Remembering the past helps to not make so many mistakes
in the present.
Hopefully eliminating them altogether from the future,
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Trying to improve oneself and earnest attempts to make oneself more knowledgeable is so much appreciable and the poem and its contents are best of good messages and likes.
Trying to improve oneself and earnest attempts to make oneself more knowledgeable is so much appreciable and the poem and its contents are best of good messages and likes.
Pablo Neruda published a book of poems near the end of his life called FULLY EMPOWERED. The poems were not that different than what he been writing for the past ten or twelve years, but he sensed that the power he had invested in others through his words was effortless. He had reached his highest creative plateau. That's what your 4th stanza does, and the last one elaborates it. Of course Neruda was sui generis, and you are RoseAnn. But there is a common purpose of creativity that links all of us poets, and it's important to celebrate that link. And you already identified what you will do with your powers - to write poetry BEYOND THE EDGES OF WHAT'S EXPECTED OF ME.