Questions from The Ether

Questions from The Ether

(A lone voice whispers)

Is this why the modern world still needs poets and poetry?

To help the Illuminated be slowly renewed like a faithful servant of God clutching their rosary?

For can the power of poetry help carry you whenever your feet tremble, as you hear news of happiness or even tragedy?

Especially when tears stream down your face, for some say

Poetry can reinforce or shape new emotional realities. 

And a good book filled with heart-stopping prose or even a great poet like maybe yourself 

Can help light up in others

A divine hope 

A golden flame that can never be extinguished, even in the darkest moments of their anguish. 

To help keep those insidious shadows at bay as they find a new means to cope

I know we will all experience despondency at some point in our lives, and sometimes will feel lost, but one thing will always ring true: 

We will always return to our need for something to do or read, for a belief in a greater power. 

A force which can help us restore happiness, wash away tears, and try to make us feel whole again.

As it helps us explore a deeper understanding and appreciation of life, and all its immeasurable priceless moments. 

Some mystics say that poetry can help to enable us to reclaim those dire moments of darkness and remind us that those we love, including ourselves, are enveloped in good grace

Free from injustice, condemnation, pain, and suffering, but simply trying to achieve peace. 

For reading or creating poetry has always been the sweetest, everlasting song

That whispers or calls to every living soul, if they choose to carefully listen.

 

Regardless of their social or environmental positions or conditions. 

So have you heard it call to help you cross, maybe the Bridges of Doom?

From way over there

Seated in that very room?

(C) Copyright John Duffy.

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