Poetry Edgar Allan Poe & God's Poets Comments

Well constructed bio of Edgar Allan Poe.

It's not easy writing biography as poem. I tip my hat to you!

Tom, I think that you've done a brilliant job with this poem. You had me wishing for more. I loved all three sections. Although I have read, and respect, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, your poem enlightened me about some facets of his personality and his life. Congratulations on Poem Of The Day. Well deserved.

Even though I truly appreciate the work of others I tend to go with my own composition. Furthermore, I don't believe in feeding the dead and leaving the living to starve. Being famous is good, but for some fame takes time to grow. Nonetheless, thanks for sharing, may you be blessed!

I think by looking at your other work that I understand you have stitched together here 3 separate pieces, which lends a disjointed sense to the whole. Just so that you are aware of probably unintended impressions to readers who are not privy to your style. Having read some of your pieces, I commend you for the precision with which you render the structure of your meter and rhyme. It is obviously done with care and attention. And anyone who takes upon themselves the title of God's Poet, should certainly render absolute devotion to achieving the highest level of craft humanly possible, so as not to perpetrate the exact opposite of his intention. I believe that art and worship are similar in that both are impossible without humility; that both yet seek the impossible, to render the infinite accessible to the finite, and the understanding of such futility must produce a deep humility that prevents the endeavor from being doomed from the outset. I wish you well in your endeavours in the impossible, rendering the infinity of the Divine palpable in the finite work of your words. This, too, has been my goal, yet I stand as a man on the edge of a great canyon of my own limitations. Godspeed, good poet.

You throw out a wide net and pull in a variety of ideas, ideals, hopes. and of course, Poe's reputation as a poet is restored in your endeavor. I'm glad to see that because his desire to be a poet was not an ego trip but a sincere service to the Muse and Humanity. In the second half of your poem you describe poets as chosen and inspired by God - as if they were God's spies in the world, as Shakespeare put it. I'm not so sure about this myself. D.H.Lawrence wrote in a poem, NOT I, NOT I - BUT THE VATIC WIND THAT BLOWS THROUGH ME. That is the Mediterranean concept of the poet, known to Homer, the Greek Tragedians, Horace, Virgil, and so on. But I acknowledge the integrity of your belief, it raises your poetry way above egoism and links it to spiritual reality. I follow a different spiritual path, but I am confident we will find ourselves in the same place of good will in the end. How do you feel?

Words of wisdom. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

a very interesting and enlightening story of gifts bestowed upon us mere humans.

If I want to read to biography about any historical figure I read a biography, not a poem. Cold facts are just easier to take in prose form with footnotes. Poems should enliven and dance in the imagination, and a poem about an historical figure can do that. This poem, unfortunately, does not. In fact, this kind of poetry could lead me to abuse psychoactive substances just to try and unread it.

I very much enjoyed reading your poems Tom.

This is a real mess.