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Why I Write


Poetry is powerful Why else would we Write it, remember it? Homer had stories he needed to say So he put them in poems, protected. Saxons had sagas of heroes and monsters, Shakespeare wrote verse to carry his plays. Victorians, love notes and nostalgic sonnets And now we match it to music and sing. Why do I write? I need people to know my stories.
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