"I call 'poet' any human being who sets out on this path, in quest of what I call the second innocence, the one that comes after knowing, the one that no longer knows, the one that knows how not to know." -Helene Cixous

so...here is... My poetry

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945)

My April poems

My May poems

Some Breast cancer poems

Some more attempts

Poetry by John can be found on his page.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. -Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, poet, statesman (1790-1869)

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