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Jade

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

5 poems·Since January 2014
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Why I Write

June 21, 2016

I do not write poetry for people.

I do not write poetry for you.

I am blessed, yes, but I sit beneath no peepul.

It is not for the “ahs” or the “oohs”

 

I write poetry

            Not for me.

I write poetry for it wants to be written.

It is not for creed.

            Rather because I am smitten.

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