<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365775" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lightning Rod</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poet is merely a lightning rod, <br>For passing through him the words of God! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He opens up his mind, receives, <br>Then passes on the message, grieves! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words erupt from deep within him<br>That God has stored before, verbatim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Line upon line of schemes, ideas, <br>When left to man, left man in tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words left in trust at the Creation<br>Mankind would waste in dissipation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before, when Adam walked with Eve<br>In Eden's den of make-believe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were knowledge trees and friendly serpents <br>As God composed the Ten Commandments! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every verse of every poem<br>Was writ before the truth was known; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That nothing is ever achieved by man<br>Without the seal of God's own hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So laud me not, the poet's in me, <br>But deep within, the poet's empty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poet is merely a lightning rod<br>For passing through him the words of God! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">9 November 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365775" data-title="Lightning Rod de David Lewis Paget" data-description="A poet is merely a lightning rod, For passing through him the words of God! He opens up his mind, receives, Then passes on the message, grieves! The words erupt from deep within him That God has stored before, verbatim. Line upon line of sc..."></div> </div> </div>

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