Queer Poetical Query, Or Not...

[anirbas]

I have a question...
One that at me has been nagging...

What makes a poet a poet?
Is it the crafting of perfect meter and rhyme?

Not really...Jingo writers can do that, too...
But, that doesn't make them poets, like me and you...

Perhaps what makes a poet a poet is...
Ginning and spinning sonnets that chime?

No, it's not that...Freeverse has a mind of it's own...
And yet, even without so called structure, it's still a poem...

Happenchance, a poet is only a poet if published?
Either by the luck of the draw or paying to do so?

I'm not buying that, no...Poets aren't bought and paid for...
Til they are of course, with the luck of the draw...

Poets are born, not made by money transference.
To write poetry is a spiritual, not physical birthright...

Both blessing and cursing...

For to be born to write poetry...Means one was born
to feel...To witness...To spectate and speculate...To record...

To forever be thinking even in a crowded room,
of the threads one left on the loom in one's head...

To be born to write poetry is an honor, an obligation...
Not just a gifting...As poets express, speak, elocute...

What the rest of the world feels or thinks, but cannot say,
as they do not have the words to do so...

We are the world, we are the pulse, we are the vein...
We are the mind, spirit and heart of many, palpitating...

To be a poet, is to be both the entertainer
and the conscience of the world, at large and small...

I digress, what was the question? What makes a poet a poet?
Obviously, I know the answer...Just wondering if you do...

Next query...I'm not through with you, yet...Do you know
you're a poet? Each and everyone of you?

You should...As your individual works certainly show it!
And have contributed to making this place a showstopper!

Okie dokie...Ego stroking session and coffee break is over...
Back on your heads...Poetry? Got more? Got more? Got more?

Signed sincerly,
You're cypherical, metaphorical
on site Mother Superior, Nirlysane.
Blessed be...ggglgggl...But just do it...Blessed be...

[soulfir3]

" What makes a poet a poet?
Is it the crafting of perfect meter and rhyme? "

my opinion is, a poet is made by their ability to envelope the reader with words.. no matter how refined or unrefined they might be.
silken threads that hold us each, our thoughts, experiences.. emotions or simply an inspiration that occurs for no particular purpose, than the need to put ink on paper and spill it across the lines..

and then there are those, who have the gift too take us with them in their written journeys, where their words become our own and we are captured and bound for as long as the journey continues - this is what creates a poet, not only the ability and master of putting words to paper, but creating a world, which we, as readers can become a part of as well

x S

[DavidMc]

An eloquent case for the poet Sabrina with equally eloquent responses. Poetry is the way I express myself most truly and am compelled to write ... I think most people have at least one poem in them

David

[brandnewmessiah]

I think what makes a poet a poet is just being able to express everything inside you into a form of words that others can relate and take in as beauty no matter the subject. ~ BNM

[anirbas]

spoken like true poets, all of you! ggglgggl...Nir