by Cheryl Williams

Created on: October 27, 2009   Last Updated: November 21, 2011

The Poet


The poet searches
for words, for rhyme
amidst church steeples
and dunghills,
in love's first kiss
and in the heartbreak
of love's goodbye.
For centuries,
the poet has felt
the stirrings
of something greater
than himself...
in a golden sunrise,
in stars that dot the sky.
At times the words
flow like water from a fountain.
At times the words
trickle like a slow moving stream.

The poet paves the way
for teardrops,
laughter,
anguish,
rage,

and thoughts that take us
to a deeper place of thinking.
The poet surrounds himself
with words that have yet
to be penned,
letting them root deep inside
before sharing them with
a world that is not always
receptive.

Still, the poet writes.

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