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 Jan 2018 Dylan Mcconnell
Eleanor
A poet is:
Someone who makes the ugly, beautiful.
Someone who makes the beautiful, obscure.
Someone who makes the obscure, understandable.
Someone who makes the understandable, amazing.
A poet is:
Someone who uses words, to make art.
Someone who looks at art, and sees a story.
Someone who looks at a story, and sees a purpose.
Someone who sees a purpose, and uses it.
A poet is:
Someone who sees hatred, and writes hatred.
Someone who sees love, and writes love.
Someone who feels sad, and writes sad.
Someone who sees kindness, and writes kindness.

A poet can be anyone.
A poet can write about anything.
A poet can be implicit.
A poet can be explicit.
A poet can be hidden.
A poet can be famous.

You can be a poet.
The only rule is to write.
Poems are hard to define. You can write poems to express feelings or just to appreciate the things around you. You can write a poem on some paper or on a computer or in the sand, it doesn't matter. You can show people or keep it to yourself. The important thing is that when you you write a poem it's impossible not to be good enough because that poem is for you and only you. The world is lucky if they get to read it.
 Jan 2018 Dylan Mcconnell
Catrina
She looks around.  
At the creatures that surround her.
The hideous monsters..  
With their snarky smiles.
And deadly stares..  Monstrous words..  
But she herself was a monster of her own kind, wasn't she?
What kind of creature.  
Takes pleasure.
In inflicting pain.  
On one's self?  
A MONSTER.  
She is the worst.
The others are fluffy bunnies compared.
To what she was.  What she is.
Only a MONSTER. Would want more pain.
Seized by the creature within, will
She give in?
Impressive, how long she has held on,
and resisted
The delicious calls,
Of the creature caged within.
I’ve said it before
I’ll say it again
My label does not read
Fragile handle with care
It simply reads
Bravery require
To see what’s inside

I double dog dare you
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