The minstrel is the ebb and flow of passion

Coloring the air with his devotion to emotion

The poet takes his color from all around

Sometimes all, or everything but sound

For every note, there is a color of ink

Both can make you feel, both can make you think

But the minstrel of all loves himself the most, and the music a little more

The poet lives for love, for the entire pallet, from truth to lore.

Ah, but it is the way for the musician to be adored

The poets are for the muses, the gift, for a place in their hoard

The minstrels mark of sensation, received and henceforth given

Muse’s give and take from poets, their all, their hell and heaven.

What will love you more, the mouth or heart of creation?

But who would risk the ills, of a muse’s cursing suspicion?