Where Do Poets Go
Where Do Poets Go
I cannot write a tribute for a friend
who left our Soup in recent history,
because I have not been here long enough
to fully know the few who left last year.
So here are thoughts that I can offer now
in just surmising what the problems are
and hope this present group of gifted souls
will always share their talents as before.
Where do our poets go when all at once
we find their name and pages gone away?
Their heartfelt writings, words of wisdom fly,
afloat in air somewhere in cyberspace.
Were they offended by replies or blogs?
Were they upset with contest sponsor's choice?
Perhaps their muse took off and left them dry
to struggle on their own with no results.
It could be too, their time restraint to write
could not do justice to creative thoughts,
and it was easier to close the door
to words of imagery, they might display.
Perhaps they soon became dispassionate
to write and post, get comments and reply.
Though fun, these do demand much valued time
that takes away from other daily joys.
We cannot wonder why or what would make
those separate themselves from PS site.
For them, a sound decision made them act;
a choice each one of us could make some day.
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Where Do Poets Go
Sponsor: Jerry T. Curtis
Judged: 03/01/2016
Blank Verse: Unrhymed, 10 syllables, 5 feet per line
Copyright © Sandra Haight | Year Posted 2016
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