Dr Poet Poem by Raj Arumugam

there is Doctor Poet and there are Distinguished Poets
and there is Poet Laureate
and there is the Greatest Poet Ever
there is Most Published Poet
and there is Poet Who is Most Renowned Poet
and there is Poet whose Ancestors are the Great Poets of Ancient Lands;
and there is Poet with several Chairs and Posts
and Most Seductive Positions…
all these creatures parade their titles and claims
and their poems seem to be mere appendices to their titles…


tchk, tchk – you petty mortals,
the Kingdom of Poetry knows no class and title;
a poet is a poet and no other qualification has any weight;
a poet does not exist apart from the poem

look, even if that Almighty God wrote a poem,
still should that Most Revered God
present the poem without claim to Omnipotence
for the poem must be judged as such -
for truly in the Kingdom of Poetry is no Power beyond the Poem...