“Poet” by Kyla Heyming (KPH)
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Poet” by Kyla Heyming (KPH).
Poet
By Kyla Heyming (KPH)
I became a poet
because I realized
that I was a poem
no one else
knew how to write.
Copyright © Kyla Heyming (KPH)
First appeared in Poetry Pause on January 26, 2020
The city of Greater Sudbury’s 7th Poet Laureate, Kyla Heyming (KPH) is a bilingual Canadian writer with a yearning to set her soul in ink and paper, with the help of her typewriter. Author of “For Those I Have Loved”, her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in a number of arts and literature journals. Chair of Wordstock Sudbury Literary festival, she works tirelessly for her passion and community so that she may someday lead others to find their own meaning in her words.
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