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Created on: August 08, 2010
the agony of ideas
countless fretful phrases
formed, discarded, reborn
tossed, mutilated, refreshed
eulogized, abandoned.
still, you write.
why?
you write.
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Poetry: Why I write
Why I write
Words that are waiting to be written or said
Tumbled onto the paper you just read
The thoughts in my
WHY I WRITE
I have a desire to uplift and inspire
And words can do just that
Don't reach for the wine, read a poem of mine
And
I write because I love
I write of what I see
what touches the heart,
my heart,
of beauty, of pain, of horrors,
of laughter,
by Carol Gioia
I write to purge my thoughts,
making room for new ones.
I write to drain the love inside,
so my heart won’t burst.
I
Writing has been my obsession
A passion, mania, fixation, addiction
From the very first moment when
In my fingers I held
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