What is Poetry?

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Types of Poetry: Lyric

The old man
must have stopped our car
two dozen times to climb out
and gather into his hands
the small toads blinded
by our lights and leaping
live drops of rain. ...
~from "Birdfoot's Grampa"
by Joseph Bruchac

Definition Usually do not tell a story, but they express personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker.
Example The poem above

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