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If There Were No Poets/ Poetry As An Art Form

If there were no poets 
from which we could recite 
To read words that fill us 
with emotions and insights 
Or help our eyes to focus 
on new angles from which to view 
a different way of feeling life 
and with which media it is construed 
There could not be harmony 
in speech or in song 
No rhythm there to follow 
that which pulls us on along 
No joyous voices raised on high 
singing ditties or religious hymns 
For inside each of us 
is a poet working within 
It manifests in many forms 
and wells up from our souls 
To see a vision played out 
and push us to reach our goals 
Architecture that has inspired awe 
by the Romans and the Greek’s 
To old log cabins in the woods 
and modern building techniques 
To the Masters who’s works of art 
are layered in life’s mystique’s 
To a child’s finger painting 
hung in an honored place 
It seems a poet is so much more 
than rhymes and written prose 
If there were no poets 
Our world would decompose 



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