The Poet

[Namyh]

The Poet

The Poet, as master of creation, sculpts with words from ideation. 
A poetic human lens under Sun
who must concentrate its rays and in bold exquisite ways
tug the Heart and pluck its strings one by one.

In a foxhole words of Courage, out in Space words of Hope,
on a deathbed poet’s words to feel alive
are the jewels within a chest from the heart and head and breast
of a poet’s driven quest to pen the scribe.

And even when ‘no inspiration’ is the poet’s root frustration
and no wind to make a flag of words unfurl,
Time will tilt the lens to daylight
bending words to pinpoint insight
and one breath will hurl that scribe across the world.

So embrace the poet’s mission, as you write with proud submission
to this self imposed commission that occurs.
So that when you speak of Beauty, Love and Death, Truth and Duty,
you’ll make Shakespeare smile with tears and lose his words.

Namyh

[dukealien]

Much perplexed by this one.  The many internal and external rhymes are quite ingenious and, for the most part, appropriate to subject.

The perplexity comes from why this is so difficult to read aloud.  It is obviously possible to have rhyme of all kinds without a dominant meter - free verse and blank verse often include everything but end rhyme and a bit of that, too.  But here, with so much, the difficulty.

[Namyh]

dukealien - Thanks for stopping by to enjoy this work. I wrote this to help reorient poets like me who sometimes get stuck writing anything and I hope your reading this again will diminish any remaining perplexities. Namyh

[Mark A Becker]

Hello Namyh-
I don't think the bold font adds anything, and reads like you are shouting.
Below, I've plucked out some of the phrases that resonated with me:

sculpts with words

foxhole words

no wind to make a flag of words unfurl

jewels within a chest

There is some interesting internal rhyming, though some of it seems a tad forced.  Being a fan of saying more with less, I believe that you could compress this one to avoid being redundant.

All that said, this one works within the FUN FORUM,
Mark

[Namyh]

MarkB - Thanks a lot for enjoying this work and I hope it helps when most needed. Namyh