This is Why God Made Poets

A young Langston Hughes

My poem was inspired by a comment from a friend Ann, a few weeks ago who is a lover of books.

This Why God Made Poets

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©14

To give voice to heART

To share of the words in words swirling dreams not easy to come by...

To unravel the tangled doing a tango...

To put glide in the slide

To rage...

To engage

To enslave

To mesmerize

To preen...

To be seen...

To gleen

The ending not yet begun

To gather

Or rather another way to be you.

Or me...

To go the way you want to glow.

Or find a place a space

Or in case

There's the one thing you want to try...

To give a scream a sound...

To round out the edges...

That may have one bound...

To take it back

To steal away...

To inscribe

Or arrive...

To zydeco in the moonlight when its cold outside

Or in the heart.

To awaken

To gallop at a frenzy

To unlock & release that sad heart imprisoned

And release a brain too tried...

To add bounce to the jive

(You ain't never lied)...

To carress sweet nothings in the nape of the neck...

And to a weary ear bombarded

With so much audio graffitti that it don't know the comings

And the goin'...

To declare

To swear

To bear...

To find rightness again...

To see humanity

And being kind & humane...

To speak for the muted

Or the blinded heart

Or the lost soul

And at the end of the day...

To simply say Amen

That is why God made poets.

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