Poem For The Poet Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Poem for the poet

Do not ye run out of things to write,

Pour your feelings out even if it sounds trite

Yours is to gab when the rest have gone silent

Yours is to grab attention with ideas even salient

Do not ye forget whither the ink and pen

Scour your mind with wormy words like a hungry hen

Yours is to shout loudly without opening your mouth

Yours is to speak truth to power till they go south

Do not be averse to talk to that thesaurus,

Words and rhymes never extinct like the dinosaurus

Yours is to bring forth tears coated
In words

Yours is to bring ideas from earth's other worlds

Do not be averse to sit in solitude in the bush

Snakes, flying insects and bitey ants will be like "shush! ",

give you a wide berth knowing it's your alone time

For, you are a poet, the primer of the primeval rhyme

The persistent writer of what others do not say

This is the Poem for the Poet fortoday.