poem one day and love it, and read it a week later and find it "trite." That is the nature of poetry. It speaks when it needs to speak. That is why there are 150 different chapters in Psalms: enough word and emotion for the infinite spectrum that exists.
I will leave you with an excerpt from one of the poems. Head on over to Amazon and check out the rest of the book.
I got a new book in the mail today, and as is the case when I'm excited to get a book, I opened it, took it out at began to read. I was especially excited for this book because it speaks my language: poetry. I often use it to express myself when prose or speaking just won't work and I find it extremely emotionally evocative.
Now, unfortunately, some of the poems didn't sit right with me today. But that could be more telling of my own emotional state than the quality of the poetry. I can read a poem one day and love it, and read it a week later and find it "trite." That is the nature of poetry. It speaks when it needs to speak. That is why there are 150 different chapters in Psalms: enough word and emotion for the infinite spectrum that exists.
I will leave you with an excerpt from one of the poems. Head on over to Amazon and check out the rest of the book.
Stuck(excerpt)
You feel stuck?
Unable to do the things you want to do,
Unable to be the person that you want to be,
Unable to live the vision that you see.
Nothing is easy.
You start to face this.
You learn to embrace this.
You trust the grace in this.
You see beyond sticky places.
Somehow, someway, slowdown, make way, subtlety, not today,
You'll learn new moves,
Find those new grooves,
Your life improves.
I believe in you.
Do you believe in you?
One day, somehow, someway, transparently, I know, you will be -
FREE.
Able to do the things you want to do,
Able to be the person you want to be,
Able to live the vision that you see.
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