Poetry

Poetry to me is a very beautiful thing, 
It’s about your identity and community, 
About friends, family and kind feeling, 
And it’s about how you place in society. 

It reflects upon your sexual partners, 
References them as your mind’s pivot, 
What love’s base is, about its garners, 
And what should be loves fine ingot. 

It explains sociology, culture and trends, 
Shows your diversity, admits your choices, 
Specifies any displacement for kind amends, 
Any disorientation for your readers’ voices.  

I believe poetry can just be for yourself, 
For your own edification and collection, 
Because if by it you identify as an elf, 
You won’t be defined as uncanny deviation. 

Indeed, deviation does not exist in poetry, 
Nor does it form the reason for its writing;
Poetry embraces honesty, love and sobriety, 
With an imagination where truth is flying. 

The credibility of poetry goes unquestioned, 
Because if you lie by it, you’ll feel the traction,  
It always takes you seriously unreasoned, 
Never disqualifying a difficult emotion. 

Your awkward emotions are disquisition, code, 
Eagerness and enthusiasm are their reception;
Sociology by it can become your chatting mode,
And politics can become your injuring person. 

Poetry as a literary art is fructuous with stance,    
Offering a handshake to any from a dumb;
Sets alight concepts and feelings to enhance, 
Lives that may otherwise be under the thumb.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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January 2, 2016 at 12:56 AM
RHODA, Congrats on your poetry win. LINDA
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January 1, 2016 at 9:46 AM
Rhoda, Congratulations on your nice win. Thank you for all the time you took supporting and entering my contest this past year 2015:-) I'm taking, this time, to explain how I really enjoyed every entry. I truly wanted to place every poem, but two with high placements. However, it is a contest and with all the bickering going on about the way we judge our contest. I did not place everyone the way I wanted to in this contest. I do APOLOGIZE. Please don't be upset if you are sharing a placement or did not make the top 10. I feel every poem, should have been placed high. Stop by my latest Blog "Favorite Type of Poem" when you'd like or have time. Celebrate by sharing with us, Your Favorite type of poem. Have A Blessed Year. Love SKAT
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December 11, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Indeed it can be a powerful art. Beautiful Quatrain
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December 11, 2015 at 12:57 PM
Thanks Mark
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