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--Spells 666 02:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)''' "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"- Percy Bysshe Shelley   ''No truer words were spoken. I am a poet, Heddy M Johannesen and practicing witch. I have published a book of poetry entitled Metamorphosis: A Poet's Symmetry. The poems are a collection of poems from my entire life. I have been working on them for years. I believe that poetry is never perfect although it is aesthetically pleasing, but the poet strives towards perfection constantly.

The collection of poems is very personal and is a myriad of themes and messages that range from observing nature to a dashed love to fantasy and global peace. The poems are in free form, an ode, a sonnet, a villanelle and ghazal. I have practiced these forms till I had them almost perfect. A good writer perfects her craft. Some of the poems are new yet most of the poems have mellowed over time. I took great effort to put the poems in to a cohesive structure and order.

Poetry speaks to my soul and comes from my soul. It can calm and inspire. Poetry has been with people since the beginning of time with Sapphos and Homer to Shelley to Emily Dickinson to Irving Layton. The legacies they leave are inspiring to me and I cannot thank them enough for what they taught me and I wish they knew how famous they are now. I love Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice and Nancy Baker. I had the honor of meeting Margaret Atwood at a fundraiser. I also met Tim Lillburn and Barbara Klar who are also great writers.

Poetry is often called the language of love. Prose can too be the language of love. Both work to express the human condition and experiences. I put effort into promoting my book of poetry to hopefully carry a message to the readers, to care about nature, i.e., small birds to critters like earthworms to deer and horses. There are poems of love and a desire for peace and loneliness, loss, fantasy, thoughts on people around me, witches.

The book was reviewed by George Elliott Clarke for the Chronicle-Herald. I was interviewed by Dave Rimmington for the Poetry Show. The book is also in libraries in Boston, the UK, Ontario, in Louisiana and Germany. I have sold nearly eighty copies. I am glad to know that perhaps another poet upon by chance reading the book would also be tempted themselves to pick up pen and quill.

WIthout words and paper, without poet and song, civilization centuries ago would have dissolved. It is one of the things that keeps humanity going, even from the cave days when they told stories and drew a goddess or an animal on the cave walls. In this time, when global tension looms and is accessible to see by the tv or internet, we need now more than ever some sanity and peace. We need to feel some control over the events in our lives.

I hope we can all live in a happy world and enjoy the variety of literature that is available to us. Heddy M Johannesen January 17 Italic text''