poetry
people ask why
I write poetry
and I say
I don’t think
I do
I just write words
in an attempt
often futile
to make sense of things
like
the world
my life
other people
and me
and sometimes
what I write
turns out to be
more like a poem
than a story
why
I can’t say
it isn’t always planned
I don’t necessarily know
what it is
when I start
or even
when I finish
so I try
not to analyse it
in case
it stops
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anelephantcant 
Very wise.
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Lovely to see you here, Dawn, it’s not often that anyone uses the word ‘wise’ for anything I write!.
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