Miscellaneous:

Be it for solitude,
Be it for peace,
Be it for anger,
confusion released;
Be if for love
or money
or hate
Be it to open
a secret gate,
Where beyond that point
no one has been,
Except for the one
behind the pen
For the poet,
the writer,
the artist,
or any man,
Who lives in a world,
he contrived and commands
For I am one who holds the key
To a simple thing, called fantasy

[alanmdouglas]

Dear Debi,

Good thoughts here, nice poet's-eye view.

Coupla points, if you don't mind - but feel free to ignore all I say :

Be it for solitude - add comma
Be it for peace,
Be it for anger,
Confusion released - add semi-colon
Be if for love
or money
or hate
Be it to open, - del comma
a secret gate - add comma
Where beyond that point - simpler : beyond which point ?
No one has been - add comma
Except for the one
Behind the pen
For the poet
the writer
the artist
Or any man
Who lives in a world
He contrived and commands
For I am one, who holds the key - del mid-comma
To a simple thing, called fantasy - poss THAT simple thing

After a while I stopped indicating where there should be or not commas, cuz there is no consistency in what you have put down. Either add all those I mention, or delete a few of those you had !

Pretty good overall !

Love
Alan

[erikestabrook]

I don't get techy, and I won't start I liked your poem allot it was colorful and
great one of my favs gott ago read it again

[PaintedDiary]

Dear Debi,

I thought this was very creative, and quite aesthetic. I loved it. The Writer...yes, we are the ones that hold the key. Other than the punctuation, I have a few suggestions. Perhaps, expand the following lines:

Where beyond that point
No one has been

perhaps could become....

Where beyond the point of fantasy versus reality
No one has been

and

For the poet
the writer
the artist
Or any man
Who lives in a world
He contrived and commands

perhaps make it relavent to both genders...

For the poet
the writer
the artist
Or any man or woman
Who lives in a world
that we contrive and command.
For I am one,
that Writer,
who holds the key
to the magic called fantasy

I thought a more expressive or powerful word should be used instead of simple.

Thank you for sharing! This was wonderful.

Kim

Thanks to Alan for the punctuation (I edited it but there still may be a comma or two needed) and thanks to Erik and Kimberly for your comments. I appreciate the ideas but I won't be changing the way it's worded. To change it to man or woman would change it so that I would be doing a re-write, which I don't want to do. After 30 years it's sorta written in stone...lol.