This Poem was Submitted By: Carmen Kinder Gage On Date: 2000-06-14 13:11:34 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!

Click Here To add this poem to your "Voting Possibilities" list!


The Opiate of the Poet

A drop on the tongue is potent enough for that wine of words to woo men wild, That heavenly hash, O but a dash, does beckon the uninhibited child. A daring dip in Calliope's dish, with lyrical longing, stains poets' lips Her ambrosia brew, frothy with rue, inebriates hearts of those mortal sips. Rhetorical rhyme seduces in time as the pipes of Pan hypnotically play, So divine a sound drives the temples to pound, and the souls of lovers to rock and sway. What element of this wondrous drug causes a man to quake and to cower, What marvelous fear exudes forth the tear that waters the roots of the opiate flower?

Copyright © June 2000 Carmen Kinder Gage

Additional Notes:
What can I say, I'm an addict.


Sorry, there are no critiques for this poem in our system... If the poem is older, the critiques have been purged! Poetry Contests Online at The Poetic Link

Click HERE to return to ThePoeticLink.com Database Page!