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You deserve to have poetry in your life. To read things that delight you. To write things that set you free. To notice the poetry in the mundane, until the mundane becomes fascinating. Remember: You, too, are the poem, and it is never too late for your heart to change in the direction of more magic, more beauty, more expansion, more purple, more wonder.

Oftentimes a poet will solidify the theme or message of their piece by keeping their language and images in the same universe as the one the poem exists in. A poem occupies a certain landscape, and the word bank of that landscape can help accentuate the meaning.

One of the most poetic things a writer (or anyone) can do is pay attention to the miraculous details of life.

The More Specific = The More Universal

Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms.