The World Needs More Poets
A Poem
Call up your favorite languages
Call up your mother tongue
Spill out your crafty treasure chests
Dust off your used-to-be hobbies
Pull down the attic ladder
Gather the scrapbooks, the yearbooks, the printed photographs
Your sewing machine
Restring your guitar
Clear your throat for the harmony
Gather the heirloom seeds
The fabrics and dyes
Your crochet and knitting needles
Your cross-stitch too
We are recruiting poets
The world needs you!
You will need to pack your paintbrushes
Your oils and acrylics and biggest canvas
Bring your spraypaints and biggest statements
Things are about to get messy
Bakers and chefs and college professors
Gamers and students
And tellers of fortunes
Witnesses of the world
Voices of your generation
Readers and authors
We are waiting for you
We have work to do
