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
Copyright © Ingrid Showalter Swift | Year Posted 2022
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