I finally said it yesterday:
"I am a poet."
I said it without discounting or qualifying,
without minimizing, fencing or shrinking:
I'm a poet.
I write poetry.
What are you that you can't yet say aloud?
painter? author? woodworker?
gardener? chef? photographer?
scholar? theologian? meditator?
yogi? mystic? athlete?
child of God?
Say it aloud.
Know the truth.
I, the poet;
you, the…
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