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to be a poet ...
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in response to Bobbi's challenge

to be a poet is to read the wind
to look at God’s face and wonder
wonder what is behind the mask
to see a stone and imagine its
passage through time and space.
 
to be a poet is to ride the red mule
along the old Come-A-Long Trail,
to cross the blue desert of song
where the wind fills the heart with poetry
and even the mules sing along.
 
to be a poet is to sing the hidden truth
to laud the deeds of the nameless poor, and,
to mock the pretensions of the powerful
to hear the voice of the muse in
the music of the Monday morning Street.
 
to be a poet is to know the green fire
that engenders the procreative
pulse that drives mad the flower
and creates the desperate need for
intimate involvement in all life
 
to be a poet is to be alive to Love and Life
to seek humbly to make justice
and in humble justice to seek peace
singing the praise of all that is or has been
or shall be
 
 

I’ve written so many.  ..to be a poet… pieces [ see: I Still Write Poetry, Old Poet Most Brazen, Away, Come Away Ladies,  et al.] they ought to be fairly easy, this one was not. As the poet writes more poetry it seems that the motivation, and the motive become more complex

 
 
 
 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "to be a poet ..."
Reviewed by L. Figgins
Reviewed on April 15, 2009
Very fine work, John. Saved!

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on April 6, 2009
"As the poet write more poetry it seems that the motivation, and the motive become more complex"

Very true indeed sir poet...Ed


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