I am pleased to welcome Robert M. Hensel to my website. This poem is his first posted on my site and hopefully there will be many more. - poetheart 12/29/01
Words flow onto paper like rain, forming
giant rivers of unseen lands.
The very force guides us along a journey
that holds of great adventure.
We are the explorers of the literary world.
We must find the courage to write what
others are unable to, with greatest of
passion.
A poet dreams, and then must portray his
visions upon the page that lies before him.
It is the beauty of all things that inspires us
to communicate in such a way.
A man does not wake up one day, and
decide to become a poet.
It must live in the very blood that courses
through his veins.
He is the creator of a world, only he has
known.
He is the actor and director, of all that
speaks out through his pen.
He is a man of all men, visionary of all
visionaries.
What you haven't seen, he has.
What you can't say, he can.
For he is the poet.
© by Robert M. Hensel