I Am Poet Of The Streets Poem by Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA

By Chidi Anthony Opara

I am piqued
When I am profiled
A protegee of prominent poets.
I am pained
When I am pronounced
Just a poet.

I am poet of the streets.
I walk the streets
And sing
My strident songs of protest,
Giving succour
To the indigent indigenes
Of the streets,
Impoverished
By the scoundrels who rule over them.

Mother muse
Mills my inspiration more
When I straddle the podiums
And sing for the streets.
The scorn,
The sneer
Of the scoundrels
Give flip to my resolve
To sing
And sing for the streets,
I am poet of the streets.