Poetry as a Magic Call
    
     Poetry as a magic call
     Should be learnt, not passed in drawl
     Or at least in sound be sight
     Only then can words be right
    
     And in vision fullness too
     Should I remember words from you
     For why to learn if not to love
     Seek out another voice
    
     I take no steps or lay no tracks
     If my heart in feeling lacks
     Announce a rhyme, in verse embark
     Only where in soul is marked
    
     Each poem should make of little much
     And if no ring of truth as such
     Cannot be said a million times
     Is no more good than clanging chimes

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Also find the story of Tony, who loses his shoes,
then finds shoes with the help of a girl, some flowers,
the soil, the trees, the wind, the clouds, the rain,
a river, and a lake.
                                         Tony and the 24                                                    Jerry Van Polen
Tony and the 24


Jerry Van Polen