Blog for March 23, 2010

23 March 2010 | Paul Rea

I just posted one of my all time favourite poems, a work by Paul Laurence Dunbar, a celebrated African-American Poet from the mid-nineteenth century who inspite of his immense talent received little recognition in his lifetime. “If” is a poem that is very meaningful to me because it speaks about the theme so many of my own poems speak about – the fact that we as humans can rise above. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Also, a few days ago I published “Her Dark Clouds”. Yes, I do admit that I have (quite possibly in peril to my health) published a poem comparing a woman’s anger to a thunder storm or other Act of God. I invite you to overcome any dilemna or forrays the poem may have with political (in)correctness and read on to the happy ending.

Finally, I heard last week from one of my readers that I have developed a bit of a “fan-base” so to speak. I was relatively unaware of this due to the lack of comments I have so far received in the “Comments” sections under any given poem. I cannot stress enough that your feedback dear reader, is very important to me and allows me to guage the impact my website is having. Please take the time to give me your thoughts, good, bad, or indifferent.

All the best,

Paul