The apprentice

How many come and pass this way
a search engine clicked
to find the tools to have their say
and join the Browns and Smiths
 
a learning curve of words unsure
welcome page for your comforter
an apprentice  finds the early chores
an avatar of who you think you are
 
fed up with banal Facebook crap
hunger to fashion in meaningful drafts
to find an identity that skill untapped
and find the legs to walk that path  
 
the joiner and the carpenter
with fitted dovetail joint
and to write in parameters
of love to make that point
 
the jeweler with his clutch of stones
and frame the diamonds bright facets
in a clasp to stand alone
bring forth from dirt your great classic
 
the mill wheels sails are they in tact
the concave and the convex stones
to grind the corn discard the chaff
plain and self raising words the poem
 
not allow your pen to genuflect
 you the builder and the architect
and blur the lines of intellect
your work now teacher and the clerk  
 
keyboard glowing like a firefly's nest
a word smith now, get it off your chest
apprentice to artisan of eloquence ?
so make words fly like MARILYNS dress
 
 
these ideals viewed in retrospect

 
 "We  are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes master"
Ernest Hemmingway