Poetry There are a number of poets among the Ovi team, so we have gathered the together here.


	The Lost American: "Ginger Bread Lady" by Michael Lee Johnson "Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry." - Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
	"only the beginning" by Bohdan Yuri "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession." - Robert Frost
	"The Black Dog" by Jan Sand "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." - Carl Sandburg

	The Lost American: "Berenika" by Michael Lee Johnson "[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom." - Robert Frost
	"on top a mountain" by Bohdan Yuri "[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." - Sigmund Freud
	"I Stand Atop The Wishing Well" by G. David Schwartz "Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did." - Christopher Morley
	"Gallactic Star Trail" by Christopher Wilkinson "A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof." - Rene Char
	"Lonely devil" by Alexander Mikhaylov "Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
	"Super Thoughts" by Jan Sand "A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses." - Jean Cocteau
	"never in my life" by Bohdan Yuri "The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes." - W. Somerset Maugham
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