realists of a larger reality (update: po'ts and p'ets?)

we will need writers
who can remember freedom:
poets, vis'naries.

 - found haiku; dropped by Ursula Le Guin, receiving National Book Foundation Award, Nov. 19.

bonus:

poet is a tough word:
syllable count a challenge
to any poet

(also it is hard
to elide either vowel
and convey that word)