Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
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Michael Jackson
Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.
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Deepak Chopra
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me
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Criss Jami
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