If I Were Not a Poet...

 Having some fun with PAD challenge Day 14: write an if I were' poem. Visit this page  for some very interesting 'If I Were' perspectives!

If poets were not poets nights would be for sleep and dreams

A tree merely a tree; moments the measure of life’s streams

We would not be tormented, teased or tested by the taunt

Of syllable, iambic pentameter and word-want

A river would run wild and free without vexing allure

Suggesting thoughts that poetry alone must thence procure

The tiralee of lilt and rhyme would rivet, rouse, but then

Fall prey to appetites of Time immune to ink and pen

We would not groan and grovel at the footstool of Her Muse

If poets were not poets strumming silence for its dues

But God knew His creation would inspire poetry

And so He added poets to His awesome ‘let there be’

For God gives to His creatures sundry attributes and gifts

What we do with His granting is not for our boast…but His

© Janet Martin

Sometimes I think 'oh, if I were not a poet how freeing that would be'

yet I know I would miss it and I wouldn't feel like me!

Hubby doesn't really mind my writing but every so often he'll mutter... 'how the heck did I end up with a poet?!'