The World Needs More Poets Today

This old world needs more poets these days

with rhymes to rhyme, and words to play;

more lovers that love and prayers that pray.

The world surely needs more poets these days.

More sunsets painted with iambic grace,

and daybreaks displayed with syllabic embrace

in scarlets and ambers that others won’t see

all written down for the children to read.

God only knows we need poets these days

that write about wars in bombastic displays

of gory red colors in oozing refrain

so we will remember the heartbreak, the pain.

The world needs more poets to scream out the words

that mothers and widows and orphans have heard.

In stirring renditions, more poets to pen

words that move mountains and spirits of men

The magic elixirs of meter and rhyme

that transcend mortal purpose and shackles of time.

The world more than ever needs poets today.

In so many wonderful, terrible ways.