World Poetry Day Seeking Friendly Advice Poems

The simple life

“I don’t know where to go if I win on
the lottery, but one thing is sure, I can afford to go there.”
He looked at his sentence; it didn’t sound the right way
the words were laboured it didn’t light up the paper
in an invitation to write more
Everything had been difficult lately; words slipped from
his mind before he could catch them.
Like finding your way to the railway station in an unknown
town a foggy day; when screams are muffled and no one
around except bewildered dogs.
He thought of the day when sitting on a...

Poetry is language
unravelled, unfettered,  
unfaltered, unwound,  
poetry sees itself as all things  
unbound  
in reaching, teaching,  
leaning toward the light  
in guiding a promise to  
garner insight,  

poetry is letting go  
of the you that everyone knows,  
poetry is you unmasked,  
from within your emerging past,  
a full circle of finding yourself  
ending where you began  
writing your name for the  
first time,  
who knew you had volumes  
hidden inside..

He's not a poet because he smokes weed,
He gets high, drunk from the society.
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Happy Poetry World day to all poets (living and dead)

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