Poetry is...

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"Poetry is the journal 

of the sea animal living on land, 

wanting to fly in the air. 

Poetry is a search for syllables 

to shoot at the barriers 

of the unknown and the unknowable. 

Poetry is a phantom script 

telling how rainbows are made 

and why they go away."

~ Carl Sandburg