“Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.”
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
