Evolving in Verse (poetry by TnWilliams)

I am a Registered Nurse by occupation, but a poet by heart. I began writing poetry and short stories at the age of 12; fell in love with two of the worlds greatest Poets Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe; their books were my constant companions.

Today the Poets who greatly influence me, never failing to sate my spirit are:

~Ali Khaghani~

~Rumi~

~Pablo Neruda~

~Kahlil Gilbran~

~Maya Angelou~

~Nikki Giovanni ~

It is my hope that within these pages that you will find some verse or phrase that will touch or inspire you; open your heart and mind to the beauty, the soul of poetry~ 

 What is Poetry~ 

 ~ Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.  ~Carl Sandburg~

  ~Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.  ~Thomas Gray~

~ Poetry is life distilled.  ~Gwendolyn Brooks~

~ Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.  But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.  ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919~

~ Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.  ~Edgar Allan Poe~

~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.  ~Samuel Johnson~

~ Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.  ~Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821~

~ Poetry ~ Logic's the language of science, poetry's the accent of passion.  ~Ali Khaghani~

~ Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.  ~Kahlil Gibran~