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    Verbi Potens Sacra Est : Sobs and Songs of My Years
    Verbi Potens Sacra Est : Sobs and Songs of My Years
    Verbi Potens Sacra Est : Sobs and Songs of My Years
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    Verbi Potens Sacra Est : Sobs and Songs of My Years

    By Ernst Delma

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    Poetry for peace is the scorching pen That erases the pain The broken pieces collector that solidifies harmony between Men The beguiling potion that tastes like venom The hand of a poet is the only hand That erases the bad things through unwavering words To allow the soft words to sound marvelous. The poet's anger is the only wrath that procures peace. The only troublesome endeavor that keeps hope alive The poet's criticism is the only remedy that hurts and heals The only remarkable remedy that hurts first to heal after. The poet deranges the status quo to arrange the institutionalized anarchy Denounces the pretense to announce the advent of the brotherhood parade. Only the poet, to parody the Haitian eclectic Etzer Vilaire, "Writes for all those that are tormented by life's dramas and all other problems of human's destiny".
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 6, 2011
    ISBN9781257424474
    Verbi Potens Sacra Est : Sobs and Songs of My Years

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      Verbi Potens Sacra Est - Ernst Delma

      Verbi Potens Sacra Est

      Sobs and Songs of My Years

      Ernst Delma

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      What is poetry, and how do poets conform themselves to its definition?

      A simple word PEACEA simple word PEACE

      Until When…Poetry again

      Poetry for Humankind

      A poet

      Allow the poet

      Between heaven and earth

      Armed with a rose

      The little orphan’s song

      Fallen high into immortality

      Seen it all

      The runners of the infinite race

      Chimers in layers

      Quo vadis mater vita

      Jumbling dreams

      Please poet, do

      Self-criticism

      Tenacity

      A poet’s soul

      Contemplation

      As is…no guarantee

      Winged geometricians

      Laborers of joy

      No wonder

      A mother

      A lifetime on the death row

      Genuine heroism

      Necropolis

      Bitter remembrance.

      When the fruits are ripe

      Dialogue of birds

      The maniacs of Hope

      Why

      You

      In dedicating this compilation of my poetic surge to your appreciation, I want to reiterate my fondness for Mr. Victor Hugo’s grandiose belligerence as it justifies my own incapacity of being the poet I always dreamed to be, a classic versifier an adept of Emily Dickinson for example, a disciple of Jean Racine. Isn’t she, still today, one of the most deliberately pro-found English expression poets and a faithful disciple of Jean Racine in my humble opinion the most artistic of all versifiers?

      The author of ‘Les Misérables’ has proclaimed:"I have dislocated the silly Alexandrin. I set a hurricane at the bottom of the inkpot" Personally, I would hate to impose a barrier to poetic thought, poetry being a forceful and dedicated mindset. Verses like birds prefer to fly freely and propel the echoes of their songs to all four horizons. Verses are handicapped by measures, suffocated by constraints. Strict obedience to rhyming is like imposing a harsh limit to human thought. Verses are like a graceful pair of feminine breasts, they hate the constriction of too tight corsets.

      Strong of this conviction of mine and respectful, by personal penchant to Hugo’s prescription, I have chosen to let my observation take the hand of my imagination to freely lead my inspiration toward the mined land of mental liberation through poetry. I hope the reader will spare me of harsh censure. Far to be the work of a master poet and a fine artist, it is the attempt of just a poet or perhaps just another man who dreams a poet’s dreams. Thus speaking, allow me to remind you of Edgar de la Selve’s prediction that does justice to all failures and forgives all breaches in human endeavors:" To deserve the esteem, it is not necessary to have done great things, it is often enough to have tried."

      Ernst Delma

      Poetry for peace is the scorching pen

      That erases the pain

      The broken pieces collector that solidifies harmony between Men

      The beguiling potion that tastes like venom

      The hand of a poet is the only hand

      That erases the bad things through unwavering words

      To allow the soft words to sound marvelous.

      The poet’s anger is the only wrath that procures peace.

      The only troublesome endeavor that keeps hope alive

      The poet’s criticism is the only remedy that hurts and heals

      The only remarkable remedy that hurts first to heal after.

      The poet deranges the status quo to

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