nothing is indispensable to be a poet <br />wealth not, no sleeping with opposite <br />no travelling, triggering not <br />poet only needs a heart <br />to love and to hate <br />needs food to eat <br />shelter to stay <br />in peace <br /> <br />poet lives originally where resides <br />countless stars and planets <br />galaxies and star-storm <br /> <br />poet resides within the life <br />whence individual begins and ends <br />global journey <br />imbibing a limit of time and space <br /> <br />nothing is indispensable <br />to a poet in truest sense <br />but in reality as a social being <br />as long as we compose poetry <br />hankering a reader <br />to appreciate skill and talent <br />and we need many things <br />as a man needs <br /> <br />perversion and autocracy <br />flirting and filthing <br />travelling and tampering <br />medicine and madhouse <br />ultimately money, security, wine <br />and partners to share primitive polygamy <br />to flag high <br />animal instinct <br /> <br />Poet stands apart and smile with wisdom!<br /><br />Pranab K. Chakraborty<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-be-a-poet-10/
