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.