A Poets View ~ Series of Perspectives

To me poetry is "self expression." It is a way to express what I am feeling or thinking at the moment. Sometimes those thoughts come out all mixed up. I guess that is why I do not like a lot of the things that I have written.

Most of my poems that I write are for my own healing and to help me get over a certain point in my life where I am having problems dealing with things.

My greatest goal is to write something, though, that touches someone so deeply that they have to stop and look at themselves in a new light.

I write for my own self gratification, not so much for money, I guess. I mean it would be great to get paid to do something I love, but it is not a necessity.

As you may be able to tell from a lot of my poems, I try to speak out for those less fortunate than myself. The underdog is always my greatest champion. If something I write helps someone somewhere to open up their eyes and help someone else out, then it is worth every second I spend at this keyboard.

The Dreamer

I have often been called a dreamer
A man with his head in the clouds
But if not for this world of dreamers
Were is it that we would be now

It was a dreamer who put man in space
And put his footsteps on the moon
A dreamer learned to soar with the eagles
And lighten a once darkened room

So I believe that I will keep on dreaming
Of making this world a better place
With words from my imagination
That time and man will not erase

My words will one day feed the hungry
Will give hope to the poor at last
Show love to all the worlds nations
And make wars a thing of the past

So go ahead and call me a dreamer
Say my words mean nothing at all
One day my dreams will become reality
May god have mercy on us all

© Mydnight 2004


Bob Shannon is a poet and Senior SplashHost at SplashHall Poetry. He Just published some of his poems at www.lulu.com. The book is appropriately titled "My Eclectic Book Of Poetry". You can also view some of his poems at Mydnights Poems.