A poet has a heightened imagination unrestrained and never confined because it’s hard to free our intimate thoughts when we’re restricting our minds. So we disrobe on paper and strip on stage wearing only words. We stitch thoughts that become fabrics of emotions cloaked in poetic apparel from tailor-made experiences with the sweat of our pen’s brow. Speaking sentiments, amplifying metaphors- making those cognitive explosions surge fluently, syllables curved mental images just to get through to them. We paint images for...