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Thank You Mr. Blake
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
Wednesday, May 6, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Thank You Mr. Blake



He taught me poetry and Zen
Being influential
To my being for having been

Seeing existential
Me being then essentially
Haunted by my being
18 not seeing anything
Not really wanting to

Not understanding the meaning
Wondering what to do
In 1973 then
What to do about me?

But he said he had been seeing
What I meant and said he
Thought I ought to write poetry

The greatest poem is
Silence but try it anyway
As I remember his
Words in December heard in May
He said write what you know

Though he wrote of the Amazon
And never got to go
Far as I know but he is gone
Now wherever he went

Thank you is what I meant to say
For seeing what I meant
My being in that Hall of Fame

By your encouragement
The one to credit or to blame



Steven Curtis Lance

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Reviewed on May 10, 2020
(Bill Blake was a real guy from Boston with a problematic name I guess for a writing teacher; yes he was William Blake, but he was Bill, he was Mr. Blake. So when I thank my poetry teacher at Santa Ana College, and call it Thank You Mr. Blake, I'm talking about Bill.)

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 10, 2020
I believe you are referring to the author and poet, William Blake. I may have read them along the way, but don't recall reading any of his works. I'm glad that you are inspired by him to become a poet.

Ron

Reviewed on May 7, 2020
We always have that very special person who would give us inspiration in life to do the things we like to do and what this person would see in us sometimes we don't know it ourselves that we have the talents to do it. I'm so glad that you have met that wonderful person, Mr. Blake!

Sandie


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