The Mystical Power of Poems

In English speaking culture up to about a hundred years ago, there are a lot of topics that you would not touch on in poetry. These days, that's less often the case and people might write poems if they're creating a culture for this language. The other con culture thing to worry about is what, who is a poet? All up and down the Indo-European zone from India to Ireland, the poet was kind of a scary guy. In old Irish culture, some poets were lawyers. They weren't just sitting around under the trees writing love songs. Yeah.