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Poetry Is

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Poetry is the art
      Of gleaning stillness from movement
      Of giving still life motion.

Poets are photographers
      In developing verses versus film
      They give the inanimate emotion.

Poetry is the technique
      Of saying more with less
      Of leaving some things        .

Poets are people
      The bored security guard reading East of Eden;
      Or his merlot-addicted housewife who
no longer tends her garden.

Poetry is the act
      Of platonic love and zealous lust
      Of coveting your neighbor’s wife.

Poets are children
      Coloring outside all the lines
      |in the process creating new ones|

Poetry is the process
      ,yltnereffid dlrow eht gniees fO
      & presenting that view on the page.

Of course poetry is heretic
      It’s fueled by twin demons,
      Inspiration and Loneliness.

Of course poetry is hectic
      It’s scribbled on torn, wet napkins
      Or emblazoned on rusting railway cars.

Poets are performers
      prophets and sinners, prosecutors; prisoners
      plumbers proles prostitutespriestsprotestors – phantoms,

because poetry is indiscriminate

Poetry is the art
first attempt at an ars poetica
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damn spacing ... line 13 should be indented 12 spaces in (based on the format on this page)