To make the effort
To say what they mean
Is the Poet's choice.
They will speak Truth, Death,
Declare Love Absolute
In their best Poet's voice.
Craft and guile
Implement their self-conceit.
Their enormous appetite
Sings for its supper-
Words, deliberately sweet:
O Pale Moon, Starry Sky, Sun!
O Nature! O Human Drama!
Each word incorporates
Its life and death on the poet stage
Indelibly entombed as ink on page.