Muses From Megan

Thanks to my friend Megan
for these angelic muses!
Designed by Kelly Rae Roberts

In keeping with my last post --
The Story Only You Can Tell --

My new angels from Megan say,
"Tell your story."
&
"Create."

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American Poet & National Treasure
William Stafford (1914 – 1993) says,

When I Met My Muse

I glanced at her and took my glasses off—they were still singing. They buzzed like a locust on the coffee table and then ceased. Her voice belled forth, and the sunlight bent. I felt the ceiling arch, and knew that nails up there took a new grip on whatever they touched. "I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation." And I took her hand.

Earlier Stafford Posts: QK ~ FN ~ KL

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Way back in April 1980,
when I included Stafford's prose poem in my
Advanced Composition Notebook in grad school,
Professor Calvin V. Huenemann said,

"This is becoming a good selection of wise words. Someday you'll want to say it in your own way because only your own eyes, thoughts, and words can express it as precise truth -- all the others will be partial or approximate."

In other words,
tell the story that only you can tell.