I have been teaching poetry for nearly two decades. Like my students, I often wonder, where is the poetry of today? What has happened to our pre-eminent art form? At the risk of seeming ridiculous (a risk I necessarily face in all my writing), I attempt now to emulate the great poets of old.
I love poetry and always have, even before I began to read the Bible and came to realize how illiterate I had been my whole life. Now, as a Christian, I read the Bible because it is the water of life, but a wonderful side benefit is of course having the key to much of the great poetry of the world, suddenly being in on the discussions and dreams of thousands of years, what it’s all about. Love this. Can’t wait to hear more Terra, let us never be in thrall to piteous ghosts, dimming a once heroic world.
I love poetry and always have, even before I began to read the Bible and came to realize how illiterate I had been my whole life. Now, as a Christian, I read the Bible because it is the water of life, but a wonderful side benefit is of course having the key to much of the great poetry of the world, suddenly being in on the discussions and dreams of thousands of years, what it’s all about. Love this. Can’t wait to hear more Terra, let us never be in thrall to piteous ghosts, dimming a once heroic world.
Beautiful...look forward to the continued journey.