What is this?

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    What is this?

    This is not a poem.
    It is merely a thought,
    Fallen from the hidden stars
    And spilled onto this paper.
    Perhaps it is a poem.

    What is poetry?
    Is it just simple math?
    Subtract reason, add rhyme,
    Multiply by readers, divide by critics.

    Or is it a cold and soulless science?
    Objective: to disturb, inspire, cause emotion.
    Poe, Dickenson, Frost- the greatest scientific minds.

    Perhaps it is a sport, a game,
    With writers competing for reviews,
    Words colliding in epic battles.

    The day I learn what poetry is,
    I will cease to write.

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    shafco4 commented on What is this?

    09-29-2011

    This poem was very well written. It expressed the certain details of poetry greatly. Great Write :) ~Shafco4~
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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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