Now here’s a thought for poets fraught <br />and trying to make a living, <br />from penning verse of many kinds <br />and lending us their worthy minds, <br />in realms diverse and many. <br /> <br />Some will keep to what’s held deep, <br />and only seek to reach our heart, <br />with kind, insightful, mystic art, <br />to sooth the soul and light the dark. <br />Or raise us up when life is blue, <br />or when were sick and off our food. <br /> <br />But if they would be well fed <br />they might resort to current news, <br />or stories with a twist of fate, <br />to mischief verse, or some debate, <br />on HIV or “the sovereign state”. <br />To give us all some food for thought <br />and goad you all to comment <br />'that poet has a clever mind, <br />you'd think he could write a sonnet' <br />So feed them well, or go to hell!<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/food-for-thought-11/
