Sometimes a poet simply has to ask…

Sometimes a poet simply has to ask
Why do I write why do I do this task?
To that I have a lot that I could say
But I’ll be brief in what I say today

Sometimes I write free verse sometimes to form
There is no style you could call my ‘norm’
I sometimes like the thrill of making rhyme
But then there are the times when I do not

I write because I want my skill to grow
I write because I want the world to know
I write because I want to vent my thoughts
I write to give a smile more oft than not

There are so many reasons why I write
And with that said I’ll bid you all “Good Night!”

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At dVerse, our host, Gay Reiser Cannon, has asked us to write manifestos about poetry. Why we write, what threatens our writing, how we deal with those threats, etc. I’ll admit that I have not touched on all of those thoughts, but wanted to write a bit of the “why” at least. If you go back in my blog a few days, you’ll see another poem that would also work for this prompt (but that I wrote for a different prompt that dove-tailed with this one brilliantly)