What is Poetry?

 

What is Poetry?

 

Poetry is life

with its

love and its strife

Its truth and its lies

Its guilt and its pride

It’s an emotional ride

It is courage

It is fear

It’s dusk and dawn

It’s the rook against the pawn

The smiles and the tears

The current event,

and the retrospectful years

- It is sovereign -

A lyrical ebb and flow

for the shallow waters of carnal flesh

and the deep blue seas of the soul

It is my history

that I am a survivor

Poetry is freedom-driven

and I’m a front seat rider

Poetry is my mirror reflection

for all the world to see

Poetry is my soul’s rendering of

what you can and cannot see

 

 

Tara S. Gause

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