Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash,” musician Leonard Cohen once said. Poetry is indeed an emotion, and the lyrical verses can soothe the mind.

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