Dec 2015
Normally when I write, I dump my mind upside down with the lid off and let my thoughts spill out onto the page. But when I write poetry, I pour my thoughts into an inkwell, then, with a fine-tipped pen, I dip into the inkwell and obtain a small amount of my ink on the end. I then use careful calligraphy to write out my thoughts in the proper way. It takes more time, and each time I stop writing to dip the pen back into the inkwell, God has room to speak some of his own words into my thoughts, so the writing improves throughout, until by the end it's no longer my own thoughts being used for the ink. I simply write God's words with my own hand, in his language: poetry.
|Written January 1, 2012|
I wanted to keep my posts in chronological order as best as I could! My last few posts have been out of order, and I would have corrected the order if possible upon finding more poems in-between or coming across more correct dates, but, alas, I cannot fix them, because Hello Poetry offers neither a way to re-order poems, nor even to delete them once posted. Despite all I like about Hello Poetry, those are definitely complaints of mine. I find it very surprising and unfortunate that we can't delete a post! It really is like using ink :s
© 2017 A.D. Sifford.
I'm okay with you sharing my poems, but I ask that you show courtesy. Please be honest about the authorship by attributing it to my name. Thank you,
- Sifford
I wanted to keep my posts in chronological order as best as I could! My last few posts have been out of order, and I would have corrected the order if possible upon finding more poems in-between or coming across more correct dates, but, alas, I cannot fix them, because Hello Poetry offers neither a way to re-order poems, nor even to delete them once posted. Despite all I like about Hello Poetry, those are definitely complaints of mine. I find it very surprising and unfortunate that we can't delete a post! It really is like using ink :s
© 2017 A.D. Sifford.
I'm okay with you sharing my poems, but I ask that you show courtesy. Please be honest about the authorship by attributing it to my name. Thank you,
- Sifford
