One of my poems:

The Poet

It’s the hard edge that makes it real
The grittiness that makes you feel
The bitterness really comes across
And makes you feel the poets’ loss

He’s a tortured man, a lonely man
A man for whom nothing fits in place
His books and his words are everything
I’ve seen them write sunshine on his face

For in the world of normal men
He moves without a trace
But when he reads on a Thursday night
It’s with aplomb and grace

It brightens up the drab, grey life
He lives from day today
When words leap from page to tongue
And explode upon the listeners

This is what his life is all about
This is what makes him tick
Not his job on the factory line
That crushes his soul and wastes his time

But this, this poetry in his soul
This wonder at lives rich hue
That burns in the hearts of us
That would listen to, the poet

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