Poetry has Dual Purposes

poetry has dual purposes you know
evoking emotion, inspiring others to grow
metaphors and similes busy comparing things
sometimes so rhythmic, you can enter a karaoke sing
lines and stanzas showing the reader the way
eliciting sadness or humor in pinks, yellows and gray
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