Paladins of Poetry

 

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.