Posted in Jamie Dedes, Poems/Poetry

The Poet

478px-The_BardNo hesitation to break the silences,
to unite others with his verses, to
pierce sleep with the sharpened lance
of his reason, weaving his stanzas
and schemes into the warp and weft
of a marriage, with a single purpose ~
Peace. He tore at the knotted rhizome
and adventitious roots of hate and
despair, pressing on for the renewed
rootedness of hope and its fresh bright
blooms of honesty and courage, it was
his job to husband the survival of the
most refined proclivities of the heart
He planted his poems as seed in the
fertile ground of our best sensibilities

– Jamie Dedes

© 2013, poem, Jamie Dedes, All rights reserved
Illustration ~
The Bard by John Martin (1789-1854), English romantic painter and engraver, via Wikipedia and in the U.S. Public Domain.

Photo on 2012-09-19 at 20.00JAMIE DEDES ~ My worldly tags are poet and writer. For the past five years I’ve blogged at The Poet by Day,the journey in poem, formerly titled Musing by Moonlight.  Through the gift of poetry (mine and that of others), I enter sacred space.

Posted in Guest Writer, Poems/Poetry

IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME

© photo and poem, 2012 Charles Martin, All rights reserved

 it was just a matter of time

by

Charles Martin (Read Between the Lines)


i’ve begun

to

believe

that night

is day

and

day

is night

that

philosophical

point

that

one

can be

convinced

to

believe

anything

like

it’s okay

that

collateral damage

for

profit

includes

born

and

unborn

children

© portrait, 2010 Charles Martin All rights reserved

Charles Martin – a fine poet of social conscience has been blogging since January 17, 2010 and no doubt writing poetry all his life. This is the third poem he has graced us with and we know you are as pleased with his work as we are. Charles is a photographer and poet living in SoCal. He enjoys world travel and is concerned about humanitarian issues. He is trained as a Speech and a Language Pathologist.  (M.S. & Ph.D.) We highly recommend regular visits to his blog, Reading Between the Minds.