Idylic Benediction

What a poem means to me.

Oh, my loyal friend,
What should I ask of you this time?
I got needs, many needs I just can't tend ...
You have been so many things for me!
You have kept me afloat with your rhyme...

When I've had my heart ripped out
You were there, took my blood, you healed me.
When my soul was in a drought
Nature's bliss, you helped me, clearly see
You have made me fly through your verse.

You have taught me simple things
I ignored, or forgot in ordeal
I have cried over your sweet strings
That reminded me of things I should feel.
You've built me dreams with your similes.

A smile, a laugh or a simple grin,
You have stolen from me with your wit
You toy in my mind, animating things
I should know they could not come to be.
You've marveled me with your conceit.

Frivolous to many you may seem.
You're my doctor, my counsel, my remedy.
You have done so much for me
Within the boundaries of your brevity
I must thank you with my own poetry.

Author's Note

Nothing fancy! I really don't bleed over paper! Those days are long gone. Been with my sweetheart for 24 years! Just wrote it for a contest about writing a poem about poems. Hope you like it...

Reviews

[wordwarrior]

Wonderful and so true! I can relate to this! When all else fails, write about it! It's a great release. I like the way you made a friend of your verse and that's how poetry should be,whether dark or happy, always filled with our inner emotions!
Great writing!

[Glen Yumang Manese]

This resonates in the words as you go about expressing the written word and the concepts that makes you feel the way you do about poetry...just gives and keeps giving within the lines...as I read this work of yours...