A Poet's Vision

Some people find solace in poetry

in words wrenched from the depths

of despair or the heights of ecstasy,

symbolic imagery that take one

to other worlds where dolphins speak

and doors lead to exotic places,

where darkness holds secrets hidden

under layers of commonplace things.

Poets have a way of turning life upside

down and inside out, nothing is as it seems.

Their eyes behold sights that escape

the superficial, they penetrate deep-down

to break open the ordinary and find

a freshness, a beauty, a brilliance unseen

by those who live on the surface of life.

Their vision provides bread for those who

hunger for nourishment beyond  humdrum

routine and dull conversations, who yearn

for delights they cannot find on their own.