Is it writing every day
Blocking in that special way
Words into flitting lines and stanzas
Or because you are so good
At metaphor or would
You consider rhyming and frame
The fit that tames
The name
That withstands the passage of time
Or a thought made concrete
By your hands or by your feet
Is it Seuss or Byron
Typewriter or Handwritten
Subject matter
Or the torture of the mind
What is it that makes a poet
Their birthplace
Their face
Their temperament
Time
Or
Is it simply defining worlds
Creating more
And not calling it mine
AbyKittiwake 