Why Poems?

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 20 is to write an explanation poem. To those who sometimes wonder, or ask, WHY?!!Why poems?!! poetry is far more than ink arrangement of verse-rhyme(though some perceive its purpose as sheer waste of precious time)because some so-called poets desecrate ballads with blightthrough unholy vulgarity and disregard for right poetry is love's passion poured upon a page; its questto rekindle a heart of awe within the human breastto waken us to worship God with more humilityto draw wonder from unplumbed wells of Divine Deity to grasp, from sod and sky and sea, sacred glimpses, though dimOf He whose workmanship is but the outer fringe of Him and then to bow before the parchment altar with amen touching the hem of God's garment through whispers of a pen poetry is far more than vaunt to vex the hungry eye it is the aftermath of prayer, the dredged deeps of a sighthe heart that skipped a beat as it beheld the holy stagewhere ink survives the author of words committed to page poetry is the pleasure of  God rushing through thought's veins a holy happiness that the Ultimate Bard sustainsthrough nature's endless evidence of He who woos the souland keens ears to an ocean where uncharted poems toll/roll poetry is far more than lyrical extravaganceit is a brush that paints a scene, a soulful song and danceit is a kind endeavor to address lament and laudand benefit the reader with witness that points to God poetry is the language of lovers of humankindlonging's collective sympathies, the music of the mindso when you ask 'why poems? all that I can think to say is, 'to ignore the ocean's roar would be to cease to pray'or, when you ask 'why poems' the simplest truth I can giveIs, 'to ignore the ocean's roar would be to cease to live' Janet Martin “When I run, I feel God’s pleasure.”Eric Liddell (1902–1945) When I write poetry I feel God's pleasureJanet Martin (1966-....)