What Is A Poet

What Is A Poet

What is a poet some may ask
interesting question indeed,
there are many answers I suppose
Webster's gives us a seed,
"a creative writer of great sensitivity,"
and may I add, great objectivity.

Poetry goes deeper than metrical prose
because heart and soul we must expose,
a poet demonstrates imaginative power,
with beauty of expression, "a versifier."
A bard with words to match the wit
a rhymster able to make words fit
embellishing them to tell a story
of love, hate, beauty or hard won glory.

One who can make us laugh or cry
imagine, enjoy or give a soft sigh,
some make us laugh, funny oh yes
they are the happy one's is my guess,
others tend to make us feel sad
which doesn't mean what they say is bad.

A poet can be most anything
their pen allows them to be
as long as the words which they bring
enable us each to see.....