I believe, from studying poetry, engaging poets from all over Africa and studying poetry for my second degree, that poetry is not about the words that you read but about how you feel when you read those words.
This below is one of my favourite poems in the entire world.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
By Emily Dickinson.
Happy World Poetry Day.
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