A Poetry Collection - by Hugh Pearson

Ode to Poetry

Ode to Poetry

Poetry, you are the spiritual core

of all entities' existence.

You illuminate when dawn

Blinds men's ability to reason.

Poetry, sometimes you are also

the catalyst for revolutions,

awake the powers in which

the pen, papers, and our brains confine.

And yet, you are always evolving.

You change your forms

When humanity seems to regress

and becoming savages amid your enlightenments.

So poetry, what are you?

Perhaps you are the relics of madness

embeds in our innocent minds.