Be aware – beware! ‘Anger is only one letter away from danger.’ Eleanor Roosevelt

Look at words and the meanings they convey to you. Words are for you to play with and understand as you wish. You can spell them any way you want, have them mean anything you want, and create any new words you want. After all, how did words get into the dictionary anyway? How do spellings change and new words like faxing and texting enter into general usage?

Always speak from your heart with truth. Truth is what is revealed in your poetry. It doesn’t matter if it sounds funny to you or silly – always speak from the point of truth and it will resonate within the hearts of others. When I was on a plane which was being de-iced before takeoff, I realized that the plane could crash since snowstorms have been known to cause that before. So, I prayed, in the form of poems I prayed. I wrote about 15 poems during this period and remember mostly the line, ‘If this be my last breath, let it be praising you, O Lord.’

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I wanted to write poetry but could not figure out how until I saw a poem my friend had written and said, “I can write poetry like that!!” The layout of the words was poetry in itself. No one could say to me it was good poetry or bad poetry – it was just my poetry and expressed how I felt.

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I used to write poetry to express my anger and rage, but ended up throwing all of it away after the theme of my poems changed. I woke up one morning with the first line of a poem running through my mind:

‘Skipping across the tops of buttercups…’

Now, you have to imagine the setting with me deep into recovery and fighting anger, rage and depression – and this line pops into my head. ‘Skipping across the tops of buttercups’? Yellow, not black, singing not crying, light and not heavy. It changed my life.

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The only sad part about my poetry is that it does not come when I will it. All of my poetry has been ‘dictated’ to me from within, from the Great Source. I take it down in ink and rarely change a word. I call myself a poet, but really I am just a scribe, a scribbler…

YOU CAN BE A POET – ANYONE CAN BE A POET. WRITE WHAT YOU FEEL, LET YOUR MIND ROAM FREE. HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR… (I used to wonder what that saying meant, but now I see that I can be anything I want to be, I can go anywhere I want to go – I can hold onto the truth and fly!

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