I've spent most of my life hacking at the branches of my problems and having no sustained improvement as a result. Over the last few years, the roots have started to be more clear to me and now I'm making more efforts to strike them. One of the axes that I use is poetry - writing poetry, specifically. In this first episode I discuss that process and I share and talk about my poem "The Poet's Call."

The Poet's Call

Write hard words

_Also, I referenced a poem by E. E. Cummings _

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - Cummings

and one by Rainer Maria Rilke.

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,

Flare up like a flame

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Nearby is the country they call life.

Give me your hand.

Book of Hours, I 59