This poem borrowed the rhyme scheme of Whitman’s «O Captain! My Captain» – AABCDEFE – GGHIJEKE – LLMNOEPE

POETS

Poets remain alive in our hearts and feelings,
Castles of dreams, colourful rainbow meanings,
Starved souls of poignant vision,
Compose secret harmonies of sounds and images,
Surprise with sonnets, villanelles, lyrics.
Music and rhythm flood imagination,
Sometimes rawness and insolence happens,
Genuine poetry, through the ages, in celebration.

Like the polar star, poetry guides our lives
Conveys passion, leads to joy and strives,
Glory or doom, pleasure or gloom,
Senses dance in gentle echoes,
Rough verse, torrent yell,
Swirl of feelings, anguish sensation.
Words don’t come easy, move slow.
Disclosure of a flash of inspiration.

Choice of style, scheme of rhyme
Responds to soul mood, rolling time,
Messages of neutral or social concern,
Free to spin truth and lies,
Poets mix art and craft,
Evoke fictions, without restriction,
Sweet and sour potions conceal,
Words, words, words of pure creation.