A Poet's Work

A Poet’s Work
An Homage to: John Donne, William Blake, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, Dylan Thomas, John Milton, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Keats, & Lord Byron
By Andrew Moravick


What I must do is to be done,
To be a bard who all time sees
To down the path not taken run
From a world of too much- be free.
I will make plays on words at will,
Marvel at a well metered line,
Warm with words a gentle night’s chill,
And with rhyme make paradise mine.
I’ll live a dream within a dream,
Immerse in a transcendent time,
Hear unheard melodies that seem
To rove through the air with a rhyme.
Yet when this work is done n’er done will I be
Though enslaved by death, my work sets me free.