Welcome to our new poetry section!
Welcome to the HP Poetry Corner.
We have decided to bring back this popular feature to Humanist Perspectives.
Please enjoy these two poems written by our former editor, award winning Canadian poet, playwright and author, Henry Beissel.
If you’d like to contribute some of your own work, please click HERE.
These two poems are from Henry Beissel’s unpublished suite entitled Translyrical Reflexions.
Dawn
Hush!
Listen
to dawn
open its eyes
and watch hordes
of luminous horses
carry tunes up over
the brim of the horizon
till the silent night bursts into song.
Listen carefully—
discordance in one ear,
harmony in the other—till you
find your own voice, your own tuneful
melody and sing it with all your heart.
That melody is
who you are, though
in the celebration of all
the mornings of the world
you can hear yourself only
when you listen
to dawn
open its
eyes…
Birth Frees Us
Birth frees us
from the silent darkness
of eternity
to confine us
to the noisy spectacles
in the rich garden
of our senses
where word and colour
are insurmountable fences
barring our path
to the truth
we seek
in being
born.
We extend an invitation to all our readers to submit their own original work of poetry that they feel might be of interest to people with a humanist outlook. We welcome poems on philosophy, politics, current news items, and general poetry with themes such as nature, triumph over adversity, life in a certain town or country, etc. We are looking for meaningful and thought-provoking work, any style, but please keep the length to no more than 40 lines. While serious subject matter is fine, we don’t want anything graphic or overly dark and heavy. Preference will be given to poems that uplift, educate and/or inspire.
Please submit no more than 4 poems per edition. All poems will be reviewed and considered but we will only be publishing 2 poems per edition. If your poem is not selected for our upcoming edition we will keep it in our inventory for possible future use. We are not offering payment, but it is a great way to showcase your work. We are requesting one-time publication rights only and all other rights remain yours. We will accept previously published works, but please inform us if that is the case so that we may give credit to the original publisher.
Please send your poetry submissions with this form September 30, 2024.
Vivian J. Lundahl, Poetry Editor.
