What is a poet? a person who writes <br />And longs to ascend to Olympian heights; <br />A person who's seized with irregular madness, <br />Who's joyous when glad and depressed in his sadness; <br />An enigma, a puzzle; someone who writes well, <br />Or whose half-rhymed enjambments condemn him to hell; <br />A poet is someone who finds it his duty <br />To remark on the world and its natural beauty; <br />He'll go on about life and our shortness of breath, <br />He will bore you, the reader, to unpleasant death; <br />And he hopes you will read him again and again; <br />But above all, a poet's COMPLETELY INSANE. <br /> <br />(Northumberland, April 2006.)<br /><br />David Mitchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-a-poet-2/
