To Create With Your Heart

Are you technically perfect,

  but spiritually weak

 

Are your words so well crafted,

  your soul cannot speak

 

Are your rhythms unmetered,

  your feelings unrhymed

 

Are you stuck in a format,

  that kills the sublime

 

Do your stanzas all end,

  their beginnings destroyed

 

Does your summation grieve,

  its parts overjoyed

 

Can you escape sophistry,

  your craft turned to art

 

Can you risk all rejection

   —to create with your heart

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

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