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Updated - January, 2005

"How Can I Keep From Singing"
by Enya

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music . . . and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'"

---Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855,
Danish Philosopher, Writer

Webmasters note to the reader

My hope is to unite art, poetry and song. Although, many songs are born from poems, art normally stands on its own and in its own beautiful right. I attempt to merge these in an effort to intensify what's being conveyed and sometimes to give a little more to a piece of art.;

When truth be told to another, it often lands harsh and overwhelming; I believe poetry doesn't do that. Poetry lends a certain ear or hearing. Like an understanding that can strike the heart and sends it to its knees.

Many people ask me about my poems; like what does this mean, what does that mean? My response is "Please tell me what it means to you". For art is just that, what it means to you. I look forward to your responses to this question and or any other comments you may have.

Gary W. Hodges

"This mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called a "wind-swept spirit" for lack of a better name, for it is much like a thin drapery that is torn and swept away at the slightest stir of the wind. This something in me . . . . has never found peace with itself, always wavering between doubts of one kind and another . . . . The fact is, it knows no other art than the art of writing poetry, and therefore, it hangs on to it more or less blindly."

---Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694

"And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."

The Return of the King---
J. R. R. Tolkien 1892-1973,
British Novelist, Scholar

POETRY INDEX

Page 1 of 4

Candle Dream

Hearts Are Waiting

All There Is

A Valentine

The Lonely Seed

Forgotten

Migrating Soon

Dawns Empty Spaces

Reaching For Sunlight

Song

What Color Is Venus

Sunrise Of Love

April

Traversing

Waiting For You

Fleeting Dance

Debra & Jim

Unspoken Mystery

A Gift

The Wave

The Past, Present &
Future

Venus

Intimate Whispers

The Flower

Wine & Roses

A Heart That Is Blue

A Wedding, My Own

Falling In Love,
In Six Acts

Let Me Be Your Angel

The Omega Point

Swimming In the Ocean

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