What Does A Great Poem Look Like? Poem by Denis Martindale

What does a great poem look like? What treasure troves abide?
What light, as if a match to strike? What messages to hide?
And in those oft-used common rhymes... is there some food for thought?
Or just remembrance of past times... and lessons we've been taught?
Is there some precious prophecy? Is there a tale to tell?
Is there a call for harmony? Or words that cast their spell?
And when recited to a crowd... do they sit there enthralled?
And at the end, do they clap loud... with wise words still recalled?

Does poetry endure an hour... then forced to take its bow?
Does poetry retain its power... one hundred years from now?
And will the greatest words Man's shared... not see the light of day,
Because some cleaner never cared... and threw that page away?
Or will God stop her in her tracks... that poem to preserve,
Such that we read those awesome facts... when spread across the Earth?
God knows the greatest poetry... that Man has ever penned...
It's in the Bible's Psalms, you see... Psalm 23, my friend...


Denis Martindale February 2019.


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DO SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR HIM...


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