! A Wish

I'd like to write - like grown-up poets do: with similes that span the universe, that sparkle, crackle, dazzle, woo the mind; and touch the heart with tender, swoony verse... I'd like to write - like grown-up poets do: in literature that's all the better for those soaring, parabolic parables and paradigms, and rhymes, and metaphor... I'd like to write - like no-one else has done: forget the rules and precedents; let fly to heights undreamt of yet, new mindscape won.. And yet, perhaps, the world's served better by small lamps of words amidst the cold night winds of chance and change; cupped in a poet's hands.