<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494998" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poet’s Prayer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord forgive me<br>That I have chosen to become a poet<br>Forgive me for what I write<br>The poems of my life<br>Grant me such devotion<br>To write the poems that I love<br>Grant me the love of poetry<br>That must not distract me<br>From tenderness<br>Make my desire last long<br>Make my disillusion short<br>Uproot from me these impure desires<br>From those poems that trouble me<br>Let not some images confuse me<br>Let not some metaphors numb me<br>Let not my dullness sadden me<br>Let your radiance descend upon<br>The modesty of my poems<br>As you once gave radiance<br>To the prophets who cannot speak <br>For themselves<br>Let me be a strong poet<br>Able to love and defend<br>the poems for the<br>women and children and land<br>Grant me the talent to make<br>The poems that they may still<br>Recite and remember<br>Even when I am gone<br>In my weakness as a poet<br>Make me strong<br>To scorn the poems that are not pure<br>To shy away from the fires<br>And flames that do not light<br>The lives of other men<br>And women too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=494998" data-title="The Poet’s Prayer de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="Lord forgive me That I have chosen to become a poet Forgive me for what I write The poems of my life Grant me such devotion To write the poems that I love Grant me the love of poetry That must not distract me From tenderness Make my desire last lo..."></div> </div> </div>

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