A Poet's Struggles Poem by Christopher Tye

A Poet's Struggles

Do the struggles and hardships define a poet,
The constant struggles to find words for verse,
Desperately struggling to find new ideas,
Struggling to find new directions to walk.

For is it not that a poet has to be a tortured artist,
Without pain and a lifetime of struggles,
Will the poet's word have any meaning or resonance,
For the poem to arrive must we poet's struggle.

By Christopher Tye