Where Do Poets Go

Poets go to the deepest mists of their desire to find a faint voice calling, yearning to be heard urging, not to be afraid of the silent space between reaching expectations and the journey to find the hidden words which lay trembling in the mind's cluttered realm of shadows and glimmering sparks of light slowly drifting waiting to be plucked from their abandoned state by the poet's needs to form a sentence to dance with beauty and the illusion of a poem in hopes when read by a critiquing mind it's read from a place of serenity and grace rather than from a judgment passed by a perception of the world as they know it The poet's path grows lonely as it moves through a long winding someplace where some have gone, never to return as they sought perfection from an imperfect mind flooded with vaporous possibilities which endlessly float in the mind's chamber so they may speak to someone they will never know with their written words 11/25/20 contest Where Do Poets Go