What Should My Poem Be About? Poem by Denis Martindale

That will depend on what comes to your mind,
or comes from your heart.
So that is why a poem will feature topics of interest,
those relating to the human condition, this world or the next.
You either decide to rhyme or choose not to.
You write what you know,
or go beyond your comfort zone
and write another person's point of view.
You use TV and film characters to get their views across.
You draw inspiration from artwork and from music,
from pretty short-and-sweet pop songs and the classics, too.
You write about justice and injustice,
social issues, war and peace,
harmony and disappointment,
love and hate, joy and sorrow.

You tell the tale...
as well as the tall tale,
the comical and the hysterical,
the magical and the miracle and the lyrical.
You write until the joy leaves you
and it all becomes a chore...
and then you write some more.
For writing is that precious part of your very soul,
motivated by the freedom of expression
that only a poet can prove of esteemable value...
to the random reader across the world
and the followers of favourite poets here and there.
That is if you truly have become a poet,
one who reaches for phrases beyond imagination,
beyond the comprehension thresholds of Man...
beyond the norm... and that which was the previous form...

Just as one who pens a Valentine poem,
just as one who declares that love is more than love,
beholding it well and telling it like it truly is... and could be,
for true love proves itself a way of life, a journey to savour,
a journey fit for the most appointed poets to share
and thankful readers to love in equal measure...
So if a poet you would be,
at least write about love...
then your poems will deserve to be loved,
because love is the loveliest gift of them all...
for, just as any smitten Valentine knows,
love is everything... because it is beautiful...


Denis Martindale December 2018.


GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU BLESS GOD!
DO SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR HIM...


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