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What Defines a Poet?
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On Poetry What defines a poet?
Is it a natural talent
Or an acquired taste?
Is it a mere pastime
Or is our very existence
Dependent on the art?
Maybe it's the calling
For those of us who
Discover ourselves by
Bridging the gap
Between the tangible
And the subconscious.
Maybe it’s the outlet
For those of us who
Are courageous enough
To display our wounds
But only when layered
Beneath abstraction.
Maybe it’s the biography
Of those of us who
Rather say what we feel
Without actually saying it
And blame the muse
For the fiction created.
What defines a poet?
There is no absolute
Truth, I suppose.
The only truth I know
Is a weeping pen
Dries my tears.
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What defines a poet?
Is it a natural talent
or an acquired taste?
Is it a mere pastime
or is our very existence
dependent on the art?
Maybe it's the calling
for those of us who
discover ourselves by
bridging the gap
between premeditation
and the subconscious.
Maybe it’s the outlet
for those of us who
are audacious enough
to reveal our wounds
but only when layered
beneath metaphors.
Maybe it’s the biography
of those of us who
rather speak truth
amidst fantastical tales
and blame the muse
for the fiction created.
What defines a poet?
There is no absolute truth,
I suppose.
The only truth I know
is that a weeping pen
dries my tears.
I think what defines a poet is the inner calling to write whether it be read by just you, shared, be rejected or be popular with others. The point is to answer the calling to writing in the first place