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Created on: March 21, 2008
WORDS OF LIFE
What is poetry?
Images, metaphors, words
Or a work of art?
Hearts poured on parchment,
Lives shared, through spirits expressed.
Never-ending truth.
What is poetry?
Untaught, but experienced.
Poetry is life.
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Poetry: On poems
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How to Give Birth to a Poem
You must give the poem time. You should never rush the poem or induce labour. The poem must
by T.C Leonard
"Worthy of a Page"
Are the classics born of torment,
A mistreated, tortured glut
Of tears and blood and straining
Which is emitted
Poems,
Rythmn and Ryhme,
Fantasy and Reason,
Burst open in the mind,
Filling the thought space,
With thoughts of Love,
A POEM IS WHAT I'VE GOT......
The words do flow and as I write
I try to slow them down
Sometimes so fast and furious
I miss
by PS Gifford
As I sit here at my cluttered desk,
my creativity screams forth to escape my mind's eye.
To live on, perhaps for all eternity,
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