can a poet surrender to misery

Can A Poet Surrender To Misery 

You can break the neck of a poet

to stop a hand to write

but the soul will spiral

spirits of expression, to run

none could kill the instinct

and none can kill the instinct.

  

All oceans - in a drop do lie

that a poet holds in his eye

and a world wells up in him

trickles: an extinct jewel, grim

to see unleash of a misery

a story, of a story , in a story.

A poet puts spirit of soul in a word

the expressions to be heard -

creates, a throbbing heart scene

for heartful feelings to be seen -

strength of spirit has power: immense

to set in a sense for, sense - nonsense.

When poet is severed from ancestry

heritage belonging and home of history

displaced physically - wears torture agony,

bruised, blue and black signs to carry

Just a memory of the Homeland

gets him lonely, in deprivation to stand.

© arvind shah 17/10/15

In memory of homeland, which he was forced to flee 25 years back.