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What is poetry?

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Poetry is a wandering window to and fro the unknown, a gateway. Poetry is the sacred chiming of silence that breaks down logic while still dreaming in Fibonacci spirals.[1] For example, there is a poetic form called FIB. This form consists of paying attention to the syllables in each line because: “the number of syllables in each line must equal the sum of the syllables in the two previous lines.” per infinitum. See  Lewis Turco, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000), 214-5. Furthermore if you want to study deeply the…

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