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A Few Poems | <<< index of Personal |
In 1997, an English instructor gave my class a rather long poetry "questionnaire" assignment and provided a booklet on poem-writing technique. Occurring in a depressed season of my life, it became a liberal outlet of emotion that eventually transformed into life-long passion. Amusingly, I have come to ingest a great deal of the 1911 ROGET's Thesaurus and the 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Poetry is likely my most worthwhile pastime; you could call it an emotional extension to journalizing. Free from exact events or details, the intent is to convey truth and emotion in a semi-connected form. Whether it is understood by an audience other than myself has never really been a concern, though what I write often strikes a cord with others of similar background. Each poem does have a particular concept and/or event that initiated it.
I tend to write poems in sizable collections; but they almost never see the light of day. An affectionate hope for future publishing led me to post the following excerpts from my oldest collections and request feedback. So, if you find yourself reading these, please do send me an E-mail with insightful comments.
Inspired by prolonged solitude, these poems express concentrated fear, bitterness, lostness, and an uncertain hope that my faith in Christ would somehow prove itself true and lift me from despair.
Inspired by a series of encounters with God that brought deep personal change, these poems express the adventure of abandoning myself into unknown intimacy in my relationship with Christ.
Inspired by the wonders of fellowship and evangelism, these poems express a subtle mixture of idealism with determination to channel vernal emotions into a faithful demonstration of Christ.
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