Friday, 26 July 2019

What Makes A Good Poet


Who knows what it is

What makes a good poet great

You and I know the answer, don’t we,

They don’t

It’s this one human being

Who knows what it is

To love passionately, tenderly, unconditionally

Who knows what it is

To hurt to feel pain to the core

Who knows what it is

To hate so intense it suffocates

Who knows what it is

To forgive and how the world should be

Who knows what it is

When God’s tears cleanse your soul

Who knows what it is

To breathe the sigh of genuine creation

Who knows what it is

To be a tree, a floret, a dragonfly, a simian or a dolphin

Who knows what it is

To drown in boundless skies and to swallow infinite lakes

Who knows what it is

To be limited, unrestrained and timeless all at once

Who knows what it is

What makes a great poet divine

You and I know the answer, don’t we,

They don’t

It’s this one human being


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