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Very intriguing poem! The format of it draws me and confuses me a bit. It's not traditional, but I support the deviation from the norm. It makes this feel like it is more of a flow of thought and ideas rather than a structured poem, which is beautiful. I love when you discuss all the things you are afraid to be, mostly because most of them would appear to have positive connotations. When you stop to think about it, I read this poem as asking to be interpreted, but not defined, after death. It's beautiful. You want to be a poet and be a poem, something that is everything and nothing at the same time. I love this concept and I love this poem. Keep writing, this is fantastic.

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The message the speaker was trying to express seemed very sad, yet determined to get their words out. I love the repetitiveness of the line:

Tell them I was a poet.

I wonder if like Emily Dickinson my words will be published after I am gone.

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Thanks for sharing this poem about someone who wants to be remembered only as a poet and nothing more. The poem touched a very personal note in my case because I often also wonder what will become of my writings when I am gone. I used to worry about it but then I finally simply left it in the hands of destiny or of whatever powers there be. Suffice for me now is the effect that each story or poem might have and its reverberations via influencing the behavior of readers in a positive manner via illuminating some crucial point, providing advice, hope, expressing empathy, and bringing smiles or laughter into otherwise dismal lives.

Such influences can be compared with a pebble thrown into a placid liquid surface which cause waves to spread in all directions. So that has brought me a certain amount of conformity.

The poem expresses this concern very well and I like the refrain of “Tell them I am a Poet!" used for emphasis just as Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem does in his poem, Marriana.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45365/mariana

Suggestion

Just one slight suggestion:

Please note that a twisted personality might include that of rapists, murderers, child molesters, sadists, wife abusers, habitual liars, thieves, the criminally insane, etecetera and brings to mind such twisted personalities as Hitler. Josef Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, The Boston Strangler,Charles Mason who cannot be referred to simply as poets.

"Do not delve into my twisted personality...."

So to prevent the reader from possibly recoiling, much better to refer to the speaker as having flaws. Apart from that point, the poem reads smoothly, has drama and kept me reading with great interest. You show great skill as a writer and I look forward to reading more of your work.