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Please Do Not Be Another Poet Biting The Dust

please
do not be one of those poets biting the dust
this is not an arid land
a desert
this is a paradise, a place where rivers from our hearts flow
where we like to hear birds singing
where clouds drift like our freedom to be where we want to be
please
do not succumb to the call of popularity
there is nothing there but an empty bag
a wind in our heads
please
write because you want to
not because you want to be read
but because you want to sing to the gods
because you have an offering
to the altar of the divine
without expecting anything in return

look at the bird flying in the skies
they do not skyjump or go
into an exhibition for a show

they fly because they have wings to fly
we write because we have many poems all waiting to be written
we are poets because we are here.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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