If words from in your heart can come to life

And dance across the pages like a song,

If you can make a person stop and think

Or help somebody weigh up right and wrong

If words you write can soothe a broken soul

Or cause a laugh from somebody in pain,

Or make a friend reflect upon their ways

Then you’ve performed an artist’s work again.

If children laugh or parents shed a tear

From words that you have written on a page,

A lover feel so proud of who they are

Or strangers rant in hot debate and rage

If someone else is moved by words you write

If you can cause a pulse rate to increase,

If every poem comes from in your heart

Then all deserve the title “Masterpiece.”