<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371288" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Functions of a Poem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem a hundred times or more, <br>Must look anew and make hearts passionate; <br>And never make the reader’s mind, eyes sore, <br>Nor try to others ever imitate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem must make readers hearts to feel, <br>The way the poet feels when poem’s writ; <br>And give a literary, untasted meal, <br>And make the man better, mentally fit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem ought to serve the people’s cause, <br>And free the souls in devil’s grip for long; <br>A poem helps a man rethink and pause, <br>And heed the inner voice, avoiding wrong.<br> <br>A poem takes a soul nearer to God, <br>Reminding man, he’s an especial clod. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 5-21-2002 by Dr John Celes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371288" data-title="Sonnet: Functions of a Poem de John Celes" data-description="The poem a hundred times or more, Must look anew and make hearts passionate; And never make the reader’s mind, eyes sore, Nor try to others ever imitate. A poem must make readers hearts to feel, The way the poet feels when poem’s writ; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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