The Poet’s Voice

by Chriss McCallum

The poet, searching for his voice,

might try the tones of Yeats or Joyce,

might practise in the Eliot style

with sly allusion, subtle smile,

might look to Larkin’s candid muse

or probe the power of lusty Hughes.

But when it’s time to make a choice

the poet, searching for his voice,

won’t find it with that lofty throng,

but in his own heart’s honest song.