Street Scholars Or School Scholars Poem by Chan Mongol

STREET SCHOLARS OR SCHOOL SCHOLARS
Poem by Chan Mongol
September 9 of 2020


Poems are not dusts or nuggets of gold sprayed from the sky;
To build rhythms and rhymes with hearts and souls poets try.

A poet doesn't have to go to Ireland like Tagore did in his age;
Just do assertive, exclamatory, interrogative utterance in own cottage.

There is no hard and fast rule to build a home in the literature;
Remember, what did you learn first? How to talk or the grammar?

You can write few words on a thing, supposedly neglected to others;
A day laborer and his sweats can be materials for poem writers.

You would be surprised to see how scholarly some talk in the street;
With speech, thesis, accomplishments, PHD folks they can defeat.

Real talents genetically talented or talented with life experiences;
But we are under the control of idols who study few years few dances.

Birds in cages and animals in zoos are not maintained naturally;
We have to focus to let them be freely developed but not artificially!