what is poetry?

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what is poetry?

artful abrading,

scraping your soul

for the resin of resonant words

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soul scraping

 

I used to do a lot of that when I was in my 20's, in my 30's I scraped the minds of great writers, in my 40's I did a bit of both, in my 50's I wrote prose and scraped residue from any source that presented itself outside me, at 66, soul scraping is back - nice one! ~allets~