From the Poets Corner collection

By Susan F. Adams

LOVELAND, OH (August 7, 2024) – Poet Susan F. Adams shares a little bit of herself introspection.

Today’s “Poets Corner” is Susan F. Adams taking a look inside…herself? Maybe.

Here’s what she shared about the story behind today’s Featured Poem:

“Be Ye Perfect”

“Be Ye Perfect – Matthew 5:48 from the Bible. In one of the classes I attended, the last thing the teacher said was: “Woe be to the perfectionist!”

In grade school, I remember being taught to “Strive to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.”

My father was the most rigid perfectionist I ever knew. On the day he died, he had gathered numerous twigs into perfect bundles all over the yard from his thirty-three trees – that he loved.

The last part of this poem refers to the words of Yul Brenner in The King and I: “It’s a puzzlement!”   – Susan F. Adams

Here is today’s FEATURED POEM: “Be Ye Perfect”  

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