What Makes A Good Poet?

 

What makes a good Poet?

Does one’s pen overflow it?

Take great knowledge, then bestow it?

Or deep emotion feel and show it?

 

True love praise and woo it?

Make good rhymes and not rue it?

Experience life and accrue it?

Struggle mightily and work thru it?

 

Rhyming all lifelong, not outgrow it?

Take a risky chance and not blow it?

Or with great action, to and fro it?

Discover a creative seed and then sow it?

 

Watch the seasons come and go it?

Find small wonders and then know it?

Sit upon a porch and slowly show it?

Or simply live and then bestow it?

 

So wondering here, what makes a good Poet?

For clearly, it seems, I really don’t know It.

 

P.S. from Little Red Bear — If you figure out what makes a good poet, kindly let me know. Jim wrote a whole poem about it and still isn’t sure.

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