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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_3803" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3803" style="width: 386px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/what-is-poetry-to-you/what-is-poetry/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-3803"><img class=" wp-image-3803 " title="What Is Poetry?" alt="What Is Poetry?" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/what-is-poetry.jpg" width="386" height="265" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3803" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[What Is Poetry?]</strong></figcaption></figure>“Poetry is a window into the soul of a person.<br>
It is like a rare painting, priceless, beautiful. And, yes, it does make the mind grow because as a poet you spend considerable time pondering words before you pen them down.”
<p><strong>~ Olufunmilola Olubunmi Adeniran</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is water:<br>
It can be boiling or frozen<br>
It can be steam or dew<br>
It can quench thirst or drown<br>
It can water or flood”</p>
<p><strong>~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson (KIS) </strong></p>
<p>“Sometimes poetry is as tasteless as water…<br>
Sometimes poetry is sweet like sugar….<br>
Sometimes its bitter like vinegar…<br>
Sometimes it takes you high, and makes you shine like a star…<br>
That’s poetry for you.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Ikirigo Jerrypet</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a higher form of language.<br>
It goes beyond stating mere facts;<br>
It caresses all range of emotions<br>
And stimulates the imagination.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Prime Chikweru</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a friend in solitude.<br>
It is love and its demise.<br>
It is fantasy yet its real.<br>
It is nature in our eyes<br>
– God and the universe.<br>
Life is poetry as poetry is life.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Nkem Okennwa</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is not an expression of opinion<br>
it’s a song<br>
that rises<br>
from a wounded soul<br>
or a smiling mouth.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Sunday O Freemason</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry expresses a million thoughts in a single line, leaving people to reason it out on their own.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Ani Chinedu Nuel</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a story; a picture; a scene.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Modestus Nkem Okennwa</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is [a] cool stream flowing through beautiful vegetation… It gives your lungs the free air of expression appreciation.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Nkemjika Crystyn</strong></p>
<p>Poetry, like a skilled seductress,<br>
creeps on me from behind,<br>
kissing my neck with moist inspiration,<br>
shivers race down my fingers,<br>
as orgasmic muses in febrile semblances,<br>
cascade salaciously on paper.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Kunle Omope</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is what i say<br>
with the pen I wield,<br>
on the musings of my soul.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Miriammimme Ojo</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is an art in brevity. Its the exploration of the beautiful elements of language to communicate and evoke emotions.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Joshua Mobi Ehud</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a seductress; she beckons to me in the dark.<br>
She draws me into her clutches, and takes me for a lark.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Albert Jungers</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a minstrel; her tunes are slow now, fast later…she strums melodies in the morn and dirges in the evening.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson (KIS) </strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is sanity,<br>
It binds scattered thought,<br>
Releases pent up emotions.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Chikatito Jones</strong></p>
<p>“[Poetry] is the ointment for my irritant skin<br>
It is the oil with which I souse dreams to fruition<br>
It is the libation I pour into my soul, when the currents in my brain are running at cross-purpose<br>
Poetry is my alliance with the rainbow when I want to feel the lushness of the clouds around the verse-fields of my existence.<br>
Poetry is bliss.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Shittu Fowora</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is free; like air, like the stars, little diamonds in the sky, like the blood in the veins with its ceaseless journey. Poetry is free.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Matthew Gokum</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is like fire, burns emotions.<br>
But sometimes, [its] like chilled water drunk in hot weather”</p>
<p><strong>~ Marrzy King</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is an elixir; a soothing balm to life’s plenteous maladies; a shoulder that drinks up the tears of our mind’s unkind tragedies.<br>
It is a bloodhound, sniffing, seeking, the lifeblood of villainous questions.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Kunle Omope</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is a minstrel with frequent discordant notes,<br>
She often rejects anyone who dotes,<br>
Her tunes sometimes she bloats<br>
She upends carts and sinks boats.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Albert Jungers</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is fire:<br>
He is a friend, if you [so] desire;<br>
He is an enemy if you fight it.<br>
It will burn you, or cook your food.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Uchechukwu Ekwurekwu Obiakor</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is like fire:<br>
It burns a tyrant’s ego<br>
and heals a soldier’s wound.<br>
It purifies gold,<br>
and beautifies clay.<br>
It awakens Morn,<br>
and sends Night to sleep”</p>
<p><strong>~ Kunle Omope</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is [a] lighthouse built<br>
From toils upon rubble or nothing<br>
Mold by mold, heights are felt,<br>
Melted and baked in whetting kiln.<br>
Near and far, the beacon stretches its ray<br>
Unto all sojourners; on course or astray.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Oluwafemi Olomojobi</strong></p>
<p>“Poems are language of feelings<br>
An expression of wants and wishes<br>
Words written to show<br>
The depth of hearts and souls.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Tayo Fasuan</strong></p>
<p>“Poetry is love and affection. Poetry is[an] art that uses [the] mouth to paint real life situations and events; The mirror that monitors the world and well being of human kindness.<br>
It is a search light that searches the [heart’s] hidden secret and brings it to the open.”</p>
<p><strong>~ Olayemi Ayo</strong></p>
<p>WHAT’S YOUR OWN DEFINITION?</p>
 
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