I want poetry to...

touch the soul

Bowgarden
Pittsburgh, PA

I want poetry to...

I want poetry to help me forget everything else going on in my life and comfort me when life is hard.

Li
Kent, OH

I want poetry to...

I want poetry to swaddle me in a blanket and lull me to sleep. I want poetry to drown out the world like how your head under water makes your ears numb. World? What world? All I hear is poetry.

Anya
OH

Poetry is...

poetry is an unraveling, an undoing of thoughts inside tightly woven/ a mending, a tapestry stitched anew/ a hiding place, where the deepest of thoughts are free to come and go, a mosaic of human emotion

Ava
Kent

Poetry is...

the faces of young people / their words on a page / and the chosen family i keep / gathered around a full dinner table

Olivia
Kent, OH

I want poetry to...

listen/ poetry does not need to speak but rather hear what's in the world around us/ and take us into its arms and listen/ no judgement/ no need for perfection/ just understanding

mv
Kent, OH

Poetry is...

Pale green things, in the afternoon dusk. I'm the only passenger with you — knowing things will end abruptly. Looking at the saturated Texas sky and wanting to pull over to sit with the overwhelming thoughts of my future, without you with me...together.

Lauren Blue
Fort Worth, Texas

I want poetry to...

I want poetry to tear, to shatter, to wreck. I want poetry to stand at the foot of destruction. I want poetry to sigh, to pick up the pieces, and begin again.

Carrie
Akron, OH

I want poetry to...

Give me a new language, let me think things that are unthinkable in my mother tongue.

E

Poetry is...

Poetry is like a shelter under a tree against the rain and wind.

Gyorgyi
Kent, OH
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