We’re told it helps to write thoughts down;
Express our grief somehow;
And if our feelings are intense,
These words from deep springs flow.
A sonnet or terza rima
A ballad or free verse.
We have a choice of many forms
Rhapsodic,lengthy,terse.
A practised poet may be blessed
Or so the lay-folk feel
But gifts come with a price to pay:
Experience must be real.
She wrote down all her grief and woe
By symbols dignified.
The poems received an awed review.
The poet it was who died.

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