poetry is my religion

God is not my religion.
religion is the way I express my view of God
and the way I speak of and to my God.
and thus I must confess, poetry is my religion.
not my God,
as that would be blasphemy
although I admit, sometimes, I lose the catechism
of villanelles and sonnets and the few haiku
I have ever placed to paper or pixel or lips
pressed to a microphone.
poetry is my religion.
for it is how I speak to and of God.
how I explain myself to God and God to myself.


William F. DeVault. All rights reserved.