Thrown Out of Eden

<p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Poetry is the soul's melody; sometimes harmonious and flowing other times stark and discordant much like a symphony stepping out of time.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Just as Thomas Paine's words were essential to the American Revolution so were the verses of luminaries such as Sophocles Homer and Tennyson to Frost and Longfellow. With their profound insight these poets captured the quintessential human truth shaping it into timeless verse.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>From ancient bards to modern-day wordsmiths a poet's voice must never be stilled. Silence seldom brings healing; it often breeds complacency and indifference.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>My city Dallas stands testament to this its heart still shadowed by the tragedy of 1963. Only through introspection voiced through words can we find reconciliation. As the victim of that fateful day once stated When power corrupts poetry cleanses.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Poetry like a clarion call resonates across ages cultures and oceans weaving tales of humanity imagination and commentary.</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Some writers perfect punctuation others master grammar but when I wield words I strike with the might of a sledgehammer!</span></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><br></p><p style='margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Arialsans-serif;'><span style='font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;'>Dive into this collection at your pace let it stir thoughts evoke reflection and gift you moments of sheer poetic pleasure.</span></p>