Still struggling to know my soul and express it in poetry.
It is a great practice in "listening to the still small voice of the Spirit".
Sometimes I hear Whitman or Sandberg or Millay or Langston Hughes or Dylan Thomas
or Ginsburg or dear sainted Angelou as they went to those same deep placesOr Isaac Hayes writing Try a Little Tenderness or the rising Mississippi River anger of
"Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters rising from centuries of slavery and peonage.Photo Muddy Waters 1979 Creative Commons 2.0