Poetry & Life

I’m finding a good bit of my reflection and writing of late, dealing with “why” I’m writing poetry…

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Poetry - or any art

Is not merely an activity

Nor even a compulsion

But a way of life

An attempt to make order

Of the world around us

To find understanding

Meaning

Appreciation of beauty

Connection to the interrelated 

     unity of all that is

Sharing all we thus learn

With our fellows

In hopes of validating what we feel

And enabling others to feel it too

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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