Dia Mundial de la Poesía

The World Day of Poetry

 

They would do well to listen to us

as we speak we do so for most people

We articulate our hopes and frustrations

in a world obsessed with cruelty and greed

 

Poets are the conjurers of words

logophiles at heart, keen to express and impress

The heart of the poet is a deep wellspring

images and reflections are his daily bread

 

Often alone with pen and paper we sit

to compose the thoughts which assail our very selves

We cry out for the recognition of beauty and love

and seek the common good oft with humour

 

We share in the anguish of the vulnerable

standing in solidarity with the oppressed

We plead for freedom, compassion and understanding

against dictators, tyrants and the corrupt

 

We celebrate our lives and the world about us

using the canvas of experience and wonder

Unafraid through the ages we write

we speak, we clamour for justice and expose truth

 

Our words are legitimate as they are from the soul

not slaves to philosophies or religions

but to sentiment, to the dispossessed and wrongly imprisoned

They will never silence us