just musing to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The title is of course the bard's words.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet.

Written four hundred years ago
The truth it does not change
Some words appear so wise
Others seem so strange

From the deserts of Nevada
To Scotish rolling glens
The poet and the lunatic
Keep time with ryhming pens

Filling up the rivers
With metaphors that flow
I wish to be a lunatic
Oh words please let me go.

I wish to be a lunatic
Full of rhymes in rows
Cool in English sumers
Warmed by winter snows .

Or let me be a poet
So I can cast a spell,
Let nature find the words
For things I cannot tell.

Not least nor last a lover
So secrets I may find
To why you're sometimes hiding
Somewhere in my mind.

Mike
I love this take on Shakespeare... I think I'm all three... each trying to take the upper hand...

T A Ramesh
From East to West they are the same!

yelena
'Or let me be a poet So I can cast a spell, Let nature find the words For things I cannot tell..'These lines are bookmarked in my heart:)

 

Mark L. Berryann
A poet, well defined.

Sandra Martyres
No doubt the Bard of Avon would have approved of this super write - Thanks Wojja for this excellent entertaining poem...

sridevi
Highly enjoyable....and a treat to poetic taste buds :))

lady grace
the title is fantastic...3 in 1...decades...century...millenium...a poet lives as ever lunatic lover...the poem is so smart,excellent in rhymes,expressive ...very expressive...

Fay Slimm
An may your wishes come true dear friend. - this is amazingly good and likely the bard would approve.

Susan Jarvis
I love A Midsummer Night's Dream, and this poem has drawn me in and made me smile...an outstanding Bottom is everything when it comes to staging a magnificent production. ;)

Shashendra Amalshan
I found certain parts of this poem very amusing to read sir. You made me smile. Thanks for the amusement Wojja. Loved this one.