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 </div><p></p>is it because i steal slates off tales<br>
scribbled by scribes of ages not stale<br>
which drew them to the world as sages;<br>
and i claimed what they owned<br>
only to be known and renowned<br>
as a one from their homes,<br>
that you now call me a poet?<br>
.<br>
if i am a poet,<br>
why not i being able to wheel your will<br>
to have the throb of your heart brewed<br>
by strikes on drums from my witty hands<br>
when i play your feet these rhythms<br>
from my wide pitched vocal orifice,<br>
in fine falsettos and trimmed tenors,<br>
as you sing me back sultry sopranos?<br>
.<br>
why not i being apt and adept<br>
enough for you as the butterfly<br>
blooming your petals with my pollen<br>
and being the sun that torches<br>
your garden of glamour and glitz,<br>
and the rain that whet your roots<br>
into glees of growth in their youth<br>
and make your frail floral heart<br>
grow fonder?<br>
.<br>
why not i being the metaphor<br>
of cones for your sweet scoop<br>
of various flavors in differing hues,<br>
for you to have a taste, and lick<br>
off the creamy love my ice have<br>
for the million cells of your taste buds<br>
like my lips crave your supple skin<br>
when you ooze the smell of light<br>
through the tunnel of my nostrils?<br>
.<br>
why not i being the symbolic bee<br>
that would fly on a gliding spree<br>
in merry-go-rounds and carousels<br>
to hover over and around your honey<br>
and preserve your addictive sweetness<br>
with my protective honeycombs?<br>
.<br>
until i can delight in the victory<br>
that would epilogue the mystery<br>
of running my star-struck race<br>
through the lines of my quill-ink<br>
towards honing every bit of you<br>
in the grasp of my charming poesy<br>
like a regal owns his royalties<br>
…that you may call me a poet.<br>
.<br>
but for now, i am not a poet<br>
……….i only enslaved a pen.
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