Nine Dragons Poet Free verse

Heart's Purest Well of Hope

From the heart's purest well of hope,
Stepped the cause upon the slope,
And pressed upon the longing breast
The urge, the urge that knows unrest.

To seek the sands of lab'rious time,
The ever arcing laureates of rhyme.
The silver quill said never still,
The golden scroll that remaineth nil.

Swing wide the shuttered sash of dreams,
Let the oceans overflow the streams.
Through open mind and far seeking eye,
Let go the ropes that hold fast the sigh.

And through thy hand, pen, and scroll,
Write the soul's journey and its toll.
What see you, peering from the gloom?
What memories belie thy cluttered room?

What marvels the eye from midst the verdant vale?
The rusty fox's cream tufted tail
He shrills the robin so high above
Whilst coos fall from boughs of idle doves

Write the time she caught your eye,
Or the tear sadness bade her cry,
As you both wept and said goodbye.
The rainy train station, last July.

Or how you held your mother's trembling hand
At last coming to understand 
All she went through to raise you
And how it's grown so late to say,
"Thank you, Mom, and knowest how much I love you"

Through painful tears
Those gainful years
And how this day
Crept up upon your fear.
The final day is here
Mark the month, the year,
That all life's glory disappear.

Write how you managed to survive it all
How far the grieving made you fall
How a familiar hand helped you to your feet
A familiar fragrance so ever sweet
And that some rainy day train station-
     Goodbyes aren't forever,
     For those ever meant to be together.

Write in thy darkest hours
Those heavy trials of ours

For if thou art a poet, then make it known:
Take thou heart; thou art not alone

Help the shrouded world see light,
Midst e'en the darkest dreadful night-
That you made through and out alright,
And that it's not the sun that breaks the gloom;
It's light, ever swelling, from a life that made you

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