Tales from the Disenchanted and Wisdom from the Haiku - Diana Leavengood Blanco - Bog

My poems are oftentimes born from some great sadness.
They usually speak of things that have been lost.
They try to catch the soul and trap the memory -
To tell the story...true...and - what - the cost.
I rhyme because it helps me to remember
I rhyme so I must measure every word.
I rhyme to help those lost things live forever.
In rhyming, lilting, steeped-in-meaning verse.
Words can prevail past flesh or thoughts or empires,
And words can make souls live beyond the grave.
So Man will ever know the wonder of them -
The courage that they showed...the joy they gave.