I want someone
to joke with
laugh with
learn with
talk with
live with

A poet is a poet is a poet.

Philip is the name I use
Oliver is my family name
Especially on my passport
True my passport should say Poet

I like to think I am one.
So I write a poem every day

A poet is a poet is a poet

Poetic license I like to take
Occasionally when I need to
Especially when I talk in metaphors
Twitter -pated . Tongue -twisted metaphors

Introducing the art of the Acrostic Poem
Simply using the phrase vertically to trigger

A poet is a poet is a poet

Poets need to die to become well read.
Only the lucky ones ever get published
Even John Keats wasn’t recognised in life
Trick is to keep on writing for all your worth.

If pain
is relative,
then I am drowning
in the same rain
that blooms you.

If suffering
is temporary,
then my clock has
stalled out
from ticking.

If understanding
is mutual,
then my own efforts
have so far outrun
your own
that
relatively,
temporarily
speaking. . .

I stand alone.

believe me when I say I prayed for a girl
whose world was the shadows
& she came out of the darkness
into the white light; my girl
is a silhouette & I can't see her eyes;
she's all I need to engulf me
in the night; sky full of her sisters
& older relations but we get along
b/c I'm dark too, morbid & eerie;
Gothic & creepy & she's pristine,
always looks good, angel w/ corona,
a sprite w/ wings & I cant see a thing
except her shape at the window cast
over the mirror, darkening my eyes
to peer at her deeply; I love the feel
of her inner skin as we lay together
through midnights watching the wind