I love poetry. I know a lot of people say they don’t like it, but I think that a lot of times if you’re not into poetry, it might be because you don’t actually know poetry. Could be that the passion, juice, and soulfulness of poetry was sucked out of you when you were in school (like it almost did to the kids at the beginning of dead poets society – remember that scene?). Or maybe you were raised on sappy rhyming ditties that shut you down for anything remotely poetry related. If that’s the case, I hope you’ll give it another chance. In my thinking, poetry is the word-version of a great wine, a walk by the ocean, holding a baby, the early morning light, and a cuddle on the couch with your sweetie. The lyrics to songs that inspire and move you? Poetry. Those profound and thoughtful quotes you’re always “liking” on Facebook? Variations on a theme of poetry. (y’see … it’s actually possible that you like poetry, but you just don’t think you do.) When I read a poem to myself, I soak it in at my own pace. I can take time simmering over a line; over words and images; sinking into the […]
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