Poetry To Me

I'm inspired to be admired.
To be known as a poet,
As you should know it,
like Edgar Allan Poe, or 
Robert Frost.

Poetry to me
Comes so naturally,
As if to be.
The right thing for me.

 I've had a desire.
To become a poet
Since I was seven years old.
Reading Helen Steiner Rice, and
William Shakespeare.
It's been a dream for a long time. 
Something I have always wanted. 
Is to become a  poet.

To see my words in print
To finally become a poet
As you know it,
That would be poetry to me.

Words flow through me
At any given time. 
It's not something I make happen,
It just comes to me, like the air we breathe. 
Words come and go, if I don't write them down 
Then they become unknown.

Poetry to me is a gift,
A gift from the heavens above 
Placed by the hand of God 
Into people like me and you.

Poetry to me
Is something that helps to see
the release I need.
It gives me the opportunity 
To create art with words.
To touch the heart of others,
That helps one another.



David W Carter
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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June 1, 2016 at 7:29 AM
Love your poem David but I had no desire to be a poet I only started writing in Nov 2013 when my hubby had cancer surgery - if you told me then I would write over 1100 poems I would have laughed as I was never a poetry fan at school now I adore it lol:-) hugs Jan xx
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