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What is poetry?

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What is poetry?

Poetry is a thought, a wish, a fear, a dream, an unattainable goal.

Poetry is an emotion whispered by metaphor and hinted by tone.

Poetry is a memory long forgotten and longing to be known again, through haunting cries and captivating laughs.

Poetry is forcing your pen to write the words you want to scream and release, but that keep getting muffled by blankets of dusty guilt.

Poetry is the willingness to let go of fears of being criticized and just spill your heart out like an inkwell of emotions.

Poetry is just releasing the screams through words perceived as beautiful, without care for another opinion.

Just putting your soul on paper and marveling at all the wonders you never cared to see.

Poetry is courage and hope and faith, in everything you believe.

And poetry, no matter how much I deny it, is me.
Too repetitive?
I'm worried my poetry style is becoming too repetitive...
...on the EXTREMELY rare occasions I actually write it....
this hasn't been edited at all, so it's not great.

and it took me like 5 tries to click the "submit art" button because I kept hitting the "submit journal entry" button.
dammit.

also, thinking about reading this in the slam poetry contest.
critiques, please?
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