A Poet - Visitor's Poem

by Ericka Davis
(United States)

A poet

Is one who heals.

Brings revelation.

Opens doors.

Handing complexity

But simplistic

If you would listen. Words

Making motion

Movement

Music

In air.



A poet

Gives direction

To something

Buried.

A treasure map.

Maybe - the poem

Happens to be.

Describing a place that is like heaven.

So serene.

So peaceful.

Just in place.



A poet

Does trash maintenance.

Throwing out baggage

Garbage

Disposable waste.

That's piling up within mind

Over a period of time.

Pulling it out

And compacting it into black or blue

Pen scribbles

Onto paper.

You can say recycling

Into life.

Exposing it as waste

But reusing it as a story -

Testimony.



In some way,

We are all

Poets.