The Poet

Poets require passion and sensitive feelings Of life’s experiences and all its dealings Love, happiness, pain and sorrow To understand today and want tomorrow It’s not enough to feel the mood Something inside gets stirred and moved Like listening to music or being able to sing Poets write; the release is everything An orchestration of words, arranged and played Strung together and then conveyed To eyes and ears in sentence and verse Dwelled on and read, for better or worse.