Poet Laureate
Read, experience, write. Billy Collins Poet Laureate —
I recently discovered Billy Collins: National Poet Laureate
I love his work: The soulful Way he examines Mundane things.
So, my heart connects, Like so many Millions of others.
I expect this is normal, This is why he is celebrated so. But, I don’t know what a Laureate is.
Nor even How to spell It unless The software helps me out.
But he sells a lot of books. And the work Makes me feel Intelligent, nonetheless.
Good for us both. Art is supposed To have that Effect.
I like the idea of being a poet. Of writing in a terse, rhythmic way that incites emotion in others. The way to do this, according to Mr Collins, is to read a lot of poetry. And that takes time.
And experience. Which, I think at 52, having traveled to 46 of the 50 United States and 3 of the 7 continents, I’m going okay. Still a ways to go, but fearlessly engaging whenever I can is good for a story or twenty. Like, getting nearly-arrested on the Golden Gate Bridge, lost in the north of Ghana, experiencing the absolute lack of light a thousand feet underground in Colorado. Nothing a million other humans hasn’t experienced, but I’m not writing for them. I’m doing it for me.
In the interim, I’ll keep banging out my best efforts and learning via trial by fire and read as much and as often as I can.
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