Can I Improve My Poetry? Poem by Denis Martindale

With pen in hand, the world is mine,
In hopes of something grand,
Beyond some sweet-versed Valentine,
That most could understand...
Much more than sharing scenery,
Majestic or quite bland,
Much more than dreams so fancy free,
Much more than fate had planned...

Can I improve my poetry
All by myself alone?
Or must God grant me clemency
And all my sins atone?
Such that He reaches down below
To touch my mind anew,
Such that with patience I might know
An inner strength that grew?

By faith, I see the world is now
A harvest to be gained,
Of all good things God would allow
As each has been explained...
So in good time, let God reveal,
His share of prophecy,
O Lord, please prove Your love is real:
Improve my poetry!

O Lord, improve my poetry
So that it makes me bold!
So that Your love means more to me
Than poems young and old...
Such that the future grants me peace
And powers yet untold!
If so, grant wisdom to release
A faith that shines like gold!


Denis Martindale, St Valentine's Day,2016.