Be Your Own Poet Poem by Matthew Holloway

Be yourself, don't imitate others
Be inspired to write by all means
Invent and adjust your style
As often as you feel it requires
Have your voice and make it heard
Don't try and write like another
Don't try and use their voice as yours
Their style of writing as yours
A genre of poetry is wide open
To be interpenetrated as you wish
Be classical or confessional
A free flowing form or self expression
Or a painter of stories being told
Be yourself always, in every write
And if you change, it will change
From time to time, become inspired
Read others poetry and find love
In others words and voices
Those are theirs and you have yours
Be yourself and be inspired