Three Of My Poems Published
Michael Kroth • June 15, 2020
Poems:
What Does It Take To Sell Your Soul?
I Left The Gate Open
And The Mountains Will Be Barren (Lyrics)
And The Mountains Will Be Barren (Lyrics)
From Impspired Magazine, Volume Two
I don't know how profound any poetry I may have written or write might be, but throughout history artists - writers, painters, playrights, musicians, and on and on - have been the voices which question the status quo. I wrote these months and years ago, but they might still be relevant today.
These are the second set of poems I’ve had in a book, and many folks may have seen them before because they were first published on one of my blogs.
Still, it’s always wonderful to be published in the same book as one of my favorite authors and poets, Christine Valters Paintner.
These aren’t poems about snow and nature, per se, and aren’t very sweet but are more in the lament category, especially the poem about the mountains being barren. So if you don’t like that kind of stuff you may want to skip them.
These are interesting times aren’t they?
This is the second set of three poems I've had published by Impspired Magazine. The first three, I Stepped Outside Myself
; Time Misspent Lament: and A Frozen Tableau, are very different in feel than these new three.
These new poems, originally published here in Profound Living or our sister blog, The Profound Bartender, were also published in Impspired Magazine last year, and now are out in book form in Impspired Magazine, Volume Two.
You can read these three poems in the magazine, here.
It takes just a second to break something. Restoring what was broken takes time.
Outcomes are not certain, though some are much more highly predictable than others.
Life is messy. We know that. But some people move through that mess with a surprising kind of grace.
“The poor in spirit are by no means poor-spirited. They are persons who see so much to be, so much to do, such limitless reaches to life and goodness that they are profoundly conscious of their insufficiency and incompleteness.” ~Rufus Jones, The Inner Life , p. 19
Most of all, she is crazy about her brood. She smiles more when she’s with them. Laughs more. Enjoys more. Relaxes more. Has more fun. She just loves her family.
“…there must be millions of aging males, now slipping into their anecdotage…” ~E.B. White 1
