No Longer Store Bought

Professional Poet…

  to cringe at the term

 

A lonely consensus,

  so much to learn

 

Days writing couplets,

  nights dreamed in verse

 

Feelings when gifted,

  mine to rehearse

 

Professional Poet…

  to run but not hide

 

Resisting the accolades,

   cousin of lies

 

The Muse calls my marker,

  chits payout in thought

 

Each line spoken freely

  —no longer store bought

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

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