Violette Ardor: A Volume of Poetry is an innovative collection of poetry infusing modern and classic, freestyle and rhyme, fantasy and reality into an invigorating unique style which covers a plethora of genres. The author, Violette L. Reid, writes about the infinite search for God, the potency of love, the enthrallment of passion, the horror of war, the everyday grind of life, and the fantastic flights through her imagination. It is a collection that will ignite controversy as well as succumb to traditional ideals. Her words are eloquent yet simple, a combination that appeals to people in every walk of life.
A POET’S WORDS
they don’t understand these words that stir our souls
that churned out our life at birth and will welcome death when we are old
these words that lift the wings of eagles and gave the visions of planes that fly
the word that spoke the word and gave beauty to the world of mountains high
oh! These words that fall upon paper like drunken leaves dancing from trees
then colliding with the concrete in a joyful heap
full of jubilation and pain and thankfulness just to be a part of creation
these all mighty words that propel the pen again and again
to spill the words of prophets upon naked paper
covering the sins of the world with these rantings
the words that reared romantics in the science of love and making love
and taking love to a level the world will never comprehend
these words of poets that fill in the holes when philosophers
admitted they did not know it
words that sat old geniuses in corners crowned with dunce hats
contemplating what weakness held them back
from knowing the divine power of the poet
the power that shatters sunbeams into tiny emotional dreams
stirred into the crimson blood of every mortal heart
controlling every human being’s action
like a puppet master dictating life’s stage show from ending to start
for every bewildered soul who remain stupefied by life
and could not fill their empty heads with logical meanings and theories emotionally dead and admitted that they were lost
the seeds of knowledge, they could not sew it
have hope! The answer is near
saturate your spirit in the quenching lines of the poet.
(c) Violette L. Reid
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