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poettothecars
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Poetry or Fact

14 February 2006


Being the poet
does give reason to write
and style can be but an objection

For who was in control of the pen
the might of the sword
Or those who never
will understand

As if Browning - Frost and Wilde
were never poets at all
Such was the true observer
to what poetry did mean

An entertainment - a way of life
more just boredom to strive
For one was good to an other

Only Shakespeare could write his own
everything else was but imitation


What was poetry, poesy, verse - (literature in metrical form) a writing style, literary genre,
genre - (a style of expressing yourself in writing). In another way poetry was (any
communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling) an expressive style,
style - (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is
characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; (“all the reporters were
expected to adopt the style of the newspaper”) Conformity or to conform - certainty that
was what poetry never was.



a poet who cares

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