Poetry is a Release

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Poetry is a release.

 

It's not a job,

or a hobby,

or a way to become known.

 

It's a faucet opened wide.

 

If it doesn't flow naturally,

then you can't call it poetry.

 

It should burst out 

of your heart without effort.

 

Your pain turned into poetry.

 

If you kept it inside,

you would lose your mind. 

 

It's your soul on a paper

or on a computer screen.

 

It's everything that

screams and cries within you

flooding the page.

 

For what more is poetry,

except for diary entries 

with line breaks and

rhyme schemes.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by: "So You Want to be a Writer?" by Charles Bukowski

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