Voice in the Dark, a LogaRhyme Options

[JustDaniel]

Voice in the Dark

I’m feeling He’s abandoned me;
a spiral down won’t set me free...
I need to cling,
remembering, when I’ve no sight,
the things He’s shown me in the light...
in darkness, sing.

“How can you sing!” a voice may blare.
“It’s obvious He doesn’t care;
just face the facts.”
Amid the drone of dark despair,
a still, small Voice is always there;
on this I act.

God is near the broken-hearted,
hears before a prayer is started...
been there too...
near the one whose spirit’s crushed;
“I’ll never leave you.”  List now… hushed...
He cries with you.

© Daniel J Ricketts 03 Feb 2005
Psalm 34:18

[JustDaniel]

Dear Just Daniel,
I suppose for most poets mastery of message is more important than mastery of technique.
Another way of saying it is being able to do both serious and light poetry is the test of the true poet. Mastering technique of presentation may relate more to verse than poetry.
[ Could you clarify for me the distinction you make between 'verse' and 'poetry' ? ]
I had come to think of you as primarily dedicated to "light", but this piece proves to me you reach the heartstrings too!
[ I'm most appreciative of your observation... and I regret at times that I HAVE often given the impression that I don't take anything seriously.  Actually, I often use my humor to take the edge off of what is very serious so that I can endure it... It's just that I've long had a tendency to get carried away with it, giving the impression that I don't have a serious thought in my head. THAT I regret...

especially since the very purpose of my wanting to 'master' poetry is to communicate serious statements with power and feeling, communicating to persons as a whole in their mind and "gut"... and left and right brain at the same time.  Humor can help... or hinder! ]

humbled in deLight, Daniel