Carl Dennis
Carl Dennis is a recent
Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry.
We wish to honer Carl Dennis who has written seven poetry books. We hope he will inspire
you to follow your path in writing. We encourage you
to purchase his books, to read and to appreciate his work.
Carl Dennis is a poet with serious messages written in simple verse about faith and other
human conditions.
The God Who Loves You
It must be troubling for the god who loves you
To ponder how much happier you'd be today
Had you been able to glimpse your many futures.
It must be painful for him to watch you on Friday evenings
Driving home from the office, content with your week—
Three fine houses sold to deserving families—
Knowing as he does exactly what would have happened
Had you gone to your second choice for college,
Knowing the roommate you'd have been allotted
Whose ardent opinions on painting and music
Would have kindled in you a lifelong passion.
A life thirty points above the life you're living
A small excerpt of one of his poems... "The God Who Loves You" from the book Practical Gods
Copyright; Carl Dennis, 2001.
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