Who pays the poet to write?

Who pays the poet to write?

Is it the hurt that dwells in the heart?

Is it the blank page, who waits eagerly to be filled?

Is it the ink which beckons to flow out?

Or is it the memories

Who keep haunting and rush out in evanescent voids of time,

To come back and haunt again?

Is it the lump in the throat

Waiting to be gulped?

Is it the blood,

Which carries the feelings from heart to head?

Or is it cannabis or alcohol,

Which carried you nearer to the truth?

Or is just the mind which pays the poet to write?

Is it the ensemble of letters,

Waiting to be made into words, sentences and finally a poem?

Or is it a dream, 

Which eagerly waits to become reality?

Or is it just emptiness?
Or is it just a satisfaction to have completed a creation?

I wonder who pays the poet to write!

Author's Note

Any comments welcome

Reviews

[icelandicblue]

We are compelled and each of those you mention have a part in why and what we write. I think this is a very original poem. (you might want to look at the last line and remove the w at the end of to) This is a wonderfully engaging poem.

[Azure Montessa (Blue)]

You got me in a pensive mood. Yeah, yeah. Interesting questions but I don't know the answer to that yet. Haha.

Insightful read. :)

[Sheila Kline]

I so like the use of questions as you prod us to think and ponder what the answer is - for us, for another, for a group of writers. This is filled with thoughts of philosophy not just questions springing from your mind - they are answer provoking!
And the way you sum it all up in the end is wise!
Excellent poem my friend! It really isn't just letters on a page........is it?

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

Thank you Sheila...your comments are much appreciated! :)

[Antoñyo]

I enjoyed this thought-provoking piece,
Thanks for sharing

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

Thank you again Antonyo!

[Sami Khalil]

That will be a commercial poet if he is paid solely to write poetry or if that was his main motives. Poetry should be personal and one which should come out natural from wells deep within ourselves. Money should not be the motivator but sharing with yourself and others your creative fruit...Bravo...:>)............

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

Thank you for your kind words Sami!

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:)...........

[Solilokiss]

Bravo! This was great. I love the thoughtfulness this penning entices. Thanks for the thoughts. Who does pay a poet for a write? Perhaps the mere expulsion is just reward.

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

Thank you....indeed the mere expulsion is indeed a reward!

[Augustus]

Wow, this one really made an impression. I have never before encountered a poem that is composed entirely of rhetorical questions and manages to do justice to the subject at hand. You have accomplished a wonderful feat here.
Who pays the poet to write? All of the above? Some of the above? None of the above? I guess different poets will pick different reasons, but then, that is the purpose of your poem. To make people ask themselves the same question and to seek those answers. I love the last line as well. Finishing a string of questions with a statement that still leaves the question wide open. What I also admired about this write is that you've made a very thorough analysis of the possibilities that may drive people to write, and, as I said before, you've posed each as a question.
Very high marks for this one for its intelligent use of technique as well as the profundity of the content. Well done!

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

I don't know how you manage to analyse stuff so well...your reviews actually make me feel proud about myself...but the truth is when I write...I just write whatever comes to my mind...I don't care about language,style and grammar...but you seem to find poetic sense in everything...you must have studied a lot of poetry...I wish I was half as well read as you were...

[Chandradhish Ghosh]

I thank you immensely!

[Augustus]

I'm glad you like my reviews. I have no formal training in poetry. I'm not particularly well read either. But I've developed my skills as a reviewer over the last four years on the cafe. I just make an honest effort to bring out what I feel are the key elements that make a poem work. To be honest, I feel far more confident writing and reviewing poetry that I do while doing physics. That said, my training in physics actually helps me in reviewing verse. :)

[Augustus]

You're welcome CD!