Paladins of Poetry -
What does that phrase command?
Is poetry merely a sequence of words with rhyme
And alighted delightfully with alliteration -
set forth to declare statements of clear thought
however ambiguous their notions may be?
is poetry – song to extoll beauty
or elegies that plead to the soul
or to the soulless, with strong verse,
to detest their wrongs?
And what of Paladins –
are they knights roaming the darkness;
Are they the protagonists for romantic sonnets?
Perhaps, paladins are champions of the heart
Against all that is evil, treacherous, and too,
Word warriors aware of honey flowing
Into a mellifluous spill
Of poetry and poesy.
High priests, white knights, heralds of sense
And nonsense as well – keepers of the gates
To wander - the universe.
