The World of A Poet

Poetry describes those feelings of the heart

Those inner most yearnings and desires

That one holds most dear

Deep within the soul

To be able to describe the pleasure and the pain

The agonies and the ecstasies of life in prose or rhyme

Is the gift that a poet is given

It is a poets delight in being able to share

With the reader these emotions

Emotions that draw from the reader

Laughter and tears, compassion or anger

Sympathy and empathy, sadness or joy

Sometimes all within the same poem!

For emotions are the corner stone that

We build our lives upon

They are the world a poet lives in every day

And being able to describe and share

These emotions is the greatest gift of love

A poet may bestow upon humanity

And the greatest joy a poet may receive in return

A poet realizes the beauty in everything

From the glory that can be seen in a tiny

Droplet of water, to the majestic beauty

Of the mountains, from the forests to the sea

The nurturing rain and

Lovely rainbows hidden within

The four seasons in all their glory

The splendor of the moon and her moonlight

And the power she wields over our emotions

The radiance of the sun

In the beauty of a sunrise or sunset....

The sun can not set without a poem being born

Surely there can be no end of subjects

For a poet to capture in a poem

Poetry makes a poet immortal

For when all fades away,

Words will still linger.

"Heaven and earth will pass away,

but my words will never pass away"

Matthew 24:35

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