The Best of Poetry and the Worst of Times
Poetry is a powerful ally
Of poets, lords, and kings.
It launches missiles into the minds
Of the innocent and brave,
Exploding in the form of actions
Famous and unaccounted.
Paul Revere, so well remembered
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Was famous for his historical ride,
That others might have found boring,
If not for a certain poet.
A personal soldier friend of mine
Was sent off with a poem of pride
For the country that he loved.
Heed you the famous words
Of poets old and new,
Because those poems might just be
What sends you out in uniform!