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<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>3 Minute&comma; 48 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p><figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;3803" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-3803" style&equals;"width&colon; 386px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;wordsrhymesandrhythm&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;2013&sol;02&sol;16&sol;what-is-poetry-to-you&sol;what-is-poetry&sol;&num;main" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-3803"><img class&equals;" wp-image-3803 " title&equals;"What Is Poetry&quest;" alt&equals;"What Is Poetry&quest;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poetry&period;wrr&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;02&sol;what-is-poetry&period;jpg" width&equals;"386" height&equals;"265" loading&equals;"lazy"><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-3803" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;WRRPoetry <strong>&lbrack;What Is Poetry&quest;&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a window into the soul of a person&period;<br>&NewLine;It is like a rare painting&comma; priceless&comma; beautiful&period; And&comma; yes&comma; it does make the mind grow because as a poet you spend considerable time pondering words before you pen them down&period;”&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Olufunmilola Olubunmi Adeniran<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is water&colon;<br>&NewLine;It can be boiling or frozen<br>&NewLine;It can be steam or dew<br>&NewLine;It can quench thirst or drown<br>&NewLine;It can water or flood”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson &lpar;KIS&rpar; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sometimes poetry is as tasteless as water…<br>&NewLine;Sometimes poetry is sweet like sugar…&period;<br>&NewLine;Sometimes its bitter like vinegar…<br>&NewLine;Sometimes it takes you high&comma; and makes you shine like a star…<br>&NewLine;That’s poetry for you&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Ikirigo Jerrypet<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a higher form of language&period;<br>&NewLine;It goes beyond stating mere facts&semi;<br>&NewLine;It caresses all range of emotions<br>&NewLine;And stimulates the imagination&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Prime Chikweru<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a friend in solitude&period;<br>&NewLine;It is love and its demise&period;<br>&NewLine;It is fantasy yet its real&period;<br>&NewLine;It is nature in our eyes<br>&NewLine;– God and the universe&period;<br>&NewLine;Life is poetry as poetry is life&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Nkem Okennwa<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is not an expression of opinion<br>&NewLine;it’s a song<br>&NewLine;that rises<br>&NewLine;from a wounded soul<br>&NewLine;or a smiling mouth&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Sunday O Freemason<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry expresses a million thoughts in a single line&comma; leaving people to reason it out on their own&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Ani Chinedu Nuel<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a story&semi; a picture&semi; a scene&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Modestus Nkem Okennwa<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is &lbrack;a&rsqb; cool stream flowing through beautiful vegetation… It gives your lungs the free air of expression appreciation&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Nkemjika Crystyn<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Poetry&comma; like a skilled seductress&comma;<br>&NewLine;creeps on me from behind&comma;<br>&NewLine;kissing my neck with moist inspiration&comma;<br>&NewLine;shivers race down my fingers&comma;<br>&NewLine;as orgasmic muses in febrile semblances&comma;<br>&NewLine;cascade salaciously on paper&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Kunle Omope<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is what i say<br>&NewLine;with the pen I wield&comma;<br>&NewLine;on the musings of my soul&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Miriammimme Ojo<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is an art in brevity&period; Its the exploration of the beautiful elements of language to communicate and evoke emotions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Joshua Mobi Ehud<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a seductress&semi; she beckons to me in the dark&period;<br>&NewLine;She draws me into her clutches&comma; and takes me for a lark&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Albert Jungers<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a minstrel&semi; her tunes are slow now&comma; fast later…she strums melodies in the morn and dirges in the evening&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson &lpar;KIS&rpar; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is sanity&comma;<br>&NewLine;It binds scattered thought&comma;<br>&NewLine;Releases pent up emotions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Chikatito Jones<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Poetry&rsqb; is the ointment for my irritant skin<br>&NewLine;It is the oil with which I souse dreams to fruition<br>&NewLine;It is the libation I pour into my soul&comma; when the currents in my brain are running at cross-purpose<br>&NewLine;Poetry is my alliance with the rainbow when I want to feel the lushness of the clouds around the verse-fields of my existence&period;<br>&NewLine;Poetry is bliss&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Shittu Fowora<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is free&semi; like air&comma; like the stars&comma; little diamonds in the sky&comma; like the blood in the veins with its ceaseless journey&period; Poetry is free&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Matthew Gokum<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is like fire&comma; burns emotions&period;<br>&NewLine;But sometimes&comma; &lbrack;its&rsqb; like chilled water drunk in hot weather”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Marrzy King<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is an elixir&semi; a soothing balm to life’s plenteous maladies&semi; a shoulder that drinks up the tears of our mind’s unkind tragedies&period;<br>&NewLine;It is a bloodhound&comma; sniffing&comma; seeking&comma; the lifeblood of villainous questions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~  Kunle Omope<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is a minstrel with frequent discordant notes&comma;<br>&NewLine;She often rejects anyone who dotes&comma;<br>&NewLine;Her tunes sometimes she bloats<br>&NewLine;She upends carts and sinks boats&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Albert Jungers<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is fire&colon;<br>&NewLine;He is a friend&comma; if you &lbrack;so&rsqb; desire&semi;<br>&NewLine;He is an enemy if you fight it&period;<br>&NewLine;It will burn you&comma; or cook your food&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Uchechukwu Ekwurekwu Obiakor<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is like fire&colon;<br>&NewLine;It burns a tyrant’s ego<br>&NewLine;and heals a soldier’s wound&period;<br>&NewLine;It purifies gold&comma;<br>&NewLine;and beautifies clay&period;<br>&NewLine;It awakens Morn&comma;<br>&NewLine;and sends Night to sleep”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Kunle Omope<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is &lbrack;a&rsqb; lighthouse built<br>&NewLine;From toils upon rubble or nothing<br>&NewLine;Mold by mold&comma; heights are felt&comma;<br>&NewLine;Melted and baked in whetting kiln&period;<br>&NewLine;Near and far&comma; the beacon stretches its ray<br>&NewLine;Unto all sojourners&semi; on course or astray&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Oluwafemi Olomojobi<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poems are language of feelings<br>&NewLine;An expression of wants and wishes<br>&NewLine;Words written to show<br>&NewLine;The depth of hearts and souls&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Tayo Fasuan<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Poetry is love and affection&period; Poetry is&lbrack;an&rsqb; art that uses &lbrack;the&rsqb; mouth to paint real life situations and events&semi; The mirror that monitors the world and well being of human kindness&period;<br>&NewLine;It is a search light that searches the &lbrack;heart’s&rsqb; hidden secret and brings it to the open&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>~ Olayemi Ayo<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WHAT’S YOUR OWN DEFINITION&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine; &NewLine; <div 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