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?Question Of The Day? "What Is Poetry?"
My question is “What Is Poetry?” …Which also can be translated to “What Is Poetry To You?”… not what it means, but what is it, what is poetry?
I did a quick Google search and below are a few things I read, and the last being my question.
*Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.
*Perhaps the characteristic most central to the definition of poetry is its unwillingness to be defined, labeled, or nailed down.
*I also read a quote that said Poetry isn’t poetry unless it contradicts itself.
*Is it the birds, the sky, the meadow, the kitchen, beauty, or is it an "I don't know" answer, lol?
I would love to see all the similar and different responses from our diverse community with different backgrounds, training, ways of thinking, experiences, and etc.
So please post your respose to “What Is Poetry?” or “What is Poetry To You?”
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To me, poetry is something to do, to learn to strive for better. Also, you can express yourself in poetry, like when you're happy, your write something cheerful, and when you're sad, you probably will right someting negative, or something to cheer you up. Poetry is also a form to test your creativity. Write hard !! Enjoy Hard !!
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This is about music but I think it's applicable to poetry too and my favorite.
We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers
On which the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever it seems.
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Poetry Defined
Poetry defined
(Or what does it mean to me)
Freedom of the mind
Entering new realms
Escaping reality
Starting a journey
Opening up doors
A path to enlightenment
The mind is broadened
Pushing through jungles
While searching for the clearing
The source of new thoughts
A cleansing of sorts
Refreshing a stagnant soul
Rebirth of grey matter
Exploring frontiers
Expanding the horizons
A new land conquered
So now you all know
As put into my own words
Poetry defined
Funny you should ask this question...here is the post i submitted the other night in the haiku collection submission thread...guess i answered it before you asked...reading your mind maybe...lol
?Question Of The Day? "What Is Poetry?"
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Great Responses Everyone and your responses are like poetry themselves! Love all of them, and Keep'm Comin!