I Am a Poet?

I Am a Poet?

I did not know it.

A poet, makes rhyme

I do not.

A poet thinks of word, I thought,

And of meter.

I do not.

I think in terms of ideas.

Words express them

Cadence emphasizes them.

Perhaps they rhyme

Perhaps not.

But if words ring true,

In expression and reflection of ideas,

Perhaps they benefit the writer,

Perhaps even the reader.

I hope so.

I am a poet?

Still, I do not know.

But it does not look like prose.

Billy R. Masten

05/19/13