The Greatest Poet Ever Poem by Hebert Logerie

Jokingly I used to tell my deceased father
That I wanted to be the greatest Poet ever
As a child, my goal was to be better than my favorite poets
And I have a long list of famous and great ones that I admire
Such as Maya Angelou, Victor Hugo, Catullus, Homer, Paul Dunbar
A.De Musset, Dante Alighieri, Etzer Vilaire, Neruba, Naidu, Yeats and Keats
Plautus, Virgil, Sappho, Mirabai, Li Bai, S.Teasdale, Beaudelaire, Wendy Guerra
Derek Walcott, E. Dickinson, R. Dépestre, Li BaiA.Cesaire, Carmen Boullosa
Mahadai Das, Hughes, Skakespeare, Andrei Beily, Kalidasa, , J.S. Baca, etcetera
Not only the white ones, the racist ones, and the commercial ones
That the media tried to shove deep in our throat. Poets are great writers
And rappers are not poets, even though they use rhyme, street vernaculars
And rhythmic speech. Poets are rarely violent; their pens are their guns
Michael Jackson and Prince were mistakenly labeled as great poets
Because they are artists who were, are, and will be famous forever
I want the world to sit tight to enjoy the best poems ever
Take a glass of water or wine; go to a park to listen to the crickets
To the melodious sound of solitude and Mother Nature in action
Poetry is my love, my Heaven, my refuge, my happiness and my passion
Writing poetry, however, is not boxing match, a competition
It is a smart, beautiful, classy, fun and enjoyable thing to do
It is living, inhaling and exhaling the spirit, the inspiration
Of the Almighty God, it is the best way to love you, you and you.

Copyright © February 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry