A Poet's Dream

What constitutes a poet's dream?
Non-poets wonder in awe.
What motivates those that write
In rhyming and non-rhyming verse
To create poems of worlds
Unlike, even subtily, our own.

What constitutes a poet's dream?
I actually cannot say
For poets are as individual
As the species that roam the earth
But all are connected by poetry
By the verse they all write.

What constitutes a poet's dream?
Is it butterflies and pretty things
Or the evil denziens of hell come to play?
It is all of the above and more
The dream depending on the mind of the poet
But still made of the stuff of poems.

What constitutes a poet's dream?
Do they wander unbidden
Whenever the mind is set free?
Or do they lurk in the shadows
Only to be found when looked for?
Both and none, it depends on the poet and his dream.

What constitutes a poet's dream?
Can it be truely found
Or will it always live
In the realms of the mind of the poet?
The answer for this question will have to wait
A dream beckons...and I answer...

       - Bem Ajani Jones-Bey