In response to the query: “Please let us know how your life has been affected by poetry.“

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Dear NPR:

I am the author of 5,000 classical poems ~ over 200 of them flawless Elizabethan sonnets. Not only does my nation find me worthless, it condones my twenty four hour harassment. My mail is not delivered, my device suffers 20,000 hacking attempts each week, and ~  as this treatment has made me homeless ~ it is about to send me away from the protection of any American city.

Ana Daksina
troubadorofversepoetry.wordpress.com

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Touched by Poetry

Recorded Reading (1:26): https://www.dropbox.com/s/xt3m4dz88z5hw10/Touched%20by%20Poetry.mp3?dl=0

Some of the plainest people
That you will ever see
Live lives most beautifully blessed
By a few lines of poetry

Since they may not be erudite,
Might not be the kind
To read thick books, we imagine
They to beauty must be blind

But poetry is everywhere,
Making up each song
By which our hearts are lifted,
Helped to get along

On Christmas ~ on all holidays ~
We give our loved ones cards
Describing of their value
Our own effort well rewards

And then there are those times
When, though to read it we don’t try,
A few short lines of poetry
In life come drifting by

Quoted in a movie, or on the radio,
A careless note left by the phone,
A poster in a waiting room,
And suddenly by us is known

More deeply and more resonantly
Those eternal truths of love
Which every day, from then till death,
We have, and give, benefit of

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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