The Greatest Poet Ever

Jokingly I used to tell my deceased father That I wanted to be the greatest Poet ever As a child, my goal was to be better than my favorite poets And I have a long list of famous and great ones that I admire Such as Maya Angelou, Victor Hugo, Catullus, Homer, Paul Dunbar A.De Musset, Dante Alighieri, Etzer Vilaire, Neruba, Naidu, Yeats and Keats Plautus, Virgil, Sappho, Mirabai, Li Bai, S.Teasdale, Beaudelaire, Wendy Guerra Derek Walcott, E. Dickinson, R. Dépestre, Li BaiA.Cesaire, Carmen Boullosa Mahadai Das, Hughes, Skakespeare, Andrei Beily, Kalidasa, , J.S. Baca, etcetera Not only the white ones, the racist ones, and the commercial ones That the media tried to shove deep in our throat. Poets are great writers And rappers are not poets, even though they use rhyme, street vernaculars And rhythmic speech. Poets are rarely violent; their pens are their guns Michael Jackson and Prince were mistakenly labeled as great poets Because they are artists who were, are, and will be famous forever I want the world to sit tight to enjoy the best poems ever Take a glass of water or wine; go to a park to listen to the crickets To the melodious sound of solitude and Mother Nature in action Poetry is my love, my Heaven, my refuge, my happiness and my passion Writing poetry, however, is not boxing match, a competition It is a smart, beautiful, classy, fun and enjoyable thing to do It is living, inhaling and exhaling the spirit, the inspiration Of the Almighty God, it is the best way to love you, you and you. Copyright © February 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry