Ingrid Showalter Swift Poet Free verse

You Want To Be a Poet

I see you for everything you are

What are you?

A poet?...a poet

Define poet for me

Are you a poet if you write many words
Are you a poet if you put many ideas in writing
Are you a poet if you think many thoughts
Are you a poet if you simply write blah blah blah over and over again

Who defines me as person if I cannot define myself

I am a poet
Good or bad 
Worthy or unworthy
 I am still a writer of words
a conveyor of thought
I dance with words and they with me
I love words
 and words ...Oh blessed!
love me
But

There is a greater cause!
 ...so pause 
To be a poet
 
To touch the intrinsic chord 
Stir the cosmic soup
Be the pebble chucked into the pond
One ripple...one glint 
as light off the water

to lift or companion
to patron
to hold
A chalace...the golden cup
to be the Holy grail
Chosen
from which a soul may take a sip

Forever blessed
As one if only for a fleeting moment
Not alone

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