<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400138" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I Found The Words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I found the words, <br>that turned into poems<br>I was instructed to follow a career<br>that could earn a living, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">something away from literature<br>or even journalism, <br>that would not come to defy<br>my relationship with God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was taught the languages<br>of mathematics and accounting<br>but the words were hunting<br>for a way of expression, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">being stored up for years<br>even while my then wife, <br>saw my poetry <br>as just sentimental rubbish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now that I am hammering out<br>the words, the meanings and sounds<br>I am again haunted by an elitist clique<br>for whom the position of the self</div><div style="margin:10px 0">has become much higher<br>that the power of words, <br>who comprehends any able wordsmith<br>as a threatening menace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as they have to hammer away<br>at one verse for weeks and months, <br>rewriting it up to sixty times<br>to make a poem from it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=400138" data-title="When I Found The Words de Gert Strydom" data-description="When I found the words, that turned into poems I was instructed to follow a career that could earn a living, something away from literature or even journalism, that would not come to defy my relationship with God. I was taught the languages o..."></div> </div> </div>

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