When I entered kindergarten I thought I couldn't draw good. I literally didn't know how to draw a stick figure! My mom's an artist and so I drew people looking like people...my cousin said, "no, you don't draw people like that...like this." She drew a stick-figure and I copied her. From as long as I can remember I have seen the world as it is, and not as it is sometimes portrayed. I do not say this to brag. I think it's some kind of gift God gave me. I was shy as a youngster, and so drawing, painting, singing and writing poems became a way to express myself. I write to communicate, to tell stories.Hopefully in a manner that will leave you thinking, feeling, appreciating life in a fresh way.

*Poetry is the language of the heart. A society that excells in every other kind of writing, but wanes poeticly, is a society that is in decline. Likewise, an individual who fails to take time to read and appreciate poetry, is like a person who has an unbalanced diet. That person will not be learning the language of the heart. That man, woman or child may mature in physical stature, but emotionally and mentally they will atrophy.

If you read and enjoy poetry, I commend you!  If you have not read or are not reading poetry...I strongly encourage you to do so!  For your own inner health if nothing else. ~Z.B.McClure                                                                                                                          fellow human & poet  : )         in the spirit of love

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