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Decoding Poetry
Poetry
What is it?
Is it not all things
Feeling?
Thoughts?
Ideas?
Wisdom?
Beauty?
Music?
Art?
In human existence?
Is it not all things
Love?
Hate?
Despair?
Fear?
Greed?
Charity?
Of human experience?
Yet,
Some claim
The words of poetry,
As if anointed
Announcing to the world,
“I know the code!”
Poetry is not code,
Allowing entrance
Only to a few
Fettered and packaged
For the scholarly.
If I experience
My own life
In the words of another,
It is poetry —
For it is I
Who holds the code
To my existence.
In the end,
There is no right
Nor wrong answer —
Poetry is like dancing,
If it feels good,
Do it!
— kenne
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