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Ode to the Reader

Updated on January 27, 2019
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Poetry is the heart of literature. A story is fine, a poem reaches the soul quickly eliciting raw emotion, and a Poem that is story Rules!

The ode to you, reader, exists because you make it so that writers have a purpose in life. Nurses nurse people to health. Doctors find cures for what ails people. Writers create art for intellectual stimulation in various genres for the multiplicity of readers that suits their fancy.

Writers are the product of what is in our souls, of course. Also, feedback comes from the people who read the words we put forth elicit confidence that connections with strangers are made. strangers become even stranger, yet familiar too. Those connections bring people together in an understanding that eclipses the distance of culture and race as all meet together under one banner: the words of a writer.

Ode to the reader who brings the writer's words alive. Ode to the imagination the reader uses our works to guide, and uplift, and sustain.

Ode to the thought-provoking insights readers leave as writers draw them in. Ode to the reader for opening up a soul to receive words whether to disagree or agree, they still have read in the end.

Ode to the inspiration the reader gives to write. Ode, ode, ode that readers keep writers' imagination alive because we have a need to share and a place to share it. What good are words not read? Eventually, a reader will bring life to the dead pages and inspire those who hear it, even if it is just the one.

The Reader

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Usher

Odes to Music

Usher is a well-known rhythm and blues singer who has crooned soulfully into the hearts of millions of listeners since his first single. Below is the song, Confession. The song itself is about a man who finds that through his rogue behavior he has fathered a child with his fling. Confessing it in song, the repentant man's music and words reveal the pathos of a wretch seeking absolution from his love. Give it a listen.

Odes can usually be put to song. Below is the instrumental music of Usher's song Confession. In this instance, the music is to be used to sing another poetic ode to the reader. Listen to the song, found above then sing the ode below to it!

Ode to the reader

Every time you comment on what I say gives me a high. Makes me want to write every day.

Ode to the Reader

Stokes my soul--the articles you're reading through. So I want to give an ode to the reader.

Giving any thanks and praise, I give it to you all.

300 hundred articles to my awe.

It's been nine years. You're still reading my words so I give an ode to the reader.

Had a bad day so I went to one of my articles.

Time to update and that usually helps to get me through my mood.

Below was posted a comment that you left for me, for me to read sparked a light in me and I felt free!

That comment blew my mind, words from you.

Telling me that my words were sublime. Is it true?

When another one came, it was splendid! Vote me up (throwback)! I responded:

Ode to the reader

Every time you comment on what I say gives me a high. Makes me want to write every day.

Ode to the Reader

Stokes my soul--the articles you're reading through. So I want to give an ode to the reader.

Giving any thanks and praise, I give it to you all.

300 hundred articles to my awe.

It's been nine years. You're still reading my words so I give an ode to the reader.

No two persons ever read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson – critic – May 8th, 1895-1972.

Voracious Reader

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Outro

Thank you, dear reader, for being here to give me a place to be special. When all is said and done, that is what you do for me. Is that wrong? No!

The ode to you, reader, exists because you make it so that writers have a purpose in life. Nurses nurse people to health. Doctors find cures for what ails people. Writers create art for intellectual stimulation in various genres for the multiplicity of readers that suits their fancy.

January 25, 2019, marked the 300th article I submitted on for the benevolent host of the HubPages experience. Others have written more. That number is not significant to the world at large. Special it is to me because it means I still have something to say and readers who will read multiple times to keep ALL 300 of my articles featured! Yeah, thanks to all of us readers and writers. We do that for each other.

© 2019 Rodric Anthony Johnson

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