what is important?

as our poets creak sails in elder beds
some pilgrimage to them
to sit and listen or share some salad says
or stir the soup of reminescences
others,absent from these front lines,remind us-
bees are disappearing,and someone needs to restore balance
it is not for honey,money,fame nor fortune-
more for the continuance of diverse expression
that takes writers into gunrunning,drugs,alcoholism
religious crusades,anonymity and voting in elections
The fields of choices are poppies @Flanders Fields
white for peace,red for blood sacrifice
Someone has to set nonviolent prisoners free
Someone has to dance naked every fool moon
Someone has to keep vigil with the children
as they grow around our knees,witnessing our limits
One will run all his life Another meditate.Third will shop
More will store experiences within cameras or these barrel words
so bees might sip @future flowers,instead of a website of what once was
What is important is to know what is important
It is different for us all.It always was.Always will be
And that is poetry.