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Is poetry important?

Is poetry important?

Tell me – do you breathe air? Or if not air, do you breathe at all?

Do you carry within you the in and out, in and out rhyme

of a life still whispering small sounds keeping time?

Do you hold within you the cadence of sighs,

turning your very nostrils into music-making machines

and your lungs a chorus of singers

meting out your metered ties to existence?

Then I would say that poetry is important.

Is poetry important?

Tell me – do you push and pump a beat.beat.beat.

in an iambic muscle that measures your life

in a glorious kind of pentameter?

Have you ever fallen into step

or tapped your fingers to a pulsing summat

caught inside  your head?

Do you walk a certain way over sidewalk cracks?

Then poetry is important.

Is poetry important?

Tell me – do you ever look in a mirror?

Or wish it reflected a little something more?

Do you value possibility?

Do you value truth?

Do you ever yearn for a beautiful lie?

Or wish for something to make you cry?

Do you find assurance in a newborn’s breath?

Then poetry has not yet found its death.

Is poetry important?

I’d hazard yes.

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