Master Poets
What makes a poem, words soft enough to sing
an angel a lullaby? Poetry is maybe the willingness
to make the everyday life of people sound great.
The ship builder welding sheets of steel together
or the planner who made the drawings, they may
not know this they are the poets moving a verse
of life the written as they work.
The common man in the middle of the verse is
what move me, not the sex life of the aristocracy,
but to make a poet great one has to see the sweat
and suffer the anguish of the engineer, to get
hiss feelings down on a flimsy mental canvas is art.