To the Poets

I've been thinking of the endless of poets and writers, our brothers and sisters, whose burden bonds us.

  

here's to all the poets

who sat with just a pen

and labored into the night

to find the poems end

 

minds with words that drift

looking for a place to fit

that perfect little word

that seals the feel of it

 

broken hearted human beings

who struggle to express the pain

of how deep the hurt of loss is

that even words are penned in vain

 

to the writers whose lives are lost

whose only friends float deep within

simple words of gray and black

color their lives from start to end

 

here's to the countless writers

in search of that immortal line

that screams to all who read

i was someone..somewhere..sometime

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

" Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre'. The proper and immediate object of science is the aquirement, or communication, of truth;
the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have to agee with Sam on that one.
As a poet; I seek beyond all else to to bring my reader ecstasy.
I know then that my reader will be a faithful lover, leave satisfied, and return often.
Just mine and Sam's thoughts.

[Clockwork]

You do the writers of the world justice here. Your style captures the struggles that writers go through. This was a pleasure to read and I am happy to have come across it.

[Star]

*hugs* I have been gone for a very long time, but I am so glad to see you again. So glad to read you again.

[Donald Meikle]

Hey bro ....(anything else is just icing)

[Emily B]

here's to all the writers, the ones like you who have stories to tell, the ones like me who scatter foolish wisdom, and all the others . . .

[SM Davis]

This is great Ray! I accept your tribute and thank you for taking the time to write it!

[George Love]

Rain, your writing has such depth and meaning it is a true shame more people do nto get to experience your art. You find ways to bring your ideas to the forefront and into full focus. Your writing is an art form. Power to the pen!

[Nautili]

this is so well written and so beautiful. I am really impressed with this piece, putting it in my favorites.

[Legion]

I'd just be happy if they could understand what they read. :) Kudos to you, but don't forget not all writing is written in pain. Well done.

[Aspiring Angel]

I too really was zapped by your last lines here. We who are writers, poets, or whatever title we choose to give ourselves in our own mind HAVE to write to be complete. Words, such simple things and yet they are our avenues to find whom we are and let others too see the true person that sits behind the keys to type the words that belong to their soul. Myself, when I am gone, if even one person finds my work and finds value in it, then I have completed my goal. As always, a great write. Versitility is most certainly yours as well as the title POET.

Hugs,
Lesa