Confessions of a Would-Be Poet

In a sense each of us is a poet. We carry within us the soul of a poet. We see, smell, touch, hear and feel. We constantly interpret life through our senses and our emotions, and that is what makes us humans and sets us apart from the beasts. Poets are people who marry those interpretations with their imaginations, and all of us do that, all the time. Strangely enough though, we only use the term “poet” to refer to those who are actually brave or foolish enough to commit their interpretations to paper. It’s like there’s some shame in being called a poet. But the poet’s soul is within us all, whether we take up the pen and write, or not.