O poet friends from lands far and near, <br />I thank you all for having been to my small abode <br />For an evening`s chat and for smiling at one another. <br />You have all left for once; not for ever. <br /> <br />You are all gifted with Apollo`s fertile mind and I swear <br />You are laden with thoughts never ever on the same line made <br />As your lands and concerns are there much diverse with one another. <br />Your wet pens now write more often than ever. <br /> <br />O poet friends, read what is writ large on this world`s forehead <br />And speak out to your friends what we all ought to do now <br />To save ourselves from the discomfort of alienation of ourselves <br />And whisper into the skies your dreams cherished. <br /> <br />Each day you awake a little earlier to see the sun surging <br />And before the stars spill around to twinkle never say, 'good night'. <br />Each poem you write must flow like a rivulet quiet <br />Though the floods and the ebbs may still ring within it. <br /> <br />Near my abode I shall plant a tree of a high breed root <br />And grow on it fruits like your own ones delicious and sweet. <br />I shall play on its branches often and still will break none! <br />And in your great castles its orchards will be once grown. <br /> <br />O poet friends, blow your horns unto the heights and depths <br />And let the waves thereof transcend our dwarfed earth <br />Into a Jupiter of cheers, hope and right fauna and flora. <br />I beseech you all to tune your music that will ever be heard!<br /><br />M.D Dinesh Nair<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-ode-to-my-poet-friends/
