A poet’s worth

P.C :- Kansas,”Leftoverture”-1976

times change, people change, circumstances change,
but are crystallised in memories
by poems and poets
by songs and songwriters
they see the world for what it is,
sometimes hallucinate happy harbinger
or do we call it a poet’s parody?

i’d be kidding if i say,
i write for myself ,
for my own satisfaction and solace
of course
i want to my words to be
read, re-read , remembered, reminisced and ruminated upon.

a poet’s worth isn’t measured in pennies,
the syllables they count,
the rhythm and meter measured,
the minuscules of time before a masterpiece births
are the folds of humanity and creation.

Acknowledgments :- Thank you Mish for hosting Poetics at dVerse where we were asked to draw inspiration from album covers for our poems. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.