Poets Are Dreamers !

[mazHur]

Poets Are Dreamers !

Poets are dreamers
Wage war in their dreams
Win battles in their vision
construct and destroy
worlds in their imaginations,
Poets are shakespeare,
Keats and Byron,
Wordsworth, Goldsmith
and Ezra Pound !
And many many more.
All generals of poesy
All dreamers awake
Some never went to water
some never touched the fire,
yet they seem to catch fish
and roast it !

[AuntShecky]

The last six lines of your piece are best.

The poets you cited may have been in fact "dreamers," but they were also thinkers and most of all craftsmen. For instance, a poem may begin with a "dream" or an idea, which may or may not be translated into action, but the poets whom you mentioned did put the dream or idea in
concrete form (words)

[mazHur]

thanks,auntShecky. It seems you overlooked the foll lines which tell more about the activities of poets:

construct and destroy
worlds in their imaginations,

[Pendragon]

I like it mazHur, but I think I would like it better if you had continued from your fifth line, leaving out the next four, and on into the closing lines. The sudden change from talking about poets in general to naming the giants of the profession back to poets in general unbalances the poem. All of us of course if we are honest would hope to be the next Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, etc., but we aren't going to quit writing because we don't gain that fame!

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[blazeofglory]

I do not agree with the view that poets are just dreamers. All of us are dreamers, and people of every line and profession can be dreamers, ye the difference between the poet and un-poet is the former can give shape and form to his or her dream the latter can not easily.

Poets are like all of us, you and me, do thiis and that. Anybody is capable of being a poet, and everyone has stocks of imagination but the problem with many is they do not find something to carve into versifications.