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?
So wondering here, what makes a good Poet?
For clearly, it seems, I really don’t know It.
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If you enjoyed this fun little poem, you may also like — “My Mind Ponders in Verse, For Better or Worse” — another short, tongue-in-cheek piece just for fun.
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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