I'd like to write - like grown-up poets do: <br />with similes that span the universe, <br />that sparkle, crackle, dazzle, woo the mind; <br />and touch the heart with tender, swoony verse... <br /> <br />I'd like to write - like grown-up poets do: <br />in literature that's all the better for <br />those soaring, parabolic parables <br />and paradigms, and rhymes, and metaphor... <br /> <br />I'd like to write - like no-one else has done: <br />forget the rules and precedents; let fly <br />to heights undreamt of yet, new mindscape won.. <br /> <br />And yet, perhaps, the world's served better by <br /> <br />small lamps of words amidst the cold night winds <br />of chance and change; cupped in a poet's hands.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wish-14/
