I just have to add one more thing before I post the words. By the way, I did add the text to the closed captioning thing so that the hearing impaired and listening impaired (I often fall into this category) can enjoy the message too; make your art.
Poet With A Problem
I am a poet with a problem. I seem to have trouble memorizing the words of
my poems, memorizing the lines, so I want to share something new today
making up as I go along... I am a poet with a problem. And, um, problems
are good if you try and solve them. And, so I'm trying to solve this one right
here by just speaking kind of what comes to my ears or maybe it's coming
from the inside I don't know, but I hope these words are coming through
clear because I want to grow in this gift that I know I've been given, yet I've
been hindered (it's been hidden). And, it's kind of forbidden for a poet to
flow just like the lyricists do because were separated though we're the same,
and one just understands the tunes. And, I want to make music and I want to
make poems, yet one is easier, I just flow in them. So, I'm going to speak
what comes to my mind and I'm going to hope that its rhyming and it's on
time, and all the other things that poets do with the music, with the performing
and with whatever ways they reach you and speak to you, I'm going to just
ignore those things and do what I do well which is listening and saying and
telling what I can tell which is not a lot as you can see, it's kind of like
rhyming ABCs, but whatever it is in the end I know that I'm using what I've
been given, and that kind of gives me a warm feeling inside. In fact, it feels
like fire, and it feels like I've died and risen again because I'm depending on
Him, and yet, in a certain way, it's okay because I never was here for my
own glory, and I'm just here to tell His story, and His story is the one, the
Jesus Christ that you've ready about probably once or twice in a Bible or
maybe you've heard it in a spoken word by another person who memorizes
their words, but I can't seem to do that, so I'm just going to speak what
comes to mind because I think that I can rhyme on time, and so I'm going to
be doing that from now on, and I hope you enjoy the poems, the songs, and
stay with me more to come.
-Lis Carpenter
Now, I know letting go and surrendering to the flow is the best way to go. Memorizing hinders the rate at which you create, so is there a way to pick up the pace. What if you really knew that the flow wasn't from you but through you. Then, would you just do what you knew?