For the Sonneteer

to celebrate a poet is an invitation into imagination introspection, reinvention changed/charged perception to celebrate a poet is to light a beacon for the demonstrator or downtrodden to find and be led to places where that small voice declaring ones calling can be answered 'yes, i am coming' and 'with confidence' to celebrate a poet, says to a weary world 'rest, read, reach into the vast reserves of the universe. find, if only for a moment, the peace of letting go, of looking through another's eyes, of knowing from the poet's pen and, the reader's voice something new is created'.